A common problem for many FM tacticians. Creating a Barcelona-esque tactic and want to start build up from the back? With Barcelona, sure, but you also want your centre backs to get wider to allow fullbacks further up the pitch and making pressing harder for the opposition.
Or playing with a narrow midfield diamond (often labelled as 1-2-1) and you want your central midfielders to go wider to offer support for the fullbacks.
Or you want your wide forwards (AML/R or STL/R) to make diagonal runs and make runs towards the goal instead of staying wide?
Or you want to create a "central winger", n.10 who drifts wide to support the wide players instead of finding space between the opposition centre backs and defensive/central midfielders?
Or you want to limit your striker's running from wide areas towards the centre, not the other way around?
Any of these sound familiar? If you try to create tactics with fluid movement across the pitch, then, yes. I myself have struggled often with the wide forwards making runs towards the goal, which seems to be the most common case. In my current save I'm trying to build some sort of 3-4-3 tactic. It involves problems with centre backs, central midfielders in a narrow diamond, and the striker's running.
When taking a look at the tools for sideways movement we have some options available.
Team width. Team instruction rather than a player one, so can might cause problems in asymmetrical formations or if you want your wide forwards to play narrow while fullbacks offer the width. Also affects the player positioning rather than the movement.
Roam from position. Affects player movement but not so much runs to deep and, more importantly, doesn't specify the direction of the movement.
Wide play. The most obvious but still extremely limiting. Cut inside and hug the touchline being on-the-ball movements (according to TheBetterHalf and my own experience) and move into channels causing more runs towards the corners rather than the goal (not even mentioning that move into channels doesn't really affect centre backs if you want them to go wider) we find ourselves in a situation where we can't affect the players sideways movement that much, actually we can do it very little. And when we affect the movement, we can't properly control the movement (direction of the runs).
In this thread I would like to see discussion about your experiences, ideas and possible solutions to the problems mentioned above. Also I would like to hear your experiences of creative freedom affecting the movement.
If you have found a solution to any of the problems, please, post it here. It will hopefully help others to create their own tactics.
Or playing with a narrow midfield diamond (often labelled as 1-2-1) and you want your central midfielders to go wider to offer support for the fullbacks.
Or you want your wide forwards (AML/R or STL/R) to make diagonal runs and make runs towards the goal instead of staying wide?
Or you want to create a "central winger", n.10 who drifts wide to support the wide players instead of finding space between the opposition centre backs and defensive/central midfielders?
Or you want to limit your striker's running from wide areas towards the centre, not the other way around?
Any of these sound familiar? If you try to create tactics with fluid movement across the pitch, then, yes. I myself have struggled often with the wide forwards making runs towards the goal, which seems to be the most common case. In my current save I'm trying to build some sort of 3-4-3 tactic. It involves problems with centre backs, central midfielders in a narrow diamond, and the striker's running.
When taking a look at the tools for sideways movement we have some options available.
Team width. Team instruction rather than a player one, so can might cause problems in asymmetrical formations or if you want your wide forwards to play narrow while fullbacks offer the width. Also affects the player positioning rather than the movement.
Roam from position. Affects player movement but not so much runs to deep and, more importantly, doesn't specify the direction of the movement.
Wide play. The most obvious but still extremely limiting. Cut inside and hug the touchline being on-the-ball movements (according to TheBetterHalf and my own experience) and move into channels causing more runs towards the corners rather than the goal (not even mentioning that move into channels doesn't really affect centre backs if you want them to go wider) we find ourselves in a situation where we can't affect the players sideways movement that much, actually we can do it very little. And when we affect the movement, we can't properly control the movement (direction of the runs).
In this thread I would like to see discussion about your experiences, ideas and possible solutions to the problems mentioned above. Also I would like to hear your experiences of creative freedom affecting the movement.
If you have found a solution to any of the problems, please, post it here. It will hopefully help others to create their own tactics.
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