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Some players may make you their favour personal.

But does it increase their match/ training performances?

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What does criticise recent form do besides upping morale

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Possibly a few things to keep an eye on - maybe more if you confirm your Mentality and Team Shape. Your right side is aggressive and will be exploitable when you attacks break down. The use of an attacking CM also weakens you quite a bit in the middle - a 4-2-3-1 tends to function better with a little more caution exercised in the MC slots. Make sure you watch a full match and focus on those areas to see how players position themselves, and how much ground they have to make up when defending.

Possibly a few things to keep an eye on - maybe more if you confirm your Mentality and Team Shape. Your right side is aggressive and will be exploitable when you attacks break down. The use of an attacking CM also weakens you quite a bit in the middle - a 4-2-3-1 tends to function better with a little more caution exercised in the MC slots. Make sure you watch a full match and focus on those areas to see how players position themselves, and how much ground they have to make up when defending.

Thank you for the quick reply.

I use a standard mentality with a Flexible Team Shape.

Along with the Work Ball Into Box, Play Narrower, Exploit the Right Flank, and Much Higher Defensive Line, along with Lower Tempo. No player instructions(actually i gave my false 9 'Hold up Ball')

My objective is for the right flank to be my main creative point. The Raumdeuter on the left was meant to be a sort of direct counterbalance to the otherwise slow-build up play Im generally going for.

Having watched a full match, I did pick up a few things.

1) The actions of my CM(A) are unpredictable. Sometimes he would drop deep to get the ball, pass it forward, and jog at a snails pace, keeping well behind the play. Other times he would stay in central midfield until the ball circulated upfield, and make forward runs at top speed( he has 19 pace). Occasionally when the ball was crossed into the box he'd be right in there competing for it. Other times he'd stay in the semi-circle waiting for a rebound. I must confess I have trouble deciding which role he is better suited performing, though with an Attack Duty I would have thought he'd get forward at every opportunity. Am i better served changing him to a CM support ? or making him a Box-to-box midfielder ? I do like his forward runs on attack duty, but i guess defensive solidity is important too.

2) My WB(S) stays level with my CM(D) when we are on the offensive. Way behind the play, he generally offers little as either a passing option and is still too deep to make early crosses. His main function as i saw it in that game was helping snuff out counter attacks.

3) My Shadow Striker and False 9 seem to get in each other's way a lot. Secondly my False 9 hardly ever holds up the ball(even with the personal instruction to do so). When he attempts to do so he tries to run out wide leading to an instant tackle and turnover in possession. Is the f9 incapable of doing this? Or is there better support duty forward role that works as well with a shadow striker?

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Balance wise, what appears to be the problem(s) with this formation ?

--------------------------Sweeper Keeper(S)------------------------

-------------------CD(D)----------------CD(D)--------------------

----CWB(A)----------------------------------------------WB(S)--

------------------CM(A)---------------CM(D)---------------------

----AP(S)-----------------------SS(A)--------------------RMD(A)-

-------------------------------F9(S)------------------------------

I would appreciate any tips to minimise some of its glaring weaknesses. Thanks in advance.