Well so far so good, i HAVE made a few tweaks to the basic formation, given the wide forwards a fixed and med/high CF and taken their LS away, given the more defensive mid a Barrow, FBs slightly more attacking, 2 clicks higher CD and Farrows (i like arrows), slightly lower tempo (2 clicks i think) and i'm toying with moving the MC with Farrow to AMC with no arrows.
It sounds like a lot of changes but having played the formation as it was made by www2 its really only a slight tweak to the way it plays.
So far i must say things are going well, my Plymouth team have got some good results in their 1st premiership season and are performing above expectations (even mine). My Man U team are doing what they should and winning everything (only 1/2 way through season but so far, so good) and my PSV team are playing well and are scoring for fun. I've found that the changes I've made, particularly taking the LS off of the wing forwards means we are creating good percentage chances and are therefore getting a lot of shots on target, i like this. The defense seems to be pretty solid with most of the goals we're conceding coming in the form of individual mistakes or set pieces which i would not attribute to any fault in the tactic and come under the heading of "**** happens" as far as I'm concerned. The only exception to this was a tenancy for my full backs to not close down wingers enough leaving us too open to crosses, this is the reason for the slight upping of their mentality and closing down, so far it looks better.
The only real bugbear i have with it is ironically in the form of a lack of possession. In the case of my PSV team, who are playing well and have won almost all of their games, i vary rarely seem to have over 40% possession. When i check the action zones they normally add up to us having more like 50/50 possession and this isn't really an issue since we are most often having 10-15 shots on goal a game which more often than not sees us winning, it is however a bit annoying. It seems to me that oppo teams are spending a lot of time knocking the ball about in their own 1/3 and due to their defensive mentality which is understandable as PSV are almost always favorites in a dutch league game.
I don't really want to lower player mentalities or tempo or anything like that (remember i've lowered tempo slightly from the original already) as i like the flowing attacking football were playing, and most of the players are closing down fairly high up the pitch as it is and i definitely don't want to up that any more as it will see players being pulled all over the place and getting knackered. Can anyone see any way i haven't thought of to improve this area of the formation or do you reckon it's just something i'll have to live with, which as long as we are winning i won't have a problem with!
Anyway thats how it's going for me, KUTGW and lets keep this thread going!
Oh and GJ again www2!
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