damian2112

Dude, you're essentially playing 4-2-4 with 3 forwards, a Trequartista who doesn't track back or press, a BWM (steps out of position to press), Carrilero (Moves wider) - so essentialy you have no midfiled, combined with 2 Ball-playing defenders (which attempt risky passes, to whom, as you basically have no midfield)? I bet you also have trigger press more often and high/very hugh LOE. As CFuller said - it's your tactics.

Love how you are down 4-0 on the second screenshot, but you only conceded 3 shots on target However, I've tested this on FM23, haven't really done this on FM24 (but I assume the outcome will be the same), and I think the issue is the press conference/team talks before the game. If you mess them up, it really does not matter what you do tactic wise in the game. YMMV, and this is just my experience, but it is one of the reasons I never delegate the interactions to the assistants

I don't think CDkeys is 'shady'. I have bought from them FM15, FM17, FM19, FM23 and now FM24 and I have never had issues with any of them, although I don't recall if any of those were good for beta releases. But I can live without the 2 weeks extra (buggy) gameplay, when the price is ~20 EUR less (FM24 I got for 34.79 EUR, retail price is 53.99 EUR).

I like to have a good rotation option, so I rotate them when possible, in cup games or easier games I usually start my backup, unless the main goalkeeper is on a good form and I don't want to break it. Usually my backup keeper gets 10-12 games per season. On a side note has anyone seen a goalkeeper getting injured during a game? I think I've never seen one in my 25 years of playing the game since CM 97/98.

I feel that physios actually can help injured players recover faster than the initial prognosis, at least in my Juventus save with several world class physios I have seen them cutting sometimes a good week off the length of the injury. But I don't really know if this is the norm, and I also don't have the slightest idea if the sports scientists are actually doing any difference. But as another poster mentioned, after the winter patch I do get quite more injuries than normal, and I don't really think it's the high intensity tactics liable for this as most of the injuries are happening during training. I use to fill all possible training slots (maybe that has an effect after the patch), but I look for schedule combinations that do not go over 50% intensity for the day, and certainly no heavy physical training during the season.

As it is popular to say, it's your tactics Maybe you don't have enough good chances, having 4.89 xG from 33 shots isn't really good (and to mention, I do have the same issue from time to time, and I believe this is usually because of highly aggressive, high tempo styles like Gegenpress which I use as well most of the time). On a side GK topic, one thing I've never seen on FM is penalties made from goalkeepers rushing out, and consequently, yellow/red cards for GKs. It seems they're immune from this rather common situations.

Data Hub is one of my favorite parts of the game, for all the reasons that the OP stated... it makes preparation for the next game so much easier. Another thing I look into is the opposition manager traits, i.e. if he utilizes set pieces, that would make me change my training for the game to focus on defending set pieces. One thing I would like to improve is to be able to get the scout and analyst reports for the next opponent much earlier - I tend to do my training schedules for 2-3 weeks ahead, and if I am able to have the reports for the next (and the one after next) opponents, it would really help.

I haven't seen a direct free kick goal since the update... What are your observations? I'm into the 7th round in Italian Serie A, and there has been 1 direct free kick goal in 70 games. Prior to the patch I regularly scored direct free kicks, maybe 6-7 times per season (and also was having quite a lot scored against, too), and I haven't changed or sold my takers. Also, hitting the crossbar every game at least once (but more often 2+ times), seems a bit over the top, sometimes it feels the attacking plays have become so overpowered that the game artificially tones down the goals scored by making a lot of shots hit the bar. This also happens for the AI too - at least on the games I am watching.

Something is off with injuries I think. I've played half a season on the new patch, and it was OK-ish, nothing too bad. Starting a new season, 1 week of pre-season training, 2 friendlies and I now have 6 medium to major injuries, and all on important players/stars. I play with Daveincid's realism pack and the save was started prior to the last patch, previous 4-5 seasons I didn't have this issue, I mean I had the occasional major injury or couple of important players out for 4-6 weeks at any time, but now 6 in 1 week seems over the top. Could be just a bad string of luck, but it feels really bad.

I've used 4-1-3-1-1 version of 4-2-3-1 - with DMCR-MCL-AMC setup (usually, or inverted DMCL-MCR-AMC, depending on the stronger side of the opponent) in my Juventus save, can't really say it's better or worse for the AI as my main tactic is 4-3-3, both tactics using Gegenpress or Vertical Tiki-Taka, but that may be just because of the strength of the squad I've build as I've dominated 26/27 season with Serie A, Coppa Italia and CL wins, with just one loss during the season. Usually I use the asymmetric formation only when the analysts tell me that the opponent is vulnerable against 4-2-3-1, and I have way too many CM/AMC capable players, but not too many DMCs.

Well, I am on the other end of the spectrum. I've just won Serie A, Coppa Italia and CL with Juventus, boasting attendance of 98% stadium capacity (which is 41000), and 82000 people in the season ticket waiting list. The board refused to expand the stadium, "due to the current financial situation in the club", while 2 days later I've received the FFP message that I've made 317 million euro profit in the period (244 million just this season).