[The Rise of Diego Simeone 4-4-2]

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Narrow: Midfield and defence will sit narrow and compress the space the opposition has to work with

I was under the impression that this instruction affected your team when in possession only. 

[Arsene Wenger's Invincibles]

If you want to emulate them, you should open a new thread, so we don't spoil Ö-zil's masterpiece here. They were far more complex than this short post could explain.

I tried this before, fell on it's arse

http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/434294-Has-anyone-taken-a-punt-at-recreating-Jupp-Heynckes-2012-13-Bayern

[Arsene Wenger's Invincibles]

Meant to say this earlier but your explanation of the 'fluid' setting is my favourite takeaway from this thread. The team shapes are just so jumbled and hard to understand, but you actually were able to lay it out in a way that hit it home for me. As someone who loves counterattacking football I don't know why I would ever pick another team shape now. Unless I really wanted to press as well then I might bump it up to very fluid.

[Arsene Wenger's Invincibles]

Uh-mazing. Knocked it outta the park again dude. If you ever do Leicester or Atleti i'll be forever in love

[Arrigo Sacchi's 4-4-2 (Very Fluid)]

If I was minted and irresponsible with money I would pay you to translate various footballing styles into FM because **** me are you better at it than I am

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

is there any way to see a 'shots on target faced' stat for your team compared to the rest of the league?

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

bit of a pointless question but I'm curious so indulge me: do position opposition instructions overrule player opposition instructions? or vice versa?

[[FM16][SKIN] HelveticaLite 2016 (A light skin w/ Instant Result)]

I just checked quickly my 2015 file and compared it to the 2016 one. It seems that the code has changed. I'll see tonight if i can do something.

any progress on this?

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

No you can't really tell how you will play once the competitive games starts after preseason. Use it to get tactic familiarity all fluid and to get every single player match fit etc.

Mkay, many thanks. Was freaking out a bit how I was getting dicked on randomly.

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

Is it worrying to play really badly in pre season? Cause I am almost 100% sure it's not my tactics.

[The Art of Counter Attacking]

Strangely enough what this thread taught me is how important match sharpness/fitness is. Good thing to bear in mind if your approach isn't working early on in the season.

[The Art of Counter Attacking]

I mean the formation that comes up when you click '4-2-3-1'. Because thats the one most people would click.

[The Art of Counter Attacking]

Then take it up with the developer? Nothing I can do to fix this so not sure why you're bringing this up? Plus if you already knew why did you ask the question?

Meant that I already knew the 'formation screen is the defensive' shape bit. Not really sure why I brought it up, just one of those things about the game that befuddles me and it just weirds me out some times how people act like this stuff is normal. Sorry for taking it out on your thread

[The Art of Counter Attacking]

Well any that already has many players in the oppositions half like a 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 aren't really going to have players in the deep positions like highlighted above are they? Those shapes are better suited for controlling games and utilising possession rather than counter attacking. Remember the shape you see on the screen is your defensive shape.

Well yes and I already knew this but it does seem that, for people first coming to the game for the first, quite a few aspects of this are poorly explained. I mean, most teams in the PL use a 4-2-3-1 so your average PL fan playing FM16 as their first FM is probably going to select that formation, even if they wanted to go counter. I don't think many would go "well, actually I need to choose a 4-4-1-1". No one really logics things out that way.

[The Art of Counter Attacking]

Cheers for this post. Answers a fair few questions I have, even though some of the answers are a bit weird to me (that's not your fault though).

So, are there formations that just flat-out wont work properly with the counter setting? Like 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3, 4-4-1-1 etc

[[FM16][SKIN] HelveticaLite 2016 (A light skin w/ Instant Result)]

From here: http://www.passion4fm.com/football-manager-2015-skin-helvetica-lite-rebooted/

"Reveals AI Teams Player roles and Duty Selection in the Next opposition Report Tab"

[[FM16][SKIN] HelveticaLite 2016 (A light skin w/ Instant Result)]

On last year's Helvetica you could see the AI's player roles. Any chance of that this year?

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

What role would use to partner a CM(d) in a 4-4-1-1 that offers another solid defensive base but also a bit more going forward than the CM(d)? CM(s)? DLP(d)/(s)?

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

Sorry if this isn't the place for this sort of question but I didn't feel like it warrants it's own thread just yet:

Has anyone taken a real concerted shot at replicating Jupp Heynckes approach in his 2012-13 treble-winning season with Bayern? I've searched this forum (and various others) and all the previous threads on the subject that I can find just sort of tail off before the discussion really gets going. If other people are interested in the idea we could start a new thread and get the discussion going anew.