Cheers shaka...im leaving it as a second tactic for a couple of games. My problem is that every opposition will simply outplay me! They will pass around out of defence get a cross in/square it and score. They can score long shots for fun! Are able to take it round my keeper and finish! Tackle my players and get onto the loose ball. Get tackled by my player and still manage to get on to the loose ball. They easily have more than 20 shots per game with most on target! My players aren't that bad! I just feel something is not fair in the ME!? Maybe due to the fact that like i've said my whole squad is new this season and media prediction was pretty ****!? I mean my defence has closing down on high, normal tackling for 2 dc's/ hard for fb's & 2 dcm's, tight marking yet they will not tackle the opposition or if they do its normally a foul in the box giving away a penaltyand in attack, when they are clean through they'll miss the target or shoot straight at the keeper!! I'm using houghs swarm tactic at the moment with a few tweaks and this has helped a little bit but i've still lost every game except maybe 1 draw! I have also tested like 5 other tactics over 20 games while going on holiday and lost all with maybe 1 or 2 draws(with the amount of goals conceded per game ranging from 2-11 and scored per game from 0-2)!! I guess i'll just have to stick with houghs swarm and brobs's till squad has gelled. Can u sense my sadness lol
well.. i see your sadness.. but this is where u have failed miserably my dear friend! u see.. Sports Interactive (SI) has made the game much to the way real-life football is played nowadays.. even the Pros need time to gel to a new formation - whether in training or on the pitch.
So with u changing the formations (u mentioned 5 tactics).. its not gona help ur team at all.. I suggest starting a whole new league again from the Pre-season "brudder". let your team settle into 1 main tactic and use the other 2 as backups. otherwise.. just stick with Brobs17's tactic and u will come out on top eventually!
Patience is the key here!
Gd luck!
osition 1st. Played 46, won 34, drawn 9, lost 3,goals for:110, against:46, points 111. We were 19 points clear of Bristol Rovers in 2nd place. Went 19 games undefeated in the league, and managed to score in 34 games in a row.Lost the Vans Trophy final due to the computer deciding to play one of it's "silly" games, by sending off my centre forward after 5 minutes !. Used the tactic as you suggested, but as someone else suggested, I did change the tackling to "normal", because I was getting too many players booked and sent off! Perhaps players in the lower leagues, with lower tackling stats just like kicking sh**t into the other side! . The other thing I did was to have my other centre half (one attacks the near post doesn't he) to challenge the goalkeeper. This is not because I don't think your set-up works, It's just something I do on all tactics. I will now embark on trying to "move through" the leagues, I'll keep you posted on Hereford's progress ! Great tactic, well done !
my cb's will be the same, 2 up front of jamil adam and cunago will be the same. I've got romario and stuart parnaby coming to add better quality to the full backs (2 italians i picked up last season, marko colombo and salvatore d'elia i think). Trying to sign quintero and hopefully can get mbaye niang on a longer loan again after his super productive 3 months at end of last season! I got my eye on an italian dm and conor coady if he gets released again. Any suggestions on 2 english CM's? Or english youngster i should keep my eye out for as i dnt want a whole foreign squad who make it hard to comply with the HG rules!? Thanks Brobs for the tactic! And thanks guys for the player suggestions