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Please what does PPM mean?

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That was enlightening. Thank you.

Apart from that you're setting up right; making the pitch smaller is good and zonal is fine (probably technically suits standing off more but a high press zonal system is perfectly fine, even in FM)...

So you suggest I man-mark instead?

Also also, unless you have the right players your front '4' wont do a massive amount defensively and the attacking FB's could get caught upfield, this potentially leaves you very stretched as midfielders try to cover wide. Your players could be haring around but getting nowhere close and then tiring and exacerbating the problem.

"...right players for the front 4..."; is that in respect to their stamina, work rate and team work or what do you have in mind as "the right players for the front 4"?

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I play 4-2-3-1 with 2 AP(Advanced playmakers on the left and right respectively) using FC Valencia. Also my tactics settings are:

Fluid

Control

Shorter

More Disciplined - Creativity

Press More

Default - Tackling

Zonal Marking

Drill crosses

Roaming(default)

Defensive Line - Push up (about 16 on a scale of 1 - 20)

Width - narrow (6 on same scale as above)

Tempo - slow (6)

Focus Passing Mixed

Counter No

Offside No

Goalkeeper - Sweeper GoalKeeper

Full Backs - Both FB Attack

CD - Both Stoppers

CM - DLP

CM - CM

AP - One Attack, the other support

Striker AF

With this in place I am having issues "effectively" closing teams down. When I play against others, I see how quickly they close my players down there by denying them space and time on the ball, but my players aren't that effective with the closing down and I find it irksome as players just seem to glide past my players with ease most times!

Also, my manager profile under "Pressing style" reads "Mixed" instead of "closing down", which further confirms my suspicion.

Am I doing something wrong? Have I failed to set something I should have? How do I set the pressing style to close down more effectively than they are doing now?