Bottleofsmoke

Thanks very much...heading there now.

Millie

Somebody as anal as me!

crazy gra

Somebody as anal as me! </BLOCKQUOTE>

You clearly haven't seen some my discussions in the GPTG OTT

Justified: I'm giving your new mentality a go, and seeing how it performs against my current home framework which is 12-16.

crazy gra

A point/question on creative freedom:

Wingers and MCas seem to be the positions to give the most CF to, so what should determine how much CF is given to a particular player?

If it were to do with decisions, then why should forward players have high(ish) CF when most of them won't have a good decisions stat and why should defenders have low CF when their decisions stat is usually high?

I think that although it does depend on decisions, creativity and flair are important for having high CF for forwards.

Thoughts?

Justified

I've totally gone to having everyone on low CF. It helps retain the ball and possesion without anyone making silly mistakes. I think every CF depends on decision but the higher you go the higher the players technique has to be.

carlo sheva

its mid season now (february 2010) and its been a disastrous. only 4th in serie a (7 points below leader juventus), 12win 9draw 1lost. most of the draw game is because of the opponent managed to made a comeback. out of coppa italia, only runners up for supercup euro and CWC. almost all of my key players last season, under perform this season. pirlo only 7.14, sissoko out injured for 4months (still 2months left), torres 7.21 14goals, gila 7.27 10goals, sheva 6.78 12goals. 4 of my mc out injured, sissoko still 2months, tissone 2months, albiol 1month, gourcuff 3weeks.

from my point of view, AI are doing this to me:
1. mark my mc's very tight and tackle very hard on them, also full closing down. &gt;&gt; they realise that pirlo and gourcuff is my creative factory. so far, pirlo only did 4 assists, gourcuff 5.
2. lauch a direct long ball to the heart of my defense, hoping that my dc's and gk made some mistakes. &gt;&gt; collocini already get 3red cards because of this, barzagli n both GK did some fatal mistakes
3. high closing down on my AM's &gt;&gt; minimize their crosses (not working against c ronaldo thou, my best player currently).
4. very tight defense in front of their goal. &gt;&gt; frustrating my forward.

my temporary solutions:
1. still no idea
2. for away games and leading condition: deepen the defensive line (from normal to 3notches back), fullbacks fwd runs is off. working fine so far.
3. try through ball often..??
4. try longshots..??

need your suggestions guys..

gio

Is your midfield flat? I.e. are Pirlo and Gourcuff playing at MC with the same mentality? If so, then make one defensive, and one attacking. Once you've done this, you could also try using the 'swap postion' instruction. It's proved to work for a lot of people

Another suggestion is to play deeper, therefore creating more space for your MCs. If the markers decide to follow them, then it should provide space for your wingers/fullbacks to move into.

Finally, why not try a diamond midfield?

crazy gra

Had a couple of games, and it only confirmed my ideas that extreme mentalities gives a low efficiency in front of goal. I may have created more chances, but my shot:SOT ratio was quite a bit higher when using my framework,

Nistelrooy_is_back

what benefit for using 4 defender man mark.

zone marking with a tight marking is the best setting.

MattUK