I man mark their Wingers with my wingers, forces them to come back and leaves my FB's free to use Zonal Marking
Have you tried defensive winger?
Unless you're using Defensive Wingers, their natural instructions are to stay upfront. An Winger is essentially a wide forward so they do very little defensively unless you instruct them to.
Defensive wingers aren't what you're implying. They're still wingers, but their role is to win the ball higher up the pitch (useful with pressing sides) and then play like a winger, once they have the ball. They are more defensive than normal wingers, but the name is fairly misleading.
To be honest, they do help defensively, but they win the ball back higher-up as opposed to dropping deep (? la Eto'o for Mourinho at Inter) and sitting just in front of full-backs. I think the best way to implement 'defensive wingers' is to retrain players to wing-back and play them as a Complete Wing-Back (I think that's what they're called). Like I said, you were right in assuming they are more defensive than normal wingers, but they're not really that defensive.Whenever I've used Defensive wingers, they tended to hang back and defend in-line with my midfield; as opposed to staying behind the opposition full backs. Maybe I had created a freak tactic and assumed that was normal![]()
Would it not be better training them as a ML or MR rather than a Wing Back? As the wing back is in line with the DM isn't he? I'm tempted retrain all my wide AM's to normal Wide Midfielders to help defensively, as I normally play a 4-5-1 with DM, 2 MC's and 2 wide AM's, but against tougher teams I feel I would be better having the same tactics but as a 4-1-4-1 possibly.Whenever I've used Defensive wingers, they tended to hang back and defend in-line with my midfield; as opposed to staying behind the opposition full backs. Maybe I had created a freak tactic and assumed that was normal![]()