maybe, turning one of mezzelas to support from attack duty can help better defensive stats. And if your wings don't have good finishing skill you can change it to support also. I didn't find a space to try it but just brainstorming.
I tried the original tactic for a season with Spurs to test it out and I have not been disappointed! Beat Utd to the league by 2 points, then beat City in the FA Cup final 5-1 and Barca 1-0 in the Champions League. Only transfer in was Lucas Torreira for £20mil (he's now worth £50mil!) - Harry Kane ended the season with 62 goals in 60 games for club and country!! Great work!
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im afraid that happens at times...but for it keeps things interesting because winning everything kills my motivation to carry on, that's why i like this tactic because you have to keep improving
Having success with your tweak but what do you do to hold on to leads as in my first season in the bundesliga with union berlin i have choked a lot of leads. One game i was 4-0 up at HT went 5-4 down then drew 5-5. Any help would be appreciated.
Funny I had a much stronger team on paper with schalke during 3 seasons (160CA+ in every starting position and atleast 145CA+ players in the bench with the most suited attributes for all positions) and still the farthest I managed was a quarter-final, heck I even lost against god **** benfica with a 160CA+ starter team, happy for your success but this tactic wasn't a lifechanger as it claims in the title
Perhaps its your management and not the tactic that is the issue then....
All players full on fitness and match prep, morale superb+, full team cohesion and board confidence, dominating the league and giving bayern 3-0 spankings home and away, no player fatigue because i rotate and rest them properly and then comes some rando telling me that the problem was my managament? ROFL
And despite your dominance of the very competitive Bundesliga (lol) you failed in the Champions league consistently, as said above. Everyone else seems to have no issue with the tactic in this regard.
Funny how your big list of how great you are does not include team talks, in game shouts, tactical changes etc that help squeeze that extra level of performance from your team.
How did you have so much funds to invest with Watford in 1st season I only have 800k?
Well,
for me it is definetly a lifechanger. I used to play with some of the three-striker-tactics, but I had completely lost any interest in playing the game. Then I saw this thread and gave it a chance. In every save I used it, I overperformed. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But it never failed me. I love the formation, I love the results and most important, I love the realism it gets me (most of the time).
Recently I started a new savegame. I started unemployed and took over RB Leipzig short before the winterbreak in first season after they fired their manager. They had played an aweful season so far, 17th place after 15 games. Horrible. The team has no signings at all. Well, I know that managing a new club or even trying out a new tactic gives you sometimes extremely good results, so I am not expecting to keep things up like this. But for the first games, it has been unbelievable:
This was my first game, two days after I took over. Not an important game, as we had been in a group with Manchester United and Barcelona. We were already safe in 3rd position, so we are going to continue to play in the Euro League.
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This was again a few days later. My first game in the Bundesliga.
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And again a few days later against Wolfsburg in DFB-Pokal.
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Of course the tactic is not fully fluid right now, playing every three days is quite hard and we can really use the 3 weeks winterbreak. But all in all I can say that I really love this tactic. Yes, you might lose matches, but it is so much more enjoyable than all of these 343/523 tactics out there.
The colchester tweak best tactic without doubt in FM18, it can go head to head with the 3 strikers tactics
The colchester tweak best tactic without doubt in FM18, it can go head to head with the 3 strikers tactics