Everton 4-1-2-2-1. Does the job, albiet by small winning margins

paul88 · 10-28-2007, 05:25 PM

Having a good success with this tactic as well

. completed first season with Everton

EPL - 3rd place
League Cup - WIN
Euro Cup - WIN
FA Cup - WIN

was lucky to win League and FA Cup

retired_goldelocks · 10-28-2007, 06:10 PM

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Originally posted by nick1408:
I have usually struggled with the tactical side of things with FM. I was expecting another year searching for the right tactic after failing to build one that I liked and that suited me.

I have liked playng as Everton in te past due t the squad being reletively strong, but not all conquering and also the squad does have a few weaknesses (depth IMO). This is where I have decided to start once again.

After reading another thread in these forums about Everton and after having a bit of a hink about players in the squad I decided to go for a 4-1-2-2-1 formation.

I read a lot (or at least tried to) about the closing down bug so with this in mind I started to try and develop a defence on this. The fatback 4 I hve implemented seem to stop most attacks - although I think that too many do get into the box before being stopped.

The midfield I have a DM and 2 MC's. I tried to get the right MC to act as an attacking player, but one who could defend when required and the left one as a box-to-box style player. My thinking was that Tim Cahill could be the attacker but he starts thegame injured so Leon Osman has been playing here with success. The left MC I have Graveson but once he leaves the club I think Phil Jagielka will slot in quite well.

Up front: 2 AM's (AMR, Arteta, AML, McFadden) and Andy Johnson. I wa expecting te 2 wingers to score some goals but as of yet the only goals they have are from set pieces. Not a huge issue as Johnson is harrassing every golkeeper put in front of him.

As I said earlir I am not sure why this tactic has been successful bu it has. no losses up until 24th Oct, and only 8 goals conceded in 17 games (including pre-season frieldlies.)

Up until the 1st loss the record read as follows (Not including friendlies):

Played 12
Scored 20
Conceded 6

I haven't tweaked my tactic at all up until the loss but I thin know is the time I need to play around with it. Also the possibility of buying players at the January window is vital to cover up for Evertons lack of quality backup players. I started the game by not allowing players to be signed before January.

well, with all that reading I guess you will want to try this tactic out. I was planning to release it after I had played up until half way thru November (when I was expecting the game engine to start to counter the tactic's effectivness) but now with the loss I feel that there will be no great loss in releasing it now:

Nick's Everton Tactic

Also, I havea few screenies you may be interested in:

Manager Overview

Fixtures/Results

A few thank you's have to go out to a few people as well:

Cleon - And his Sheff Utd Project

Rashidi - With his Hints and Tips thread and also his Closing down temporary fix thread

Tug - I am using his training schedule.

Feel free to comment and/or critisize.

You can keep Graveson till his Celtic contract runs out, he's one of the worst players i've ever seen. He's prob a good weight lifter or a long distance runner, but he's useless at football!

retired_pfenix · 10-28-2007, 09:22 PM

Oh Tommy Tommy tommy tommy tommy tommy tommy Gravesen!!!

Gravesen a class act.

By the way this is a good tactic,using this and the flange tactic finished 4th and won Uefa Cup.

retired_uplift123 · 10-29-2007, 02:17 AM

good to see some class results! i am glad. Since the patch I am having some trouble, but am working to rectify the problem

retired_uplift123 · 10-30-2007, 01:16 PM

for those using this tactic - the 8.01 version is still in testing. hving some very hot and cold results. feel free to offer any advice on tweaks you have applyed

Everton 4-1-2-2-1. Does the job, albiet by small winning margins

It's no use having a squad full of star players without a decent way for them to play their football.

Everton 4-1-2-2-1. Does the job, albiet by small winning margins