Over the past few months I have decided to experiment different tactics throughout leagues in Europe.
My first experiment was in Italy with AC Milan. I decided that I wanted to go against the usual Italian style of slow paced football and created a sexy football tactic. It worked bagging me all the trophies in one season. It consisted of a diamond formation and employing a target man to base my attack around. An indepth look at this can be found on my Cleansweep with AC Milan thread.
I then moved to Holland with Ajax where I used the same tactic as my AC Milan one. I did not use a target man and based the football on a fast paced attack. This suited Ajax with the fluent way of playing. So i came to the conclusion that this may be a tactic that could be employed anywhere in europe.
With this in mind I moved to Europe with West Ham. I used the same tactic and failed miserably. After finding it difficult as I have always found the EPL for some reason, I gave up.
However after the start of the new season I have decided to give it another shot with Man Utd. Reason being I wanted to create a tactic which replicates the way they play currently including the "Rooney Role" which I have never been able to implement. I used the AC Milan tactic as a basis for my defemsive and changed it to a flat 4-4-2 with farrows on the MR/L and barrows on my fullbacks. I also took some tips from Starr_Man5 on using a libero CB, however I have not given him as much freedom.
Heres the positions:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/2986/manutdfr6.jpg
Heres the team instructions:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7...instrucuh3.jpg
The mental of my team is mainly global apart from my back four which are set to 5 and my ST which is set to 17
This has resulted a more free flowing style football and after a dodgy start where I have been getting the tactic right, I am starting to string some results together.
Will keep you updated.
Any questions welcome and I will post more screenc=shots as I have not produced much in the way of how my tactic is set up, not very good at this lol.