ChristianEriksen - Beautiful play

If you look further up the page Tonyvilliers and i both posted the teams we use, mine aint great as im am Fulham 2nd season but he has some quality players in his. Tony linked his tweak on the previous page and also talked about using V19 press and drop and changed the player instructions. Personally i've had pretty good success with the tweaks to PI's at bottom of the page, bearing in mind im in my first season in the prem. Here are my last 10 matches using the tactic + PI's below(Starting away to QPR).

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Only blips i had were @ home to Utd and Chelsea

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Originally Posted by TonyVilliers
Using V19

I have tweaked thus:

The two central mids: I have removed dribble often and risky passes. The first I removed because it was compressing the defence in front of me too much, meaning a crowded box and pinball football. The second I removed because they were being too wasteful and I was getting caught on the break more than was comfortable. I do change it back if the defence is particularly shaky.

I have changed the wingers both to IF and have added Stay Wider.

I have made the RPM a lot more sensible with his passing.

Finally, I have great success in using Counter as a mentality as it decompresses the opposition team and allows gaps to open up, however I still do v well with Control.

I should have also said my IF are set to support. This way I hope they cross more than run at the defence, thereby further reducing compression.

Also the CM are actually set to dribble less, as well.

I trained the RPM to a PPM of Play Simple passes.


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In response to that, AllanT, I'm trying to work this out, but it seems that the CE tactic is very leaky to Chelsea, Man U, Liverpool and Everton.

All teams play a very direct (at least in my save) style of football, so I imagine the answer lies in dropping the D line quite a bit and frustrating them. Maybe setting the to CM to a defend/support duty and the RPM to an out and out DM might do the trick.

If Christian could jump in and give his thoughts, that'd be great :D
 
As I will keep you updated about what I am doing..

I am working on an improved version of the wingers tactic. So no three strikers anymore as I was creating one that looked really similar to the one from Mr Hough and there are a lot of 3 strikers version now.

Same formation, some different roles for midfield, some very new team instructions and some new player instructions. I am currently testing it with Leicester City.

Attacking, very fluid. Predicted 19th!

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Good start, far from fluid..

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I think I will publish it in some hours, if there aren't any upcoming problems..
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TonyVilliers said:
In response to that, AllanT, I'm trying to work this out, but it seems that the CE tactic is very leaky to Chelsea, Man U, Liverpool and Everton.

All teams play a very direct (at least in my save) style of football, so I imagine the answer lies in dropping the D line quite a bit and frustrating them. Maybe setting the to CM to a defend/support duty and the RPM to an out and out DM might do the trick.

If Christian could jump in and give his thoughts, that'd be great :D
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I'm in.. :D

Well.. the solution is to frustrate them by using a much higher defensive line (if you have good CD's with pace and positioning) or frustrating them by using a low D-line in combination with counter, yes. And to close the gaps in the defence it is possible to play with two DM's instead of two CM's, i think. The tactic I am using now is with a much higher defensive line, with Leicester. I am just trying something! :)
 
ChristianEriksen said:
I'm in.. :D

Well.. the solution is to frustrate them by using a much higher defensive line (if you have good CD's with pace and positioning) or frustrating them by using a low D-line in combination with counter, yes. And to close the gaps in the defence it is possible to play with two DM's instead of two CM's, i think. The tactic I am using now is with a much higher defensive line, with Leicester. I am just trying something! :)
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Haha you replied as I did! Yeah I think dropping a CM might help but I notice that Chelsea, Man U and Liverpool stretch out the team.
 
I'll test your new version out this season, Chris and post up. Are you still using OIs as in the OP?
 
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Well, if you have a look at the 10 games i played and linked, i had a run of 4 horrid ones in a row.

Man U and Chelsea at home, followed by away to Arsenal and Liverpool. Chelsea and man U, i didnt change the D-line till i was already 2 goals down but still managed to make the score more respectable in both occasions which both finished 2-3.

Against Arsenal was easy peasy. They play a similar style so just pop the tempo a bit higher and the quick passing beat them. But with Liverpool, i started off with a deeper D-line and was 2-0 within 10 mins, after that swapped to "close down much more" and ran out 3-0 winners in the end.

So i think a deeper d-line would work better just to frustrate them, if you sneak a 1-0 goal lead you could do that, altho i found Chelsea VERY difficult as they press loads.

I'll also give your new link a go but as things are going well atm and im sitting in 4th place, ill save giving it a try untill my Man city game and see how it fares against them :)

Edit: Scrap that, ill just see what happens vs Norwich
 
Eeeek, dominating the first half but I've conceded two goals from corners. Is there anything different about the corner set up?
 
Tried it V Norwich and ran out 5-3 winners @ Carrow Road.

Had to drop the d-line mid match and change from Attack to Control each time they scored with exception to their 3rd goal as gam was over.

Got caught out by my LWB leaving space behind him which was crossed for their first goal, a penalty and a long shot from the edge of the area as seen at the bottom.

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Pre match i swapped my Left IF to W Support - He scored twice and my RW to IF attack - He got 3 assists
 
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Great start - came back from behind twice to end a three game winless run against second placed Cambridge United! As mentioned, both their goals were from corners - they created little else. My striker looks far more effective. All I changed was in about the 70th minute changed from 'much higher defensive line' to 'push higher up' because I got caught a couple of times with balls over the top. Also used CE's OIs from post 4300.View attachment 313637
 
By the way, Christian - you made no changes to corners - Cambridge must just be half decent from them!
 
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