Bastardised Catenaccio

[geordiep]

Hi,

I was wondering if I could get some of you to critique my new tactic.

The Shape (VERY loosely based off of the Catenaccio):

Player instructions:

-----Mentality----Closing------Passing----Creative Freedom----Marking----Run With Ball
GK----07 -------- 05 --------- 06 ------------- 04 ------------ Z ---------- R
CBL---08 -------- 09 --------- 05 ------------- 04 ------------ Z ---------- R
CBR---08 -------- 07 --------- 08 ------------- 07 ------------ Z ---------- R
DRC---10 -------- 09 --------- 11 ------------- 06 ------------ Z ---------- M
DML---11 -------- 15 --------- 06 ------------- 04 ------------ Z ---------- R
WBL---13 -------- 08 --------- 08 ------------- 08 ------------ Z ---------- O
MCR---12 -------- 13 --------- 13 ------------- 14 ------------ Z ---------- M
AMR---12 -------- 15 --------- 09 ------------- 08 ------------ M ---------- M
AMC---14 -------- 15 --------- 05 ------------- 15 ------------ M ---------- R
STC---15 -------- 15 --------- 04 ------------- 09 ------------ Z ---------- M
LFC----14 -------- 15 --------- 04 ------------- 08 ------------ M ---------- O
------Long Shots --- Through Ball------Cross Ball----Cross From----Cross Aim----Wide Play
GK--------R ---------------- R ------------- R ----------- Deep ----- Mixed ----- Normal
CBL-------R ---------------- R ------------- R ----------- Deep ----- Mixed ----- Normal
CBR-------R ---------------- R ------------- R ----------- Deep ----- Mixed ----- Normal
DRC-------R ---------------- R ------------- M ----------- Mixed ----- Mixed ----- Normal
DML-------M ---------------- R ------------- R ----------- Deep ----- Mixed ----- Normal
WBL-------R ---------------- M ------------- O ----------- Mixed ----- Near ----- Hug
MCR-------M ---------------- O ------------- M ----------- Mixed ----- Mixed ----- Normal
AMR-------R ---------------- M ------------- O ----------- Byline ----- Far ------- Inside
AMC-------M ---------------- O ------------- M ----------- Mixed ----- Mixed ----- Channels
STC-------M ---------------- R ------------- R ----------- Mixed ----- Mixed ----- Normal
LFC-------R ---------------- M ------------- M ----------- Byline ----- Mixed ----- Hug

Free Roles = STC, AMC

Team Instructions:

Defensive Line 14
Width 15
Tempo 16
Time Wasting 14
Focus Pass Left
Counter No
Offside Trap No
Key:
Z = Zonal
R = Rarely
M = Mixed
O = Often

http://www.2shared.com/file/jj0A-TyF/Catenaccio_Left_V11.html

[geordiep]

Merged with post 1

[Blaze95]

what results do you have?

[geordiep]

At work now so will get them posted tonight.

[Anaconda Vice]

Im going to test this, will report back later

[geordiep]

Unfortuntly my laptop battery ranout before windows went into hibernation - meaning that I lost my current save and have had to play the preseason matches again.

Anyway, the results are a bit meh

I started fiddling after the Bolton match and never seemed to recover. Then my number 1 GK got injured and my backup keeper is not very good.

The changes I have made is that I find that the STL and WBL are often occupying the same area of the pitch, which I found wasteful so I have tweaked them to try to avoid that.

Also I tried to tighten up the defence by stopping the RB getting forward as much but it seems to have backfired.

There are a few other small tweaks as well.

http://www.2shared.com/file/HOiYmD-s/Catenaccio_Left_V13.html

I'm still not happy with it so expect further changes.