Just thought I would share a tactic that I created recently specifically for lower league management.
I wanted to start a new game with Truro, if you are unfamiliar they are a Blue Square South team, horribly in debt, in administration, over budget, only iirc 7 healthy players on the beginning roster, and another 4 that have long term injuries, and contracts, and team reputation is "obscure".
Basically to sum it up, it is likely the single worst club you could choose to manage in almost any league. I took this meager team and whipped it up into promotion contenders in a single year with this tactic.
The basis of this tactic is a strong defense.
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Starting as Truro this tactic is ideal, because it will maximize the best tactical duties for your best players. This was basically the idea behind creating this tactic. I've tried many of the tactics around on this forum, many of them are far too fluid or aggressive for LLM, or just simply didn't utilize my players to their best tactical abilities. This tactic solved both problems for me.
A very good Anchor man, and 2 good Target men are key for this tactic at the most basic level. Works best with 1 target man that comes deep to get ball, and the other that plays with his back to the goal. Everything else is icing on the cake.
On Defense the Wingbacks and BWM will pursue the attacking team relentlessly, this leaves your Limited Defenders back holding their line, like they should. In my experience almost all opposition shots will be taken from far outside angles usually into side netting or the stands, or will be highly contested, usually blocked if it is near the center. It is absolutely amazing at forcing opponents to earn everything.
The tactic also has "closing down" and "show onto weak foot" selected against most positions against most formations. This means you will not have to mess with opposition instructions every game if you don't want to, except if an opponent is using an unusual formation.
Results;
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Here are results from playing a quick season in classic mode. Probably could have did even better, but when I signed 4 players on loans in December (had to wait until the team got sold because they were in administration), the team cohesion dropped a ton and we lost about 4/5 games and did poorly for about a month, but considering I only had 7 healthy players, it was needed so I didn't have to continue to use non contract scrub players the entire season. Actually started out the year on a 19 game unbeaten streak, and it stopped the very first game I put all the loan players in.
Now I know you might be saying, you barely won the league, lost 7 games blah blah. Go look at Truro's roster and then come talk to me. They didn't have a single center defender or left back on the roster at the beginning of the game, and my only rightback has a speed of 3, lol. Trust me, with even a remotely decent back line this tactic will shut down teams a few leagues above, and still offer scoring chances.
The tactic was actually made in the regular mode, but I thought to test it this would be faster. No shouts or opposition instruction changes are necessary.
Any questions feel free to ask
I wanted to start a new game with Truro, if you are unfamiliar they are a Blue Square South team, horribly in debt, in administration, over budget, only iirc 7 healthy players on the beginning roster, and another 4 that have long term injuries, and contracts, and team reputation is "obscure".
Basically to sum it up, it is likely the single worst club you could choose to manage in almost any league. I took this meager team and whipped it up into promotion contenders in a single year with this tactic.
The basis of this tactic is a strong defense.
View attachment 365086
Starting as Truro this tactic is ideal, because it will maximize the best tactical duties for your best players. This was basically the idea behind creating this tactic. I've tried many of the tactics around on this forum, many of them are far too fluid or aggressive for LLM, or just simply didn't utilize my players to their best tactical abilities. This tactic solved both problems for me.
A very good Anchor man, and 2 good Target men are key for this tactic at the most basic level. Works best with 1 target man that comes deep to get ball, and the other that plays with his back to the goal. Everything else is icing on the cake.
On Defense the Wingbacks and BWM will pursue the attacking team relentlessly, this leaves your Limited Defenders back holding their line, like they should. In my experience almost all opposition shots will be taken from far outside angles usually into side netting or the stands, or will be highly contested, usually blocked if it is near the center. It is absolutely amazing at forcing opponents to earn everything.
The tactic also has "closing down" and "show onto weak foot" selected against most positions against most formations. This means you will not have to mess with opposition instructions every game if you don't want to, except if an opponent is using an unusual formation.
Results;
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Here are results from playing a quick season in classic mode. Probably could have did even better, but when I signed 4 players on loans in December (had to wait until the team got sold because they were in administration), the team cohesion dropped a ton and we lost about 4/5 games and did poorly for about a month, but considering I only had 7 healthy players, it was needed so I didn't have to continue to use non contract scrub players the entire season. Actually started out the year on a 19 game unbeaten streak, and it stopped the very first game I put all the loan players in.
Now I know you might be saying, you barely won the league, lost 7 games blah blah. Go look at Truro's roster and then come talk to me. They didn't have a single center defender or left back on the roster at the beginning of the game, and my only rightback has a speed of 3, lol. Trust me, with even a remotely decent back line this tactic will shut down teams a few leagues above, and still offer scoring chances.
The tactic was actually made in the regular mode, but I thought to test it this would be faster. No shouts or opposition instruction changes are necessary.
Any questions feel free to ask
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