Hi All,
I would like to share the tactic that I have been using with Man United. It has been hugely successful and is built on United's strengths but it should be successful with any other top team as well, provided they have players with high Stamina, Work Rate, Passing and fast defenders with good Anticipation and Positioning.
I am not going to upload the tactic because it is made solely using the TC aside from one tweak (Setting the playmaker to "None") so will take less than 2 minutes to make yourself.
It is a fast paced direct attacking 4-4-2 with flying wingers:
And that is my usual first 11 as well.
Here are my fixtures (minus the last one against Everton away. It ended 1-1):
And the league table:
I drew the last 3 matches and conceded 4 which is almost the same number of goals conceded in the previous 26 matches as you can see. For the drawn CL games, I played weakened teams as I had already qualified.
It was mostly plug and play but did I change the strategy to Counter against the bigger teams (Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs) away from home.
Also, I used no OI's and my pitch size is the maxmium.
These are my squad stats at the moment:
Vidic has scored more goals than I would like but I have been using the default set-piece setup so no idea why. That said though, 10 goals in 25 matches is not a ridiculous amount by any means.
I would like to stress again that this tactic was made taking maximum advantage of the Man United squad's strengths so will probably not work with a smaller team and would work best with Man United.
Give it a try and let us know the results. If you have any questions, I will be glad to answer them
Edit: Also, it could be coincidence but it seems like I started to concede more and score a little less frequently when I changed the Match Prep from 'Very High - No specific focus' to 'Low - Teamwork'. I have changed it to 'Low - No specific focus' for my last game against Newcastle away and beat them 3-1 creating 7 CCC's
So I would suggest setting the Match Prep to 'Very High - No specific focus' until the tactic is fluid and then change to 'Average - No specific focus' and add a counter variation of the tactic to match prep (Simply change the strategy of the above tactic to counter)
Credits to TheBetterHalf (FM-Base), LlamaZA, Cleon and Marsupian (SI Forums) whose posts/threads assisted me alot.
I would like to share the tactic that I have been using with Man United. It has been hugely successful and is built on United's strengths but it should be successful with any other top team as well, provided they have players with high Stamina, Work Rate, Passing and fast defenders with good Anticipation and Positioning.
I am not going to upload the tactic because it is made solely using the TC aside from one tweak (Setting the playmaker to "None") so will take less than 2 minutes to make yourself.
It is a fast paced direct attacking 4-4-2 with flying wingers:
And that is my usual first 11 as well.
Here are my fixtures (minus the last one against Everton away. It ended 1-1):
And the league table:
I drew the last 3 matches and conceded 4 which is almost the same number of goals conceded in the previous 26 matches as you can see. For the drawn CL games, I played weakened teams as I had already qualified.
It was mostly plug and play but did I change the strategy to Counter against the bigger teams (Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs) away from home.
Also, I used no OI's and my pitch size is the maxmium.
These are my squad stats at the moment:
Vidic has scored more goals than I would like but I have been using the default set-piece setup so no idea why. That said though, 10 goals in 25 matches is not a ridiculous amount by any means.
I would like to stress again that this tactic was made taking maximum advantage of the Man United squad's strengths so will probably not work with a smaller team and would work best with Man United.
Give it a try and let us know the results. If you have any questions, I will be glad to answer them
Edit: Also, it could be coincidence but it seems like I started to concede more and score a little less frequently when I changed the Match Prep from 'Very High - No specific focus' to 'Low - Teamwork'. I have changed it to 'Low - No specific focus' for my last game against Newcastle away and beat them 3-1 creating 7 CCC's
So I would suggest setting the Match Prep to 'Very High - No specific focus' until the tactic is fluid and then change to 'Average - No specific focus' and add a counter variation of the tactic to match prep (Simply change the strategy of the above tactic to counter)
Credits to TheBetterHalf (FM-Base), LlamaZA, Cleon and Marsupian (SI Forums) whose posts/threads assisted me alot.
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