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well i've had a tactic that i've been developing over 3 games (with roma napoli and atletico) for a total of 8 seasons and while i've had a lot of success, i'm finding i'm struggling in my 2nd season with atletico.
With Roma (pre-patch) i played 3 seasons and won the serie a 3 times and did okay in the cups, however roma has a near unbeatable team and very good finances to buy new players.
With Napoli (beta-patches) i played 3 seasons, finished 7th 1st season, 3 2nd season and 3 3rd season. However I found that despite improving my team in later seasons, i still couldn't compete with the top clubs.
In this new game with Atletico, season 1 used the same tactic i used with napoli and roma and it was highly successful, i narrowly won the liga and followed it up with the spanish cup.
However second season, i've been struggling to keep the same consistent form as previous games, against both poorer teams and the top teams. I've been watching full matches trying to see whats wrong, and while i've made some improvements, it seems that for every problem i eliminate, another one pops up. I'm confident in my squad being good enough but i'm still 9 points off the pace.
Key issues i've noticed is that i'm just haemorrhaging goals despite trying more defensive variants. I find that while most of my goals are off mainly counter-attacks which utilise my attacking pace to get on one-on-ones, where as the opposition is always able to overload my defense or just there strikers are easily able to beat my defense.
So i was hoping someone would be able to help me out in improving this tactic to get back into my league winning form. I know i'm still doing well (in 4th place with W9, D5, L2) but i just feel we should be performing much better.
If playing a team with a decent striker or striking pair i either set the opp. instructions to tight marking and closing down or if they are particularly dangerous, i get my two CBs to man mark each of them. In cases where there is a particularly dangerous CM/AMC, i let my DM man mark him as well. Finally if there are two lethal wingers (eg. ronaldinho and messi) i have my full-backs change to a more defensive role where they man mark them.
Key issues i've noticed is that i'm just haemorrhaging goals despite trying more defensive variants. I find that while most of my goals are off mainly counter-attacks which utilise my attacking pace to get on one-on-ones, where as the opposition is always able to overload my defense or just there strikers are easily able to beat my defense.
Maybe you need to step up more and not be as deep? It sounds to me as though you get bogged down at times and this could be whats causing the goals.
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