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But off the ball isnt just about running behind. Its about making himself available for a ball. Think about a playmaker with good off the ball and you can understand what I mean. (Classic pirlo) Also vision isnt just about seeing a runner. Its about seeing situation which could be very various. Like seeing a TF which is available between opposition’s def-strata and midfield-strata (messi as f9). Atleast thats what my opinion, and the way how I think about attributes. About risk situation. I just mean NCB’s PI. I guess Its what it is. Either very def mentality and balanced mentality. And your defenders probably play with the ball to your TF sometimes and your TF sometimes won that ball. I am just speaking about regularity and some specific situation like being pressing.

PF is an excellent choice for pressing sytsems. Actually, thats the reason it exists 😅 I kinda found lone DLF a liitle deeper then I like in a high press. Chosing player with high aggression and workrate is critical. Being more aggresive with your approach could help you. (Maybe increasing pressing intensity, def-line, LOE and/or even mentality) Being more narrow could help you with counter-press when you lose the ball. Using OI to specific player of their back and/or PI to your front line could also help with that. (Trying to press to specific player and/or pressing them with specific player, marking their pivot eg.)

His last stream on twitch was about OI. Watching it right now 😂

TF is a ball magnet, but I think this is not the case for every situation. Somebody correct me if am mistaken here, but I think the attributes like composure, vision, decisions are more important for your situation here. If he has composure to be calm there, vision to see TF and decision to make TF as a choice, then he could pass the ball to the TF. Though he needs other abilities to be able to pass is correctly but its another thing. Also, you told him to take lower risk and to be more direct. Like you said, clearing the ball the flanks is a safer option then to pass it to the marked TF, and he chose safer option there. He was doing what he told when clearing the ball. What are your TF’s attributes such as anticipation, off the ball? I think they are also related to the situation.

But roles effect eachother’s play. Like being a passing option. When somebody in your def-line has recieved the ball, he generally have only 3-4 short passing option which include DLP on midfield strata. So if opposition press high with 4 people, then your player actually has 0 option to short pass and hoofing the ball. When Guardiola at Barca, he subs a forward with defence against high pressing Real Madrid, to set up play out from back. When you instruct to pass it shorter with this setup, it would kinda counteractive thing against yourself. Add to this play with balanced mentality which is about relative low risk.

Also, using a PF(d) could help you with that, especially with 442 formation.

I think their midfielder recieve pass easyly and then pass the ball their forward quickly. If their strikers quick then your defenders, defending them could be very hard. May sounds wierd but You could try increasing def-line to achieve more compactness on the middle of the pitch. Try normal def-line or higher with low line of engagement. I would try prevent the opposing midfielder from passing the ball.

Hi there. Really good work here. Thank for enjoyable read. I tend to use 3-2 and 2-3 set-ups depending to opposition and/or my central forward. If opposition use 3 midfielder, I generally use 3-2 set-up. With my other 2 midfielder, ı gain numeraical advantages 3v4 in this scenario. On the other hand when oppositons use 4 midfielder, I need 5 midfielder for numerical advantage. Then I use 2-3 for this scenario unless they have 2 forward player. If theh use 2 forward, Then I use 3-2 setup and I tend to use support forward duty for numarical advantage on the middle of the pitch. Either way, I am lookin for taking midfield control with 4man against 3 or 5man against 4. Keep it up, this is a wonderful thread.

I tend to use low-risk mentality when I would like to play counter-attack tactic. Both approach can work well though. But I dont like to take more risk than needed. More risky passes, more dribbling, more tackle eg. arent my thing when using this particular style. Opposite, I like to wait for very good opportunities to try them. Less is more to me 🤓

Hi rashidi, I was reading this fantastic thread again and I am kinda confuse here. Do you reduce or increase the width when opposition sit deep? You was saying reduce it first, then increase it. Or did I miss something? Also, why did you chose fairly wide TI with counter-press in city replication? Isn’t it wide enough with control mentality? I mean, Isn’t it more difficult to counter-press with wider width on control mentality as you said in liverpool part.

I dont have any information about that. But low vision may result in clearing the ball. For ex: Your GK may not see the midfielder who is free for a pass. High vision is a useful feature for establishing plays from the back.

I usually try to attack each of 5 channels with one player. For ex; wb(a)- if(s)- pf(a)- am(s) with roam- w(s/a). You can also use the same channel with players who are close to each other like mez/iw- w/wb to overload the opposition. That way you can create 2v1 situation.

They seems pretty same. But their starting position may change according to PF’s player instruction which one is press much more. PF could track back much more than AF.

I use them on DM strata with higher DL instruction and theyve been doing OK

Keep in your mind, opposition instructions may effect your tactic in an undesirable way. Maybe, you dont want opposition wingers cut inside with ball. But if you show them on opposite foot, they can cut inside. Maybe you dont want your CD to leave his position. Pressing instruction may cause him to leave his position. Personaly, I ignore my assistant manager advices unless they makes sense to me.

TF(a) 👍

Agree with you. I was in same situation like OP recently. I changed his individual training. He was not unhappy after that. Then, I realise he was unhappy again which is not about training but his low adaptability. And probably low professionalism.

Thats what Im asking. Thanks.

Any tips? Or maybe I couldnt express my self very well?

Hi everyone. I have a confusion about opposition instractions. Lets say we are against 4231dm. And, I would like press high to them. Opposition’s RB, left CB, LB and right DM tight marked. Also, GK and right CB triggered press and maybe hard tackled. Now the question here. When opposition’s left DM recieve the ball, I would like him to pass the ball opposition left winger. In an other saying, I dont want him to turn his left. (because he can pass the ball more easily to number 10 and number 9 with this particular way) On the contrary, I want him to turn his right. Then his only easy pass option will be left winger. (Dont forget LB was tightly marked.) So, which foot should I show on to him? Show on left foot or show on right foot?

Fantastic guiede as always Last night, I tried Libero role and I saw some lovely positional play from my Libero(sup). Yasin, who was our IFB(d), plays firts time with L(s), who was in space which created by MEZ(s). Then L(s) decided to dribble with ball and pass it to our left winger who was running behind the defence. For this movement, we have PF(a), Mez(s) and righ winger for occupying the opposition player. If there was no player positioning himself high of the pitch like mez(s), I guess opposition would press more aggressively to our L(s). Because of the presence of Mez(s), opposition had to decide what to do. Likewas PF(a)'s movement for our left winger. Then Ali Akman, who was playing on the left winger, meet the ball and he had space and time for a nice shoot. Lovely movement, nice goal from guys.