[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

How would it work if my striker had both “comes deep to get ball” and “tries to beat offside trap” PPMs? 

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I'm going to sign Felice D'amico who has 9 finishing in my game, at the age of 18. Realistically, how much can I improve this? I am playing strikerless so I need all my attacking mids to take responsibility for scoring goals. 

[Tactical Challenges #3: Strikerless]

Season 2 was superb. Predicted to finish 8th, we defied expectations and finished 3rd behind Man United and Chelsea.

The tactic worked great and how I'd hoped. Atsu was a constant threat in behind and managed 19 assists (Highest in the league). Dani Olmo was voted PFA player and young player of the year - he managed to create 79 chances (highest in the league) and got 17 goals too. Zappacosta was a machine down the right and had the highest average distance covered.

As a team we scored the 3rd most goals (70) and had the third best defence (32). The football was fast paced and exciting. Our average possession was 47.5%. We relied on our defence to be solid, win the ball back and get it forward quickly to the attackers. We created 203 chances, the highest in the league by 55 - despite having the lowest passes completed in the league (14153).  32 of our goals came from crosses and 28 from through balls. Our chance breakdown is as follows: 

I believe I could challenge for the title next season given I invest in a clinical forward player to finish off the chances we create. This may require me moving Olmo to Treq where I feel he may be more suited anyway, in order to have a shadow striker with better finishing.

[Tactical Challenges #3: Strikerless]

Season 2 update

After a disappointing end to the previous season, I decided to chop and change the tactic. I ended up going for this:

The ideas behind it were:

• Atsu was my stand out last year so I wanted to continue to use his pace in behind and get crosses into the box.
• My AM and AMR were not linking up well. I wanted more of a goal threat so opted for a shadow striker to use the space created by my Treq. 
• I used an attacking right wing back to offer attacking support and get crosses in from the right.
• A carrilero to help cover the lateral space as well as helping to get the ball to the attacking players.

Luckily for me Newcastle were taken over going into the end of the season and I was given a sizeable transfer kitty to spend. I really needed to add quality throughout the whole team so I made the following signings for the following roles

• Dani Olmo - 7m - Shadow Striker
• Orbelin Pineda - 8.5m - Utility midfielder capable of playing Mez, Car, Treq, SS reasonably well
• Davide Zappacosta - 10m - WB
• Fred - 8.5m - Mez/ Car
• Bastos - 20m - CB
• Thomas Strakosha - 17.5m - GK

Offloaded 25m worth of dead wood too.

My first choice team going into the season looked like this:

 

[Tactical Challenges #3: Strikerless]

4th at Christmas, ended up 8th. Total collapse second half of the season. My AMC and AMR were consistently awful. Atsu got the majority of goals and assists. Does anybody have any role suggestions for the AMC, AMR and RCM?

[Tactical Challenges #3: Strikerless]

I have been very successful previously in FM18 with a strikerless 4123 with Barca B. I decided to start a save with Newcastle and implement the same shape but change almost everything else.

 

I really like what I've seen from the first few games. The tactic so far seems very decent despite the relatively poor squad that newcastle have. Hopefully the form continues! Atsu and Ritchie have been much better than I expected.

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Yeah Thomas, don't be ungrateful