What Tactic Suits My Team?

[TheBetterHalf]

right firstly im new this is my first post.
secondly can any 1 recommend a good training regime for Rochdale AFC of football league 2 and a good tactic to play if you want any more info about my team just ask it would be really helpful thanks

Would you like a tacticfile with some instructions or do you prefer some guidelines/ hints so that you can make one your self ?

 

[steviep25]

Hi I am currently playing with the Villa - used Wayne's Villains Tactics which started off well and although am still bashing them in I cant stop conceeding which is damaging my results somewhat! they frequently go straight through the middle of my defence with through balls or long punts. any suggestions.

Team:

Friedel (GK)
Young (injured)/Santon (RB)
Shorey/Bouma (injured)(LB)
Cuellar/Davies (CB)
Laursen (CB)
Petrov (CM)
Barry (CM)
Agbonlahor (ARM)
Milner (ALM)
Young (ACM)
Cardozo (ST)

Bench

Carew
Buonanotte
Reo-Coker
Sidwell
Heskey
and couple of others.

 

[TheBetterHalf]

Hi I am currently playing with the Villa .

I have a small set, consisting of 3 versions

• Attack
• Balanced
• Defensive

Its a 4231, no TM or PLM. Would this be interesting ?

 

[Tank09]

Would you like a tacticfile with some instructions or do you prefer some guidelines/ hints so that you can make one your self ?

anything u can give me would help plz m8

 

[TheBetterHalf]

anything u can give me would help plz m8

http://www.zshare.net/download/60104807ab9f3d44/

This is a set of all the 8 versions( see my thread, the better halfs tactical sets, for further explanation). Its a 4411, No TM or PLM. It can be tweaked into a 442( put the amc in FC) and also into a 4231( not counter and defensive though)

 

[Tank09]

http://www.zshare.net/download/60104807ab9f3d44/

This is a set of all the 8 versions( see my thread, the better halfs tactical sets, for further explanation). Its a 4411, No TM or PLM. It can be tweaked into a 442( put the amc in FC) and also into a 4231( not counter and defensive though)

cheers m8 any training reigemes u can recomend

 

[neef]

Hi and thanks for this great thread.

I'm Alicante CF in the Spainish 2nd league. I chose this team because it looks promising to compete in League 1 if I can get it to be promoted.

Center Midfielders:
Strengths: Tough, defensive MCs, with some excellent passing skills, and terrific long shots ability. These guys are good headers too for midfielders
Average: Dribbling, finishing and movement. I can't see these guys as attacking MCs

Wingers:
Strengths: Excellent ball handling, some speed
Average: Passing, crossing, finishing.
Poor: Defense

DCs:
One good and many average to poor players. The good one is a solid starter while the rest could be the most glaring weakness of the entire squad. I'm going to find another strating DC as my first priority.

DL and DR: Solid defensively but no real ability to support the offensive players. The DL can cross but can't dribble. The DR never even has shot at the goal before.

Forwards: One stud who is terrific in the speedy finisher style (no heading ability or long shots). Can cross well. The other forwards are more average and will probably support my main guy. Nobody is a strong header, but they are all strong finishers.

GK: Looks to be an area of strength with depth.

Set Pieces: Free Kicks and Corners atts are impressively high for several players.

Great leadership guys too.

So I'm thinking ball control here, but I want to take advantage of my excellent and fast forward as well. I'd like to provide my MCs with lots of long shots too. Any advice? Be aware I'm an American and although I've kicked some *** in FM years ago, I still don't have the knowledge others might. (IE "Try Arsenal's tactics" won't mean anything too me, unfortunatly)

Thanx in advance for any advice!

 

[TheBetterHalf]

Hi and thanks for this great thread.

I'm Alicante CF in the Spainish 2nd league

I get the feeling you want help in developing a tactic rather than being handed a tacfile , correct ?

I would probably try a 41221,(using a DMC AMR/L). Try a slower approach and restrict t-balls to rarely-mixed. Give your AMR/L no defensive duties as they can cope with them. The same goes for your fullbacks, restrict them to defensive duties only. This does not mean they should be on a low mentality, just don't let them dictate the play.

Does this sound interesting ?

 

[neef]

Yes this is a great starting point, thank you!

One more quick question: Should I use any counter attacking?

 

[TheBetterHalf]

Yes this is a great starting point, thank you!

One more quick question: Should I use any counter attacking?

That depends on the situation. If you play a slow probing counter game with lowish mentality, there is a risk that your attacking unit(AMR/L, FC) gets cut off from the rest of the team. Its important that you monitor this and make the team move up-field as a unit.

When you talk about counter attack it means that the team will attack with fury every time that the risk is worth it, Depending on the mentality, the team will value the defence higher/lower then the attack, In short terms it means that the higher the mentality, the more likely the team is to take that chance to attack the opponent on the break( all depending on how many AI player the team has to "take on", that are behind the ball.)
This is why you can see one tactic, using about 12 in mentality and playing on the counter, can get you 65 % in possession against one opponent, only to get 35 % in the next match.

 

[neef]

Excellent post. Thanks very much.

 

[Boerenkool]

I'm currently in my 6th season with Helmond Sport. During my first 5 seasons I've done very good business for my finances. Only signed players on free transfer, selling them for millions and still managed to greatly increase the strength of my squad each year. Promoted to the Dutch Premier Division in my 3th season, and finished 12th last year after which the board announced what I was waiting for: we're leaving our crappy 4000-man stadium, and building a new one with 20.000 seats.

So finally, I started to actually spend the money I made on players. I thought I greatly increased the strenth of my squad and could qualify for European football this year. However, for the first time I'm actually doing worse than the previous season. I'm in 14th place, only 3 points away from relegation playoffs. Even though there are teams above me that certainly don't have better players than I do.

I'm quite sure my faulty tactics are the cause of this. During my previous 5 seasons, I've given several quite different tactics a try. But whatever I do, I keep conceding goals like crazy. Even in the season I won the First Division championship there were only like 4 teams which conceded more than I did. Last season in which I finished 12th there were only 3 teams that scored more goals than I did, but also only 1 team that conceded more than I did.

So this season I greatly invested in my defence and goalkeeper, it should be the strongest area of my team now. I also changed to a tactic which I think is quite defensive:

But still no luck. Still one of the best-scoring teams in the league but conceding even more. There must be some very basic principle in the defence settings that I'm completely misunderstanding, there is no other way I can explain it.

What am I doing wrong? How can I get my defence to work?

 

[TheBetterHalf]

Looking at the screenies, I can tell that you are playing too deep with your d-line( raise it with at least 5 notches) and also too wide( decrease with at least 5 notches)

 

[Boerenkool]

Ok, thanks for your tips, I'll try them out. Was just wondering if you could explain to me why it would be a good idea to change those 2 settings? Just trying to understand the game mechanics better.

About the defensive line, doesn't that depend greatly on the kind of players you have? My two DC's are quite slow, that's why I chose to put them so deep (and also why I'm hesistant to use tight marking). I did notice it gives the opposition too much space for long shots, that's why I chose to get two DM's to counter that.

And why is it a bad idea to play too wide? Does it cause my wingers to be less involved in defensive duties?

Also, should I perhaps have less forward arrows and forward runs?

 

[TheBetterHalf]

Ok, thanks for your tips, I'll try them out. Was just wondering if you could explain to me why it would be a good idea to change those 2 settings? Just trying to understand the game mechanics better.

About the defensive line, doesn't that depend greatly on the kind of players you have? My two DC's are quite slow, that's why I chose to put them so deep (and also why I'm hesitant to use tight marking). I did notice it gives the opposition too much space for long shots, that's why I chose to get two DM's to counter that.

And why is it a bad idea to play too wide? Does it cause my wingers to be less involved in defensive duties?

Also, should I perhaps have less forward arrows and forward runs?

You are right in that you have to look at the players competence, stats and tweak the tactic accordingly, making sure that they can play the style you prefer. But using an ultra deep d-line is asking for trouble, especially when there already is such a huge gap between you wide players( DR-AMR, DL-AML), Playing with a d-line this deep means that your defenders will drop very, very far back when you loose possession. As I do not know any individual settings in Closing Down or Mentality, use of man-marking, I cant be sure about how much space and time on the ball the AI wingers get.

As for the width, I just think you should avoid the more extreme settings as a default. Also, I am a bit concerned that your wingers will be cut off from the rest off the team, being so far away from the distributors( DMC, FBs)

Time wasting: I would increase this too as its a bit risky playing without any at all. Somebody once gave this a better a better description when calling it " Decision urgency". There is just no need to force rash decisions up on your players.

 

[kriegpaolo_23]

I really need help with the tactics...I am currently AC Milan and my team has not been producing very good results. The squad is practically the same, with the key signing being Diego Lugano. I'd like a team that resembles the real Milan, but more aggressive in the attack and more creativity. Thanks in advance.

 

[Luxferro]

hi!
i'm starting 3th season with Olimpique Marseille and I need new tactic. this is my starting team:
mandanda
zubar - givet - hilton - taiwo
cana
cheyrou - ben arfa
valbuena niang
hulk

subs:
def:rodriguez,marin,bocaly,sabo
mid:kabore,sall,ziani,diaby(great reagen from ASEC),arshavin
att:saivet,cisse,samassa

I play 4-3-3 tactic that I made myself. In last season I won ligue 1, french cup and I lost in Champions Ligue final against Man utd on penalty

What do you suggest to me?

 

[houghtie14]

any barca tips for me guys in my first season only players bought are srna and zhrikov
im thinking a 4-3-2-1

with the 2 being zhirkov and messi with eto'o upfront

 

[TheBetterHalf]

any barca tips for me guys in my first season only players bought are srna and zhrikov
im thinking a 4-3-2-1

with the 2 being zhirkov and messi with eto'o upfront

I have a small set of 3 versions that should be enough for Barca.

1-Attack - Flat 4: 2MC-AMR, AMCright( use a playmaking AMC), AML - FCleft
2.Standard, the same formation
3, Cautious- The AMR/L is now MR/L.

Interested ?

 

[pau1lfc]

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