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I'm managing Sunderland in League One. No signings and many tactics used to try to get the best from my players. It's not a bad tactic, but I think that I can take more from my wingers, who doesn't seem to play well like pure wingers as they lack speed. Also, I guess that speed is something that my entire team don't have and I really wanted to make a better defensive block (play with a 4-4-2, 4-4-1-1, 4-1-4-1...). What do you guys think?

I just feel like getting more and more frustrated. The only teams I've had succes with until now are the big teams like Manchester City, where it seems like every tactic work. As soon as i go outside the top teams, im really struggeling. I am therefore seeking some advice for my Bayern Leverkusen tactic. This is what i currently looks like. I have tried a few different roles, mentality etc. I just cant seem to create any real chances. My idea was to play out of defense, and let Havertz find the offensive players with his passing and vision, when they are making the runs. I have some PIs: Shoot less often on my FBs AML: Mark tighter, Close down more, sit narrower AML: Mark tighter, close down more I wanted to let my front 3 close down a bit more, but still keep the structure of the rest of the team when we are out of possesion. Hope some of you clever guys in here can help me a bit

Someone can suggest an effective tactic for small teams in minor leagues. Nothing too complicated and something easy to implement as the technical level is very low. A 442 would be ideal

After press spacebar and open inbox sometimes i see view without circle symbolizing footballer. I discover that view is when in tactic window we have no ticked "knowledge of role", 2 options next to this option occasion that view in inbox is not good

I select suggested squad and in tactic panel i have other circle than in inbox message. Compare:

I can shout to player who has red card in match like to other player (same texts) shout red card.mp4

Look at video: I think that this error appeared just as I started losing matches, because before I had only one hint for each option, and now I have 2-3 issues to choose from. I want to tell about higher tempo and option tell about shoots crosses tell about many shoots etc pre-match briefing.mp4

Welcome to Santos Futebol Clube Santos Futebol Clube have today announced the departure of Argentinian coach Jorge Sampaoli. Sampaoli steps down due to personal matters and has recommended his fellow country man Santiago Martin takes his place. The unknown Santiago Martin has never held a managerial position before but has worked for Sampaoli for the last few years. Like Sampaoli, Martin is a Bielsa disciple and will no doubt seek to implement the formers philosophy into the club for the upcoming season. There is much intrigue around the club about just how the season will now unfold under Santiago Martin. MORE TO FOLLOW !

Hi managers Lately i have been trying out something new, and to a sort of mixed success. I played Bari up to Serie A using this tactic 50 % of the time, but there are some aspects i'm struggling with. The idea is to use a Regista to run the middle of the park completely ( Dahoud is not my main man for this job, but international duty and Tonali still being very young forced this for now ) Next to him i want to run a halfback, that will sneak in between the central defenders and that way widen up the back, allowing my wingbacks to play very aggressively and further up the pitch. Defensively i have found this work incredible, and my issues are mainly going forward. I've asked my inside forwards to sit narrower and let wingbacks fill in on the outside. My main concerns are what role to play my CM as and what type of football to play. CM Attacking doesn't feel optimal, but i can't play a mezzala without causing assymetry. I suppose i could put the Mezzala in front of the half back maybe? Also. What kind of playstyle would benefit my Regista? A possession based slow football, or vertical tiki taka for quick flaired space-balls? My main issue with the slow pace i am trying now with Dortmund is that my wingers are rapid, absolutely rapid. And i feel like the low pace could hold them back from doing what they do best? Any input would be appreciated, i really want to make this regista/half back combination work but going forward i feel like something is missing, the movement in midfield is a bit clumsy and might prohibit my regista a little bit. Last of all, are there any individual trais i could benefit from running this tactic for a long time? Mainly for my 3 midfielders. Cheers for reading, lets theorycraft!

Hey guys I am currently managing Tottenham Hotspurs and this is my first season after leaving Barnsley. After every season I decide to make a tactic of my own but I never gets success and when I upload it here, there are just too many flaws to be corrected so I download a new tactic and stick with it for the whole season wishing that maybe, in the next season I would be using a tactic of my own but that season never came. This pre-season too I have designed a tactic and I need critical analysis from you guys. I have played just a single match (Spurs U23s vs Bolton U23s) with it and the results were satisfying though the opponent was too weak to consider the tactic a success. We had 66% possession, 29 shots total, 10 on target while opponents managed just 3 shots, one being on target. We made 11 fouls while opponents made 29 fouls. We scored two goals and conceded zero. I have also included a Raumdeuter for just one reason and that is, Thomas Muller has just got out of contract and you know what that means for a newbie like me, get him in so I wanted to make sure the tactic is working before spending any money on him as he's 34 but has 150 CA (according to FM RTE). So ending the talking part, I present to you, The Assymetrical, 2-3-2-3 (or whatsoever).

So what I've noticed is that teams that consider themselves superior to you always change their mentality to Attacking when they are behind. I just had a game where this happened again. Their Formation name changes to "Attacking" and they clearly play at least on "Fluid", throwing almost everything into the attack and turning the game around. For example, from 1-0 to 1-3. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at reacting to this. I always feel like being stubborn because I'm thinking that if I was able to score goals, I should just keep trying to score. I don't want to turtle up the minute I scored one goal. So how do you guys react when the AI does that? Also, extra question: I promoted to Premier League with Nottingham Forest exceeding expectations by far, then got relegated back to the Championship (yeah I'm new, don't laugh, I actually almost avoided relegation ). Why does the media etc estimate me to only finish mid-table in the Championship? (I have 4 Premier League-level players on the team)

Hello guys, I have some mysterious affection with the Target Man role and now I want to create a tactic with a more specialised version of Target Man, the Wide Target Man. I am uploading the tactic because the tactic is, for some reason or the other, not working well enough. I lost a friendly match against Everton 1-2. The first match of Premier Division against West Ham ended in a 1-4 lost. Second match was against Liecester city which ended disastrously in a 0-5 lost. I am ready to change the tactic completely but the only thing I want is a Wide Target Man. Open to critics and suggestions.

Hello, guys, I've just started a new career with West Bromwich Albion and I'm trying to fit a tactic to the team.I created a 4-1-2-2-3 tactic with the aim of creating posession based tactic (2 wingbacks, one BPD and one CD, a deep lying playmaker, an advanced playmaker, a mezzala, two inside forwards and a F9) but it didn't work.I watched my first match and realized that my team can't advance in the attack, they are playing at their own field, passing, dribbling, but they can't open up the game.After so many passing, they play a long ball, if one of inside forwards catch the ball, he just dribbles towards the middle and makes some clueless things, like shooting from a very long range.My striker, literally, doesn't do anything.First match was 0-0, but in the second match, somehow I managed to win 3-1.If I upload my game, or the screenshot of my team, could you suggest something to add or change? I want to create possesion based tactic, but not exactly Tiki-Taka.

??? : Hey you! yeah you. You can be Klopp. Just follow me. t this tactic will make you Klopp. just use it. I got 7 trophies all season with this tactic. _vs 나폴리 전방압박 장면.mp4 this is how to make gegenpressing play _vs 나폴리 빌드업 장면.mp4 and it show how to build up ??? : And now it's your turn. 4-3-3 Klopp's Liverpool gegenpressing by Zacshin(Never loose).fmf

442 UNIVERSAL!! NEW UPDATED TACTIC 442 Burg & V3.32 WOLFSBURG TEST!!! BUNDESLIGA CHAMPIONS 1ST SEASON!!! 14PTS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 2ND PLACE!!! (PROJECTED TO FINISHED 8TH) HOME: 442 Burg.fmf AWAY: 442 Burg Away.fmf MY TEAM ALSO DOMINATED OTHERS GETTING 40+ SHOTS!!! TEAM COHESION IMPORTANT!!! (FOR ANY TACTIC BELOW TOO): STICK TO TRAINING SCHEDULES BELOW TO ACHIEVE THAT HOME V3.32 v3 19.32.fmf AWAY V3.32 v3.32 away.fmf BRIGHTON TEST!!! FINISHED 2ND AND WON FA CUP (PROJECTED TO FINISH 17TH) HAVING FAST CBS ARE IMPORTANT!!! RESULTS BEFORE SIGNING PHIL JONES RESULTS AFTER SIGNING PHIL JONES 442 FOR TOP TEAMS!!! CHELSEA TEST!!! WON TREBLE FIRST SEASON!!! 102 POINTS WINGERS ARE IMPORTANT!!!! 442 top home.fmf 442 top away.fmf 442 top top away.fmf (NOT IMPORTANT, SIMILAR TO AWAY, JUST AN ALTERNATIVE)  credit to Knapp, TFF & Mr U Rosler PREVIOUS VERSION Home v3!! Away v3!! v3 19.3.fmf v3 19.3 AWAY.fmf BOURNEMOUTH TEST! 1ST SEASON 95PTS 120GLS (PROJECTED TO FINISH 14TH) ALSO WON THE CARLING CUP 2ND SEASON WON THE TREBLE!!! WON CL!!!! TRAINING UPDATED!!! TRAINING IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!! (special thanks to Mr U Rosler) what you knew before was all rubbish!! pre set schedules are not good. Playing loads of friendlies are NOT good despite what you heard/read! having a long pre-season is also a BIG myth!!! - Only do 4 weeks pre season with only 4 friendlies! i recommend you to have your friendlies only on saturday! YOUTH WILL DEVELOP MASSIVELY ALSO IF YOU GIVE THEM GAME TIME ALSO! - for 4 weeks in pre season use "Pre Season" schedule Pre-Season.fmf - when you have one game in a week: EARLY SEASON TO GET GOOD COHESION: 1 match week.fmf TACTICAL: 1 match tactical.fmf ATTACK: 1 match attack.fmf DEFENCE: 1 match defence.fmf - when you have two games in a week: EARLY SEASON TO GET GOOD COHESION: 2 match week.fmf TACTICAL: 2 match tactical.fmf ATTACK: 2 match attack.fmf DEFENCE: 2 match defence.fmf - During international break use: EARLY SEASON TO GET GOOD COHESION: 0 match week.fmf OTHER: no match defence.fmf INDIVIDUAL TRAINING/YOUTH TRAINING: HINTS AND TIPS Which tactic to use and when?My Guidelines for Bournemouth test: Home against poor opp - Home tactic Home against mid table - Home tactic Home against top 4 - Away tactic Away against poor opp - Home tactic Away against mid table - Home tactic (if you are on form) Away tactic (if you are off form or if opp are in excellent form) away against top 7 - Away tactic NEW! FILTER ADDED! 442 Universal.fmf - ML take left corner, MR take right corner - DL take left throw-in, DR take right throw-in - try not to make more than 2/3 signings - players develop with match time!! so stick with schedule! - FOR TOUGH AWAY GAMES, I PLAYED MY LB AT LM! this helps be more solid so wise to train some your full backs as wingers! FMT USERS!!!!!!!! screenshots of individual instructions GK: LB: RB: CBs: WGs: B2B: DLP S(home) D(away): STs: SET PIECES: Att Throw Left:Att Throw Right: Att Corner Left: Att Corner Right:

I am currently managing Harrogate Town in FM19 in the Vanarama National League. I have tried multiple tactics which includes my own 'Wings Of The Pheonix' tactic which had great results with Barcelona and even with Harrogate in Pre-Season but as soon as the season started, the team stopped scoring goals and the match went like there was no goal in the first half and then in the second half my team scores a goal and then either the opponents score a goal or my team doesn't score any more goal and it is never certain if my team will win the match or not. Now I know that it can happen in 2 to 3 matches but it has happened in each and every of the 16 games played so far irrespective of the opponent be it the worst team (York) or the best (Crewe). After this happened for a couple of matches, I decided to use a downloaded tactic by Total Football Fan (TFF) which was the 'TFF Conqueror' and still got the same results. I don't know if it some bug or is it my team. I must tell you that my team dominates every game as it takes 17 shots on avg. Per match and most of them being on target with my own tactic and even with the downloaded tactic however the strikers just don't seem to be hitting the shots towards goal or something. Any Hints or help will be appreciated. Thanks.

The Barcelona games are always a joy to watch (despite defeated in ECC this season), and there are many posts in the forum already, talking about Barcelona tactic, just here to mention a few: https://community.sigames.com/topic/219564-the-barcelona-style-my-interpretation/; https://community.sigames.com/topic/421360-terminate-fm18-handbook-on-pep-guardiolas-barcelona-433-and-the-tactic-pack/?tab=comments#comment-11091496 https://community.sigames.com/topic/397755-peps-barcelona-very-fluid/?tab=comments#comment-10696523 While by watching some match vedios of Barcelona on internet, I recently got some new ideas and realize that people may make some mistakes when interprate Barcelona tactic in FM, this inspired me to write this article to show my idea, and always welcom for suggestions from you guys. Ok, let's start with some real matches, for example the 14/15 semi-final in between Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Camp Nou. In this match, Barca play a rugular 4-3-3 as they most times did. I was curious to see how they build up the game, and find something interesting to me: First, they do play short passes but, they do not play slow. On the contrary, they play very fast, both by passing immediately instead of keeping the ball on feet and wait, and by dribbling to create space. So I think some traditional idea about tiki-taka: short passing, slow down and restrict from dribbling, may be wrong, at least not for Barca. So what is the problem? No. 1, play short passing with slow tempo and less dribbling may make it "too slow", so it is hard to create score chances; No. 2, try to play "safer" doesn't mean it is really safer, because when you focus too much on keeping the ball on feet, stand there and wait, it is easiar for the defending side to rob the ball, or to organize their marking system, if that, you may also found it hard to find free passing space for your teammates. In both way, you may loss the ball. So in my idea, people should pay attention on bulding up the balance between keeping the ball and attacking, too much on keeping possession TIs, for example the combination of short passing, dribbling less and low tempo, may be counterproductive to the possession, especially when against sides with high pressing urgency. Second, they do use high line in defence, but not with high pressing urgency. Their mid-fielders and defenfers place high up the pitch, but mainly to restrict space with a compact defending shape, they rarely take risk to leave their defending shape to press. Their foreward three may pressing more urgent occiasionally, and only when they succeed to force the ball possessor to stop play (may be back to Barca goal) , the other Barca players will pressing up to sorround and cut off connect between the ball possessor and his teammates. There may be no proper TI in the exist game engine to simulate this kind of temporal pressing, but I will attribute the defending style mentioned before as: high defensive and engage line+normal pressing+marking+tackling harder. In my opinion, risky defending TI doesn't mean you can rob the ball back better. The problem is, too risky defending setting, such as a combanation of high line and pressing, may make you vulnerable to fast side, as they may beat your defence by dribbling and fast passing. Also, pressing may fail when you can not afford enough players compared to the opposite team in particular zones. In both ways, you may be in risk and it is no help to win back possession. Third, proper roles combination will help to keep possession. The most important role I think is the DM player (Busquets). He never dribbling, roamming or play risky passes, but simply to deliver ball to forward midfield teammates. When Barce in possession, he always give a recycling choice for the team, and when lost possession, he will protect the CDs well, so I think the best interpratation in FM is the Anchor man. Another interesting role in Barca tactic is the DR/DL players. Instead of crossing from byline, their prior job is to support the midfield to cycling/recycling the ball, they sit narrower, and mostly narrower than the wingers. Beside the foreward three, at leat one CM and one fullback (usually Alba on the left) will try to get into the opposite zone to score, this should also be considered when build up the tactic. So, as analyzed before, the final screenshot of the tactic is as below. The mentality can be changed when facing different opponents, also depend on home/away. Some PIs I will give is: Pressing more for CF player (maybe also godd choice for wingers); Marking tighter for WB and IWB; and sit narrower for WB. When facing teams with high pressing/risky mentality, I may also change the SK into defending role and use low risky PI, just to avoid stupid mistakes. The foreward five may be changed for special purpose, for example, to the below two screenshots. It is helpful to strengthen the possession and attacking risk from the middle pitch, or to restrict the opponent buld up play, especially when they have one or two DMs (In that case, if we don't place enough players in that area, they may just passing short and waste time if they play with low mentality). But be carefull if the opponent play with high tempo and combanation with wings/fullbacks, they may overload your WB/IWB to make risk, so consider the first tactic. For now, I have test only about 10 matches without OI, against both top and weak opponents, with different tactic styles. The result show that with this system, the average possession is between 60%-65%, and shooting chances between 15-30, at the same time, defence is solid too. So I think it works well, but still need to test more. Most importantly, it looks really like how Barcelona play in real life, so this is exciting! So guys, welcome to try it and wait for your suggestions to further improve it.

I’ve been trying to get the most out of my APs for a long time, but can’t figure out how. I want to play a 4231 with Arsenal. What tactics could I use?

I play a 4231 with Arsenal, and my strikers won’t score. It doesn’t matter what club I use, I can’t get them to score. This is my tactic, what can I do to make them score? I have Haland, Geubells, Dolberg and Aubumeyang. This shows my best XI and my team, which isn’t my best XI, just a team I have set out currently.

I don’t think they are problems as such, but I don’t know how they can be fixed. How do I fix the last of crossing completion, winning headers, and lack of dribbles? Here is my tactic with a team that isn’t my best XI.

Something we see more and more in modern day football is teams having different formations depending on whether they are attacking or defending. Many teams playing with a 4-3-3 in attack defends with a 4-man midfield. The teams playing with a 3-man defense often revert to a 5-man defense when defending. I can see how this can be exploited for example playing 3-4-3 in attack and 5-5-0 in defense, but I think this could be interesting nonetheless. An alternative to full formations could be a PI that tells the player to go from a winger/wide midfielder to a full back in defense. I think this would be really interesting and would reflect better how teams are set up nowadays. What do you guys think.

HI I was just wondering... you set player instruction to like every player to play to there strengths.. I've never really bothered. But for those of you that do. Do you set instructions for EVERY player or just certain ones ? & as for the opsing team do you set certain extrusion your self or leave it to a good assistant manager ? Thanks guys!

Hi All Why can I not find ANY youtube videos about the use of 4-3-1-2 in FM2019? Is this formation impossible to succeed with in FM2019? I can't find any evidence of other people using this formation successfully in FM2019 anywhere. Would be great to use it as a way to get both Aubameyanga nd Lacazette in the same team as well as Ozil for Arsenal...

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A possibility to take off an injured player is nice. However, there are some flaws: to take off injured player user need to find mouse cursor and click a pop-up button in less than 4 seconds (that's a pop-up message time limit for some reason) and it's not possible to take the player off later if you missed that pop-up; there is no prompt to change tactics immediately after taking a player off, it can be irritating if you taking off a striker but also can be critical if it's center-back. What I propose: if a user clicked a "Take Off" pop-up button, open tactics screen immediately so tactic can be adjusted; introduce the possibility to take off injured/exhausted players from tactics screen at any time. It'll greatly improve manager's QOL.