retired_littlequeen78

no, it's not

retired_pennyyoung

can someone explain to me how to get my sweeper to move forward beyond the DC's once the ball has been recovered, and from there maybe go into Pirlo mode. increasing mentality to attacking doesn't seem to work.

retired_elpata

Give him a forward arrow to where you want him to go. However he wont be as effective as Pirlo as Pirlos RL position will probably be too advance to recreate from a sweeper.

retired_pennyyoung

okay maybe he won't be as effective as pirlo in conducting the atttack, but what measures should be put in place to encourage the libero to maybe fill the holes while the team is attacking, ie, push even further forward while knowing that 2 DC's are behind him in position at all times. i'm thinking a free-role would be necessary, along with some level of creative freedom (suggestions?). perhaps ballack type ppms are required as well?

retired_wenbieblue

Just implemented my tactic with a sweeper creating this formation:



I gave the sweeper (Araujo, player with decent stats, and very good influence, and my only sweeper ) the folowing instr:



Curious what effect it will have, after I have never used a sweeper (always playing back 4, or 3 dc and 2 wb)

retired_wenbieblue

BTW, what does a Narrow mean? I know f, b and s-arrows

SifuChris

Hehe not sure you got that right

Narrow isnt a type of arrows. It is referring to the width off your play and is the opposite of playing wide.

Hope that helps.

retired_annnzzz

Victor, it would be interesting to see how results pan out with that system. There seems to be alot of ground up for grabs in the centre of the park with that strategy, and it would be intriguing to know what you results have been like!

retired_wenbieblue

@ Caz:

quoted above:
Giving your centre-backs side arrows and putting your----> sweeper's width on narrow <------ will keep the back line

I now understand the sentence, but how do you put a single player on a narrow width ? It's a teamtactic ain't it?

@ CaptainC

I tweaked the individual settings a bit, but it's doing great! At the posted settings the DC and SW were to much in each others way. I put the sweeper on no-closing-down and very defensive settings (no running forward and such). If i play vs a team with a 3-4-3 system all backliners man mark a striker, leaving the sweeper for backup, and de DMC comes one line down was well. (worked very very well)

retired_pennyyoung

I did quite the opposite with my sweeper, putting a free role forward runs and attacking mentality with high closing down and zonal marking, and while he goes forward to the DMC position on goal kicks, he goes back to the defensive line, and sticks there even while we're piling on the pressure.

this seems to happen with my attempts to replicate "der kaiser" (since the CM days). i even tried editing one of my regens to fit the requirements, yet nothing.

am i doing something wrong or is it just impossible to have my sweeper make occasional bombing runs.