Background
Played FM for as long as I can remember, but never had the courage to post in these forums. This is my first attempt, please be nice lol. Absolutely love the games and love the challenge of creating tactics that work, particularly for the underdog. The theory being if my tactics work with the likes of Newcastle then they should be sound for the bigger clubs too...as I say theory.My Aims
- is defensively sound (not perfect)
- plays football that scores goals
- can be used effectively in Home/Away
- (THE BIG ONE) Can make Newcastle title contenders with no transfers (top 3 finish)
The Tactic
I went for the standard 433 DM Wide (4-1-2-2-1) as this is the formation feel offers the most balance for Newcastle with the protection of a DM, whilst not relinquishing any threat going forward.
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Now here's where it becomes slightly weird. The mentality is "Contain." I tried using Attacking/Control etc and at Home results were good, some very good but away I was getting mixed results, one of my Aims was to create a tactic that I could use Home/Away...So decided to be experimental as I've never used the Contain mentality before in an attempt to make us harder to break down. My worry however was that this may clash with my other aim of being able to score goals....
Team Instructions
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Contain is low paced defensive mentality, designed to block attempts on goal and stop you cocnceding with limited desire to get forward. Straight away i needed to counteract this with the TI Much Higher Tempo, get the ball moving quicker to be more adventurous, coupled with pass into space for some purposeful breaks. I still want to be solid and frustrate teams so I've also gone for Retain Possession. Push Higher up becasue I dont want to invite pressure and it also helps with possession and pressing.
So What Happened...(Believe me I was shocked)
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As you can see 79 goals scored in the league isn't bad for "Contain"
The unchanged squad
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FA Cup Final
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Final Table
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Training, OI's
I have not looked at these in detail for this tactic, I would suggest defensive position for when up against big teams and attacking movement when your clear favorites OI's i manually put in to some matches on specific players I felt were a threat. But not tested with consistent constant OI's.
Download
http://www.mediafire.com/download/krjafnr0lppt52r/NGEN_v1.0_38DBE0B9-04C9-46A5-AA06-31FD76A1059D.fmf
Hope
that this isn't a terrible Debut Post and some have find it interesting
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As you can see 79 goals scored in the league isn't bad for "Contain"
The unchanged squad
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FA Cup Final
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Final Table
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Training, OI's
I have not looked at these in detail for this tactic, I would suggest defensive position for when up against big teams and attacking movement when your clear favorites OI's i manually put in to some matches on specific players I felt were a threat. But not tested with consistent constant OI's.
Download
http://www.mediafire.com/download/krjafnr0lppt52r/NGEN_v1.0_38DBE0B9-04C9-46A5-AA06-31FD76A1059D.fmf
Hope
that this isn't a terrible Debut Post and some have find it interesting
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