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Back Four offence:

When the opposition plays a target man, they drop him to a deeper position when possesion is ours. So, to fully utilize this situation, our full-back on the same side can be pushed up to assist attacks or make an early interception when possesion is lost while the full-back on the other side remains prepared to engage their fast striker, so he remains low, no forward runs and on a more defensive mentality.

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On the post above, the main criteria is to stop the fast striker.

Next topic, Opposition very defensive with deep defensive line:
When this happened I slowed down my tempo and suddenly there were improvements. They took off their tall targetman and replace him with a fast striker, now they have two. To prevent from damages I had both my full-backs staying back but had standard man marking. To keep the game in control, the defensive line was raised and it works.