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Looks vey good mate. What about training, match prep and opp instructions?
It's all in the first page but
Training and Match Prep:
Pre-season: Tactics & Very High - Tactics Only
In Season: Balanced & Average - Def Positioning or Attacking Movement depending if you want Defending stability or more goals.
Opposition Instructions:
- When playing against a team that mirrors your formation 4-2-3-1
What I do here is not close the Central Midfielders down when setting my OI (I let my assistant handle the OI only if his tactic attribute is 15+) As I feel if the team is also focused on closing the opposition CM down. They may lose focus on the opposition AMC, their creator, to ensure the opposition AMC does not get the space and time to pick out the killer pass.
I would also to add if one of the deep central midfielders have high passing and creativity rate, I advise to close him down too. But only close down one of the deeper central midfielders maximum.
- Exploit the Middle when playing against non narrow tactics.
- When playing against a team who plays Narrow. Such as a narrow 4-4-2 Diamond or a 4-2-3-1 with no Wingers or any narrow formations which focus the play in the middle.
I found that it worked best when I instruct the team to Exploit the Flanks as well as showing the opposition full backs to theirweaker foot. I have found that it absolutely destroys their formation.
- When you have the possession but not the shots/goals
I increase the tempo. It does help and it has helped me the odd times to nick a goal when I need the goals at crucial times.
- As for OIs, I tend to leave it to the Assistant Manager if he has the Tactical Knowledge stat of at least 15. And make sure the central midfield pairing are closed down.
Further enhancing the pressing
- Man mark the best passing central defender of the opposition.
Set your striker to specifically man mark the best passer of the back 4 so the weaker one will do the passing and since this is a 4-2-3-1, the wingers will sort the the opposition full backs out (no specific instructions needed). If both CBs have same passing stat, man mark the most creative of the two.
- Read the scout report
Check which area the opposition gain the most assists.
For example, if the opposition gains the most assists on the right wing. I additionally set my LB to close down more and my left sided central midfield to close down more to shut off the supply from their strongest area.
If checking from my tactic above. The example I just used means my LB and Deep lying playmaker would be set to close down more for this particular match. HOWEVER the partner to my Deep lying playmaker is assigned the Central Midfielder role with the Defend duty, and the CM - D already has Close down more by default and I heavily advise to set the CM - D to Close down less in order to have at least one midfielder to shield the back 4. But of course, only use this for the scenario above.
But just to make this easier..... if the opposition gains the most assists on the left wing. Set the RB - Close down more and since the right sided central midfielder (the CM - D) already has close down more, you're sorted in that area. Just a tip here.
And:
This is what I use for my current Opposition Instructions Set up.
For any formation with these players:
Wingers/Wide Midfielders - Tackle Hard, Weaker Foot
Strikers - Tackle Hard, Weaker Foot
For formations with CM and AMC:
CM - Tackle Hard, Weaker Foot
More Creative CM - Closing Down as well
Less Creative CM - Tight Mark instead
AMC - Close down, Tackle Hard, Weaker Foot
For Formations with CM and DM:
CM: Close down, Tackle Hard and Weaker Foot
DM: Close down (Specifically man mark DM with your AMC)
For Formation with a Flat 4 Midfield.. like 4-4-2:
CM: Close Down, Tackle Hard and Weaker Foot