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Maximilian Beier can cover both of those positions well. He can be signed for a reasonable sum.

I type this on my cell phone so I can not provide a screenshot of my tactic. The player roles and formation are as follows: IWs. SSa. Ta. CMd. Wa. BWMs FBa. BPDd. BPDd. FBs. SKs The right back sits narrower and left centre back wider. In the offense the tactic transforms into a kind of 2-3-5 like most tactics do nowadays (5 advanced players). Obviously, I left a gap in AMCL spot so that my IW can cut inside there. Sometimes the left back also ends up there if he doesn't go down the outside. My team instructions are all about pressing high with minimal instructions how to play on the ball, and in the few games I used the tactic I was succesful. So please comment on the tactic if you have any advice or wish to try it out yourself.

I recommend Liam Delap.

Your central attackers are cut off from the deeper midfielders. There is something wrong with your setup. Nobody is using the space in front of the dm unless the am shifts left - I can't say since I have not played the new game yet with its improved positional play. But I would switch the dm to support and Ws to W (atk).

I watched the highlights against WH. The first goal is an exception to that rule as Zaniolo dribbles down the left wing and cuts it back for Watkins who assists Luiz. It shows variation in Villa's play, partly due to Zaniolo's footedness. So if you produced a mirrored version of your tactic you could have McGinn narrower as an IWs and Zaniolo as a regular WMa. But that would mess with the strikers' footedness and positions as the support role would be on the left. No longer could Diaby come central onto his stronger foot to shoot or serve Watkins.

Thanks for sharing, but I was asking about beverage's tactic. If McGinn goes narrow in his tactic, there is no width on the right side. On the other hand, McGinn is not a natural wide player and he is left footed.

Do you use any PIs on the players, especially MR and ML?

Thanks for replying. He looks better further forward even though he has been Lille's dlp in real life. Not that I have watched him play but he should have been made at least somewhat usable defensively.

Can someone post a screenshot of the player profile of Angel Gomes at Lille? Really curious to see his attributes.

If you need a player who can cover at DM, Scalvini. If you need a CB only, Silva - higher potential and good passer from the back.

Thanks, much appreciated, Mr causticgrip. Although I can now envisage the tactic working well even without the instructions.

Hi, very impressed with your tactic in terms of assortment of roles. Mind asking whether you use any player instructions?

Interesting. Did your IWB score or just assist, I would be curious to know? , I see your problem with the WBa, it is related to what De Nile reports about the two defending the same area, but perhaps it would have made it slightly better if you had tried a WB-s instead, creating more space in between the two. In my limited testing, I found that the two players on the flank combined ok as one would attack the inside when he could and the other more to the outside, supporting the IWB in attack, which still does not fix the defensive issue. Thank you for the warning. I see it as a problem, as well, that the IWB would not press high enough, leaving their fullback to pick apart my defence and my two players marking the same zone with nobody marking the zone higher up. Perhaps this is a risk worth taking though in order to utilise the IWB going forward.

Dear all, I wonder and do start a thread on the issue that is beginning to tickle my fancy. Wanting to incorporate in my tactic a winger that will cut inside and support and at the same time be an attacking threat I got the idea of putting an inverted attacking wingback in the WB/DM strata in front of an overlapping wingback in the full back/centre back strata. The setup is as follows (strikerless) ...........ssa........ta Wma bwms dlpd ...............................iwba Fbs ...cbd ....cbd..... wbs Team instructions boil down to high pressing instructions. I have only played a friendly game repeatedly so far and had decent results (the problem is more the lack of high pressing from the role rather than attacking contribution even though I played a wingback there so even the latter wasn't that great). What I would do when testing this concept more extensively is retrain an inverted winger to the wingback position rather than playing an orthodox wingback there. In short, does anyone think that this can work? I would test this tactical concept myself but I am interested if there is anyone on this message board who already has.