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How can I get my players to play more passes sideways or backwards? I'm trying to play with possession and patience but my players tries to pass it forward way too much. I play on "counter" with "pass shorter" and "less risky passes" and there are usually simple passing options for the players.

It should be possible as the AI pass it around like crazy all the time getting 100+ passes for several players.

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How do you win/retain possession versus teams that press really high? Any general tips?

In such situations, my players just clears it away or get the ball taken from them. I struggle to figure out how to counter this.

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How do you beat really defensive teams? Almost everyone seem to play really defensively against me and I'm finding it completely impossible to break them down. This usually results in 0-1 losses after they score on the counter. It's really frustrating.

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Any tips for playing with some of the more defensive mentalities? Every time I try to play a more patient game using counter or defensive I struggle to keep possession and simply invite the other team to play. The difference in quality between the teams doesn't show at all at these times as my players doesn't impose themselves on the match.

I'm usually much more successful playing a high-risk pressing game using control or attacking.

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Is there really no way to view the assistant's feedback before the match begins like in older versions? That my team looked overconfident during warm-up is of less use once I've already given my team talk.

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How big difference does an attribute 'point' make? I've always found the attributes pretty hard grasp in FM and this year it seems much more important with the increased difficulty.

How big would the difference be between 18 and 16 in passing for example? Is the difference very noticeable or just minor with a very small impact on the pitch?

Probably a very difficult question to answer though.

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The AI often struggles to get teams like Manchester City and Liverpool into the top 6, so I don't think there's really much to learn from observing their tactics. In any case, you can look at an AI manager's profile to get a sense of the formation, mentality, defensive line and passing instructions they tend to use as a baseline, but the AI also makes changes based on circumstance and the quality of the opposition. That being the case, you're better off taking a minute or two at the start of each match to note how the opposition is playing in terms of positioning, passing and the depth of their defensive line.

While that's true, the big ai teams rarely gets absolutely smashed like I do frequently.

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Is there any way to view the tactical instructions the ai use? I can't manage to create a tactic that is even close to consistent, watching how the ai sets up things would be very beneficial if it's possible in some way.

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The AI doesn't counter your tactics.

Then I have understood wrong. Seems to be many who think they do, is that simply your reputation increasing and the opposing teams playing more defensively as a result?

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I've read that the ai learn to counter your tactics much more on this version than previously but how does that work?

Do the ai "forget" about your tactics after you haven't used them for awhile or will they have counters to almost all ways of playing once you've played for a really long time?