Hello there I am new here. Played manager games since good old cmITA!
I've just begun my season two as
Liverpool, and I've done better after I first started to read through some guides I found. Ended up at 4th position last season, and I've just started my second season.
Torres is a complete forward, Lukaku is target man.
Jovetic is inside forward, Lucas is ball winning, Gerrard is box to box, and Modric is winger.
Wilson is full back, Shawcross and Agger is central defenders and Cassini is a wing back.
Most of the choices for roles are obvious, but there are some areas I'm not that sure of. Gerrard does well for me as a box to box midfielder, as he is quite good defensive and he has the physical stats to move up and down after the ball. I put his mentality to very offensive as I want him to focus on being the offensive link. However I've read through some guides and threads and the general idea is that you'd want a player like him as deep lying playmaker or offensive playmaker.
Lastly I'm not sure if I have the correct D/M (LR) setup. I've just recently learned that I should have a wing back behind the inside forward, but I've chosen to keep Wilson a bit more back as he doesn't have the stats to be an offensive wing back (yet, hopefully). I don't really have a proper wing back replacement for him either. I'm also not quite sure if I'm utilizing both Modric and Jovetic correctly, and which one is best suited for the inside winger role and what the other one should be.
This is my general strategies:
From what I've read this is ideal, and the reasoning behind it looked solid. Didn't come up with this. In the advanced settings I only have counter attack checked on.
What do you guys think?