Hello, first of all thank you for sharing and explaining this tactics, you are the first guy to inspire me to learn about tactical things, not just plug and play.
I like the tactics and I think if you are carefull about following the rules it can be really succesful.
I'm playing with Liverpool and dominating the league, after 16 games my team is first, 13W, 2D and 1L, GF36 GA11
2 games I lost came from teams using formations with 3 at the back , and Chelsea one really confused me becouse you didnt explained it, I putted DM to CMd but it didnt work well
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Everything else is great, they are playing nice football, I conceded came from counter attacks so I guess I'll buy faster CB next time, avg. possesion is 66 and opponents usually have really small amout on shots.
Can you explain PPMs in detail?
how to choose a formation that can oppose the opponents best?
the amounts of your CDs are the opponent's central forwards' plus 1;
the amounts of your central forwards are the opponent's CDs' minus 1
the others are position to position(sorry for my english).
so which formation to choose to handle e.g. 442? a 343 of course like what the pic shows.
but you should find a way to compromise the ideal formation(343) with the one you're using(433), so you can drag your DMd back to HBd to be a false(?) 3 backs to handle the 442.
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and then how to handle a 343 ideally? a 442...
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but when u stick to your 433,
well, your 2 CDs to handle traore, it' ok
the 2 WBs to handle atsu and oscar, it's ok
your 2 IFs to handle alonso& montoya, it's ok
but how your single F9 to handle the 3 CDs, so you have to give up pressing NO.39 &5 in OI.
and push your free DM to CMd to help your 2 CMs to handle matic& cesc...
and choose counter mentality to handle crazy- attacking conte and change the width and CD line(especially the width) if the stamford bridge's size is not 105-68m.
the PPMs?
the duty of Su player is come closely to his mate who has ball, and to provide a pass- option to him, but if he has go forwad/ channels/ go to opposition's erea/beat offside trap PPM, he will not obey the instructions and troubles his mate.
e.g. if your left CMa has the ball, and your left IFs is running forward ,your CMa will find he has nearly 0 option to pass forward and i believe he will lose the ball under 2 opponents' press.
but there's a problem in FM: you just can't train your player to remove certain PPMs even if you try and try...
so you have to compromise: should i use the good-attribution player with unsuitlbe PPMs in every game or just in some matches against small clubs, or remove the bad PPMs by tools.