retired_mbates

I've played three seasons in La Liga with Valencia. First season I played a fairly basic 4-4-2 using mainly the default global settings and just made some small changes to suit my players. I fell short to Barcelona by two points on the final day. I was fairly happy with this and improved the squad in the summer.

Second season got off to a slow start as I was trying to play some attrative passing football. I've had problems with this style in the past so wasn't too worried but as the season went on I really struggled. I know the 4-2-4 thing has been done to death but this cost me at least a dozen times. Also there were a few 2-3-5 moments. The problem I had was that in watching the opposition fromations during matches sometimes teams would literally run through 5 completely different formations in a single match and win, yet when I try and change a formation it will normally take 3-4 matches to bed in.

Anyway In my third season I managed to counter the silly attacking tactics but I came second again and think that this is down to me not being able to play well consitently against the teams which play the narrow 4-2-3-1. Any advice?

retired_e_fores

Wish I could help you but I've hd similar problems with Valencia. In 3 seasons I was the runner up kid. Came 2nd, then 4th, then 2nd again in the league. Semi's of Spanish cup twice, then runner up. Runner up in CL, then semi's twice (the last time out on a last minute away goal). The only thing I won was the Super Cup in the third season.

Just deleted the save along with all my other ones. A trying to start annew.

retired_mbates

I'm close to having a go with a smaller team where there's less pressure so I can experiment more. I scraped sixth in the second season and would have been sacked had I not won the Spanish Cup. I reatained the Cup in my third season and won the UEFA cup so I know my squad is decent it is so frustraing!