[Caixa Futebol Academy: Youth Development & Adapting Tactics]

Recent gig over at The Athletic made me think of this thread. Doing a youth save in France in FM23 and this is still helpful. Take care everyone

 

https://theathletic.com/4197161/2023/02/15/benfica-academy-inside-joao-felix/?amp=1

[Caixa Futebol Academy: Youth Development & Adapting Tactics]

This is great for two reasons 1) I really like your content 2) I just started a similar project with Estudiantes with the long term goal of producing a player for the Argentina national team & (hopefully) a Ballon D'or winner. 

 

Will follow with great interest! Good luck

[Playing Style, Structure & a modern 4-1-4-1 (Very Fluid)]

Hello, 

Currently playing with Villarreal using the playing style provided in this thread as my main foundation, just some minor tweaks. Anyway, I just went up against legendary manager Marcelo Bielsa and his Sevilla at their home stadium. I knew he would try and close us down quite heavily, therefore I positioned new signing Hakim Ziyech in the pocket between the fullback & inside forward (just as above) as a wide playmaker & Rodri to keep track of Ganso.

3-0 up in halftime and with just 30 minutes left Sevilla falls apart completely. They can't get hold of Ziyech who operates perfectly in the pocket, cutting in using his left foot. They try and close us down even more aggressive with a very high defensive line. Simply put, they are trying to choke us. Trigueros & Soriano solves every question they ask and distributes the ball to Ziyech and gives him the time and space he needs to pick out his teammates. Moussa Dembele scores a hatrick in the last quarter of the game and we break all the records when it comes to goals in a single game, both for the club and the divison. It was absolutely lovely to see. The most satisfying fixture in Football Manager for me, no doubt. Bielsa in Sevilla was, of course, history after this. 

 

Just wanted to share this amazing fixture and thank you for all your threads in the forum @Ö-zil to the Arsenal!. Truly appreciated. I am having a really fun save at the moment, tweaking the tactic & building a squad to compete with the Spanish giants. All thanks to the tactic foundation you have provided. Thanks again!

[Playing Style, Structure & a modern 4-1-4-1 (Very Fluid)]

5 hours ago, Ö-zil to the Arsenal! said:

Anybody tried this out with an Inverted Wingback in the right-back spot, yet?

Unfortunately, I don't have the right player but I think the the Inverted Wingback should slot nicely into the space behind the MC(A) on the right hand side and - potentially - add a new dynamic in transition and attacking play.

I played around with it in some friendlies with good results. But too few games to come to any conclusion so far..

[Playing Style, Structure & a modern 4-1-4-1 (Very Fluid)]

First of all, thanks for yet another great thread. Amazing!

Prior to the third season at Swedish second division team Enskede, I implented this tactical thinking. The in-game betting companies were sure to have us relegated but half way in we are at the top of the league. Very happy about that. Also came second in the national cup (in Sweden, the cup is more of a pre-season tournament) eliminating 3 teams from the first division.

This is some of the adjustments I made, which I feel is interesting to discuss
- It is really hard to find strikers that can play Complete Forward at this level so I changed it to DLF-S, basically the same I guess...?
- Bumped the the DLP to the MC strata because I felt he was creating a gap between my CBs (and also because none of my MCs were capable of playing DMC).
- Trained my striker to play with his back towards to goal and the results have been amazing, he holds up the ball while wingers & central midfielders make forward runs.

We have a very limited budget (by far the lowest in the division) and I guess it is just a matter of time before bigger clubs will try and snatch my players but very excited to see how far we can take this.
I love how the team attacks and create chances, interesting to see a tactic that offer so much freedom to the players work at such a low level.

Thanks again!