And so the 1st season of my Roma save ended. The tweak I talked about in an earlier post did not materialized or rather I did not do justice to it. I was experimenting by changing the focus of the 2 wide MCs to 'Automatic' for I felt it was really underuse by most people. It was working well for my Pellegrini's Narrow 4-2-3-1 because my gut feeling is that if you do not want to assign 'Box to Box' role to your MCs or you have no players suitable for it, you may put them as normal MCs with 'Automatic' focus to give more stability to your formation especially your tactic do not have anchor in front of your flat-back four. It somehow seem like 'Box to Box' MCs as well, but not as overly dynamic as the real one and do not require your midfielders to have high Stamina and Workrate attributes.
The Tweak Experiment
So first game after the supposed tweak was like this:
2nd Game:
In short, I sticked to my original one. I knew I should give it more time and it was only 2 games. It But I was chasing for top spot so switched back (was trailing then league leaders by Napoli 4 points as key players were out injured, leaving me with selection problems). Maybe some of you out there might change the 2 wide MCs role and give it a run for a whole season. It looked promising despite the loss to Genoa.
End of Season
I did not win the league. Incredibly, Juventus had a late surge and finished top of the league by 1 point. What's more astonishing is goals scored by them over the season, just 43 goals. My team cracked in 98 goals and still wasn't good enough to win the league. Now I truly felt Liverpool's pain. Awww...
For the player stats, Destro was top scorer with 29 goals in 35 matches. Pjanic had 18 assists for playing as the trequartista most of the time. Also not far behind in the assists chart are Maicon and the last remnant of a true trequartista natural Totti. My team bull-dozed all the way to the Italian Cup Final with Juventus proving a strong obstacle because of their immense quality I guessed. Lost 0-1.

Juventus Games
From the game highlights in my matches against Juventus, it seemed the fear of the Old Lady's wing-backs exploiting the space on my flanks are unfounded. My defense more than able to cope. How we lost was that Conte's solid philosophy of denying space in the middle and fast-counter proved the downfall of my team. It also seemed that the AI Conte used Vidal or Pogba to do intense man-marking on my Trequartista. If you imagine, something like a 'Stopper Ball-Winning Midfielder'. Pjanic or Totti just couldn't get it going in those matches.
