I've been trying to build a possession tactic because typically in the past I played with a lot of counter a direct tactics in FM13/14, so I decided to go the possession route this time. Through trying out some other's tika-taka tactics and other interesting ones, I think I hit a sweet spot for what I'm looking to do. After playing around with a particular tactic that used the "contain" mentality, I came up with some ideas exploiting the same type of thing.
Here is the tactic, which I'm calling a deep 4-3-3:
It's only a few games in this season, but I spent the entire first season building and working through it before it finally clicked and I finished 6th and won the FA Cup making EURO, which is what my goal was while building a tactic since I went so youth heavy with a lot of new pieces.
Defensively it has held up shockingly well and at home it keeps possession even against some of the better sides and completely dominates lesser teams. I've noticed that with the combination of inverted wing backs and the three defensive mids, it makes it tough for the opposition team to break you down and they need to either try to exploit you wide on the break with a well timed cross or just hit an insane long shot outside the box.
Here are my transfers from season one and in the current transfer window:
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Quick notes:
Your players will get tired with this tactic, so you need to have a good rotation and train fitness. I typically trained the tactic until fluid and did FITNESS - VERY HIGH until there were two weeks left in the preseason and then flipped it to TEAM COHESION until around January, but I also had a lot of new players. Then I would change it to BALANCED - AVERAGE and just rotate between attacking movement or defensive movement depending on the opponent. Recently I've been doing defending set pieces since that was a big issue forcing a lot of draws, giving up a late goal or something dumb.
I don't have any specific player recommendations or filters. I tried to get creative players with good technical ability and vision. I train the players for their position individually, with two exceptions: CBs I train as LIBERO and RGA I train as ROAMING PLAYMAKER. This is mostly because I prefer my players to have the stats those positions focus on.
I know people hate false nine's and they're tough to find. Luckily Newcastle had two decent ones already in Ayoze Perez and Siem de Jong, but in the past I've found good AMC players and simply retrained them to be strikers and play the F9 role. On one game Humam Tariq was a monster there for me.
There are better things I can do for tough away games, but I can't seem to figure it out and am a bit stuck, which is why I went ahead and posted it. I've been trying counter on away games since I have so many players already sitting in the defensive third, but I've always had trouble holding possession away.
I don't know if it works on big or small teams, I usually play with Newcastle because they're a good mix that can be a challenge depending on how Mike Ashley feels.
Any feed back, tweaks or suggestions are great.
Here is the tactic, which I'm calling a deep 4-3-3:
It's only a few games in this season, but I spent the entire first season building and working through it before it finally clicked and I finished 6th and won the FA Cup making EURO, which is what my goal was while building a tactic since I went so youth heavy with a lot of new pieces.
Defensively it has held up shockingly well and at home it keeps possession even against some of the better sides and completely dominates lesser teams. I've noticed that with the combination of inverted wing backs and the three defensive mids, it makes it tough for the opposition team to break you down and they need to either try to exploit you wide on the break with a well timed cross or just hit an insane long shot outside the box.
Here are my transfers from season one and in the current transfer window:
sdf
Quick notes:
Your players will get tired with this tactic, so you need to have a good rotation and train fitness. I typically trained the tactic until fluid and did FITNESS - VERY HIGH until there were two weeks left in the preseason and then flipped it to TEAM COHESION until around January, but I also had a lot of new players. Then I would change it to BALANCED - AVERAGE and just rotate between attacking movement or defensive movement depending on the opponent. Recently I've been doing defending set pieces since that was a big issue forcing a lot of draws, giving up a late goal or something dumb.
I don't have any specific player recommendations or filters. I tried to get creative players with good technical ability and vision. I train the players for their position individually, with two exceptions: CBs I train as LIBERO and RGA I train as ROAMING PLAYMAKER. This is mostly because I prefer my players to have the stats those positions focus on.
I know people hate false nine's and they're tough to find. Luckily Newcastle had two decent ones already in Ayoze Perez and Siem de Jong, but in the past I've found good AMC players and simply retrained them to be strikers and play the F9 role. On one game Humam Tariq was a monster there for me.
There are better things I can do for tough away games, but I can't seem to figure it out and am a bit stuck, which is why I went ahead and posted it. I've been trying counter on away games since I have so many players already sitting in the defensive third, but I've always had trouble holding possession away.
I don't know if it works on big or small teams, I usually play with Newcastle because they're a good mix that can be a challenge depending on how Mike Ashley feels.
Any feed back, tweaks or suggestions are great.
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