Best Fm 2009 Tactics
This thread is created especially for those who want to share their tactics that they think very usefull and could help other managers to be success in Football Manager 2009. We could also discuss about how the tactics works and how to build a very good tactics.Now i will share one of my own tactic that i build, inspired by Guardiola - real world tactic that have made the Barcelona team to be very successfull this season. I've just tested it with Man City, and here is the result when they play UEFA Cup qualifying round.here some screen shot. Select a formation that u desire for the whole season. (check your team).2.
Don't regularly change the formation in a season, choose at most 2 formation. (Its hard for the player to adjust).3.
Evaluate your team, and evaluate your opponent. (this is the most important thing to get a highest probability of positive result u desire).4.
If your opponent is better than yours, use the Defensive tactic of your choosen formation.5. If your opponent is equally to your team, use the Standard tactic of your choosen formation.6. If your opponent is lower than yours, use the Attacking tactic of your choosen formation.7. Have fun.First of all, i just want to tell you guys about tactical teorem in Football Manager 2009.The tactical engine in Football Manager 2009 is the very best i've ever seen in this world. It can generatea very Real World like tactics, that we always seen in TV or stadium.
This engine is build according towhat we set on the sliders. Any tweak on the sliders could effect the whole game. So the most importantthing that we as a manager should know is:-a) The right tactic to tackle a situation.b) How to set the tactic correctly in the Football Manager 2009.Most of us managers knows a simple tactical knowledge for example the famous 4-4-2 attacking or the4-5-1 mourinho style, but do we all really know how to set it correctly in Football Manager 2009?Alright everything that i've learned about the game, i have taken from many forum and experimented it in the gamecombining with ideas that i always adopt from real world football. I've manage to try and use the benitez's 5x5 theory,as well as Mourinho's 4-5-1 Nike defense. Most of it i got from document.
The document explain wellabout how you will create your own tactics. I suggest you guys should read that document first to better understandthe term FCa, FCs, FCd.
Until DCa, DCs, DCd. Then u can create your own tactics.As for now, i will just explain in general about tactical in Football Manager 2009.
MentalityHere, we're looking at what the team instructions sliders do so we can move away from the finer pointsof how each individual setting can make a difference. We are given three basic clues to what mentalityasks of our players. We can attack, we can defend or we can play somewhere in between (with all-out attackand defend as our last ditch options). What exactly is 'defend' and what is 'attack'. The answer probablyseems very obvious, but if you don't properly understand the difference then you could be using the other slidersineffectuallly.A defensive team looks to primarily keep the ball out of their own net. They will not look to take many risks in theirown half, will hang back a little deeper in normal play, try to put their men behind the ball and generally do what isnecessary to avoid shots on goal. There are implications for this in the way your team will play.
Obviously, the aim isto concede as few goals as possible. But how will this make your players behave? From my observations, we can expect ateam playing defensive mentality to do the following:a) Be more prone to hoofing the ball out of defence than look for the passing optionb) Look more for sideways and backwards passes when trying to hold possession than go for penetrative ball forwardc) Attempt to get more men behind the ball. And therefore play a little deeperd) Will be more likely to sit in their positions and not close down those on the ball so as not to be dragged out of shapeIt is also clear, then, that some of our other tools will counteract these effects. Some may be desirable, others counter productive. Which ones will cause what?
Passing will help us counteract the 'hoofing' which may lead to a loss of possession. Shorter passing may encourage the player to use the options around him, perhaps encouraging a pass sideways. Or, on the other hand, longer passing may give the player more options, particularly on the wings where a pass may be less dangerous than to a central player.
Passing will also help to counteract the sideways and backwards balls. Shorter passing may re-enforce this style of play, perfect for a side in the lead or a quality side looking to hold possession and tire out the opposition (the Barcelona style). Longer passing on the other hand may encourage more forward balls to help get attacks moving yet still retain the defensive 'shape' required. Linked to this we have the 'try through balls', 'run with ball' and 'cross ball' options in the individual instructions, where rarely on each will re-enforce the possession play, wheras often will encourage more penetration.
Tempo is another important tool. This was another slider that I thought had no defensive implications, yet I've found it invaluable in holding leads and breaking down teams playing possession football. A higher tempo encourages the players to find the ball and do something with it. Therefore the players are likely to close down the opposition more and perhaps sacrifice a little of their shape, but hopefully rush them into a mistake. A lower tempo can make it more clear to your players that you want them to hold firm.
This should most obviously be used in conjunction with Closing Down. Then we have the more evident use of a quicker tempo. Those sideways and backwards balls we talked about can be encouraged by a slower tempo, or a more cavalier attitude can be sought with a quicker tempo. Be aware though that a quick tempo is likely to leave a player with fewer options and less time to play the ball.-to be continue-This post has been edited by akubaem: Jun 12 2009, 10:12 AM.
This means that this playing style and the tactics available for download is NOT at all plug-and-play tactics, as it may be required to make slight adjustments according to how the opposition plays and how the match evolves. What you see as satisfactory may depend on the current abilities of the team and the state your team in, before heading into the match. But the current tactic made available to download below lets you come close, which let you consider it as a framework, as you might tick or untick specific team instructions when you hunt for a win in the last 20 minutes of the match or are leading by one in the final ten.Key Ingredients of The Barcelona Tiki Taka Tactics – Positional Play and Habit Football“ Estamos tocando tiki-taka tiki-taka”, was the phrase Andres Montes used in the World Cup 2006 to describe the playing style of Spain. Tiki-Taka or Tiqui-Taca has its origin from the Total Football developed by Rinus Michel in the 1970’s and is a refinement of the highly attacking fluid football which gave Ajax and the Dutch national team lots of fame. A football concept he brought with him to FC Barcelona in 1971 continuing the work of ‘s short passing system (also a former Ajax manager in the early 60s).One of the was the focus on position switching within a group of players with an extremely high understanding of each others positional requirements – benefiting from creative and versatile players who have both the technical and mental attributes to take up the roles of each other. These players had played with each other for years and knew each other strengths and weaknesses and gelled perfectly. When attacking, everyone was part of it, even the fullbacks or the goalkeeper who was finally part of the passing play.
Out of possession, aggression and lots of pressure were used to win back the ball as quickly as possible. As the above article in Football Bible dictates, no player on the pitch had a specific position except the goalkeeper. To summarize, this feature erupted to counter the specific man marking used at the time. It was universality and creative fluidity, aggression and pressuring, technical brilliance and higher physical conditions all wrapped up to become the art of football of that time. While there are similarities, Tiki Taka in some ways is not that extreme, for example in position switching and in the level of fluidity, but it is certainly as highly tactical intelligent as Rinus Michels total voetball and could be labeled the modern art of football.Since 2006 the Tiki-Taka playing style has become world famous, partially because of the success of Spain and FC Barcelona. The Tiki Taka become the term for how the Spanish national team utilized a possession game to their benefit by passing the ball between the lines and into various channels.
The style of play took advantage of the players technical abilities and extreme levels of anticipation and vision which can be summed up as being able to read the game better than the opposing players, both in the defensive and attacking phase by better positional awareness. In a historical concept, the tiki taka was founded at a time where physical football – each players strength, the ability to man-mark their opponent and abilities to run and dribble with the ball was favored. The game as we all love was on route to be a game for only tall physical players who were far more individualistic than the tiki taka aims to be. With tiki taka smaller players were finally seen as prosperous.
These players have always needed to be far quicker with the reading of the game and a lot smarter with the ball and their positioning in order to compete against players who have far better physical strength.On the cover tiki taka can be referred to as a playing style where the team uses intelligent short sharp passes (often in one or two touches), accurate through balls and more ‘risky passes’ coupled with one-twos and intelligent movements both between lines and into channels – using possession and passing play as a bid to control the match. But behind the surface lies the importance of creating a football philosophy of habit football by utilizing positional play to create rhombus and triangles which increases the amount of passing options for the player with the ball – not only for whom in possession of it, but also for the supporting player or the second and third attacker(s) close to him. The clue is to use the entire playing surface to move the opposing team by passing play – having the patience to open up the defensive block by quick short passes by limiting the amount of running your players must do.How the team looks to stretch play to aid ball circulation and create appropriate gaps to penetrate a solid defensive block is one of the main features of the Barcelona tiki taka style of play. Guardiola favored something we can translate as flexible width. His idea was to make the pitch as big as possible when in possession while decreasing space between each player out of possession. In addition to that, his philosophy was that the size of any football pitch could be altered by the team playing on it.This was done to be more defensively solid, forcing the opposition to exploit the flanks. It was a matter of playing wider in the attacking phase and staying much narrower in the defensive phase pushing the opposition team down the wide channel (wings) rather than letting them prosper from lots of space between players in the middle channel, which would be devastating if the ball was lost in key areas, since the opponent could launch a dangerous counter-attack.
This idea about dominating the center can draw similarities to chess where you aim for the same. In both sports it will help you to attack and defend at the same time.By playing wider when in possession Guardiola’s team wanted to create larger spaces in, and attack through, what can be referred to as the half space – outnumbering and overloading the fullback and penetrating the space between the fullback and the closest central defender. Here comes the importance of setting the correct player roles and duties between the wide forwards and the wingbacks.
As always throughout the history and evolution of the tiki taka, and the freedom from the managers to express his ideas on how to utilize width – it has always been a question of where width shall come from and who shall create it. “If there isn’t a sequence of 15 passes first, it’s impossible to carry out the transition between attack and defence”.Josep Guardiola, Pep Confidential; The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola’s First Season at Bayern MunichWhile pressing high up the pitch, utilizing a high defensive line, was one of the aspects of the modern version of the Total Football and which differed slightly to the original, another was the way Barcelona treated the attacking transition phases and how they wanted to enter final third. More focus was set on utilizing short passes when in possession and especially in the build-up phase. Josep Guardiola took it to the extreme by wanting his teams to play their way out of defense using short passes rather than hoof the ball long or aim for a quick counter attack. So much importance is set on the first stage of attack that Pep has even set a 15 pass rule for the build-up stage – this to be able to remain the team shape while moving or disorganizing the shape of the opposition. In other words, these 15 passes will get the players in the correct position – or zones and channels of the pitch – whilst making the system into a tightly packed unit which easily breaks down any counter-attacking moves from the opposing team if they get it.
These 15 passes will ensure that your players have control of the center channel as well as managing surrounding space. While your team has played these quick short passes, the other team has chase you all over the entire pitch – creating gaps the third attackers can roam into. This idea about creating holes in the opponent’s defensive organization is also an idea that is often used in chess to take pieces from opposing player.Within this stage, it’s important that the players makes as few passes within each zone of the pitch as possible – meaning the team will use the entire playing surface moving the ball quickly between each other. The opponent will then have to move from side to side to block off passing lanes and maintain 100% focus and concentration – keeping eye on the ball, their opposite markers movements and the surrounding spaces. Positional play is a model of constructed play, it is premeditated, thought about, studied and worked out in detail. The interpreters of this form of play know the various possibilities that can occur during the game and also what their roles should be at all times the interpreters of this model need to know the catalog of movements that need to be executed in depth.Marti Perarnau, Source; Spielverlagerung.com 2 The definitions of Positional Play aka ‘Juego de Posicion’The founding principle behind Guardiola’s playing systems is the focus on positional play; the idea of dominating the game through rehearsed movements and templates to dominate the game. Here the players have specific tasks and responsibilities at each phase of the game.
READ MORE The playing structure can detail where a specific player must position himself within a specific zone of the pitch in order to create both ideal triangles (which ultimately provides more passing options for his teammates and perfect cover which provides a perfect defensive balance if the attack should fail), where the next player must be positioned according to him and where the third player must run to either give space to a fourth player in a ‘better’ area of the pitch. Often it’s the subtle movement from the player closest to or with the ball that decides all other actions from the surrounding / supporting players. READ MORE About Football Manager 2019 Barcelona Tiki Taka Tactics – The 2-3-2-3 FormationFrom what you have discovered or noticed from the tactical analysis I like to use a 2-3-2-3 formation as a foundation for the Barcelona tactics. You can call the 2-3-2-3 formation my positional template.
The system makes it rather simple to record a 4-3-3 or a 4-1-4-1 in the defensive phase, a 2-1-4-3 or a 2-3-2-3 in the attacking transition phase and a 2-3-5 / 3-3-4 in the attacking third simply by the change of player roles and duties. It’s a rather flexible system which gives a good foundation for ball circulation and high pressing play as it naturally creates lots of triangles.The set formation dictates how the players will position themselves in the defensive phase of play meaning that the choice of formation will determine how you will defend (with the help of player duties of course). I chose the 2-3-2-3 formation to combat the 4-2-3-1 or any variations using wide players in AM-strata. As the wingbacks will drop into the defensive line in the defensive third, you will defend as a 4-1-4-1 depending on duties of inside forwards and choice of team shape. The many lines of play make it harder for the opposing team to play their way through the center of the pitch forcing them to play more direct and on the counter which might be uncomfortable for them. Hopefully, them playing more direct will increase my team’s probability to intercept passes.The 2-3-2-3 formation is based on the same principles as Guardiola’s playing style: a compact unit which creates lots of triangles and rhombus’ which is favorable for ball circulation, but also for regaining possession quickly as everyone have a player in cover and are closely connected standing only a few meters between each other.
While this system creates the shapes and positional play I want in Football Manager, I’ve experienced more trouble to score goals with this system, as opponents tend to park the bus against it. What happens most often is that I win by a narrow margin or makes a draw. Despite recording over 15 shots per match, many of them are from long shots.
This tactic should be regarded as a great option to retain possession against better opponents and will record over 65% possession, nearly 700 passes and a couple of clear-cut chances per match. If I could only maintain the desired average positioning shape and how the team builds up play while scoring goals, it would be the best version I’ve ever released!If you should struggle to score goals, either remove ‘ Work ball into box‘, add ‘ Be More Expressive‘ and select ‘attacking’ or Very Attacking match mentality, or change the teams fluidity by adding more attacking duties (e.g. The wingbacks).Another choice is to change the deep-lying playmaker support to the advanced playmaker to increase the number of forwarding runs or runs penetrating the opposition lines and the advanced playmaker attack to mezzala support/attack.An asymmetric 2-3-2-3 system can be achieved by changing the right complete wingback from having a support to an attack duty, which is built around more movements on the right side compared to left. Most notably is the forward runs from the attacking complete wingback into the space providing passing alternatives for Xavi, Messi, and Iniesta to switch the ball to. This is allowed as the right inside forward will sit narrower running diagonally into the center as the false nine drops deep. The deep-lying playmaker (MCR) will provide cover for the CWB forward runs and look to make play unpredictable by swapping between retaining possession and play through balls from zone 14 – normally to the false nine or into space for the inside forward support to run onto.While the play is concentrated on the right will the advanced playmaker attack look to get into the box by deep runs (PPM: Gets into opposition area).
He will provide a second option of penetration as his dribbling and forward runs will look to destabilize the opposite defensive block. While the CWB-attack can be considered a free man on the right side, I aim for the advanced playmaker attack to constantly get behind the pressuring lines as another free man. I consider the left inside forward (attack duty) as the ‘main’ goalscorer as the false nine will prioritize to play killer passes into the penalty box towards the left IF, who will exploit any spaces or gaps.
But the deep positioning of the right inside forward who will stay closer to the false nine will be an ideal opportunity by them to play one-twos with each other.Some would argue that the wingback in support duty will give the deep-lying playmaker and the defenders an additional passing option when, I have simply wanted a lower mentality to provide cover for the attacking runs of the left IF and the advanced playmaker attack (left). The wingback support will not only look to counter the advanced position of the opposite winger (in attack duty) but it will stretch play vertically dragging the opposite player of the MCL to move out of position when the left wingback has the ball.
It also gives more passing alternatives for the left inside forward by creating a better triangle.The Inside forward support (right) have the option to cut inside to the edge of zone 14 and may play through balls to a on-rushing false nine if he should receive the ball. Acting like a fake attacking midfielder he will look to overload the half space by first staying deep to get the ball in order to create space for the complete wingback who stretch the width on the right flank providing a dilemma for the DC and DR. What happened is that the AP-A makes the third line of pass (through ball) to the false nine, who uses the passing option to the wide channel (CWB-R), but here he had several options – like going for a one-two with the IF-S (right).Note! The tactical system aims to leave the center (the penalty box) open in order for the players to run into creating trouble since as many as 5-6 players are rushing at the opposite defensive line depending on the duty of the left wingback.
Tiki Taka Team InstructionsWhile the 2-3-2-3 or is the template for my tiki taka tactics we can say a specific setup of Team Instructions are the basics of the playing style. Here I would simply go through the team instructions I prefer to start off with for the match in order to replicate the tiki taka playing style. As you might understand, a change of team instructions must be done if the team are unable to score or create chances, or at worst retain possession and control the match.Updated!For the last years I’ve always favored to publish the tactic featuring team instructions that I consider the foundation for the tactic when facing opponents that are equally good as you. In earlier versions, the team instructions could be considered as a ‘Retain Possession’ preset. After spending a long time answering questions about some issues, I will instead go the other way and let you decide if you need to be a bit more cautious to control possession and publish the team instructions I normally use within my save. We can call them the ‘Play Expansive’ presets, which is featured as a secondary version of the 2-3-2-3 tactic.The ‘Play Expansive’ instructions are provided beneath the section about In Transition. FM19 Auxerre Club Records in Ligue 2– 1st Ligue 2– Most Points in a season: 80– Fewest Goals Conceded in the league: 20– Most League Wins in a Season: 24– Most Games Without losing: 18 (10th August – 30th November 2018)– Most Matches Without Conceding: 6Managerial Records– Win Percentage (Auxerre 2018-2019 -Ligue 2): 63%Opposition InstructionsOpposition instructions are a great way to deal with specific players, their abilities and traits.
It can be used to combat their main strength or force them into rely on their weaknesses. It can be used to limit a players time on the ball, the space around him or make him move into a specific area of the pitch, or finally force passes to be made to specific players. It can help you target the best player of the opposite team by going in hard on him or force the opponent to rely on the creativity of a player that isn’t as good as their main playmaker who you man mark closely.For the Barcelona tiki taka tactic, the setup of opposition instruction is all about limiting the space and time for the opposite player with the ball. The setup of opposition instructions looks to put the most pressure on the opposing defensive line, in order to win back the ball as quickly as possible as high up the field as possible.
Even though I limited the use of opposition instructions from FM15 to Football Manager 2019, I have a template for combating specific positions that you might like to use. RELATED No matter if you decide to setup specific opposition instructions for specific players or use this template for opposition instructions per position, there are some valuable things to notice, especially in regard to the show onto foot instructions. I look to force the player with the ball within the opponent’s defensive third to pass the ball inwards, providing a circumstance where central midfielders, wingbacks or inside forwards can intercept the ball patch. In the opponent’s attacking third I look to force the wide players with the ball to move outwards.
This means that he will most likely run down the flank and be more disconnected with the rest of the team than if he moved inwards. By letting him move down the flank, you entice the player to cross the ball and recover possession inside own penalty box.
It also gives your own players the time to get back into a defensive block and can be the difference between conceding a goal on the counter and regain possession in your own half. The above statement relies on the player role of the opposite wide player to be an inside forward who naturally wants to cut inside, and the wide player has not the crossing abilities and preferred foot to do it well.
At these scenarios will the striker most often be better on the ground than in the air. If the wide players are more like a traditional winger and the striker is more like a target man, featuring strength, high level of jumping reach, high level of heading and are higher than your central defenders I look to force the wide players inwards. As you may have noticed, I try to force the player to act opposite of his natural behavior for the role he’s playing in.At all other circumstances, I want players to be pushed inside into my pressing trap by showing players on to the opposite foot of their playing area (for example onto left foot for the right fullback or right foot for the central midfielder left. You will notice that I have not set up anything for the AMR / AML position. Here I use specific instructions for the player depending on if he is likely to cut inside or cross from the byline. It partly depends on the inside forwards dribbling abilities in relationship to acceleration and balance. Poor balance makes me favor hard tackling but closing down will depend on his dribbling capabilities.
High dribbling and acceleration might force you to set closing down to never.Note that I put as much pressure on the second and third line of defense and as much pressure on isolated player positions such as GK, sweeper, single holding midfielder, and central defenders/midfielders.In the end, I’d like to mention that I rarely use closing down on specific players or positions outside the ones listed in the template. As years have gone by, I have refrained from using close down on every player, as player instructions and team instructions will help me a long step on the way to regain possession in the areas I favor. The circumstances where it may be favorable to set specific closing down for a certain player is in scenarios where the player records lots of assists, a possession completion ratio of around or over 90% and looks set to be the main playmaker.What to do if?What to do a player get’s a red card?Personally I favor substituting the right inside forward with a player in position with the one who got the red card and let the one playing as false nine play inside forward right for the rest of the match unless it’s the false nine himself who got the red card. Then change the inside forwards duties to attack, so you play a 2-3-2-2 formation.
Just a little feedback.I tried to recreate something similar for FM 2019, while waiting for your tactic, using the 2018 template. While it proved to be successful 2x Premier League Titles in a row + UCL Winner, there are some issues. The major one is that the F9 role this year is broken, as I can’t find many players that can support it.
The role is underperforming most of the games (so either I am doing something wrong, or i have bad players – etc I use either Rashford, Martial, Fekir) and the most common rating is 6.4-6.6. Similar issue with the left IF. He just can’t score and i was forced to sell Martial due to bad rating and poor scoring and assist numbers. My borther who uses a similar tactic also noticed the same issues with the False 9, can’t score, can’t provide assists. Imagine my first season rashford ended the whole year with 14 goals (some of them were penalties) and 2!! Just wanted to share this mostly to see if anyone else here having issues with f9 so i can determine if it’s either my problem or a match engine/role design one.Cheers! While the tactics created before patch 17.3 worked fine, the new versions adjusted for the latest patch (17.3) are again problematic in terms of creating chances (clear cut chances) like the ones in FM 2016.
I am having trouble scoring against even weaker teams. Most of the goals are from long shots outside the area, while the crosses from the wingbacks and IFs rarely find target in order to score. Maybe the tactic needs some adjustments so that the F9 becomes more of a threat during the game. Also it would be helpful if you could update the PPM section for the new tactics. Thanks a lot. Thanks for your feedback!May I ask which version you are using?
Or are you referring to both?No matter what, I will take an additional look at the tactics and see what I can do about it, since I expect you have avoided to use players who shoots from distance.I started to update the player roles of tiki taka article (if that’s what you refer to) on Friday (24th) but haven’t had time to be writing about Football Manager until today (Tuesday 29th). I will not update it until I have taken an additional analysis of the problems you have spotted as it might come changes to player instructions and perhaps duty.
Hi,thanks a lot for your reply.I mostly use the 2-3-2-3 default version of the tactic and sometimes the 2-3-5 one all updated for the 17.3 patch. I must say that the possession ratings are really good and that indeed being able to see the triangles in-game is very nice. I must also admit that since my post, my team is actually playing a lot better and the F9 contributes more.There are however some games where they seem unable to produce chances and my main threat is from long shots outside the area. What also happens a lot, at least at FM 2017, is that you can have possession, make chances and still lose the match (of course I do not blame the tactic for this). I try that all my forwards (F9) have or can learn your PPMs (comes deep to get the ball, plays one twos, tries killer balls often) but sometimes the player just can’t be taught.There is a link for the article about the roles and the ppm’s but it is not working right now, maybe it is not yet fully updated.Also something I ve been meaning to ask you. With the current Barcelona attacking set up (Messi Neymar Suarez) would you still use Messi as F9 or you ‘d give Suarez a go and drop messi at IF (R)?Again I want to thank you for your time, your work and the hours spent to create these tactics and articles. As a fan of Guardiola and the tiki taka style I always use your tactics no matter which club i choose to manage.
So a big thanks and keep up the good work.P.S. Thanks a lot for the new routines and the player filter! Hi,thanks a lot for your reply.I mostly use the 2-3-2-3 default version of the tactic and sometimes the 2-3-5 one all updated for the 17.3 patch. I must say that the possession ratings are really good and that indeed being able to see the triangles in-game is very nice. I must also admit that since my post, my team is actually playing a lot better and the F9 contributes more.There are however some games where they seem unable to produce chances and my main threat is from long shots outside the area.
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What also happens a lot, at least at FM 2017, is that you can have possession, make chances and still lose the match (of course I do not blame the tactic for this). I try that all my forwards (F9) have or can learn your PPMs (comes deep to get the ball, plays one twos, tries killer balls often) but sometimes the player just can’t be taught.There is a link for the article about the roles and the ppms but it is not working right now, maybe it is not yet fully updated.Again I want to thank you for your time, your work and the hours spent to create these tactics and articles. As a fan of Guardiola and the tiki taka style I always use your tactics no matter which club i choose to manage. So a big thanks and keep up the good work.P.S. Thanks a lot for the new routines and the player filter!
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Hi Vader, sorry for the late reply, but have had some problems with comments and the notification of new comments.To respond to your questions I have to admit that there are a few issues I’m not able to work no matter what I do. One thing is the amount of long shots the F9 or the IF takes as it seems they don’t have the patience enough to wait for an better opportunity or play those necessary through balls to a better positioned player. The high amount of long shots happens even with PI shoot less often.Another issue is the amount of crosses from wingbacks – since I’d rather not like them to cross from byline only if there are no other options.I’ve been working on a fix for both issues which I feel makes the tactic a bit better. Just want to see if I get time to get an additional testing done before it goes public.For the correct link to the player roles please visit:But this article is not yet updated fully.In regard to how Suarez and Messi plays at the moment I feel CF-S is most proper for Suarez and Messi as IF-S and then you can let them switch positions and instruct Messi to play as a trequartista once he fills the role of Suarez – at least that is how I set it up in Football Manager in November / December.
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I started a new save as the manager of Barcelona. Till now I must say that L.Suarez as a F9 is a major dissapointment but again first season is always harder.After some experiments I tried, it seems the tactic rolls better with some minor tweaks:1) Change the CWB (R) duty from (S) to (A)2) Change the IF (L) duty from (S) to (A)3) Change default mentality from Standard to Control and the team shape from Flexible to Fluid/Very Fluid.4) Replace the current opposition instructions with the older ones. Pic includedThese instructions not only do help a lot to keep the ball, thus increasing possession ratings, they also make the players try to get the ball back ASAP when they lose it. As a result, the opposite creative players mc/mcl/mcr/dm etc will have less space and time to make a through ball that will lead to a goal.PS: Also, my overall defence is better when I switched my 2 CD to BPD (D).
But that may be random.Julien Pires says.