Bladesman1963
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In a moment of extreme close season boredom I decided to try creating the most adventurous tactic I could think of! So far, touch wood, it's going much better than I imagined.
I created a club from scratch and, using the editor, duplicated the best 16 and 17 year-olds I could find using genie scout to become it's first players.
Now for the tactic. It's a Fluid tactic with Control strategy. I wanted to play with the highest defensive line imaginable, so I invented the Virtual Centre-Back in order to make this possible. The Virtual Centre-Back (or False 5!!!!) is really a DM with his mentality ratcheted down to 6 on the slider. Creating 2 VCBs to play alongside 2 WBs means the main defensive line ends up somewhere over the half-way line when we're attacking! The insurance policy, if you can call it that, is a Libero with an attack duty, who also gets up to or beyond half-way when we're in possession! I set the Defensive Line to "Push Up", with the slider at 15. In front of the VCBs is a BWM with defend duty. Ahead of him are a narrow trio of attacking midfielders on support duty, an AP flanked by 2 IFs (who are set to swap position with each other). The final piece of this crazy jigsaw is a Complete Forward on attack duty.
All of the outfield players, except the WBs, have their wide play set to "Move Into Channels" and, of course, everyone has long shots set to rarely! The WBs are also set to "Cross Often".
After a frustrating start with my new club, trying tactics I'd used in previous saves, I implemented the "All 4 1 (1-8-1)" tactic. With the passing style set to "Shorter" and everyone on "Move Into Channels" we've managed to produced some decent football in the 3 games so far. All 3 have resulted in wins, without conceding a goal. The not conceding is the most surprising thing about the tactic this far. With 8 midfielders, not surprisingly, possession has been high (mid 60s in each game). It has produced 6 goals but, with a more experienced set of players, should produce more. The next step is to dare to try it with a more experienced team. It may come completely unstuck against better opposition but, with my tried and tested tactics, this set of young players were conceding in every match and now, with just 1 recognised defender, I have 3 consecutive clean sheets!
I would be interested to hear everyone's ideas and opinions on this crazy tactic.
I created a club from scratch and, using the editor, duplicated the best 16 and 17 year-olds I could find using genie scout to become it's first players.
Now for the tactic. It's a Fluid tactic with Control strategy. I wanted to play with the highest defensive line imaginable, so I invented the Virtual Centre-Back in order to make this possible. The Virtual Centre-Back (or False 5!!!!) is really a DM with his mentality ratcheted down to 6 on the slider. Creating 2 VCBs to play alongside 2 WBs means the main defensive line ends up somewhere over the half-way line when we're attacking! The insurance policy, if you can call it that, is a Libero with an attack duty, who also gets up to or beyond half-way when we're in possession! I set the Defensive Line to "Push Up", with the slider at 15. In front of the VCBs is a BWM with defend duty. Ahead of him are a narrow trio of attacking midfielders on support duty, an AP flanked by 2 IFs (who are set to swap position with each other). The final piece of this crazy jigsaw is a Complete Forward on attack duty.
All of the outfield players, except the WBs, have their wide play set to "Move Into Channels" and, of course, everyone has long shots set to rarely! The WBs are also set to "Cross Often".
After a frustrating start with my new club, trying tactics I'd used in previous saves, I implemented the "All 4 1 (1-8-1)" tactic. With the passing style set to "Shorter" and everyone on "Move Into Channels" we've managed to produced some decent football in the 3 games so far. All 3 have resulted in wins, without conceding a goal. The not conceding is the most surprising thing about the tactic this far. With 8 midfielders, not surprisingly, possession has been high (mid 60s in each game). It has produced 6 goals but, with a more experienced set of players, should produce more. The next step is to dare to try it with a more experienced team. It may come completely unstuck against better opposition but, with my tried and tested tactics, this set of young players were conceding in every match and now, with just 1 recognised defender, I have 3 consecutive clean sheets!
I would be interested to hear everyone's ideas and opinions on this crazy tactic.