[[FM20][SKIN] Show your Skin and Inspire]

Hi I'm not sure where to ask I need a skin for FM20 that has nothing new from the original skin except large attribute analysis polygon (larger than original and not at the far right corner) . Is there a skin available that has this? Or is there a way I can do it myself?

[[FM17][SKIN] VITREX17 v2.0 (updated 1.1.2017)]

On 14/11/2016 at 17:33, DimitriFromParis said:

Vitrex17 1.0\setting\setting.xml file, line 601:

  <colour name="defender_line" red="255" green="186" blue="39" />

Change colour numbers.

 

Hi. Maybe a bit late to the party but I want to make the attribute analysis polygon larger. How do I do that?

[Cutbacks - How to do them?]

Getting my wingbacks on both side set to fewer risky passes has resulted in a lot of cutbacks. I usually play a one striker system and he isn't tall enough so it might be that the WBs don't see a clear crossing opportunity and look for cutbacks for the onrushing midfield players.

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29 minutes ago, Experienced Defender said:

Winger on support can also bi told (via PIs) to cross from byline. So what you need to do is use wingers with the opposite strong feet and tell them to cross from byline, I guess. Of course, whether and how often is that going to succeed also depends on opposition defenders (fullbacks). But given that defenders usually look to show wingers onto their weaker foot, especially if those are good at crossing, it should make it easier for your wingers to get to the byline. The quality of crosses is another story though.

That makes a lot of sense, I think the avoids using weaker foot would also be an important PPM here. I'm going to try this style of play and share my experience here.

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20 minutes ago, Experienced Defender said:

There are two more things when it comes to wingers and how they will play. First, it's important that a winger's stronger foot matches the flank where he's playing. And second, if opposition players (tipically fullbacks) show your wingers onto the foot opposite to their side of the pitch, then your wingers might be forced to run inside even if they don't want to. I sometimes have a similar problem with Townsend. I usually play him as IF on support in AMR position, but instead of cutting inside, I sometimes see him going wide simply because the opposition are showing him onto his right foot. 

 

That's an interesting point which brings me to another question. How do I set up my wingers in a completely different system, like Leicester City did in their title winning season? They set up Mahrez and Albrighton on the wings with their wrong foots, what this did was, allow the wingers to get to the byline, take the ball on their stronger foot, and turn and put in a banana cross, which was more difficult to deal with (James Milner's usually crosses like this). I hope you understand what I'm saying, Is this possible in the match engine, if so, how? 

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2 minutes ago, Experienced Defender said:

Well, if you play on such a low mentality as defensive or contain, then I fear the only way to get your wingers to run as wide as possible is to maximize Width in Team Instructions. And tell the fullbacks to sit narrower via their player instructions. Of course, your wingers' PPMs play a huge role. If they have a PPM "Cuts inside from wing(s)", then no instruction is going to help because PPMs tend to override both TIs and PIs.

 

I usually play LLM and most players don't have any PPMs,

I will definitely try playing wider with asking FBs to tuck inside, let's see how that goes. Thanks for your insight.

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22 minutes ago, Experienced Defender said:

It has nothing to do with mentality and shape. Your wingers will naturally tend to hug the touchline when playing in the winger role (unless you tell them to Roam From Position). As for CB and FB, do you want less space between them only when defending or at all times? Giving the fullbacks a defend duty or playing them in the Defensive Fullback role can help achieve this when defending. When attacking, you can either set Width to narrower or instruct the fullbacks to sit narrower when the team has the ball (or both).

Thanks for the reply. I understand what you're saying. I usually play with a defend or contain on very fluid, and see that my wingers on support duty in the AM strata stay close to the middle of the pitch, because these mentalities have very little width by default, maybe it's just my players and their terrible mental stats that's doing this. I want to defend compactly but in attack want my wingers to run wide and stretch the opposition defence.

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Hi. Simple question. What mentality/shape do I need if I want my defensive line to be compact, but my wingers to be wide.

 

Less space between my CB and FB (the channels) but my wingers to be hugging the touchline?