retired_scriler

I have been using a big target man and playing the ball to his head. He wins his fair share of flick ons. The current problem i am having is the supporting striker. He realises too late that the targetman is going for a flick on and the defender or goalkeeper gets to the ball first.

My question is how to set your support striker up to play off the targetman. How do i get him to realize that when i tell the team to play to the targetmans head, i want him to run onto the flick ons? Is this something i can do with settings or do you have to rely on his stats?Anticipation and positioning for example. Or is it the targetman who should be aiming his headers across to the support striker? Your views would be appreciated, :thup:

retired_bertiebott5000

Stats is an important thing obviously.

I bet you have your fast striker on FR often and he's pretty fast?

Besides that it might be an idea to give your TM a B-arrow, so the fast striker has some space to run into instead of running offside right away.

Also adjust the mentality of your fast striker to attacking. Play around to see what's working, and what's not.

Also play around with creative freedom. Maybe he's too much freedom and therefor thinks he can do his own thing - which is wrong in this case.

But in the end, stats are important. He needs to be fast in the first place. Anticipation / off the ball / positioning are important as well. If he doesn't have these you're playing the wrong tactic.

Maybe in that case change you TM's mentality to less attacking / mixed supply so the striker gets the ball in his feet instead of in the space in front of him.

retired_avinash2k1

Yeah, definetily play around with FR and mentality. TM on lower mentality than the other striker. Support striker running forward runs often.

retired_scriler

Thanks for the replys.

Support striker has mixed FR Normal CF. He is fast and has good anticipation but poor positioning. I have the TM's mentality 2 clicks lower than the fast striker. I think you might be onto something with the Barrow. I'll give that a try. It may be worth playing around with the FR options too.