Dayle Wood

Asmodeus - just been perusing your slider apathy and I have a question.

In your original post you recommend for a technically adept side such as Real Madrid or Barcelona to play with wide width yet at the same time you are advocating short passing.

Do you still advocate this as short passing and wider width would make completing passes very difficult with increased interceptions.

i thought Direct/wide and short/narrow were the accepted combinations?

jaycar

any new apathetic thoughts asmo or have you stopped using the theory?

Gigi

I was about to give up playing, when I realised that it's impossible to win with any consistency if you set the defensive line slider high or as high as your mentality. The AI teams always score with a long ball over your defense.

But then I found that if I set the defensive line as low as possible(to the far left) then I started on a winning streak I have seldom seen. It seems that it doesn't effect your team in a negative way (your team's defence, midfield and attack will still be relatively close to each other). As someone from SI explained, the defensive line slider only determines how high or low your defensive will position itself when the opponent has the ball when in YOUR half.

Fortunately, you can set the defensive slider at the far left and your mentality very high. The team still is compact and solid.

I have as Asmodeus suggested a defensive set, comprising of the four defenders and one or two midfielders. The rest are almost always set to a high attacking mentality. Sometimes when I play an opponent that I am far better than or has slow strikers I push up the defensive line slider button 5-6 notches.

If you want you can try it out for yourself. I was so frustrated when dominating chances and possessions and still often lost because one or two long balls over my defence in a counter attack. Also, I have quite pacy defenders, but it seemed a lost cause.

So, using the defensive line in this way, my team are right now playing to the full potential. Keeping lots of clean sheets and scoring plenty. Amazing!

Anders, Sweden

dmaidwell

Thanks for the tips, I am enjoying the game much more and feel that I can have more of an effect on the game from tactical changes. I was wondering if you had a specific theory on the way you handle team talk before the match and at half-time. Also media praise???

thanks

dmaidwell

jaycar

shame Asmodeus seems to have disappeared, I'm a big fan of the apathetic simple approach