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JEinchy last won the day on March 4 2019

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  1. My two cents on the tactic: Low block/High defensive line is asking for trouble. You're inviting teams up the pitch while leaving space in behind. By the time your players engage, the opposition will have played a pass into the space, and you'll spend more time chasing back towards your own goal than attacking. If the goal is to get the ball to the forwards quickly, you should first identify where you want to win the ball as this will define where your attacking transition will start. For example, you can drop the CMs to DM, then use a combination of OIs and PIs to funnel the opposition into the middle where those DMs will snap and win the ball back. DMs/CMs work a bit differently this year. You'll notice most AI tactics using double DMs when they used to use CMs. That's because they push up higher now and act more like pivots. You can easily play a 4-4-2 DM, which would help you defend that space, AND you can use a more aggresive role in the centre. In general, your role choice, while simple, is too conservative. Your relying a lot on the forwards getting onto longer passes and holding it up because the FBs and WMs aren't going to bring the ball up that often. Good teams will pin you in.
  2. Aggressive attacking tactics have always done well on FM, but you can dominate on lower mentalities as well, ESPECIALLY this year. They've tweaked how mentalities work. Whereas before you had no reason to play on anything other than Positive, you can now play on Cautious/Defensive and still be attacking with the right roles roles/duties. Every new FM has a learning curve for me. What seems like a small change often proves important long term and requires subtle adjustments in approach year on year. Once I've come to grips with the ME, I feel in control of what my team is doing. There's an element of playing to the meta since it is just a game, at the end of the day, but every year it comes down to simple football logic. I'm playing as Braga right now. I started out using a high block 4231 but the performances were patchy and things just didn't seem right. Turns out a bunch of my attackers had low work rate, teamwork and bravery, so we simply could not maintain a high press, on top of low composure and decisioms, so we couldn't camp and keep the ball well. Switched to a mid block and everything clicked into place. It's not because mid blocks are meta or OP or any other gamey thing like that, but because it suited my team better. Now they're more solid and have space to attack during transition when they have fewer decisons to make. Once you've settled on an approach that works, it's then just about making small adjustments depending on game state. I look at those "magic" tactics and just think half of those instructions are unnecessary.
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