retired_amberrose31

Someone else had asked about adapting these tactics to a 4-2-3-1 and I offered suggestions on the required alterations you would have to make. These tactics are based on the rule of one system so you will still have to base it around breaking your formation down to seven progressively more attacking stages. Do a search through this thread for '4-2-3-1' and you will probably find it. You will definitely have to tweak closing down settings. It takes a lot of time studying the match engine before you can be certain you have the settings just right.

Best of luck setting it up though, I have ambitions of building a 4-2-3-1 set and a 5-3-2 formation set some day but only for '07.

littlebit

Has anyone started to use this system on 08 yet? I'm into my second season with the Toon and going nowhere so thought giving this a shot might work but I don't think the board will give me much time to perfect the tactics!

retired_amberrose31

Yes, at least one manager has. His posts could be on the the previous page. From what I can gather the closing down settings will need to be tweaked to accomadate the differences between the 07 and 08 game engines. Higher closing down for the back four seems to be beneficial. Also the rule of dropping four tactics down the set when using an away tactic doesn't seem to work as well. Try doing a search on this thread anyway. As far as I know 'RoO' still seems to be effective in '08 though.

retired_renae1405

Googen. If one of my own players gets sent off, what adjustments can you suggest implementing for these tactics, as quite recently I had a player sent off after only 30 secs (my star fwd) and was at a loss of what to do to then counter the opposition.

Conan Stevens

After I've played a season with this tactical set I found out that (atleast for my team) that the 4-5 middle tactic sets are quite useless. Therefore I've used two fixed tactical sets one for home games and one for away games and that has been quite good winning 22 draw 2 and 6 defeats 64 scored and 23 concided. I used the 13-18 at home and 2-8 set away. If I had the lead by 2 or more at halftime in home games I switched to my away tactic and scored 1 or 2 more.

retired_tina427

Does the base home tactic gradually get lower as you go down in leagues? I think you said a big club in a relatively small league would be 9-15, does that mean, say, Swindon in league 1 would be even lower?

Also, with these tactics should you be getting 50%+ possession in away games? Or is that too much to hope for?

retired_tina427

Also, you said I think that you like to shut up shot in the final minutes - do you just use the 1-7 tactic for this? Or do you have a special shut up shop tactic?

I find that in the more defensive options the strikers still push up against the back line and aren't any help in defense. I know they're strikers, but I would think that having one chip in to disrupt the other side's midfield play would help?

retired_carmeng

Great thread.

I implemented your philosophy into my man utd team with instant success.

First season I won the treble and the future looks bright.

The one aspect I am trying to develop further is the consistency with my forwards in the premiership. Europe is a different matter all together so it maybe as simple as adjusting their creative freedom as it is currently set on default.

ilj1234

can someome tell me what is FMM?