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I'm playing a 4-4-2 formation with Man Utd, because of that I'm usually playing short and wide. Now, I am winning but I'm playing ugly, real ugly football (IMHO). So what happens, my CB or FB passes the ball to my CM, now instead of turning on the ball and trying to pass a ball into attacking position, he returns it to the defender. Now my defenders returns the ball to my midfielder (probably saying: "c'mmon, paul, roon' is over there pass it to him), but to no avail, my midfielder returns it once again. At that point my CB probably says: "Do I have to really, really do everything by myself", and passes the ball to my striker (or at least tries to).
If you want the ball to move like this; defender to midfielder to attacker then you want direct passing not short. Or don't play so wide with short passing, its not a good mix. As your players are too spread ut to be playing short passing and wide, so therefore they pass back when a better pass option is not available if a player is too far away.
Perhaps up the tempo a bit too since your Man U. Do you employ a TM? If so don't. Perhaps set one of your forwards (rooney) to have forward runs "rarely" so he comes deep - I've heard he does this a lot if you give him free role also.
thanks, I'll try that, although, I'm afraid that by changing the game style to direct, my defenders might start skipping passing to midfielders altogether, and pass to strikers right away, but I'll do as you suggest.
Originally posted by Hamenaglar:
thanks, I'll try that, although, I'm afraid that by changing the game style to direct, my defenders might start skipping passing to midfielders altogether, and pass to strikers right away, but I'll do as you suggest.
No then that would be long passing. Direct passing means they like to play from defence to midfield and so on.
When I stumbled across the set to button for AM it defaults to creative freedom on full.
This intrigued me so within the same tactics, same team I set creative freedom to full for both my central midfielders as well as try through balls often. Mascherano went from 7 assists in one season to 14 in the next.
I am willing to conceed this may just be a coincidence but they definitely would try those little slide rule passes to strikers more often than with lower creative freedom. The ones which usually get a 'wonderful pass' description in the commentary.
One note of caution is that against top quality sides this would sometimes lead to alot of lost possession, but for me with a quality striker (Tevez)it helped in creating good quality chances.
I've got creative freedom almost on maximum for entire team.
I've tried utilizing the narrower, quicker and more direct football. Resulted in beautiful 3:0 away win against liverpool (my best performance this season by far) and with two assists from Gary Neville.
But will continue exploring this more directish style of play and see how it results.
Creative Freedom maxed on everyone? Thats your problem made, use it sparingly for best effects and on nomore than 2 players for best results. If you give them high CF they ignore all other instructions you set, so no wonder you play ugly football
strangely, having high CF results in ugly football. Well that must be it, now I know why England is always playing so poorly, they have to much creative freedom.
08-23-2007, 03:05 AM
Getting assists from central midfielders. Post #10
Getting assists from central midfielders. 
Thats your problem made, use it sparingly for best effects and on nomore than 2 players for best results. If you give them high CF they ignore all other instructions you set, so no wonder you play ugly football 
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