EL VOLCANO 3-4-1-2 | Tactical Eruption

As I promised my friend @koronis that I will check Millwall by myself so this morning I decided to build a team around and start this new challenge
Probably I will finish season in Premiership and leave a game save here for those Millwall fan's who struggle.

I forgot the Premier League rule that you can only play 5 loan players per match 😅
That made recruitment a bit tricky because its cheaper and easier to bring quality on loan. Still, managed to put together a competitive squad,I will do the same in January tranfer window,always looking to improve the team.

Results so far (15 games played):
13 wins
1 draw
1 loss

Top of the league.

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The only defeat was a very strange home game against Wrexham, who actually dominated me with a 3-4-2-1 system. The two AMCs caused all kinds of problems and, fair play, they deserved it.

But as always — when I lose, I study the game.
I realised that against systems with 2 AMCs, I need more protection centrally, especially in the DM area. So I created a new version with two DMs, called “Fortress” 🛡️.

I already tested it against Preston, who play in a similar way — and I completely dominated that match.
I’ll introduce Fortress soon as an alternative version specifically for teams like Wrexham,or having an option when oposition dominate in those area behind our 2 CM.

As for IL Volcano — it still works like a charm. No changes needed there.

And yes, before someone asks 😏
The game is saved only twice.
I’ll leave screenshots of that too, because apparently for some people that’s the most important tactical instruction...

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More updates soon 👊⚽
 
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As I promised my friend @koronis that I will check Millwall by myself so this morning I decided to build a team around and start this new challenge
Probably I will finish season in Premiership and leave a game save here for those Millwall fan's who struggle.

I forgot the Premier League rule that you can only play 5 loan players per match 😅
That made recruitment a bit tricky because its cheaper and easier to bring quality on loan. Still, managed to put together a competitive squad,I will do the same in January tranfer window,always looking to improve the team.

Results so far (15 games played):
13 wins
1 draw
1 loss

Top of the league.

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The only defeat was a very strange home game against Wrexham, who actually dominated me with a 3-4-2-1 system. The two AMCs caused all kinds of problems and, fair play, they deserved it.

But as always — when I lose, I study the game.
I realised that against systems with 2 AMCs, I need more protection centrally, especially in the DM area. So I created a new version with two DMs, called “Fortress” 🛡️.

I already tested it against Preston, who play in a similar way — and I completely dominated that match.
I’ll introduce Fortress soon as an alternative version specifically for teams like Wrexham,or having an option when oposition dominate in those area behind our 2 CM.

As for IL Volcano — it still works like a charm. No changes needed there.

And yes, before someone asks 😏
The game is saved only twice.
I’ll leave screenshots of that too, because apparently for some people that’s the most important tactical instruction...

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More updates soon 👊⚽
Well done that's top class results so far,wish you good luck until the end.
I am asking could you do the same for me with Burnley as I struggle to get CL football with them.
At least to prepare the season,doing the transfers for me, because somehow I always pick wrong players and I don't have so much of experience.
I would apriciate it.
 
Well done that's top class results so far,wish you good luck until the end.
I am asking could you do the same for me with Burnley as I struggle to get CL football with them.
At least to prepare the season,doing the transfers for me, because somehow I always pick wrong players and I don't have so much of experience.
I would apriciate it.
I will do it, no worries 👍
Just give me a bit of time. I want to properly finish the Millwall save first, then I can fully focus on preparing Burnley for season 1.

Being a father of a newborn doesn’t really help my FM schedule 😅 My FM satisfaction is limited to a few hours per day at best. I still love the game, but real life sometimes presses very high intensity 😂

I’ll get to Burnley as soon as I can and do it properly, not rushed.
 
I will do it, no worries 👍
Just give me a bit of time. I want to properly finish the Millwall save first, then I can fully focus on preparing Burnley for season 1.

Being a father of a newborn doesn’t really help my FM schedule 😅 My FM satisfaction is limited to a few hours per day at best. I still love the game, but real life sometimes presses very high intensity 😂

I’ll get to Burnley as soon as I can and do it properly, not rushed.
No worries I can wait 😀
 
I'm glad you tested the tactics with mllwall, otherwise I've been playing FM for years and it's not a big club to be taken, they have players personnel everything. Millwall is limited and that's why it's a challenge to start with a smaller club and make a result. And I think that the additional weight is that I put the profile of the manager at the lowest descriptive grades. A team that develops tactics is always a test with Liverpool, PSG, Bayern, Man City. Give me a smaller club and let's see how it goes.
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