Can anyone see anything blatantly wrong with this tactic?

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Forced into this type of tactic as southampton have no good wide players or defensive mid players.
Aiming for a possession based style of play.
For player instructions ive got my wing backs to run wide with the ball, my goalkeeper to distribute the ball to defenders and my wider attacking mids to roam from position.
 
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alright considering i want to keep possession and concede the minimal amount of goals but at the same time create a healthy amount of chances, which team instruction preset would you use?
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or the first one?
 
How do you concede? I guess through balls? You have a risk there that when you lose possession and both WBs are attacking as they are told to do, Lovren will charge towards the player with the ball(because of the stopper duty) creating a 1 on 1 vs Mashida. (who may not be the best at that). I could be wrong but I think you should leave both of them on Defend and let the Southampton midfielders do the building up. Their midfield is great anyway.
 
what your about to read could be a load of bul but heres my take
from my experience attacking mid roles tend to get into the box a lot (espec as you have them on attack duty) and with schneiderlin and wanyama having pretty limited roles as the are both defensive it seems to me the only chap putting in those killer passes is ramirez. obviously you have your wing backs but who feeds them? and as they are attacking i'm guessing they look to cross but you want to work the ball into the box and you want to have a counter strategy.
personally i would have schneiderlin as a dlp to spray the passes, have your cbs both as cd with defend duty and fb as auto. i would have your wider attacking mids as adv playmaker with attack role and maybe ramirez as trequarista. i would have a standard balanced strategy. i also like to work ball into box but have hit early crosses also, like the other chap says counter intuitive. its worked for me on my game
 
Try all three attacking midfielders as AP attack and change your striker to a support role like CF. Set wingbacks to support both CB to defend. And for games you expect to dominate try a BBM to run beyond your APs.
 
I have a follow up question then based on Ylli's comment. I used to play FM a long time ago (years ago) but recently started again. To me, since I have not played for a long time, the game is completely revolutionized and I am still learning and taking the first steps. So, my question regards the Rigid being counter-intuitive for Being more creative or whatever that instruction is called. I understand what you are saying and certainly see your valid point. But, I have a rather creative team with a lot of specific roles so I have chosen Rigid in order to get the players follow their particular role and instructions. In order to get the creative spark out of them I have put on the instruction to be more expressive. I have assumed then that all players would be a bit more creative but still primarily follow their instructions, just be a bit more creative than otherwise.

Really sorry for going OT! But my question then is if that reasoning is completely faulty or if it doesn't work in the game like that?

Going back to the topic, I think the advices put forward are really good. But perhaps you could elaborate on what kind of style you would like to achieve? Perhaps then the tips and hints could guide you towards that style as well.
 
Shyftyy said:
Rigid or Fluid comes down to how many specialist roles you use. They may be specific but not real specialist. I could explain more but Laffles has posted an extremely good topic about it earlier. You can find it here:
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Thanks!
 
1. A lot of players on attack doesnt necessarily mean more attacks or more effective attacks.
2. Bearing in mind that its a counter tactics the above comments become more important.
3. WBs on attack with counter is inviting trouble.
4. If you want to keep counter (which I dont like but one man's meat and all) then have the wbs on automatic. I generally like to combine positions with the "opposite" duties - eg wbs are more attacking than fbs so have wbs support/automatic.
5. You have two identical threats in the am area. Try turning one of the ams into something else such as an IF.
6. Only one person on support from mf upwards is dangerous - if he is man marked on has an off day your creativity gets drastically reduced. Try having the bwm on support.
 
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