i got new job, in AZ Alkmaar, or something like this
fantastic facilities, good stadium, but team with their last manager drop from top 7 Ederveise.
they sold some core players. but anyway here a good defenders, Wernbloom and Rasmus Elm, and ofc Altidor.
i buy only 3 players, just to fill the bench, and sell some guys from team 2 and Poulsen (2.6 million for this sh*t, thank you rich italian noname club).
prediction: 6. Season started good, but in the october we dive in the slump (slump in october, how you like it?).
we concede in every f*ing game, concede so stupid goals.
perfomance - L,L,D,W,D,L and we drop to position 10. i'm in panic, my 3 tactics not working (4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 and defencive 4-2-2-1-1). WHAT I'M F**NG DOING WRONG? am i, or this is the players?
Both. Firstly, when i take a job in AZ i decided: we play possession football. I decide it, because we have a good amount of AM players, with nice passing and creativity/flair. Our defenders and DM also have a brains. Right decision? Now i understand, not. I hate possession football (irl), and i know nothing about this. When something goes wrong i don't know what to do. And we loose and loose points vs teams from the bottom.
In one day i play whole day, and have a time to watch Full Match. And what i see? My defencive midfielders goes into dribble and lost a ball, my left winger with LEG: Left only (role att.mid:support) make "cut inside", and lost a ball, my GK makes stupid long shots, when in his PI set up: defender collect. Oh long shots! everyone in my team wanna make a long shot! Doesnt matter if i say them: work ball into the box, they just shoot and shoot. RAGE.
i fined guys with rating 6.3 and low, i send them to team 2, but it make everything worse. Morale - red. I think to resign, after 4 month in the club...
No! I'm not cowardly! If i so coward, what i wait from my players? Never give up, this is only october! Let's do something, what can make a difference.
My main tactic before changing: 4-2-3-1
Fluid, later Balanced; Standart; Zonal Marking.
When i see games on Full Match i scream: "WTF you guys doing? why not to make simple pass, or good cross? Why you shoot when your partner staying in free space? Why you playing like my lovely Arsenal in january/february?
If you guys so selfish, i wanna to teach you something special."
My tactic now:
Philosophy: Very Rigid (!)
Strategy: Counter is main, sometimes Attack
Passing: Direct
Creative Freedom: Disciplined (!)
Closing Down: More
Tackling: Hard
Marking: Man
Roaming: Stick to position
How you like it, selfish bast/*rd Martens?
Roles:
GK
DL/R: fulback (s) - crossing: often
DC: dc (d)
DML: DM (d)
DMR: Anchorman
AMR: Winger (s) or Advanced Playmaker (s)
AML: Winger (s)
STCR: Targetman (s) - RWB: sometimes(because Altidor very good with ball), RFD: sometimes
STCL: Poacher - RFD: rare, through ball: sometimes.
Why so strange setup on my strikers in RFD? thanks SFraser:
Another good and basic example is the Advanced and Deep Striker combination. One striker plays with a high Mentality and RFD Rare meaning he starts in an advanced position but does not make runs. The other striker starts deeper but he makes RFD Mixed, and will look to feed the ball to the advanced striker, then make runs past him. Once the deep striker gets past the advanced striker, the advanced striker will bomb forward and try to stay high up the pitch because of his mentality. In this way you can setup a whole series of pass-and-forward run moves simply by getting one striker to run from deep, and then getting the other striker to try and stay high up the pitch through mentality alone without making Runs From Deep when he is already advanced.
with this setup + man marking my strikers usable in defence, and i like it.
Idea in my tactic to make things simple - exploit the space, make as much crosses as you can, hard tackling. No more silly dribbles! Everything turns around my Targetman.
next game vs PSV, and i think our unbeatable serie stops.
This tactic not only just "shoot and run", this is good in possession to. in my last game i have 60 - 40. We play not so beauty, but who cares?
I have problems only vs teams what park the bus in the middle (4-1-2-2-1, 4-1-3-2, etc). And idk how we can perform vs 4-2-3-1.
Anyway i like it, and in the next transfer window i wanna to buy some strong/fast/workhorse wingers. and i need Targetman to the bench.
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Game vs Twente. Twente is a fantastic team (Chadli, Fernando, De Jong) solid in defence, and ruthless in attack.
this guy just laughed at my defenders in first game
scores 2 or 3.
if this is their main threat, why not to deprive his space?
what i do:
tactic:
very rigid (my philosophy - just do what i want from you)
counter (i like counter-attacking football)
more disciplined (same as philosophy)
more direct (pass to the targetman and run)
stand-off more (twente very intelligent and technical team, just restrict space on our half)
hard tackling (KILL THEM ALL!)
man marking (better than zonal)
stick to position (same as philosophy)
4-2-3-1.
4 defenders, all on def. duty.
2 defencive midfielders on def. duty. 1 anchorman and 1 dm.
1 ML, 1 MR - defensive winger on att.duty. my ML is a typical winger, my MR is inverted playmaker (cut inside and through ball: often)
1 MC - central midfielder support. good in tackling to.
1 ST - targetman support.
Twente played 4-1-2-2-1
OI: i tight mark their lone striker (super de Jong), hard tackling, but Closing down: never.
tackle hard vs Chadli, because he tired (83 cond).
tackle hard vs Cabral. he is Inside Forward, very dangerous.
closing down: never to opponent DL/R and 2 DC.
my right DMCR get the instruction: specifically mark Luke de Jong. And this is works brilliantly!
de Jong performance tonight:
not so good, yeah?
Twente performance in this game:
a lot of passes, but they realy not so dangerous. only 2 passes goes inside the penalty area. yes, we can concede from all of this long shots, and Twente unlucky a little bit (my team play very narrow, it gives us advantage vs long shots). This is demonstrate, how they depend from de Jong and his skills.
after 1 half i substitute my DMCR ,because he get a yellow card, but in 50 minutes he made 3 tackles (2 vs de Jong) and maked 2 fouls, and all 2 vs de Jong. top job.
we win 2-0.
