[How we're introducing women's football into Football Manager]

1 minute ago, -Jef- said:

We gonna act like male football matches are all full of excitement and prestige? Football as a game is void of excitement except 5-10 minutes per game. And female team sports are usually more technically and tactically sound. Just look at WNBA - it is much better product basketball wise. But because 99% of WNBA players don't dunk it's not exciting for the social media viewers.

 

Also, remove 30k people in the stands and put top 5 league football on regular pitch like they play in sunday league and is it really that much different?

In Golf or Tennis/Table Tennis as an amateur you can learn better from women cuz they don't rely on power as much as on technique and there's a reason women's tennis is the best women's sport, but I doubt you ever watched WNBA if you can say something like this. You don't watch local High School games as well and I can't blame you.

[Wide Midfielders - who do you convert?]

I mean of course you can go the Saul/Koke way or double stack Full Backs, but a more normal AML/AMR should be able to do good as well if they aren't extremely lazy.

[Schmidt's PSV against Galatasaray]

32 minutes ago, lfds89 said:

Just by looking into one game, I would say it's not easy to separate what's the model and what's the strategy... Still, I would say @TheGreatest reply is a good starting point. Let me just add:

Van Ginkel (MCR) as DLP-S so he doesn't fall behind the other CM;

Gotze as T-A as is role is primarily a creator. Regarding his position, you could probably have more than one tactic, one with him on the right (RST or RCAM) maybe on another role, then one on the left as T-A.

Intrigued about the wingers. Sometimes seems both are narrow, sometimes it seems the RW is closer to the line (it makes sense, since Gala has one player wide, so having W and FB very wide would create a 2v1 on the wing, or push one of the central midfielders outside and open up space inside). I would say to instruct the LW to play narrow if you have Gotze as LCAM/LST on T-A.

On the defensive side, seems quite strategic regarding Galatasaray's lack of width. To recreate on FM, my ideas are:

- Opposition FBs with no tight marking but close down

- Opposition CMs with tight marking and close down

- Starting on Positive/Attacking, LOE set to standard or even lower so they let the CBs have time on the ball and pass to FBs (here is the part you can't replicate on FM... because the trap means they don't press the CBs when they get the ball from the GK, but they press when it's a backwards pass)

However, if they were playing against a traditional 4-3-3, for instance, the opposition wingers would pin the FB not letting them press the opposition FB.

No offense and you are right on a lot of things, but I believe you try to be too detailed here, which won't translate into the engine of the game. I just played a game telling them to not press and tackle the CBs and tackle hard and press hard the FBs, what that does is that your Winger on that site will go hard at that guy (good) but it won't replicate the real life behavior, where everybody is drilled the entire week to go press as a unit whenever these triggers occur. What I didn't think about as much though is, that you can maybe play with the LOE during the game, like teams to in rl as well, press very high for 10 minutes, then put it to standard again etc., e.g. the 2:0 comes from them standing in 4-2-2-2 relatively passive only slowly running at their CB with the ball and then going hard on the midfielder after the pass.

The right side roles I have to agree, you can see Madueke going inside as well, in FM if you have a left foot like Madueke I'd guess he cuts in as a Winger naturally as well, I just don't like a combo like W(A) and WB(S) for example.

Van Ginkel imo should definitely be on D unless you play some Eredivisie team in a 4-1-4-1 on Defensive mentality.

Here you can see him drop very deep, as this attack progresses he stays this deep and even covers for Ramalho when he goes for a tackle about 10 seconds later. In FM terms it'll help to get stability as well.

As I said in the first post from my feeling I'd go for a Treq as well, but I guessed that Gotze in the game will have very bad attributes like work rate etc. and if you put in a lazy player into the Treq he won't do what he does here in rl. If you use a player who's willing to work there but able to provide creativity it could be the best role for him.

[Schmidt's PSV against Galatasaray]

I've read the article from TFA and watched some of the match (full match is on youtube), and thought of this.

You can see Madueke on the right hug the line quite a bit with Mwene standing narrower than him. First I wasn't convinced of making Max this aggressive but he's constantly making crazy runs, even though he rarely ends up in the last line as Wing Backs to in FM when you are camping in the opposition's half but the fact is, that PSV rarely does that anyway since they don't care losing the ball if they get a good press trigger anyway.

The Gotze role I'm quite unsure, you can see him standing right to Zahavi in a more classic 4-2-2-2 shape quite a bit so I thought of shifting him to the RAMC, but on the heat map shown in the TFA article he's mostly operating in the left half space so keeping him in the middle and let him make his decisions himself could be the best replication of that in FM.

I'd start by just using Attacking Mentality for quick transitions and the extremely urgent pressing with High/High lines you can obviously see here, was amazed seeing a Roger Schmidt team in full force again. Then use OIs to press the opponent's FBs and maybe if you want to prepare like that look for victims in their Centre Backs/Midfielders with bad composure, vision, passing to press as well. On attacking one less attacking width and to replicate the very narrow press force opposition outside. Then add TIs depending on the opponent and what you can see in the match engine.

[Terrible start with Argentina: help needed]

Is this a troll post? If not you'll need to learn the basics of FM first and the diamond isn't exactly an easy formation to begin with.

[Schmidt's PSV against Galatasaray]

I need to look into this deeper to be able to contribute to a replication but I wanted to ask why Gotze as SS? Schmidt is a 4-2-2-2 Red Bull dogmatic who now switched to this 4-2-3-1 to give Gotze a more central position playing to his strengths so I'd thought that it would be more like an AP or Treq role?

[FM21 - Total Football, A club dna project with positional play]

16 minutes ago, 04texag said:

I've been over this somewhere before. But for positional play, I need to control areas of the pitch, and the best way to stretch the defense is to have the center forward higher up the pitch to create space by pinning the defensive line as close to goal as possible. 

So when you are camping in the opponent's half he is still pinning back their line?

[FM21 - Total Football, A club dna project with positional play]

Really interested to know why you use AF in short passing system? It's a role I'd use when the underdog and I just wanna play long balls into space whenever I win the ball.