retired_wadleigh187

If you choose to give individual instructions to each player how can you influence the positions of the players on the pitch?i mean first of all you want your squad to be compact BUT if your defenders have the ball you want your 4 or 5 midfielders to try looking for some spaces to receive the ball.One player more than the other so you can have a balanced formation.What affects a player position is forward runs,creative freedom and free role.Is that right?any other opinions?i have watched around 40 mathches in full detail on very slow speed and i am convinced that mentality influence only his passingOther ideas?

JeffRogers

no! if you set 2 mids differently with mentality 1 say 8 and the other say 12! you will see the player with 8 dropping deeper all the time!

so it is mentality which will help you set up your player position on the pitch!

JeffRogers

i forgot to add that arrows will have an effect on where your players will go when you have the ball!

retired_kellyk

And when you don't...farrows forward arrows when you have the ball and barrows..backward arrows..when udon't

retired_wadleigh187

let's say my right midfielder has the ball and i want that my left MC to be a little more advanced on the pitch than the right MC.Not with forward runs or arrows.without those.like in real life with 2 or 3 meters.In this way the player who has the ball will have much more options to pass the ball.How can i make one player to be a little more advanced on the pitch than the other player who is beside him?With mentality or creative freedom?What do you think?

retired_kellyk

Two ways...

1. You can set the left MC on a lower mentality and tell him not to make forward runs. Give the other one a higher mentality with FWR on often.

2. The easiest way is farrows though this has the effect of positioning a player too far up on the pitch

retired_wadleigh187

in this way(with forward runs set on often and the other set on rarely it will be to much hole between them.i just want a little little difference on their position on the pitch.if both of them will have forward runs set on minimum what will be the main difference?mentality and creative freedom?Creative freedom comes in efect when your team has the ball or just when the players with a high creative freedom have the ball?

JeffRogers

its not advisable to give a lot of CF in my book and mentality is the one you need anyway with regards to waht your asking!!