Motivation Against Small clubs

Second season, brought newcastle back to PL

Beat arsenal, man utd, chelsea, and everton, drew with liverpool

Then played stoke, hull, sunderland and wigan, i lost three and won one!

how do you make your team want to play smaller teams?

that is fm for you

u can motivate to win against big teams but nothing against small teams

jk try praising ur players in the media when they are in good form that motivates them to keep on playing good, or criticise them if theyre playing bad

That's one way. Try the "I expect a win" team talk.

Try the "I expect a win" team talk.

Usually works for me

Sometimes playing a few fringe players works for me better against the small teams, and as they are usually younger players they get the advantage of practice against teams that aren't too tough.

When a reporter asks pre-match do the "Won't be an easy match" one or "I just want a good performance".

You'll know you have it right when you click confirm and it talks about "played down talk of his side beating <opposing team>."

Never tell your team you expect awin.

Play some lesser players.

At half unless its about 4-0 say your dissapointed.

They're my tips they worked for me.

depends on the squad unity and personality and such but generally 'for the fans' is my best safeguard against complacency.

I have a similar problem with my Arsenal side - who on the day are pretty much unbeatable. Morale is high and the team all get along.

However when playing small teams either home or away, my players are always nervous or complacent (we're always heavy favourites). I'm not sure whats best to motivate them to perform against the 'lesser' teams