[TACTICAL DISCUSSION] Formations with great results in FM14

I've played one and a half seasons with this tactic, mate. I get consistent results with odd upsets here and there.
But, generally I win. Let me test it for 2 more seasons.
 
Finished another season with the Modified tactic. Scooped up all the trophies this season and a record 93 points in Bundesliga.
Will post the screens soon. Werner has been a beast at the age of 21. 27 goals in the league and a total of 43 goals in all competitions.
 
Hector89 said:
Finished another season with the Modified tactic. Scooped up all the trophies this season and a record 93 points in Bundesliga.
Will post the screens soon. Werner has been a beast at the age of 21. 27 goals in the league and a total of 43 goals in all competitions.
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Have you used it in 14.2? :)
 
Gerd Muller said:
Im playing with it in 14.2 now and struggling lol, they have taken away the short corner glitch which helped me alot
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No problem, mate. I'll check this in 14.2 as well. The. Could you post your results now and where there is trouble?
Cheers!!!
 
The trouble seems to be im conceding more (with a better defence) and scoring less. Sounds so basic. Possession and chances created are both still very high, which is what brought me the success in season 1.

Season 1 results looked like this:

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Season 2:

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Obviously im not exactly relegation fodder, im still doing well. Just not as well, A lot more 1-0s this season.

Im guessing a lot of goals scored in season 1 in the old patch happened because of the short corner exploit? and now this has been removed. But Ibsevic scored for fun in season 1. This year he has 2 goals. And my other striker Time Werner is a lot better now.
 
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Gerd Muller said:
The trouble seems to be im conceding more (with a better defence) and scoring less. Sounds so basic. Possession and chances created are both still very high, which is what brought me the success in season 1.

Season 1 results looked like this:

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Season 2:

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Obviously im not exactly relegation fodder, im still doing well. Just not as well, A lot more 1-0s this season.

Im guessing a lot of goals scored in season 1 in the old patch happened because of the short corner exploit? and now this has been removed. But Ibsevic scored for fun in season 1. This year he has 2 goals. And my other striker Time Werner is a lot better now.
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Alright, mate. Let me test it too. I've not upgraded to 14.2 as yet. I'll change my corner arrangement after the update. 'Bout time :)
 
Gerd Muller said:
The trouble seems to be im conceding more (with a better defence) and scoring less.
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I've found this happening to me a lot with some very good tactics, I go quite a few unbeaten then got bogged down after around 3-4 games. Way I found around this is to do defending training for around 4 weeks, then a few days of attacking training, rinse and repeat and bob's your uncle. I believe this is how I went 36 or so games unbeaten (admittedly with BATE Borisov, best team in Belarus by some way, but it's still better than I was doing).

If not, tweaking your defence to make it very defensive is also something I tried. My defenders (4 back) were all preferring limited roles, I was hesitant to do so because, with me being particularly fond of attacking wing backs and the overlap, it seemed way to defensive, yet turning my defence into 2 limited full backs, a limited defender (cover) and a central defender (defend) made a lot of difference. I think the most I've conceded is 3 in a game, at the Nou Camp, and only lost 5-3 on aggregate to Barca over 2 legs in the CL. It may be to do with the preferred roles, but I like to think that it might just be the fact that defensive full backs are the way to go and I've cracked a little bit of FM logic in finding it :p

Hope this helps!
 
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