Can someone give me some advice....
I've actually got the WBs working quite well for getting forward, my LB is always coming in at the edge of the area and stays up there for attacks. My RB is hugging the touchline more as my RW is more central so hes pushed up. Anyone got any tips for how to prevent any leaked goals? I'm winning games comfortably, but I'm always weary of a counter attack exposing my back line, my DM is very defensive but still.
Yep I get the same, I have my left attacking midfielder -generally Marco Reus- cutting inside and supporting Lewandowski .. then as a knock on affect due to plenty of space for him run into, my left back pushing on a providing an outlet on the left flank ... it means scoring goals isn't too much of a problem, like you say I'm winning games comfortably BUT that said I find myself every now and again conceding stupid goals on the counter, its always in the back of my mind.
It's like Rafa Benitez at Liverpool from say 2006 to 2008 time frame, his teams never attacked in numbers - short passing, possession football for 90 minutes but rather 15 minute to 20 minute periods .... the rest of the time it was more a defensive minded, tactical pressing, counter attacking approach... Liverpool fans will get what I mean. That kinda what I'm looking to have, the option of switching my approach/mentality without messing with my formation too much - I mean do I need to change my formation to change my approach/mentality anyways?
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Anyways Eds can I ask you a question? ... or anybody else who has experience with tactical and the match engine.
Say for example if you are playing away against a top four team, you are 2-0 up with 10 minutes to go and they have just gone 4-2-4, do you change formations to say 4-4-1-1 or if 4-1-4-1 -withdrawing the wide attackers/turning your advanced wide attacker defensive wingers, giving your wider areas more defensive strength in numbers? ... dropping mentality of your wide attackers so they drop deeper, providing more support for your fullbacks? .. your central mids more defensive minded ..... for example..
... rather than changing to 4-4-1-1
plus your team instructions - width, defensive line and players instructions - mentality etc etc...
I suppose I'm not to sure weather I should change the formation or just the players individual instructions - i.e. mentality, closing down, type of marking, zonal, man/passing -short/direct, creativity etc etc and team instructions - i.e. defensive line, width -narrow/wide, time wasting, counter attacking etc etc ......... to get the desired results, do I need to alter the formation as well? (it goes without saying that if I want to go from playing 4-2-3-1 to 3 at the back -say 3-3-3-1, I will need to change formations...)
I dunno but changing formations, even from 4-2-3-1 to 4-4-1-1 or 4-1-4-1 doesn't help at all when it comes to defensive strength, making tighter at the back etc etc....... as I said above I tend to leak stupid goals as well, I'd prefer to win 1-0 or 2-0 rather than 2-1 or 3-2 - trading late on, late on regardless of the quality of the opposition.