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When you are facing opponents playing narrow formations you can try moving the DLP into the midfield to push your central midfielders wider and adding overlap instructions to push your wingbacks even further forward to try and threaten them more in the wide areas. Changing the midfield roles to Mezzala and/or Carrileiro will push them even wider, but it might not be needed.
If you are worried about leaving an empty space in midfield you can raise your defensive line or ask your defenders to step up more.
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I agree with the suggestion of 'Shoots with Power', instinctively going for power over placement makes sense for a player lacking composure.
I would lean towards 'Likes to Round Keeper' in cases where a fast and agile player has poor finishing but good composure, that is not the case here.
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@Cleon If you were to adapt the 4-3-3 into a 4-4-2 diamond what roles would you go for with the front three? Would you keep the false nine?
My thinking leans toward either AM-s behind a DLF-s and AF-a or a SS-a behind two support strikers but I see potential issues with both, so I'm curious to hear how you would do it.
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2 hours ago, bitzu_rock said:
Yes it is.
I mean, is the player you have as your short option being marked by an opposition player when you take corners?
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11 hours ago, awesomeveekthor said:
The PF-a has move into channels hardcoded into his player instructions. And that is something i dont.
Yes, but player traits will override role instructions.
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Have you considered simply using a PF-a with the "does not move into channels" trait instead?
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And if you did set the instruction, is your short option being marked?
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On 09/09/2022 at 20:14, 04texag said:
I figured this would be a good place to ask for some player advice. It's time to start working on some PPMs for one of my younger AMC guys. He either plays some as a Mezzala in a 433 or as an AMC in a 4231. Due to his lower vision, I often don't have him play as the team's playmaker, he's more of a space explorer, runner, kind of a hybrid creator/scorer. What PPMs would you go for?
Good technique, flair and decisions makes me think "tries tricks" might be a good choice, it's fun to watch and you'll get to see a few more creative passes and finishes. He has the speed, agility and composure for "likes to round keeper" as well in case he often finds himself in one-on-ones, would compensate for his relatively low finishing as well.
Might consider "uses outside of foot" too, especially if his left foot isn't strong.
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On 11/09/2022 at 03:30, De Nile said:
Likes ball played into feet (lacks aerial prowess)
That will also reduce the likelihood of balls being played into space for that player to run on to, perhaps more so than reducing aerial balls.. Not a trait I'd want in a player like that, it is more one for playmakers on support duty or slow poachers.
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2 hours ago, Johnny Ace said:
Nice set up here from the AI
AI playing strikerless? That's a first!
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Managed to find the kind of player I wanted for my enganche experiment:
It was a bit challenging to find a player with the right attributes who didn't have any traits that encourage dribbling more or undesirable movement, but I did find Palacios at Basel and for €14m I have to say he was something of a bargain.
The formation he'll be playing in:
With AM's on either side, an AF up front and two wingbacks coming up the flanks he should have plenty of options when he gets the ball, but I am sure I will have to tweak my TIs to make sure that he does get the ball.
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1 hour ago, bosque said:
I'm not sure if balance is highlighted as a key attribute for the Enganche but if it was based on Riquelme then he needs loads of Balance and Flair because that were basically his best strenghts (apart from his vision and set pieces). It was impossible to steal him the ball because he was very good at covering it. And I think that translates very well with a high attribute of Balance. As he is a static player and a playmaker, he will attract players (creating space for attackers) so he needs to have attributes to not lose the ball under pressure.
It used to be, but for some reason it has switched over to highlighting agility this year. I'm not sure if that is an intentional change or a bug.
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Speaking of getting certain roles to work, does anyone have any experience with the enganche? Been playing with a narrow 4-2-3-1 for a few days and only realised just now that it might be the perfect time to try out that role, should I manage to find a suitable player.
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So recently I've been playing a couple of saves in Germany and been doing pretty well, but I've begun to dread every match against Marco Rose's Borussia Dortmund and their star-studded 4-3-1-2 formation.
I've yet to take a point against them after about a dozen meetings and most matches end in a humiliating loss which I suppose is fair enough, they have some really good players and Haaland is basically a cheat-code but I would like to at least have a fighting chance in these matches. Dortmund do drop points and are yet to win any titles in either of my saves, so they can be defeated, I am just at a loss at how I would go about it. What do you think?
I assume some kind of soak and hit style system based on a 5-3-2 DM or 4-5-1 2 DM formation would be a good starting point? Or is it better to aim towards exploiting their open flanks with a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1?
For reference this is how they lined up in my most recent 5-0 defeat against them:
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How do I reset all views in the editor? I've encountered a bug where using a modified view causes the entire view to disappear and there is nothing to click on to restore it back.
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Having a pretty extraordinary start in Serie A, at the World Cup break we are 1st and undefeated:
And we are dominating possession:
Our schedule has been relatively easy and doubt this will last, but I'm enjoying it nonetheless!
Parma are not a typical Serie B squad, but I still expected to battle against relegation in my first Serie A season, I definitely was not expecting a title challenge!
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1 hour ago, Braincomplexa said:
I'm confused of the difference between injury suspectibility vs overall injury risk in the medical centre. What's more important for injuries?
There are multiple factors, you have injury proneness, recurring injuries, training load, match load and fatigue, the overall risk is an estimation of all factors combined.
From my experience the most important factor is recurring injuries (don't sign anyone who has torn his ACL before), then injury proneness and then the rest.
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On 12/01/2022 at 11:48, Crazy_Ivan said:
I think I have nailed the sweet spot between possession and still being able to have attacking intent. I have tested this over two saves, the other being Celta Vigo with very impressive results. There are instructions on individual players to make it not too staid a tactic otherwise your team are just passing it around for the sake of it. Nearly all the players on both saves are technically proficient intelligent players which allows us to throttle most teams possession-wise. Can't state enough again how key the Wingbacks are in this.
This intrigued me since it is so different from how I usually play, so I decided to give it a go with Parma, a club with a squad well-suited to a 4-3-3 and a perfect regista in Franco Vazquez.
I played roughly half the season with your set-up unchanged (aside from using my own set-pieces) and while we were winning matches and dominating the possession I felt we were a bit stale in attack, I'd say about 80% of our goals came from either a cross from a wingback into the centre of the area headed in by Bobby English, a set-piece, or a long-shot, while the two inverted wingers were passengers contributing very little in terms of goals, assists or chance creation. With that in mind I made a few tweaks to try and add some more variety into our attack:
Overloading the left flank to create space for Dennis Man on the right, giving us more options in the box and more routes towards good goalscoring opportunities than just crosses. The AP-s will tuck in centrally and look for the overlapping wingback, a through-ball to the striker. switching the play to the other flank or recycling the ball back into midfield. Since the WB-a running to the byline and crossing towards the centre was creating many goals I tried to encourage him to do it more often, hence the overlap instruction. The WB-s has individual instructions to cross more often and cross from byline, so he mostly behaves the same as a WB-a with the ball.
We won the league. dominated the possession metrics and after the tweaks we played some really good, creative football with a good variation of goals (ignore the goals against, Buffon at 44 is leakier than Swiss cheese). Dennis Man went from having scored a single goal in the first ~20 matches playing as an IW-s before the tweak to scoring 10 goals in the final 18 matches as a raumdeuter.
My regista had a season for the ages:
His stats are inflated as he was our primary set-piece taker, but with 5 non-penalty goals, about a half-dozen non-set-piece assists, countless key passes and a 92% pass completion percentage while playing in the DM slot is a fantastic season by any measure. Vazquez was born to play regista! Who is Andrea Pirlo anyway?
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I still have very fond memories of my Sampdoria save on FM07 fifteen years later, so that would be my answer.
Built a dominant side and won the Champions League playing a 4-4-2 with Alexandre Pato and Rolando Bianchi up front, Martin Petrov bombing down the left flank, Angelo Palombo bossing the midfield and Fabricio Coloccini and Micah Richards forming a legendary centre back pairing. Easily the best save I ever had.
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With no work permit rules stopping them the Premier League clubs pretty much hoover up every single half-talented young player in South America to park them in their reserves and destroy their careers, as that is neither realistic nor fun I've been trying to find a way to prevent it from happening.
In previous years I've always used the nation transfer preferences to limit unrealistic AI transfer behaviour, but this year they don't seem to do anything. I've tried setting both national and continental limits on transfers to England yet by the end of January 2022 Facundo Farias always finds himself in an English reserve team, regardless of me having set the transfer activity to "none".
Also open to suggestions on alternative measures to stop them from behaving that way. Giving all the Premier League clubs transfer bans works, but given how drastically that changes the game-world I'd like to avoid it if I can.
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5 hours ago, Mutumba said:
Well, since they are fairly well known players I thought ppl could still give me some advice. Im guessing some of you have come across these players before...
They are pretty equal in terms om personality. Zielinski a bit more controversy, Olmo slightly more profesional and ambitious.
Wagedemands are pretty similar
Versatility is something ive already touched upon
Does the scouting reports say anything about their Consistency? Of one of them is very consistent or consistent and the other isn't then you know which one to choose.
If there is no difference there I'd go with Olmo since he is younger.
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6 hours ago, Luizinho said:
Plenty of other variables:
Personality
Suitability to your tactic
Determination
Wage
Versatility
Dynamics
You forgot the most important one, Consistency.
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AM-a.
He has the physical, mental and technical ability to do whatever he wants to, just let him do it. No point with burdening him with any player instructions.
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I've never seen any difference between wingers playing in the midfield strata and the attacking midfield strata when it comes to movement with the ball or when your team is in possession, they dribble down to the byline and move in the same spaces regardless of starting position.
Where it does make a difference is in defending, the lower starting position gives a much better opportunity to be involved defensively.
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Um, why does my tactic work?
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The BWM on defend duty holds position, not as much as an Anchor or DLP-d would, but it doesn't headlessly chase around looking for tackles. It's on support duty where you get that kind of behaviour.