In just three short seasons I've managed to win basically everything possible with a newly promoted second tier swedish team (IK Sirius FK). I used V12, V15 and V19 respectively during each season as this has been a longer running multiplayer FMC game.
V19 has been absolutely incredible, winning me the Allsvenskan (Top tier) as a newly promoted team tipped to be 12th, the Swedish cup and the Swedish Supercup all in one season, sadly being knocked out in the Europe league 3rd qualification round. Never mind that my club is valued at £1,69M while some of the teams in the division are valued at £30M+! Below are some of the stats!
2014
First season at the club using mostly V12, newly promoted in First Division Elite (Superettan) and the bookmakers put me at 12th position, although in reality the club has a squad that should be in the upper half. Almost no transfer money and semi-proffessional status (as one of two clubs in the league), so I wasn't able to convince any decent player to join me. Close but not quite there!
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2015
Second season using V15. Managed to sign quite a few youngsters and some starters now that my club became proffessional, sadly I lost the cup semi-final and didn't get to play Euro League (the opposing team was already qualified, in Sweden you play the cup final in May and qualify for Euro League the following fall). Still, gear success. My friend playing Ljungskile also managed to gain promotion in the end!
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2016
V19. Smashing season, only Euro League that didn't quite go as planned. Would've had an incredible economy boost reaching even as far as the group stage, but dropping 3-0 to 3-6 in 60 minutes is not good enough!
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Sadly Souqet got picked up by Lorient on a buyout clause for £450k, going to have to find a replacement as he was arguably instrumental to my season.
With CL coming up I don't think it'll be that hard to convince promising youngsters to join the club though!
Regarding the tactic
All in all I'm very satisfied with the tactics, and by simply inspecting the match report and picking press/drop and possibly wider or narrower play there wasn't anyone I felt like I couldn't beat even with a defense that started on 2-2.5 stars going in to the season. In V19 CMs seem to be the most important players in the squad, even though my striker managed to bag a lot of goals. In the earlier versions my wingers have scored an incredible amount of goals, but that may simply be down to my choice of wingers this season. I *had* to sell my best right winger when I received an offer I couldn't refuse!
I found that switching to counter in the final 15-20 minutes along with setting the RPM to CDM or even Anchorman, full backs to defend and wingers to W(S) really helps tightening up at the back. Sadly we can't use team talks in FMC, so once in a while the team simply collapses mentally (3-1 to 3-4 in 5 minutes vs bottom 4th Åtvidaberg at HOME...).
Offensively it's arguably harder to break down a team that really tries to play narrow and disrupt your passing game, and I can't say I've found a successful way around it even though I managed to win most games. Sometimes playing a more direct passing game works wonders, once in a while but not often pulling back (counter & drop deeper) seems to do the job and sometimes it's just an impossible task!
V19 has been absolutely incredible, winning me the Allsvenskan (Top tier) as a newly promoted team tipped to be 12th, the Swedish cup and the Swedish Supercup all in one season, sadly being knocked out in the Europe league 3rd qualification round. Never mind that my club is valued at £1,69M while some of the teams in the division are valued at £30M+! Below are some of the stats!
2014
First season at the club using mostly V12, newly promoted in First Division Elite (Superettan) and the bookmakers put me at 12th position, although in reality the club has a squad that should be in the upper half. Almost no transfer money and semi-proffessional status (as one of two clubs in the league), so I wasn't able to convince any decent player to join me. Close but not quite there!
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2015
Second season using V15. Managed to sign quite a few youngsters and some starters now that my club became proffessional, sadly I lost the cup semi-final and didn't get to play Euro League (the opposing team was already qualified, in Sweden you play the cup final in May and qualify for Euro League the following fall). Still, gear success. My friend playing Ljungskile also managed to gain promotion in the end!
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2016
V19. Smashing season, only Euro League that didn't quite go as planned. Would've had an incredible economy boost reaching even as far as the group stage, but dropping 3-0 to 3-6 in 60 minutes is not good enough!
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Sadly Souqet got picked up by Lorient on a buyout clause for £450k, going to have to find a replacement as he was arguably instrumental to my season.
With CL coming up I don't think it'll be that hard to convince promising youngsters to join the club though!Regarding the tactic
All in all I'm very satisfied with the tactics, and by simply inspecting the match report and picking press/drop and possibly wider or narrower play there wasn't anyone I felt like I couldn't beat even with a defense that started on 2-2.5 stars going in to the season. In V19 CMs seem to be the most important players in the squad, even though my striker managed to bag a lot of goals. In the earlier versions my wingers have scored an incredible amount of goals, but that may simply be down to my choice of wingers this season. I *had* to sell my best right winger when I received an offer I couldn't refuse!
I found that switching to counter in the final 15-20 minutes along with setting the RPM to CDM or even Anchorman, full backs to defend and wingers to W(S) really helps tightening up at the back. Sadly we can't use team talks in FMC, so once in a while the team simply collapses mentally (3-1 to 3-4 in 5 minutes vs bottom 4th Åtvidaberg at HOME...).
Offensively it's arguably harder to break down a team that really tries to play narrow and disrupt your passing game, and I can't say I've found a successful way around it even though I managed to win most games. Sometimes playing a more direct passing game works wonders, once in a while but not often pulling back (counter & drop deeper) seems to do the job and sometimes it's just an impossible task!