[ST partnerships]

Target man (s) - PS (a). Always, in any save with any team.

[Set Piece Instructions]

22 hours ago, davebrown90 said:

Firstly, I am new to the forums here, and I couldn't figure out the search properly, so apologies if this has already been discussed.

If you have a team where you rotate players frequently, and have the players with various attributes for different roles for set pieces. I would like to be able to assign roles for the attributes. For example, when designing my set pieces, I would set "best header of ball - Attack near post", "Second best header - Attack far post", "Player with best long shots - Lurk outside area". Each instruction for a set piece you could set these parameters and the players (or assistant) would then assign the player roles for each set piece automatically.

Another feature I would like is to add multiple set piece tactics, and you can assign them to different scenarios in the game, instead of having to go into tactics and changing the set pieces being used. For example, if there are 10 minutes left in a game and you are winning by 1 goal, the team will automatically adjust to your more defensive style of set piece. It would be more realistic (professional teams work on multiple set pieces during the week, then use them in games and the players make the decisions on when to use them). Especially when changing formations to chase a game, your target man of a striker ends up being on the halfway line for a corner in the last minute because of this. You can also then set things such as having the goalkeeper go forward for corners in the last couple of minutes if you need a goal

Can't upvote this enough.

[Why do presets have weird instructions?]

6 minutes ago, KI Heynckes said:

For example the Gegenpress one has pressing and tempo maxed out. If somebody would ask for help here and post such a tactic here people most certainly would jump at him and ask how you'd expect to be successful with that. So why do the presets give people the feeling that this is totally fine?

Presets are complete and utter garbage  just that, general ideas, they still need refinement. They are not plug and play tactics for us to win every match.

By the way, I never use presets.

[What do YOU do when your team's in poor form?!]

On 08/11/2019 at 14:15, Guerin said:

So I was top of the league, now I'm ten points adrift... I looked through the match stats of the last few games and I'm still creating chances and giving few away, but for some reason I just can't buy a win. The last game I had 4 clear cut opportunities and 6 half chances but lost 1-0 despite the opposition creating no chances. The game before that I was 1-0 up only for a poor set piece goal followed by a poor backpass leading to a 2-1 defeat. It just seems like there's nothing wrong with what's happening on the pitch, which is why I'm not inclined to change things, but I seriously need to get a win on the board or I'm out of the title for good (if not already.)

So, what do you do when your team's in poor form? 

Atm I'm just training attacking set-pieces in the hope of snatching a win...

FM is a good game but in last iterations has shown 2 (among others) weak points:

- Unrealistic streaks of wins/defeats

- 3 striker systems overpowered

Nothing has changed for fm20.

Now, you are doing nothing wrong, it's just a regression to the mean. Football is a sport where matches are won or lost due to fine margins. One lucky goal, a mistake, etc.. can turn a win to a loss. You were simply "too lucky" and now you are "too unlucky". Football is quite quite random, so are results.

Teams playing more defensively now against you also influences it but, unless terribly missmanaged, any team can go through defensive tactics.

At the end of the season you get the big picture, and you'll, more or less, be where your tactic and players deserve, according to their quality and your tactical ability. You are still overachieving, you should be happy.

This happens too in real life but FM allows exaggerated and unrealistic streaks of wins and defeats which makes users thing they are doing something wrong. There is nothing wrong, it's simply how football is represented in FM, which we'll all agree has room for improvement but still is at least decent.

[Wide playmaker broken?]

16 minutes ago, mc22 said:

To be fair, I am training palacios in this role in LM position and he’s been cutting inside a lot for me and floating centrally, so maybe it’s related to the player? 

 

43 minutes ago, domperignon said:

This is Soler

 

[Wide playmaker broken?]

Before I rise a bug... Has anyone checked if WP moves to more central positions in possession?

This is my tactic

 

This is how my wide playmaker Soler behaves:

 

 

A few minutes later

 

 

This is Soler