Chelsea BOMB Home and BOMB Away (Counter Mentality)
Hi Jassar,
Thanks so much for all the work you do on this thread it has helped me to enjoy the game a lot more since I found it.
I have some feedback for you BOMB Home (As posted) and BOMB Away (Counter Mentality).
Team: Chelsea
Season: Year 3
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Players:
GK: Courtois / Cech
RB: Azpilicueta / Ivanovic
DC: Balanta / Doria / Terry / Cahill / Luiz
LB: Alex Sandro / Bertrand
CM: Pogba / Chelobah / Lampard / Kovacic / Mikel / Ramires
RW: Oscar / Willian
LW: Hazard / Mata
CF: Fierro / Lukaku / Cavani / Damiao
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Results:
Premiership - 1st 94 points
FA Cup - Lost final to Man City in an even game
Champions League - Lost QF to Barcelona 5-4... Dominated them in first leg at home but they had 3 shots and scored 3 goals against me for a 3-3 draw, I think it is also important to note that I won Champions League first two seasons and I had a general feeling in this tie that the engine didn't want me to win the competition 3 times in a row
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Comments:
BOMB Away with counter mentality is extremely strong both home and away against big teams, I won at Old Trafford, White Heart Lane, Anfield, completely controlling and dominating the game.
BOMB Home destroys opponents that are slightly weaker at home and away but I had problems against the bigger teams even when using this at home. For example lost to Man City 1-0 at Stamford Bridge in a game they were controlling and Lost at Everton 1-0 in an even game, during first few games of games of the season. It was impressive to finish with 94 points given 2 such early losses and the fact I holiday mode the last few games which also brought a draw and a loss.
When I switched to BOMB Home against weaker teams only (mostly when playing at home) it always dominated with plenty of goals scored. However, I lost to Man City at home using BOMB Away with counter mentality in a game that inviting pressure with a deep defensive line seemed like a bad idea, thinking about it afterwards!
Finally, on reflection, I think it is a bad idea to play a deep defensive line even with counter mentality against a great team such as Barcelona or Mourinho's Man City in my game, for example, so I think it is important to have the option to move to a higher defensive line without being so gung-ho in attack. I noticed someone has posted a tactic called "Under Pressure 14.2" which looks a lot like your BOMB tactics but it looks like it has the flexibility to shift the line more easily from drop deeper to push higher up depending on the opponent and game situation. I'm going to test this next season.
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Training:
Just want to add the approach to training that I used throughout season...
Individual training for each player with High intensity for specialist role.
Low intensity general training for entire team set to balanced (80%-90% focus).
Match preparation training (10%-20% focus) I rotated between teamwork, def positioning and att movement depending on opponent.
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I only just registered to give some feedback and not sure how to do screenshots yet but can figure it out if anybody wants to see.
Thanks again look forward to testing more
