bullworker

fantastic thread!!! you have answered many of my questions and given new and fresh ideas for my tactics!! will start to put into practice when i get home tonight!!

barefootboo

Ah, I downloaded your tactics and you go with individual passing, so my post is useless and can be disregarded

kdunn

Im a bit confused as to what tactic to use. The same experienced users seem to have different tactics to download in different threads, with different theories and pages and pages of chat.

Can someone save me some time and just tell me what is the best attacking formation that won't let in too many goals.

Has anyone just developed a good tactic that works or do we have to keep changing things every game.

I play as chelsea and want to just play the same way every game as they do, perhaps just marking star players once in a while. I dont want to spend all night preparing a tactic for a single game, that wouldnt be enjoyable.

Ill download this tactic in the meantime though

retired_Kemp

Ahh, an event-based tactic system. I've been considering this for a while, but never got around to it.
Lots of good reasoning used here, so I'll definately give it a try.

retired_yoyoyoyo

Great contribution , i will use this tactics and tweak them to fit my Lille team.

retired_barbiej

Wonderful thread wwfan :thup:

retired_wh0isj3ss3

A flat 442 is great both for attacking and defense. Use short forward arrows on your Wingers. Thats a "decent" formation.

retired_FaultyFate

Very nice thread wwfan! Thanks.

Just want to clarify one point and see if you are agree.

I think if you play against stronger team, especially away, it is generally difficult to keep posession. Counter attack or defense seems reasonable option in this case, and I would not concentrate on posession, but rather on passes completed to make sure I don't give ball away easily. I also watch for opposition chanses (shots on target, crosses completed), my defensive performance (tackles attempted/won, interceptions, headers attempted/won), and (under counter attack option) chances created.

Perfect examples irl are 1994 CL final Milan-Barcelona 4-0 and 1997-1998 CL group stage Barcelona - Dynamo Kiev 0-4 (sorry, Barca fans). In both cases Barcelona kept ball around 60% of the time, but was not able to create real chances despite being wounderful team.

retired_rayrhi

I agree with everything here minus the defensive line theory. Having watched around 34 full matches in my last season, and many more before, it is clear to me now that the defensive line slider is useless—at least on the 2d match screen. Who knows if it has any bearing on the final result? I am sure in some way it does, but it certainly is not evident when you watch a game. Your little blobs still allow fast strikers to run clear, and they still defend too high up the pitch. The only way that I have found I can get my blobs to retreat when we lose the ball is to put barrows on my defenders. Anyone beg to differ, please let me know.

retired_FaultyFate

Hi arteta is god,

I usually put defensive line slider on 6-7 notch and use man marking instruction for my defenders (actually my instructions are very close to wwfan's Counter tactic). I believe I have seen opposition strickers run clear only a couple times for three seasons in Italian Serie A (there are quite a few fast strickers there and I am Sampdoria, not the best squad in the league). I cannot say 100% if it is due to mentalities, man marking, or def. line settings, but I think it proves that there is an alternative to your method.