Don Revie Style 4-4-2 Help

[AlbinoHedgehog08]

Hello,

I am trying to create a Don Revie style tactic as use with Leeds in the 60s/70s.

I am aiming for the tactic to have the following play style:


- slow and almost walking style play from all players

-442 shape which holds position Attacking and Defending

-DLF Playmaker (No10 role)

-First Touch & Composure stats are the most important , for all players (12 minimum for both in all players)

-Team and player instructions Unique , based on the theory of play it simple and play the way your facing.

-player roles E.g. Winger ,Poacher, Cm etc etc to perform as they should.

-always angles ond movement from players and the square pass is always on

-players take time on the ball, which inturn leads to them making better decsions and playing forward passes and backward ones contoling the tempo and the ball all over the pitch.


Now in theory, this should lead to having some brilliant one-touch football, relaxed football, that then hits when the opposition are not expecting...

However I'm having trouble getting this to work in FM 16.

Anyone got any ideas to help me get going?

 

[aramis]

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/foot...ow-creative-leeds-united-70s-revie-style.html

 

[aramis]

"Revie wasn’t just an advocate of deep lying centre forwards.

He also delved deeply into every available coaching manual, and developed the belief that the “pass and run” style of football was the future."

There was a cynicism about their football. They employed time-wasting tactics, they complained to the referee over every decision which went against them and they feigned injuries when it suited them.

Revie’s Leeds team were notorious for their gamesmanship, cynicism and roughhousing, traits much in evidence in the famous 1970 FA Cup final replay with Chelsea, arguably the most savage football match seen on these shores. When reviewed by David Elleray in 1995 through the lens of then-current refereeing standards, he concluded that Leeds would have incurred seven bookings and three dismissals (Johnny Giles, Billy Bremner, Jack Charlton), while Chelsea merited the small matter of thirteen yellows, including three each for ‘Chopper’ Harris, Dave Webb, and Charlie Cooke. Charlton had gone by the time Clough arrived, but the team still had Bremner, Giles, Norman Hunter and Paul Madeley to get intimate with the opposition.



Leeds were known as a tough, hard-tackling team. Former players provided insight to Revie’s philosophy at Leeds, while tip toeing around the topic of whether or not the manager told them to play ‘dirty’. Former Leeds United player Norman Hunter described a determined plan to assert his authority but not to be ‘dirty’. He said, “Revie regarded the first tackle in the game as a ‘freebie’ as the player never got booked.” According to Hunter, Revie told him “When your man gets the ball for the first time, let him know you’re there. Hit him hard and let him know you’re on his case.” Read more at: https://tr.im/ZaPGt

 

[aramis]

The Super Leeds line-up of legend was Sprake, Reaney, Cooper, Bremner, Charlton, Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones, Giles and Gray,


GK - Sprake
RB - Reaney
LB - Cooper
CD - Charlton
CD - Hunter
MF - Collins
MF - Bremner
MF - O'Grady
MF - Johanneson
CF - Peacock
CF - Charles


1960's

GK - Sprake
RB - Reaney
CB - Charlton
CB - Hunter
LB - Cooper
RM - Lorimer
CM - Bremner
CM - Collins
LM - E. Gray
F - Storrie
F - Jones

 

[aramis]

So, for now:
- certainly a 442
- use a DLF
- tackle harder
- maybe slow - certainly creative - pass orientated - possession based?