korzy

playing DM on max won't get him dragged out of position? leaving a huge gap in the centerfield?

Abaddon879

So from you have said, reducing the FB's mentality from Normal(10) to last notch Defensive(6) and also setting their TTB to rare would help secure my back line?

I have looked to reduce my mentalities to try and bring everyone closer together. I reduced FB , MC and the front men and I came up with this:

FB - Defensive(6)
DC - Defensive(5)
DMC - Normal(10)
MRC & MLC - Normal(10)
MC - Normal(12)
TS - Normal(13)
FS - Attacking(15)

Not sure, but I feel there may be too big a gap between DMC and my defence? I noticed however that in your reply to my original post you said that the MRC/MLC are well positioned, as is the DMC? I was thinking that simply from a numbers POV it looks a bit unbalanced? Should I drop the DMC to a lower setting to try and have the whole pitch covered? Perhaps drop him down to Normal(8), that way it keeps no more than 2 difference between any link players mentalities (if you get what I mean, I think that may even be RoT? Haven't ever really looked into that much)

rashidi1

yeah having the DM on 8 is a good idea..he will stay quite anchored at the back and will only move up when good chances come his way

rashidi1

You;re using FM2007, please...I'm trying to do this for 08, this is going to confuse people. The way to play is slightly different.

kelvin1234

rashidi1.... is this good enough or maybe need some tweaking?

towerofpower

I had actually the mentality for my defence as you suggested for water-tight defence, and it's been working great. Took a lot of time wathing matches slowly and keeping eye on their movement.

I have **** POOR defence ( their attributes...no more than championship quality) with MK Dons at premiership at the moment, yet I'm doing good. I'm competing for EURO spots and I really limit my opponents to maximum 5 shots on goal, and often they get like one on target. I man mark opponent wingers with my fullbacks. I find opponent instructions before match very important and also keeping eye on their subs and tactic changes.

I'm still trying to find the best way to use my attacking midfield centre on my narrow diamond, need to figure best possible instructions for him. I'm also still so clueless about creative freedom, also I'm not sure how AMC passing would be best set.

korzy

Okay I got the game finally ( 08 ), gonna try now the basics all over again !

Rash, what version is this referring to? 8.0.1Beta? or 8.0.0?

Jablome

A couple of questions regarding a 442 LLM (playing Hartlepool):

1. Is short passing good for CBs b/c then they generally give the ball to a better passer i.e. nearest open FB or MC?

2. I have left my mentality for the two MCs at center and instead gave one a short farrow, the other a barrow. This should do the trick and give me an offensive and defensive MC, right? (one reason I opted for this is that means my 4 mids are the only ones on the team mentality slider and I can easily move them up or down in match.)

Jablome

3. Can you explain the benefit/purpose of putting passing for MCs on the lowest notch?

rashidi1

Korzy for the beta mate.

Jablome everything is relative in this game, if you are LLM and your players have a passing of 12, they're considered brilliant when they play another LLM side, but average when they play a premiership side.

So when playing another LLM side, I personally prefer the highest notch of short for DCs, if they look comfortable with the ball then I leave it. If I find them struggling then I change to mixed. You need to look at the attributes of the players to come to that decision. I've started another season with another LLM side this time its Gloucester City, and we're unbeaten in 10 and have only conceded 6 goals. We've won all our away matches and conceded only one. And that is with playing short at the back. They don't have TTB. You should never give a poor player TTB unless he's an attacking player, or has good decisions.


For your second question, yes. The barrow in effect tells the player to play as a DM when you lose possesion and play as an MC when you have one. A lower mentality for the DM will make him drop a bit deeper than the MC when you have possession as well, provided the other MC is on a higher mentality or with a farrow as yours.