Everton 3and half seasons in HELP

[freshprinceIE]

Hello everyone,
Today I'm looking for help with my everton save. Its 29 games into 3rd season. I'm currently 5th with only 14 wins. In my first season I won the league and capital one cup. Second season I finished 4th, won nothing. In second season I was great up until January, when I basically couldn't get a win.
My strikers don't score a great deal anymore, and even tho I have 20 shots in a game I still don't score a lot, and my strikers miss the easiest of chances. My goalkeeper is Valdes, and he rarely makes a save. Usually we concede one shot on target, and it goes in. In the rare games were he gets lots of shots on him, then he makes the saves.
The team dont seem to be motivated much, they don't seem to understand that they are in bad form when I do team talks, my team talks give good things (looks motivated, all green etc) but they still play bad.
I rarely score from corners, think I got 3 this season, which is the most any season in fm14 for me.
Below is my squad and tactic I prefer most. I also have a 442flat and a 4231. I like to play with wingers, but mirallas has been horrible last 20 games . My squad is quite good just underperforming. I do lack a striker with over 14 finishing tho...
Basically I just need any help at all, what can i do with my tactic. In formation below I normally have 2 wingers and one AF or Poacher. The DM is normally an anchorman.
Thanks for any help.
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[David M Caine]

Your main problem is your striker is isolated he wont get any support from your HB or your BWM as they are both set to defend plus your DLP will stay deep this means there is no one behind him feeding him thru balls and creating chances.

Your team also lacks width as the IF will be cutting inside and your AP will look inside, set both to wingers support and change to DLP to an AP attack.

Lastly setting your lone striker to an AF instead of a poacher will get him more involved in play.

 

[freshprinceIE]

Hey sorry for late reply, not been on much. Thanks for reply, but I must add I normally play with an AP instead of DLP and to wingers and an AF too but the tactic above is one I tried to change cuz the origonal with wingers, AP and AF didnt work. The chances usually did come, but just nobody was scoring, I could have 20+ shots and 1 goal and opponents have 2 shots 2 goals.
The strikers were missing sitters and the wingers were shooting when they could of just passed across goal.

 

[freshprinceIE]

I lost to man city in super cup 3-0 playing my normal tactic with the wingers, i had 20 shots they had something like 7...

2 weeks later, played them in league and used my new 41212 tactic and won 2-0 ... then drew with some bad teams in europe and league.

 

[hadyncity]

Change your striker around and play Welbeck as he is probably better with Diouf getting old and have a poor ability rating.

 

[rocheyb]

I've had a lot of joy with 4-4-1-1 (see the link below) and looking at your squad, you could do away with the HB and use Tom Ince in the M(L) position as Winger_Attack, with Kevin Mirallas doing similar on the right. Ross Barkley can go into the No.10 role as Shadow Striker - he's useful in the build-up play and good in the air for crosses - but I would also retrain him to play right midfield and retrain Danny Welbeck to operate as the Shadow Striker, to give you squad rotation options and get the best of those two players in particular.

The SS works best in combination with a Deep-Lying Forward_Support; I'm guessing Lorenzo Insigne would be the best option for that role among your players. Players like Steven Pienaar and Adem Lajic will blend into that system pretty seamlessly, I should think, and Seamus Coleman should do well in that set-up, too.

What the 4-4-1-1 is really good at is getting bodies into the box for crosses and having attack-minded players in place to follow-up on blocks and rebounds, which most lone-striker systems struggle to provide.

In my link, I feature on James Ward-Prowse - he'd be a good addition to your squad for his vision, ball retention, set-piece delivery and leadership qualities, to operate in the DLP_Support role. You're in 2016, so he'll still be quite young and probably obtainable for Everton, if he's still with The Saints:

http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/foot...1-real-4-4-2-how-i-learned-play-triangle.html

 

[freshprinceIE]

Hello, thanks for the replies guys. I usually play welbeck as my striker, but having him go 10 hours+ with zero goals i dropped him, I have the more experienced drogba to use now too.

 

[freshprinceIE]

Thanks Rocheyb for the reply, some useful info there. I will try your formation and maybe tweak it to how i like it too, James Ward Prowse had been on my radar for a long time, but i've had to strengthen other areas, so havent picked him up. As for coleman, hes gone but replaced with Sebastian Jung (I think thats how u spell it).

As for Ince, I don't like to start him often as he seems to be involved in every goal i concede and insigne does much better.We struggle at corners any suggestions there?

 

[freshprinceIE]

Update so far:
The 4411 tactic is at 90% familiarity. I've used it for 9 games of which I've won 4, lost 4. I'm dominating possesion and shots, but still the AI score nearly every shot.

My last game was a 2-0 loss at home to a wolves side who are in 20th and haven't won in over 10 games which was last season. They had 2 shots, 2 goals. Chris Wood chipping Valdes twice in exact same position. I had 15 shots and 60% possession.

Since using the tactic, I've noticed the defence struggles, a lot more than it used to anyway.