First of all I would like to let out my frustration and anger that FM14 made the players' leg out of thin stick. Injuries one after another (minimum usually 3 freaking weeks) and funnily enough they like to injure my in form players.
Tactics :
-I have restarted over many times in FM14 due to my inability to win (I think because of tactics) so this is my first save that I manage to get decent results. Pathetic I know :'( I'm using andrichbrand's 41221 ? COUNTER THE MATCH ENGINE WITH PRECISION tactic with a little tweak. The tactic is fluid in all aspects already some time now. Full bar. Or I have to change my tactic every 6 months or so? But I saw players using the same tactic and still getting results.. And it took so long to finally find the right tactic..
-The tweak is I add team instruction Push Higher Up, and the wingers, depending on the players I change the role to inside forward (usually Insigne). If I use Coutinho, his role is inconsistent because I can't get him to perform, his role is either Winger, Inside Forward or Advanced Playmaker. If I'm trying to protect a lead, I use Defensive, Retain Possesion, Shorter Passing, Waste Time, Play Out Of Defense, Exploit The Flanks, Push Higher Up, Hassle Opponents, Use Tighter Marking. And if I'm trying to catch up I add Overload, Work Ball To Box, Much Higher Tempo, Take More Risks. Opp instructions, I ask my assistant. All of this usually working, until now.
Player selection :
Regular First Team, Defense - Mignolet, Skrtel, Agger, Cissokho, Johnson. Midfielders -AML Insigne, AMR, Jordon Ibe who managed to keep Bruno on the bench with a string of awesome performances. He scored 7 goals already, I'm quite shocked. Sometimes I use Coutinho and Bruno as well but their performances are inconsistent. AF Suarez, HB Lucas (never change unless he's unavailable I use Mohamed Sissoko), CM support Zuculini and the other CM attack used to be Henderson but he's injured when he's in form, so I rotate Gerrard and Allen since both are inconsistent. And In January I bought James-Ward Prowse due to lack of depth in CM since Henderson is injured, little gap between matches is the main reason and Gerrard's stamina is bad.
My recent results :
After 3 consecutive home wins, draw 0-0 to Stoke (Away), lost 3-0 to Southampton in Capital One Cup Semi Final (Away), so 3-2 lost in aggregate (funny, I never lose that big against an average team but when Southampton need a minimum of 3 goals......), lost 2-1 to West Brom in 4th Round FA Cup (Away) and lost 2-0 to Tottenham (Home). That is my FIRST lost at home this season. Now the latest match is against Manchester United away and as you can guess I lost again. 4-1. I'm ****** off so bad that I just quit without saving because that lost made my chance of securing ECL gone because the gap between me and number 4 is just too big. You may call this cheating but whatever, I'm on the verge of giving up. I don't know what I did wrong. FYI my last FM game is FM11, I'm finding FM14 really difficult and at the start, really unplayable because I can't win.
I noticed that my consecutive bad results came after my best defender this season, Skrtel got injured for 3 weeks.... Now still injured.. Not sure if it's a coincidence or not hmmm
I want to post screenshots but it won't upload, only the statistics against Stoke was successfully uploaded oO) For all of you awesome players, my hope of at least securing 4th place may be laughable because I have seen so many players having such an easy time winning the league in the 1st season, I'm feeling really pathetic right now. I hope you can lend your knowledge to help me.
Tactics :
-I have restarted over many times in FM14 due to my inability to win (I think because of tactics) so this is my first save that I manage to get decent results. Pathetic I know :'( I'm using andrichbrand's 41221 ? COUNTER THE MATCH ENGINE WITH PRECISION tactic with a little tweak. The tactic is fluid in all aspects already some time now. Full bar. Or I have to change my tactic every 6 months or so? But I saw players using the same tactic and still getting results.. And it took so long to finally find the right tactic..
-The tweak is I add team instruction Push Higher Up, and the wingers, depending on the players I change the role to inside forward (usually Insigne). If I use Coutinho, his role is inconsistent because I can't get him to perform, his role is either Winger, Inside Forward or Advanced Playmaker. If I'm trying to protect a lead, I use Defensive, Retain Possesion, Shorter Passing, Waste Time, Play Out Of Defense, Exploit The Flanks, Push Higher Up, Hassle Opponents, Use Tighter Marking. And if I'm trying to catch up I add Overload, Work Ball To Box, Much Higher Tempo, Take More Risks. Opp instructions, I ask my assistant. All of this usually working, until now.
Player selection :
Regular First Team, Defense - Mignolet, Skrtel, Agger, Cissokho, Johnson. Midfielders -AML Insigne, AMR, Jordon Ibe who managed to keep Bruno on the bench with a string of awesome performances. He scored 7 goals already, I'm quite shocked. Sometimes I use Coutinho and Bruno as well but their performances are inconsistent. AF Suarez, HB Lucas (never change unless he's unavailable I use Mohamed Sissoko), CM support Zuculini and the other CM attack used to be Henderson but he's injured when he's in form, so I rotate Gerrard and Allen since both are inconsistent. And In January I bought James-Ward Prowse due to lack of depth in CM since Henderson is injured, little gap between matches is the main reason and Gerrard's stamina is bad.
My recent results :
After 3 consecutive home wins, draw 0-0 to Stoke (Away), lost 3-0 to Southampton in Capital One Cup Semi Final (Away), so 3-2 lost in aggregate (funny, I never lose that big against an average team but when Southampton need a minimum of 3 goals......), lost 2-1 to West Brom in 4th Round FA Cup (Away) and lost 2-0 to Tottenham (Home). That is my FIRST lost at home this season. Now the latest match is against Manchester United away and as you can guess I lost again. 4-1. I'm ****** off so bad that I just quit without saving because that lost made my chance of securing ECL gone because the gap between me and number 4 is just too big. You may call this cheating but whatever, I'm on the verge of giving up. I don't know what I did wrong. FYI my last FM game is FM11, I'm finding FM14 really difficult and at the start, really unplayable because I can't win.
I noticed that my consecutive bad results came after my best defender this season, Skrtel got injured for 3 weeks.... Now still injured.. Not sure if it's a coincidence or not hmmm
I want to post screenshots but it won't upload, only the statistics against Stoke was successfully uploaded oO) For all of you awesome players, my hope of at least securing 4th place may be laughable because I have seen so many players having such an easy time winning the league in the 1st season, I'm feeling really pathetic right now. I hope you can lend your knowledge to help me.
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