Emulating Pellegrini's Man City

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Flushed with the success of my first tactic, the strikerless Tick Attacker, which got The "Mighty" Blades promoted to the Premier League, I decided I needed something a little different as an alternative to keep us there!

So I read up on Pellegrini's philosophy and tactics and here's what I came up with!

Though still in it's infancy, it's looking pretty good! A 100% record in pre-season, beating some decent teams in the process, with the team being far from fluid with the tactic.

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So here's the tactic:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mnzfxvno5bdsdy1/PELLEGRINI.tac

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It's not 4-2-2, as most of the pundits would have you believe. Since when have Silva and Nasri been wingers????

It's more of a 4-2-2-2. The term Pellegrini uses to describe the wider midfielders is "Interiors". The width for this system is provided by the Wing-Backs.

So, let's have a look at the individual players.

Goalkeeper - Sweeper Keeper

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Obviously Joe Hart, famed for his fantastic decision making when rushing out!

Wing-Backs

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Set on automatic, with an instruction to get further forward.

Central Defenders

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One set to stopper and the other set to cover, a la Kompany and Nastasic.

Defensive Midfielders

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One sitting DM...Fernandinho and one more offensive DM....Yaya!

Interiors

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Silva and Nasri.

Strikers

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The classic combination of Deep Lying Forward....Aguero and the Advanced Forward.....Negredo.

In conclusion, the tactic seems to produce a remarkably similar style to what we're witnessing with City at the moment. It's early days for my lot though and I don't know whether I dare be so cavalier in the regular season against the "Big Boys"!

Here's some stats from a few of the games played so far.

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If you decide to give it a go with this tactic, please let me know how you get on and feel free to offer suggestions and tweaks to improve it.
 
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Bladesman1963 said:
Flushed with the success of my first tactic, the strikerless Tick Attacker, which got The "Mighty" Blades promoted to the Premier League, I decided I needed something a little different as an alternative to keep us there!

So I read up on Pellegrini's philosophy and tactics and here's what I came up with!

Though still in it's infancy, it's looking pretty good! A 100% record in pre-season, beating some decent teams in the process, with the team being far from fluid with the tactic.

View attachment 469983

So here's the tactic:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mnzfxvno5bdsdy1/PELLEGRINI.tac

View attachment 469938

It's not 4-2-2, as most of the pundits would have you believe. Since when have Silva and Nasri been wingers????

It's more of a 4-2-2-2. The term Pellegrini uses to describe the wider midfielders is "Interiors". The width for this system is provided by the Wing-Backs.

So, let's have a look at the individual players.

Goalkeeper - Sweeper Keeper

View attachment 469940
View attachment 469935

Obviously Joe Hart, famed for his fantastic decision making when rushing out!

Wing-Backs

View attachment 469951

Set on automatic, with an instruction to get further forward.

Central Defenders

View attachment 469955

One set to stopper and the other set to cover, a la Kompany and Nastasic.

Defensive Midfielders

View attachment 469958View attachment 469961

One sitting DM...Fernandinho and one more offensive DM....Yaya!

Interiors

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Silva and Nasri.

Strikers

View attachment 469965View attachment 469968

The classic combination of Deep Lying Forward....Aguero and the Advanced Forward.....Negredo.

In conclusion, the tactic seems to produce a remarkably similar style to what we're witnessing with City at the moment. It's early days for my lot though and I don't know whether I dare be so cavalier in the regular season against the "Big Boys"!

Here's some stats from a few of the games played so far.

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If you decide to give it a go with this tactic, please let me know how you get on and feel free to offer suggestions and tweaks to improve it.
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Good op apart from the The "Mighty" Blades Aka Pigs
well done though
 
Tried this tactic out, 3 wins from 3, 10 goals scored and only 1 let in! Great job
 
I'll try your tactic with Man City and will post some results later.Cheers!
 
Yeah downloaded no problem but when i try to import it ays cannot import this file
 
Are you guys downloading it from the Dropbox link? Because there is a PELLEGRINI.tac link in between the the tactics, but it doesn't work, and isn't even the same tactic as the one in OP
 
cobrauk said:
Are you guys downloading it from the Dropbox link? Because there is a PELLEGRINI.tac link in between the the tactics, but it doesn't work, and isn't even the same tactic as the one in OP
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Yes , I downloaded it from dropbox
 
cobrauk said:
Are you guys downloading it from the Dropbox link? Because there is a PELLEGRINI.tac link in between the the tactics, but it doesn't work, and isn't even the same tactic as the one in OP
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I don't know what that is and how it got there! I'll get rid of it if I can to save confusion!
 
How does this hold up with Navas factored into it?
 
wkdsoul said:
How does this hold up with Navas factored into it?
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It is designed around the usual starting 11. I guess that if you were actually playing with the current Man City squad that Navas would have his own personal instructions to always play as a winger, which is what usually happens when he comes off the bench.
 
Bladesman1963 said:
It is designed around the usual starting 11. I guess that if you were actually playing with the current Man City squad that Navas would have his own personal instructions to always play as a winger, which is what usually happens when he comes off the bench.
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I'll give a go see how the tactic plays as the rotation comes into play.
 
wkdsoul said:
I'll give a go see how the tactic plays as the rotation comes into play.
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I've noticed that players in my squad who are natural wingers tend to play more like wingers than APs even without their own personal instruction, which I guess would be logical in a real life situation.
 
Bladesman1963 said:
I've noticed that players in my squad who are natural wingers tend to play more like wingers than APs even without their own personal instruction, which I guess would be logical in a real life situation.
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Yeah, i presume most woud have hug line, and runs down... .. side as PPM's anyway.
 
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