Suddenly not winning anymore

[MadeMafia]

I know this is a clichê thread... But how come I ALWAYS start losing games in January-February? This happends every season. With Parma I did well the first half seasons and I was on 5th place. When I got into January everything went wrong and I finished 11th. I know it isn't bad, but I really think we should finish higher. I left Parma after 2 seasons and I started my new job at Leeds.

When I started managing Leeds they were at 22nd place in the Championship after 11 games played or something like that. I started great with my new team and somehow we went from 22nd to 4th place in a matter of months and we suddenly started fighting for promotion.

However, after New Years Eve we can't win anymore. We have lost 6 matches in a row and now we're on 11th place. I get most shots on goals most of the games but the opponent scores on everything. In my last game against Leicester we had 6 shots on goals and Leicester had 2. We lost 2-1 with 60% possession.

My games with Leeds:

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My tactic:

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PS: I'm not a football genius, but I just don't understand why this tactic doesn't work anymore. I know that my opponents knows my tactic better blah blah blah, but I've tried tweaking it a bit with no success. I went from beating the top teams away with 60% posession and now I struggle against anyone. How can I turn this around without the need to change my tactic completely?

The weird thing is that my team played very well when their tactic familiarity was at "unknown" (?) but as soon as the tactic familiarity went to "Accomplished" they started playing bad. I've tried to held a meeting with no success and I always try to motivate my players in the team-talk.

Also sorry for my English.

 

[MadeMafia]

Oops, sorry for the attached thumbnail. Don't mind that picture, I messed it up because I uploaded the wrong tactic at first. Just focuse on the first picture of my tactic.

 

[Pughie24]

That's the thing about football, look at Newcastle start the season poor, go unbeaten for a while then end the season poor.

Look at West Ham, start the season brilliantly now cant buy a win.

It's how you react as a manager now, something isn't working, be it training, tactic or selection, that's what makes this game great as it's so realistic

 

[WJ]

In short, with you doing so well, the AI won't commit as many players forward as they used to. That's all. Your tactic relies on dribbling through the opposition and (at a stretch) it'll make use of space if the opposition has committed too many players forward.

If the AI approaches you more cautiously (and this usually happens at the halfway mark of the season) you don't have much to pull them apart. The wings are static with little movement or overlaps. The only good thing about the tactic is the front 3 combination and link-up play, but you're ruining that by the ball taking forever to reach them with slow build-up play and by then, the opposition defenders are back and waiting.

If you post a PKM or two, we can take a look, but I suspect this is what's happening.