The Arsenal Project - Playing with a top team
CL qualifier
Starting version: Balanced
Reasoning: Playing in Europe can be trickier than one thinks and I wanted to start more careful.
Unfortunately, we played rather poorly and it was clear that we sat too deep and whilst having possession, we did not create much. At halftime, I had 2 choices. I.) switch to attack awy or 2.) use Counter.
Reasoning: With attack away, we play more attacking but also with a higher d-line and as they used AMC-FC-FC, I was afraid of balls over the top of our defenders for their drifting FC´s to run onto, crossing it in to the AMC. Therefor, I switched to Counter as I suspected that would be able to do the same.
Again, we played poorly and our attackers failed to put the ball away
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The Arsenal Project - Playing with a top team
EPL Match 2
Part one
Starting version: Control
Reasoning: Knowing from the scout report, and from previous experience, Wolves like other lesser tams in the Prem, play a cautious approach within a defensive formation - The 4141
We won this very comfortable. Looking at the match stats, you can see that Wolves also had a good passing completion as they did not use counter attacks but kept the ball on the ground when trying to build up attacks in a slow and cautious manor. In the end, they had no chance as we here 2 up early in the first half
Denilson
Looking only at his rating, you might think that he had a day off but when looking at his stats, you will see that he worked hard and most of all, made 3 key passes within in great passing completion
The reason why his rating is low lies in his poor finishing but then again, these are shots taken when there was no other way out, Wolves playing with so many men in their own box. This is something that will happen when using a narrow formation, playing slow and when facing an ultra defensive formation. So in the end, if still getting the result - I would not worry so much about it ( player wise)
-But if looking more closely, uou can also see that most of his passes comes when he is positioned to the left of the pitch ( he plays in MCL) and the shots when he is positioned to the right of the pitch. This is simply because we provide more width to the left, the AMCright not cuting inside whilst the AMCleft does. Here, when playing our Control version, we might have a problem.
Solution - Make the Left AMC provide width as well to stretch the defence
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The Arsenal Project - Playing with a top team
CL Q, Match 2
Starting version: Control
Reasoning: Once again, I wanted to control the game, seing us being the superior team
We controlled the game with ease. Here, you can see that in the absence of a opponent DMC, our MCleft, just like Denilson played in the previous match, and our FC are able to connect and find space much better and Fabregas made 2 assists, RVP putting away 2 goals
After going up 3-o, I switched to
defensive and saw the game out, scoring 4-0 in the final minutes
Anderlecht - They played a quick and direct counter game but their drifting FCs simply had no support at all and stood no chance against our 5 defensive players
i was trying to go through the whole of FM10 without downloading tactics but i think im going to have to try 1 or 2 of yours out, currently man city been changing on and off from a 4-3-3 DM and a 4-2-4 CM and i get a few good results against bigger teams then i play people like wolves or wigan and either lose or draw and with the players i have i should be winning these games lol
