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By attacking tactics I mean tactics that create atleast 10 chances and it would be good if atleast half were on goal.(ideally 10 chances on goal)
I have read many posts where people are complaining that they dominate the match, creating 10+ chances, but they don't score. And I allways think how are they doing it, and why cannot I do it.
My problem is that all the tactics I have created have too few chances. The only time my tactics create 10+ chances is when the opponents are much worse than me.(Usually only with friendlies, or cup games) And I cannot say that my tactics are too defensive because the AI usually creates many scoring chances against me. Good that they usually don't score.
I have read the tactics bible. I even created a set of successful tactics using wwfans Rule Of One theories.(First season came third with Belenenses in the bwinLIGA, Portugal). But I didn't like the way I won the games, I didn't dominate games and usually post-match commentary was something like, how did i win?, etc.
I don't want any supertactics, just want some tips how to create attacking tactics. And what formations are best for attacking (4-4-2, 4-3-3/4-5-1, 4-2-3-1,...)
Get a high tempo (it will of course increase your missed passes and open you for counter attacks), increase the creative freedom for your offensive players (this will mean that they not always do what you tell them to do, but it means that they will use the opportunities better if they can) and increase the individual mentality of the players that will deliver the ball in front the goal and the ones that you want to do the finish.
This will give you chances, but with the fast tempo it might not give you qualitive chances. However, I reason that with a lot of poor chances there might be a bigger chance to have one slipping in than very few quality chances. Haven't tried it statistical myself but I think someone did and I did not understand that post
I have tried high tempo, but it didn't really increase the chances, it actually decreased. Maybe it's my players, but usually the problem is the last pass to the attackers, they don't usually receive them.
Although I haven't tried increasing the creative freedom, maybe that is why my strikers are allways tightly by the opponents defenders and don't even try to get away from them.
Originally posted by Ezzz:
Although I haven't tried increasing the creative freedom, maybe that is why my strikers are always tightly marked by the opponents defenders and don't even try to get away from them.
Sorry about the double post, forgot a word from the sentence.
in my opinion from what i have seen in my games a playmaker like kaka will get you many chances if a playmaker is used but also a good forward is needed with high finishing and composure to make sure it ends up in the net :thup:
Thank you very much Mygel. Quickly slapped together a 4-4-2 tactic, using your tips and so far I am impressed. Although I have played only 2 matches, I am very happy with what I am seeing. First time I have seen that my players are creating as many chances.
I have set the crossing to far post, so far it hasn't created any goals, although there have been some dangerous moments.
It seems to me that the match engine doesn't handle those crosses very well. Atleast all the opponents deep crosses seem to go to the far post, where a winger/striker can tap it or even head it in(Even if i have big defenders). Maybe a flaw in the match engine(something like the Diablo tactic used to exploit)?
I have noticed one thing which might be why you get impressed. In general, if you have a good or decent side, play a quick tempo and high closing down except on a few key players - most importantly one of the strikers.
Yesterday I played against a very good side in my league and I lost in a why that did not feel right. So I cheated a little and replayed the game to see what I did wrong. Lost again and a third time. Then finally I decided to try out to use my dominance as the better team with better morale and put the team on the highest tempo and closing down for all players except the CB and my target man (who needed to be free when the attack started). Magic happened and I outplayed them totally scoring 3 goals and conceding one on away. Now, this might not apply on every game - but it seems as high tempo and a lot of closing down is a lazy man's tactic that has good chance of succeding if you are not good on setting up the more advanced slow tempo game with shortpassing.
BTW, in my experience you only need to set your strikers/forwards on mixed crossing from the byline. You do not need to specify where the crosses should go, this will make sure that they cross instead of shot in a difficult angle. Secondly, put other players with good crossing on crossing if that is what you want your side to do. I prefer mixed myself unless we are talking crosses from defenders or deeper positioned players which needs crossings from the deep.
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