FM 24 ITA/ENG OMAGGIO AL GRANDE TORO DEL MAGICOMONTA
TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT BULL
Good morning guys, in this live I will pay homage to the Great Bull with an analysis and tactics article in Football Manager 24.
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Introduction
There is no better way to present this tactic, or rather, this tribute to the great deceased of
Grande Torino than like this:
Heroes are always immortal in the eyes of those who believe in them. And so the boys will believe that Torino is not dead: it is only away."
Indro Montanelli, from Corriere della sera of 7 May 1949
Tactical Analysis
The
"system" tactic , a new game module that appeared in those years, also known as
WM . Until then the most popular tactic was the
"method" , a more defensive type of arrangement which had allowed
Pozzo's Italy to win the 1934 and 1938
World Cups and whose strength was given above all by the counterattack.
In defense there were only two full-backs and a centre-half who shuttled forward supporting the attacking maneuver and then returning. In the midfield, the attacking phase was set up by the attacking midfielders who positioned themselves outside the centre-half. Two interior players, effectively attacking midfielders, and the wingers had the task of serving the balls for the center forward.
In the system invented by the Englishman Herbert
Chapman , manager of
Arsenal , in practice a sort of 3-2-2-3, with three defenders, four midfielders (two midfielders and two interior players), three attackers placed at the top of a
W and an
M .
Chapman chose to move a midfielder back to the line of defenders, effectively creating the "stopper" while the full-backs who transformed into central defenders in the method, marked their respective wingers. The 3-man defense was born.


The marking tasks were simpler, and being a mirror formation, man marking was also born, but the system was also more dynamic, more balanced and if played with the right interpreters, it was a tactic that for the first time guaranteed control of the the nerve center of the actions, the midfield.
This was set up with four players arranged in a square, as they were placed at the top of the
W and
M mentioned above, and involved the use of two midfielders and two half strikers. The first two organize counterattacks and protect the defense, the other two, as in the
Method , are intended to support the offensive action. [
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