retired_skullking1971

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retired_skullking1971

Marseille07: I made this tactic with the smaller teams in mind, if i was the manager of Man U, Inter or any of the super teams then i wouldn't try to play this kind of football.
IRL Lewes would not try to play like Inter, so why would Inter try to play like Lewes?

retired_skullking1971

MISSION ACCLOMPLISHED!
It was a little tougher then i expected but mainly because of an injury crisis which saw all FIVE of my defenders out in one match! Also the G/K and Target Man were out.

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retired_skyler900

great to see you gained promotion but poor farnborough it is still going well for me

retired_toyboxdrummer

i have tried this tactic for 3 games.

lost 1-0 away to burnley
won 2-0 at home to barnsley
lost 3-1 away to ipswich

not a massive test but shows it int that great.

mike

morihuel

mate, read this carefully.

retired_kfollman

I'm not an advocate of the 'need X games to adjust to it' theory and interestingly my teams never seem to need it...

I tried this for 3 games as Norwich (season 2 Championship),
Palace Away, won 3-0 (comfortable)
Palace Home (Mickey Mouse Cup), won 1-0 using 'back-up' team.
Leeds Home, drew 1-1

In both home games I was slight favourite and Palace were slightly favoured when I played them at home.

I stopped playing it for 2 reasons;
1) Its not the type of football I enjoy-long ball, flick on etc.
2) I couldn't use my recently acquired £1.8M left winger!

All in all, a good tactic (at least from my limited test) but you should expect to get a low possession stat (I usually got about 43-45%), so if this bothers you-then it's probably not your thing.

retired_skullking1971

That is the reason i wouldn't use tactics like this before, the possession stat. But is it better to have 65% possession and lose frustratingly, or 44% that wins mostly. I'll let you decide.

retired_skullking1971

Give the tactic a try with Sunderland just to see how it works at a different level.
Firstly though i want to say that i used a saved game. I used Arteta is God's 4-4-2 to gain promotion to the EPL and winning the League Cup. But that tactic was struggling in the EPL so i switched to Glassy's Best. That did really well, moving us into the Top 6.
Then i give my tatic a try from then to now.
Here's the results...
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Far to many draws in the League, but in Europe it was been nothing short of SPECTACULAR!!!
It looks as if the tactic preforms better against superior teams. Note the last result against Man U? It said a fully desereved win, i've beat them before but not very often is it 'fully deserved' so the tactic is on the right lines.
Hows it going elsewhere?

retired_skullking1971

You don't always lose out on possession or even over use the long ball. I find that although you tend to do that early on, once the team gells the style of football changes quite a lot. I find it nice to watch.
Using the Man Utd game as an example...
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Nothing wrong with that possesion stat, is there? But to me that is an irrelevent stat anyway. Look at the shots on target, Man U only had ONE during the whole game!