qwerty52

I've tried 2 games so far, 1 with Arsenal, 1 with portsmouth. Can't seem to get either team scoring. Anyone found a way to combat this, how do you set your strikers up?

Abramovic

I'm going to answer this question broadly as it might help other people as well, by the way never had a problem scoring its defending thats the hard part .

There is several things to consider when setting up the strikers, one being what formation your going to play and what kid of strikers do you have. If your team has great wingers and your style of play is based on wing play then I would suggest you remove forward runs as you want your strikers to stay centrally and hopefully they will meet the crosses into the box.

If your style is mixed and there isn't a link player between midfield and the striker, you would turn one striker into a creative forward as such and the other one a finisher, this is accomplished by giving the creative forward no forward runs, no crossing the ball and hold up the ball and a normal mentality. This should see the striker in question move a little deeper to collect the ball, while the other striker with attacking mentality and run with ball often is converting the chances. I dont know how useful this example might be but I had Drogba as the creative forward as he was strong enough to hold the ball up while Shevchenko found space to score. In 26 games in the demo they both score 18 goals each.

hope this helps

Lightning Snail

It's quite simple, mate. Play a flat 4-3-3. I put 7 past Man City and I'm scoring for fun. I went a whole demo season unbeaten with Everton. If you want me to give you the tactic I would be more than happy to walk you through the settings. Be warned though: I think it may be some kind of 'super-tactic' because I can't bloody lose!

Mark.

I would be interested to see what settings you are using :thup:

Leroy1883

It's all very well saying play a 4-3-3 formation, but that is just an indication of a new exploit in the match engine.

Playing 4-3-3 should not make a team more likely to win or score goals unless they have the players to fit a 4-3-3.

jaycar

Idd, I used the a 433 formation exactly like that pre-season, It works fine against the weaker teams but against teams like utd it fell down rather quickly so it isn't an exploit by any means.

qwerty52

Cheers lads, all great info. I'd love to see the settings for that 4-3-3 mate.

qwerty52

Tried out some of your tips Abramovich and they seemed to work like a charm.

Just went to Villa and beat them 2-1 with Man City. Not perfect but a start!

Mark.

Abramovich's ideas are what I would think as spot on, sorta how I sort out my strikers.

As for getting the 4-3-3 settings, I dont think we will be as he's been banned.

pele10

well i wont buy if you can exploit the match engine