Match Preperation Fail

And yet again I start a match having completely forgotten to change my Match Preperation option from Team Blend

* Face-palm *

I leave it on team blend for the whole season, every season :o

apart from pre season, i always leave mine in attacking movement.

in pre season i leave it on team blend

I must admit I cant see any difference no matter what it is set to so I completely ignore it now..

I changed it a lot in the first few seasons, but now that I have my own team and tactics working well it's left on team blend.

I must admit I cant see any difference no matter what it is set to so I completely ignore it now..

It's a proof that it needs to be improved a lot in order to be usefull.

I find that it does work, however I'm not sure how influencial it is.

For example, attacking set pieces seems to make me score more set pieces. 1 every game or 2 rather than 1 every 3 games or so.

Defensive positioning is a must if you have a good side but are playing a better side.

Usually I leave it on 1 thing all season, depending on where my team needs help.

I frequently find that Attacking Movement helps my strikers and midfield keep possession and finish. Defensive Position can help sometimes, but I'm not sure I'd know when to use Attacking / Defending Set Pieces? If I think I can win a game I'll go for Attacking Movement, if I dont think I can win I'll go for Defensive Position and hope for a draw.

I wish the AssMan would remind me I'd forgotten to change this before the match though!

This happens to me alot aswell and the majority of matches I forget to prepare for I end up dropping points.

Was conceding from set pieces every game so switched to defending set pieces. Didn't make a blind bit of difference really.

I'm confused as to what it is supposed to do.

I have mine on defensive movement for 90% of the games. It works pretty well for me

Sometimes I switch to attacking movement, against a much weaker side, and also go attacking or control in the strategy. It usually doesn't end well, I don't break them down and get hurt on the counter, even though I'm the overwhelming favourite. That may simply be that my tactical style is a better fit with a defensive or counter-attacking strategy, and defensive movement helps that more.

It'd be nice if there was more of an explicit indicator as to what match preparation actually did.

I have to agree there's little information on match preparation, and the articles I've read about it are not consistent.

I just leave it on team blend for most season as well, don't really see much influence.

I find it fairly influential in my game. I usually can't score unless it's been on Attack for a good few days, and I see a noticeable difference against a strong team when I stick it on Defensive Positioning. I almost think at times it is *too* important when it comes to your performances.