Mr Langvatn's Tactic Thread (Updated for 13.3.3)

3at said:
I believe this tactic can still improve, in the late season you will face opponents that park the bus. In those situations classic rock will fail and you will often lose points in draw games. In those situations strong set piece instructions can mean the difference in victory or defeat because chances in front goal are rare occasions.
I just had a game against the strongest defence in the premier league (me beiing the second best defence with only 4 goal difference) i anticipated this game would end in a draw so i improved the set piece instructions and won the match 1-0 by a header goal from my centre back in a corner set piece. Otherwise this game would have ended in a bore draw wich i have had many throughout the season, i am sure many of you have the same problem unless you have a world class team. I think i just countered the only drawback this tactic has.
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Weird, my team is often stronger later in the season due to them being more gelled. Late season can often be harder if your players are getting tired or you get a few injuries, also if your team is 20 points clear in the league, they can often get complacent during games.

Talking of set pieces, in one season, my centre back scored 18 league goals with the original settings, so I wouldn't say they needed tweaking.
 
I had the same trouble in some matches. Where it seemed like we were playing like a bunch of kids. Always ended up 0-0 or 1-0 loss. I found it against mid table teams and playing away. So all I do now is use ARRIGO SACCHIS for these matches some times at home to. . It just gives you that extra fire power. I have also this season used it for home matches against my main rivals. Beat spurs 2-0 Man U 4-1 and arsenal 5-0.
Ok I am Chelsea but these were matches I struggled with last season. I also used this method for my Watford team. Very effective. ( I left Watford to join Chelsea in the 18/19 season)

EXTRA POINT. THE TACTICS BEING FLUID IS A MOJOR FACTOR IN THIS METHOD
 
Hello.

Can you help me with the training? I saw Rich Genie's training but I didn't understand, because the MC's have 2 diferent types of trainings, central midfielder and box to box midfielder..
And in match prep, on default focus, its selected teamwork, but you said that we can choose between Defensive positioning or Attacking movement. I do not understand!

Can you help me please?

Thanks.
 
FredTavares said:
Hello.

Can you help me with the training? I saw Rich Genie's training but I didn't understand, because the MC's have 2 diferent types of trainings, central midfielder and box to box midfielder..
And in match prep, on default focus, its selected teamwork, but you said that we can choose between Defensive positioning or Attacking movement. I do not understand!

Can you help me please?

Thanks.
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it's easy. the players you play on the both CM spots you can train to BoxtoBox Midfielder and the player you play on the DM spot you train as DLP. For match prep you can choose yourself whats best for you. Just think logical.. against a strong defence? train on set pieces. against a leaky defence ? train on att mov. against stronger team? train on def posi. What Rich_Genie did was just train on TEAMWORK all season long. That way his team played as 1 team.
 
You know, I love your tactics and have been using TONS of them, but I simply cannot get the Rock Classic to work for any team I try it with. I've started 5 seperate games to try it out, using different teams obviously, and none of the teams are succesful. I got sacked from my United and Real Madrid-games as I was hanging around midtable at the end of the season. Really strange.
 
Which position is responsible for the staging of the strategy of Rock Classic Tactic?
 
Had a great season with Leeds. Was lucky that after the 13.3 update, Leeds has a hefty transfer budget too. Nevertheless i was predicted 6th and won the league.

Also won the FA Cup, beating City in the semi's and Liverpool in the Final. I struggled mid season after a string of bad results, mostly against weaker opposition. I tried various things and what seemed to work against weak teams was closing down all the way to the right side of the slider = 20.








Also won the Super Cup!!!! Against the same frustrated City..HAHA.


PS: I will be playing LEEDS IN EUROPA LEAGUE AFTER FIRST SEASON!!!!




I am now in PL and my question is, how do you defend a lead against a strong team? I tried increasing the time wasting, decreasing the tempo but nothing worked with real results. Any advise is greatly appreciated.
 
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rich_genie said:
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Premier League winners 2013/2014, First season in the prem with Derby!

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Will Hughes, Football writers player of the year! I think he is pretty much fully developed now, after only 2 seasons!
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Can you please elaborate on the TEAM TALKS. I am roughly in the same position, just winning promotion. How do you handle the games, since you were probably an underdog in most of them?

Thanks.
 
ggrady said:
Can you please elaborate on the TEAM TALKS. I am roughly in the same position, just winning promotion. How do you handle the games, since you were probably an underdog in most of them?

Thanks.
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Against big teams such as Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, City and Tottenham I usually calmly tell them to relax and then individual assertively I have faith. Against the rest if morale is already very good or superb on most players then I don't do a team talk at all at the start of a game, otherwise I let my assistant do it. I always passionately praise a good win and calmly praise a narrow win. Half time if winning I leave it to my assistant, unless I am losing against any team or drawing against a side I expect to beat, then I go with an aggressive I expect better.

I would certainly say that if morale is already very high, then keep team talks to a minimum, pre game.

My assistant handles press conferences, unless it is after a cup or title win, or before the first game of the season, then I do it and try and be as positive as possible.
 
ggrady said:
Had a great season with Leeds. Was lucky that after the 13.3 update, Leeds has a hefty transfer budget too. Nevertheless i was predicted 6th and won the league.

Also won the FA Cup, beating City in the semi's and Liverpool in the Final. I struggled mid season after a string of bad results, mostly against weaker opposition. I tried various things and what seemed to work against weak teams was closing down all the way to the right side of the slider = 20.








Also won the Super Cup!!!! Against the same frustrated City..HAHA.


PS: I will be playing LEEDS IN EUROPA LEAGUE AFTER FIRST SEASON!!!!




I am now in PL and my question is, how do you defend a lead against a strong team? I tried increasing the time wasting, decreasing the tempo but nothing worked with real results. Any advise is greatly appreciated.
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You need better players. The top sides in the prem are the best teams in the world, no matter what tactic you use, you will need a good amount of luck or a better squad of players. Try and concentrate on beating the other teams in your first season, finish as high as you can and then improve the team next season. Try and get physical players, the prem is full of strong, fast teams which are hard to beat with average players.
 
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it's definitely the best tactic to fight with bigger teams!
it's incredible result to my team, but in the league sometimes am losing against much weaker teams, if they parking bus and shooting some goal from corner or stupid mistake of my players.
so tactic needs some tweaks against weak teams,
anyway.. awasome tactic mr L ;) !
 
rich_genie said:
You need better players. The top sides in the prem are the best teams in the world, no matter what tactic you use, you will need a good amount of luck or a better squad of players. Try and concentrate on beating the other teams in your first season, finish as high as you can and then improve the team next season. Try and get physical players, the prem is full of strong, fast teams which are hard to beat with average players.
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I may not be doing this right but i have a hard time signing good players for a decent price. All the players with good stats for this tactic are 8 to 12 mil and the wages are over $2,000,000. Any advise would be great.
 
ggrady said:
I may not be doing this right but i have a hard time signing good players for a decent price. All the players with good stats for this tactic are 8 to 12 mil and the wages are over $2,000,000. Any advise would be great.
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There are lots of players about. Search for transfer listed players and players listed for loan. Ignore stats people say you need, just use your common sense and just look for players who are better than you already have, and buy them by paying a bulk of the transfer over 48 months. For example, if a player costs 2 million, try offering 500k up front and 1.5 mil over 48 months, that way your transfer budget will stretch further.
 
That's pretty much what i was doing with the transfers. I was a bit cheap in the last transfer window and didn't want to buy players that were just slightly better than what i had, i wanted future stars...Haha. This is my best lineup at this point:



I am using your training setup and every time i have a meeting with the staff there are a couple players complaining the training is not heavy enough. Did you ever encounter that?

Are you still using the same set up?
 
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