TheRyanFM's 4-1-2-1-2 Narrow ~ Exceeding Expectations
The formation-
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The formation setup is a 4-1-2-1-2 but you will see later in the analysis that it can be seen as a 2-3-2-1-2 due to the width coming from the wing backs seeing them push higher up to make out for the loss of having no wingers.
Philosophy -
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For this tactic I have decided to set the fluity to Rigid meaning that the players main aim is to focus on their role and not to cover for over players. Our Mentality is Control because it allows us to keep hold of the ball until we can find and opening whilst also being wary of counter attacks from our opposition.
Team Instructions -
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Our first instruction is to Retain Possession, as stated above our aim is to keep the ball until we find an opening so therefore this fits in nicely with not only that philosophy but also our Mentality of Control. Our second instruction is to play in Drill Crosses this means that we play quick and powerful crosses in to try and catch the defender off guard and make the best of our openings, this also fits in well with our mentality of waiting for openings and making the best out of them. Our next instruction is Exploit The Middle the reason I have chose this is pretty obvious as this formation is set up very narrowly with only 2 wide players (our wing backs). The next one can be changed on depending on what team you are but as I am QPR (on an update in the Premier League) I thought that the sensible option would be to Drop Deeper as we are not the strongest team in the division nor the weakest. Our next instruction is to Hassle the Opponent this means we are going to try and give our opponent as little time as possible on the ball when in threatening situations, we also have the Use Tighter Marking instruction applied as this fits in well with hassling the opponents as we are sticking close to them. Finally we have a Higher Tempo set as it goes with Retaining possession and controlling matches but this is an instruction that can be changed depending on the situation in the match i.e if we are winning 2-0 I will probably Lower the tempo and possibly Drop even deeper but these changes are up to you to make depending on your match situation!
Opposition Instructions -
I leave my opposition instructions to my assistant manager Kevin Bond!
Player Instructions -
GK (Defend) - Ease off tackles (If he is in a 1 on 1 he or sweeping he will be less likely to commit a foul unless needs be!
CWBs (Attack) - Stay wider (seeing as they are the only width we have in the team it is best to make the best out of them!)
Mark Tighter (fits in with our Team Instruction of Tighter Marking)
Cross More Often (Similar to stay wider these players are our width and are up and down the pitch and are the most likely source of crosses so we need to make sure they are doing as much crossing as possible for our 2 strikers!)
Cut Inside With Ball (Also similair to the Crossing and Staying Wider instructions as wingers would we are instructing these players to cut inside so if they cannot find a cross they can then look for other options.)
RCB (Cover) - More Direct Passes (This fits in with finding the right opening as he is looking to cut the oppositions defense open if possible!)
Hold Position (As he is a covering Center Back (being deeper than our other center back, similar to a sweeper) we want him to hold hes position in being further back covering the LCB!)
Mark Tighter & Close Down More (Fit in with Tighter marking)
LCB (Defend)- Has all the same as RCB but Hold Position as he is doing a different Duty!
Regista (Support)- More Direct Passes (This fits in with finding the right opening as he is looking to cut the oppositions defense open if possible!)
Mark Tighter & Close Down More (Fit in with Tighter marking)
DLP (Support)- Roam From Position (This allows this player to move slightly out of position so he could play a one-two with the CWB so that he can extend his run!)
Mark Tighter (Fit in with Tighter marking and he is the deeper play maker so therefore more defensive!)
Run Wide with Ball (Same as roaming from position to give support to the WBs)
AP (Support) - Roam From Position (This allows this player to move slightly out of position so he could play a one-two with the CWB so that he can extend his run!)
Run Wide with Ball (Same as roaming from position to give support to the WBs)
Dribble More (Kind of like having a deeper CAM so he dribbles to get further forward and look for the Wing Backs when they're ahead/beside him!)
SS (Attack)- Run Wide with Ball (Same as roaming from position to give support to the WBs)
Move Into Channels (By moving into the channels our RST is finding space in between the oppositions defensive line!)
AF (Attack)-
Set Pieces -
For free kicks our aim is to play the long ball in, we have our 2 CBs and tallest striker in the box as they are our main aerial threats!The formation-
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The formation setup is a 4-1-2-1-2 but you will see later in the analysis that it can be seen as a 2-3-2-1-2 due to the width coming from the wing backs seeing them push higher up to make out for the loss of having no wingers.
Philosophy -
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For this tactic I have decided to set the fluity to Rigid meaning that the players main aim is to focus on their role and not to cover for over players. Our Mentality is Control because it allows us to keep hold of the ball until we can find and opening whilst also being wary of counter attacks from our opposition.
Team Instructions -
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Our first instruction is to Retain Possession, as stated above our aim is to keep the ball until we find an opening so therefore this fits in nicely with not only that philosophy but also our Mentality of Control. Our second instruction is to play in Drill Crosses this means that we play quick and powerful crosses in to try and catch the defender off guard and make the best of our openings, this also fits in well with our mentality of waiting for openings and making the best out of them. Our next instruction is Exploit The Middle the reason I have chose this is pretty obvious as this formation is set up very narrowly with only 2 wide players (our wing backs). The next one can be changed on depending on what team you are but as I am QPR (on an update in the Premier League) I thought that the sensible option would be to Drop Deeper as we are not the strongest team in the division nor the weakest. Our next instruction is to Hassle the Opponent this means we are going to try and give our opponent as little time as possible on the ball when in threatening situations, we also have the Use Tighter Marking instruction applied as this fits in well with hassling the opponents as we are sticking close to them. Finally we have a Higher Tempo set as it goes with Retaining possession and controlling matches but this is an instruction that can be changed depending on the situation in the match i.e if we are winning 2-0 I will probably Lower the tempo and possibly Drop even deeper but these changes are up to you to make depending on your match situation!
Opposition Instructions -
I leave my opposition instructions to my assistant manager Kevin Bond!
Player Instructions -
GK (Defend) - Ease off tackles (If he is in a 1 on 1 he or sweeping he will be less likely to commit a foul unless needs be!
CWBs (Attack) - Stay wider (seeing as they are the only width we have in the team it is best to make the best out of them!)
Mark Tighter (fits in with our Team Instruction of Tighter Marking)
Cross More Often (Similar to stay wider these players are our width and are up and down the pitch and are the most likely source of crosses so we need to make sure they are doing as much crossing as possible for our 2 strikers!)
Cut Inside With Ball (Also similair to the Crossing and Staying Wider instructions as wingers would we are instructing these players to cut inside so if they cannot find a cross they can then look for other options.)
RCB (Cover) - More Direct Passes (This fits in with finding the right opening as he is looking to cut the oppositions defense open if possible!)
Hold Position (As he is a covering Center Back (being deeper than our other center back, similar to a sweeper) we want him to hold hes position in being further back covering the LCB!)
Mark Tighter & Close Down More (Fit in with Tighter marking)
LCB (Defend)- Has all the same as RCB but Hold Position as he is doing a different Duty!
Regista (Support)- More Direct Passes (This fits in with finding the right opening as he is looking to cut the oppositions defense open if possible!)
Mark Tighter & Close Down More (Fit in with Tighter marking)
DLP (Support)- Roam From Position (This allows this player to move slightly out of position so he could play a one-two with the CWB so that he can extend his run!)
Mark Tighter (Fit in with Tighter marking and he is the deeper play maker so therefore more defensive!)
Run Wide with Ball (Same as roaming from position to give support to the WBs)
AP (Support) - Roam From Position (This allows this player to move slightly out of position so he could play a one-two with the CWB so that he can extend his run!)
Run Wide with Ball (Same as roaming from position to give support to the WBs)
Dribble More (Kind of like having a deeper CAM so he dribbles to get further forward and look for the Wing Backs when they're ahead/beside him!)
SS (Attack)- Run Wide with Ball (Same as roaming from position to give support to the WBs)
Dribble More (Kind of like having a deeper CAM so he dribbles to get further forward and look for the Wing Backs when they're ahead/beside him!)
Fewer Risky Passes (If our SS manages to have hold of the ball it is likely we are in a good situation so we want him to play the best balls he can and not risking giving the ball away and getting exploited on the Counter)
Move Into Channels (By moving into the channels our AM is finding space in between the oppositions defensive line!)
P (Attack)- Hold Position (Seeing as our right sided striker is a poacher we want him to be holding his position as he should always stay within the oppositions box as that is where a Poacher is most likely to score from!)Fewer Risky Passes (If our SS manages to have hold of the ball it is likely we are in a good situation so we want him to play the best balls he can and not risking giving the ball away and getting exploited on the Counter)
Move Into Channels (By moving into the channels our AM is finding space in between the oppositions defensive line!)
Move Into Channels (By moving into the channels our RST is finding space in between the oppositions defensive line!)
AF (Attack)-
Hold Up Ball (Seeing as this striker has more responsiblites as the Poacher he is going to hold up the ball to give the poacher as many chances as possible and find him but if not the AF will have a shot)
Move Into Channels (By moving into the channels our LST is finding space in between the oppositions defensive line!)
Roam From Position (An Advanced Forward is not going to be needed to constantly be in the box with a poacher on the field so we allow our AF to roam to support the attack.)Move Into Channels (By moving into the channels our LST is finding space in between the oppositions defensive line!)
Set Pieces -
Corners -
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I have devised a corner tactic to fit in with this formation which is aimed at the near post which will be explained in a few paragraphs!
We keep 4 players back, our wing backs as they are not likely to have much height, our DM and AMC as the DM is likely to be able to act like a CB if the opposition launch a counter attack and the AMC is usually a player that has pace and is capable of simple defensive duties.
Our AP is set to Lurk Outside Area incase the ball gets headed away by the opposition so he can have a pop and our DLP is set to attack the ball from deep to confuse opponents.
One of our strikers attacks the far post incase one of our CBs miss the pass and the other is set to Challenge Keeper or in other words mark the keeper.
Now the reason this is set to near post is because our 2 CBs (probably 2 of our most highly threatening players for heading the ball) are set to Attack Near Post and Go for the Near Post Flick On!
Free Kicks -
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I have devised a corner tactic to fit in with this formation which is aimed at the near post which will be explained in a few paragraphs!
We keep 4 players back, our wing backs as they are not likely to have much height, our DM and AMC as the DM is likely to be able to act like a CB if the opposition launch a counter attack and the AMC is usually a player that has pace and is capable of simple defensive duties.
Our AP is set to Lurk Outside Area incase the ball gets headed away by the opposition so he can have a pop and our DLP is set to attack the ball from deep to confuse opponents.
One of our strikers attacks the far post incase one of our CBs miss the pass and the other is set to Challenge Keeper or in other words mark the keeper.
Now the reason this is set to near post is because our 2 CBs (probably 2 of our most highly threatening players for heading the ball) are set to Attack Near Post and Go for the Near Post Flick On!
Free Kicks -
Throw-ins -
Training -
I trained Tactics and Tactics only in pre-season but it was no where near fluid at start of season so I just switched to this setup:
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Analysis -
This how our team is setup at kick-off:
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From kick off it is seen as more of a 2-3-2-1-2, I have highlighted each section of our team Defenders-Midfielders-Attackers and as you can see it is more of a 2-3-2-3 formation as we have CWBs on attack!
This in 9 seconds in once our team has kicked off:
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Highlighted in red are the 4 defenders, in yellow the 3 Midfielders and in white the 3 attackers. From what I can see the 2 players furthest back are both on defending duties the next 3 players are the 3 midfielders set on Support and then in front of them is our SS on attack and our 2 strikers and 2 wing backs all set on attack. So from kick off our team shape turns into you go in the zone your duty is!
After we just defended an attack:
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Here our team is setup in a 4-1-2-1-2 formation with our wing backs back but ready to attack as they are higher up than the center backs but just behind our Regista, from defending the attack we then went on to score from this position!
A corner kick:
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I have selected the 2 center backs: Caulker and Ferdinand who are both attacking the near post where the ball is aimed at!
Lead up to a goal:
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Once again I have highlighted the Defenders in Red, Midfielders in Yellow and Attackers in White. This is the lead up to one of our goals, The 2 CBs and DM are sitting further back whilst the 2 WBs are pushing up with our DLP (Mutch) on the ball our AP and SS are close to each over so they can play the simple less risky ball and our 2 strikers are in front of the opposition defenders and are onside and are an option!
Goal Breakdown:
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Stats -
Games scored in a row:
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Goals Scored:
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Top Goalscorer:
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Results, Tables & Transfers -
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I trained Tactics and Tactics only in pre-season but it was no where near fluid at start of season so I just switched to this setup:
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Analysis -
This how our team is setup at kick-off:
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From kick off it is seen as more of a 2-3-2-1-2, I have highlighted each section of our team Defenders-Midfielders-Attackers and as you can see it is more of a 2-3-2-3 formation as we have CWBs on attack!
This in 9 seconds in once our team has kicked off:
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Highlighted in red are the 4 defenders, in yellow the 3 Midfielders and in white the 3 attackers. From what I can see the 2 players furthest back are both on defending duties the next 3 players are the 3 midfielders set on Support and then in front of them is our SS on attack and our 2 strikers and 2 wing backs all set on attack. So from kick off our team shape turns into you go in the zone your duty is!
After we just defended an attack:
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Here our team is setup in a 4-1-2-1-2 formation with our wing backs back but ready to attack as they are higher up than the center backs but just behind our Regista, from defending the attack we then went on to score from this position!
A corner kick:
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I have selected the 2 center backs: Caulker and Ferdinand who are both attacking the near post where the ball is aimed at!
Lead up to a goal:
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Once again I have highlighted the Defenders in Red, Midfielders in Yellow and Attackers in White. This is the lead up to one of our goals, The 2 CBs and DM are sitting further back whilst the 2 WBs are pushing up with our DLP (Mutch) on the ball our AP and SS are close to each over so they can play the simple less risky ball and our 2 strikers are in front of the opposition defenders and are onside and are an option!
Goal Breakdown:
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Stats -
Games scored in a row:
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Goals Scored:
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Top Goalscorer:
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Results, Tables & Transfers -
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