Mst82

This is always a good laugh, isn't it? When the AI walks through your press and tight defence to score immediately after you've grafted to take the lead. Mint.

I loved it at first, seeing the new positional stuff, but now 600 hours in I’m finding it absolutely horrendous. I’ve literally just lost a game 3-2 (usual AI comeback) where all goals were from throw ins and corners. It’s awful. There’s so much to fix, if they are even bothering. If not, I too am done with it until 25.

For the love of god please turn AI throw ins down. Or at least let us set up how to defend them It really does spoil the game. You can be 1-0 up and comfortable then from nowhere the AI gets a throw deep in your half and you know exactly what is coming. please sort it out SI

I used a 4-4-2 most of the time in my rebuilding Man United save, with Lorenzo Lucca scoring for fun as a target man, so it can be done. I’m in season 5 now and Lorenzo has moved on so sadly I can’t share in detail how I did it. However, it was a solid variation of the 4-4-2 wing play in built tactic. In trickier games I abandoned the 4-4-2 though for an extra centre mid, away to top sides for example. So don’t use it constantly. Mix and match, mix and match.

I don’t think context is always required, there is some generic advice available. I would say replay the game over and over to understand how the mechanics work. Keep your current system and keep slightly tweaking and see how it affects things. I would never use a positive mentality if you’re getting swamped by the press, and make sure you’ve got a high def line or you will get penned in. Try to outnumber the oppo in midfield so you’ve always got a spare man to pass to - however, make sure the roles are right - you don’t want too many players on attacking duties in centre mid or too far away from everyone else. I use an anchor, DLP and CM in a 4-3-3 in such games for example. With my wide players the attacking threat. Try a BPD on cover as he drops a bit deeper and can find a bit of space Try playing with a balanced or cautious mentality. Try playing with a target man on direct passing. I don’t think there is one easy answer. Suck and see would be my advice - it’s very rare I use anyone’s tactics on here as every team is different and every game is different. It’s an old cliche on here but don’t put round pegs in square holes. Play to your strengths Your in game tweaks are more important than how you start the game, in the more recent FM’s, in my opinion. So adapt to how the game is unfolding. Watch full games.

I have no idea what tic tac toe is. How do you know what a good teamwork stat is, in tic tac toes?

That doesn’t answer the question though does it?

Yep I avoid gegenpress variations like the plague, but fair play to the lad if he’s enjoying it 👍🏼

Say I’m managing a lower league team where the player ratings are low by nature. What is then considered a high teamwork rating? If my highest teamwork player is 12 and the rest are at 8, what does that mean for a tactic? Will they all do what they want? On the flip side, what is considered a high teamwork rating in a top side? Will Roony Bardgjhi do as he is told with a teamwork rating of 13 when everyone else might be at 15+? I find it all so subjective and ambiguous personally.

Wow really? In that case, great work SI 😂

I‘m in season 5 and have just started a ONE MONTH international break from September to October. The fixtures are getting worse as the seasons go by! I do not have any mods or add ons that can affect fixtures.

Wide freekick instructions: Short Near post Reality: every wide freekick goes to the back post

And didn’t get a trophy presentation. This was a well known issue in previous versions so I’m gutted it hasn’t been sorted out 😞. There was a guard of honour before the game immediately after the match where I won the league, which was a nice touch, but no trophy presentation.

Some small improvement? Are you playing the same game as me? It’s the only reason I’m looking past all of the bugs and non-ME flaws, it’s absolutely beautiful, in my opinion.

Did you get a response to this from anyone?

I have no mods that can affect fixtures, no new leagues or anything like added on, yet January in season 3 looks like this - a single Premier League game :

I had a go at it myself with my PSG experimental save - and although it requires some fine tuning I managed to get both wing backs on the scoresheet in the same game - with one of them getting an assist too.

Much appreciated 🙏🏼

Has anyone had a go at recreating their set up? I noticed Grimaldo and Frimpong have great numbers this season from wing-back, and would love to see the experts on here try to recreate it!

The ME is a thing of beauty by the way. Very well done to all involved for making it what it is. Genuinely, it's beautiful. Some of the goals I am scoring, the movement. Simply stunning.

I’m afraid all you’ll get here is “tactics” and “game management” - oh and what are your players concentration and stamina ratings.

Man United, 2nd season after selling Bruno and Casemiro to Saudi I had £127m sitting in my transfer pot. December rolls around and Glazer tells me they’re reducing it…….. to £725k Seems realistic to me 👍🏼

My players have just started having a meltdown over a teamtalk from last season

This has completely changed the dynamic of my current tactic. So simple and obvious really but something I hadn’t tried. The full backs cutting in frees up my wingers brilliantly. Cheers man 👍🏼

Is the match engine geared around these now? Every AI team seems to play with them now and I’m struggling like hell to keep clean sheets when I play with traditional full backs/ wing backs - there just seems to be too much space for the AI to exploit, in front of the back 4/ the gaps between centre backs and full backs.