Well basically I have been working on creating a new tactic and I feel that I have done this successfully now. I have finished a whole premiership season with the tactic as Manchester United (having only bought Shaqiri and Badelj so no-one to make the first team). I won every single game apart from 2 I think and the 2 I failed to win were draws. 0-0 with Rangers and 2-2 with Arsenal.
I feel that the tactics itself emulates the way that Manchester United have played this last season. The two full-backs do get up the pitch a bit and the 2 central midfielders are not glamour midfielders, they just pass the ball on really and make themselves available for the pass when the forward players do not have anywhere to go. The two wingers chip in with a lot of assists. Also the tactics keeps quite a bit of possession. Anyway I will show you what I have done because the images speak louder than any words I can say.
Image of the tactical formation
I've finally completed the season now.
Final League Table:
Fixtures list:
Well it's easy to see that I won nearly every single game of the season with this tactic. Going off the fixtures list I don't think I lost a game in the whole season and only drew twice. Once to Rangers and another to Arsenal. I think that the league table also shows that even though this tactic is quite attacking. So as you can see this tactic has been very good so far. I doubt things could have got better really. I scored a good amount of goals and don't concede that often.
End of season player stats:
Well for me these are very very good stats. The main goalscoring positions are from STC and AMC. Throughout the season I mainly played Hernandez and Berbatov as STC's and Rooney and Anderson as AMC's. In the league Javier Hernandez scored 28 goals from 19 starts and 11 substitute appearances. You can see this AMC position is quite important to the way the team plays. In one game, I saw this position with 7 key passes. I also think that the 36 assists over the whole season for Nani was just phenomenal. I've never achieved so many assists from the wider positions. Nani loves to cut inside from the left (that is where I usually played him) but was also equally adept at crossing with his left foot from the outside. Killer combination.
Matches of interest: vs Rangers 0-0
This was one of the 2 games that I drew this season. As you can see, I shut the opposition out. They hardly had any shots compared to my team. Also my team had an extremely good amount of CCC's (4) but failed to convert them into goals which is just genuinely unlucky. The possession stats for this match is also quite typical of the possession in most games, though it ranges from around 55-80. I find that the team controls the matches more depending on who is playing CM. I favour Carrick and Scholes because of their passing stats. I control the game much more when these two players play together.
Matches of interest: vs Chelsea 2-0
I thought that this was the most interesting match of the season. I made a slight tweak of the tactic before this game towards the back end of the season and used it in every game afterwards. I fielded a weak team vs Chelsea (as you can see not a lot of them players are my 1st choice players) and still managed to convincingly win against Chelsea AND create 4 clear cut chances. After this match I played vs Barcelona and won 4-1, against Chelsea and won 2-1 and then CL final against Real Madrid and won 3-0. This tweaked tactic is what version 2.1 did.
The only drawback to the tactic is probably that due to the formation and the wingers are quite high up the field so the full back is sometimes made suspect. As you can see though I still have the best defensive record in the premiership but crosses from the wide area are usually the only outlet through which the opposition scores from.
Download links:
Version 1 is the tactic that I used up to the Chelsea match at the back end of the season where I won 2-0. Before the Chelsea game I tweaked the tactic to try to attack the game more giving Chelsea no way to attack. The only things that I changed from v1 to v2.1 is I set the 2 CM's marking to zonal so I don't concede so much from crosses (and I felt that worked) AND I set the CM's to run from deep as often to put pressure onto the opposition defence. I personally prefer the v2.1 than v1 but the choice is yours.
XeNoN's 4-2-3-1 Manchester United v1
XeNoN's 4-3-2-1 Manchester United v2.1
Note that I do not use OI. I set team talks and match prep to assistant manager and leave the pitch size as it is.
This tactic was so good that one of the people on this forum who have used it have made a guide on players which I totally agree and is totally true apart from his criticism of set pieces (my personal belief) so I've posted what he wrote below.
I feel that the tactics itself emulates the way that Manchester United have played this last season. The two full-backs do get up the pitch a bit and the 2 central midfielders are not glamour midfielders, they just pass the ball on really and make themselves available for the pass when the forward players do not have anywhere to go. The two wingers chip in with a lot of assists. Also the tactics keeps quite a bit of possession. Anyway I will show you what I have done because the images speak louder than any words I can say.
Image of the tactical formation
I've finally completed the season now.
Final League Table:
Fixtures list:
Well it's easy to see that I won nearly every single game of the season with this tactic. Going off the fixtures list I don't think I lost a game in the whole season and only drew twice. Once to Rangers and another to Arsenal. I think that the league table also shows that even though this tactic is quite attacking. So as you can see this tactic has been very good so far. I doubt things could have got better really. I scored a good amount of goals and don't concede that often.
End of season player stats:
Well for me these are very very good stats. The main goalscoring positions are from STC and AMC. Throughout the season I mainly played Hernandez and Berbatov as STC's and Rooney and Anderson as AMC's. In the league Javier Hernandez scored 28 goals from 19 starts and 11 substitute appearances. You can see this AMC position is quite important to the way the team plays. In one game, I saw this position with 7 key passes. I also think that the 36 assists over the whole season for Nani was just phenomenal. I've never achieved so many assists from the wider positions. Nani loves to cut inside from the left (that is where I usually played him) but was also equally adept at crossing with his left foot from the outside. Killer combination.
Matches of interest: vs Rangers 0-0
This was one of the 2 games that I drew this season. As you can see, I shut the opposition out. They hardly had any shots compared to my team. Also my team had an extremely good amount of CCC's (4) but failed to convert them into goals which is just genuinely unlucky. The possession stats for this match is also quite typical of the possession in most games, though it ranges from around 55-80. I find that the team controls the matches more depending on who is playing CM. I favour Carrick and Scholes because of their passing stats. I control the game much more when these two players play together.
Matches of interest: vs Chelsea 2-0
I thought that this was the most interesting match of the season. I made a slight tweak of the tactic before this game towards the back end of the season and used it in every game afterwards. I fielded a weak team vs Chelsea (as you can see not a lot of them players are my 1st choice players) and still managed to convincingly win against Chelsea AND create 4 clear cut chances. After this match I played vs Barcelona and won 4-1, against Chelsea and won 2-1 and then CL final against Real Madrid and won 3-0. This tweaked tactic is what version 2.1 did.
The only drawback to the tactic is probably that due to the formation and the wingers are quite high up the field so the full back is sometimes made suspect. As you can see though I still have the best defensive record in the premiership but crosses from the wide area are usually the only outlet through which the opposition scores from.
Download links:
Version 1 is the tactic that I used up to the Chelsea match at the back end of the season where I won 2-0. Before the Chelsea game I tweaked the tactic to try to attack the game more giving Chelsea no way to attack. The only things that I changed from v1 to v2.1 is I set the 2 CM's marking to zonal so I don't concede so much from crosses (and I felt that worked) AND I set the CM's to run from deep as often to put pressure onto the opposition defence. I personally prefer the v2.1 than v1 but the choice is yours.
XeNoN's 4-2-3-1 Manchester United v1
XeNoN's 4-3-2-1 Manchester United v2.1
Note that I do not use OI. I set team talks and match prep to assistant manager and leave the pitch size as it is.
This tactic was so good that one of the people on this forum who have used it have made a guide on players which I totally agree and is totally true apart from his criticism of set pieces (my personal belief) so I've posted what he wrote below.
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