Some common myths and misconceptions relative to tactical creation in FM

[Experienced Defender]

- A player (especially forward) must be played on attack duty in order to be your top goal-scorer or at least to pose a serious and regular goal threat;

- The more attack duties you use, the more dangerous your team will be when attacking;

- The more defend duties you use, the more defensively solid you will be

- Team mentality defines your style of play;

- A lower team mentality (defensive or cautious) automatically makes you more solid defensively;

- If you want to play a defensive-minded style of football, you have to use a low-risk team mentality (cautious or defensive)

- Having a player on defend duty in front of your back-line should be enough to secure you against opposition counter-attacks, regardless of how others roles and duties and/or instructions are set up

- The main responsibility of a playmaker (role) is to provide direct goal assists and/or play killer through balls splitting opposition defenses

- In order to play a counter-attacking style of football, you should use the Cautious team mentality (because it's the "equivalent" of the former Counter mentality)

- In order for counter-attacks to happen during a match, you must use the Counter team instruction

- Team fluidity (label) in FM19/20 is the same thing that the team shape instruction was in earlier versions of FM

- A team or player instruction will (should) automatically make your players behave according to that instruction, even if (the rest of) your tactic is not conducive to such behavior (e.g. work ball into box will/should automatically prevent players from crossing and/or shooting from distance)

[Domus Clamantium]

To be fair, mentality does affect defensive line to the extent that each setting such as "Much Lower" increases with mentality. Eg: Much Lower on Attacking mentality is not the same as Much Lower on Defensive mentality.

And fluidity not being equal to shape is true but quantity of support duties still affects space between lines and speed of transitions and penetration/possession. What's not the same is the changes to creative freedom and positional movement - these are now defined by mentality and T/PIs, whereas before Shape had a direct effect on those things.

[Experienced Defender]

12 hours ago, Domus Clamantium said:

To be fair, mentality does affect defensive line to the extent that each setting such as "Much Lower" increases with mentality. Eg: Much Lower on Attacking mentality is not the same as Much Lower on Defensive mentality

Absolutely. But who said otherwise? 

 

12 hours ago, Domus Clamantium said:

And fluidity not being equal to shape is true but quantity of support duties still affects space between lines and speed of transitions and penetration/possession. What's not the same is the changes to creative freedom and positional movement - these are now defined by mentality and T/PIs, whereas before Shape had a direct effect on those things

Correct as well. But again, who claimed otherwise?

[Domus Clamantium]

9 hours ago, Experienced Defender said:

Absolutely. But who said otherwise? 

 

Correct as well. But again, who claimed otherwise?

i am not trying to argue. i just wanted to share

[Experienced Defender]

22 hours ago, Domus Clamantium said:

i am not trying to argue. i just wanted to share

Okay, I obviously misunderstood your comment. Sorry