retired_dustielynn

I was Glasgow Celtic and in 4 years of charge I won everything..i had to very sucessful 4-4-2 tactics

I then went to Roma in Italy bought quite a few quality players and my tactics dont seem to be workin as well,Does anybody agree they have to adjust the type of tactic and football they play when they go from the UK to say Italian football?

retired_acivin

I think you definately have to work around opposition tactics...so some of the tactics that are very successful with your team in a country may not work with another.

All tactics have certain advantages and disadvantages..and tactics should be made accordingly to eith counter them or exploit them.

A few examples:
If I am correct, by my FM expierence, following tactics are quite common in each circumstances:

4-4-2 England
4-2-3-1 wide or narrow: Italy, Spain.
3-4-2-1 Korea.

I might have mistook a few, but tactics seem to generally wary with country, so does the playing style.

retired_amy66new

Definately. In Spain I play a 3-2-3-1-2. This works great because I've got good wingers and a solid central defence. In Spain they tend to have attacking fullbacks, so my wigners get in easily, and attack through the middle rather than the wings. I won the league with Betis and had great success domestically with that tactic and without buying many differentp layers.

However, I then went to Roma in Italy and tried the same tactic only for us to be stuffed by any half decent side. They use the wings more and have good defenders down the wings, not just attacking fullbacks (or to more of an extent anyway). This meant my defence was too narrow and opposition teams got in behind down the flanks and scored from crosses and I couldn't break down teams as easily as my whole game revolved around finding the width the teams in Spain just didn't have.

IMO Spain is definately the easiest of the "big 3" domestic leagues as all the sides are very similar style - in England you could play Arsenal and then Bolton - two totally different teams who you have to alter your own game to play against.

retired_bjohn32

i think your ignoring two things here...

1) becouse you've, made new signings the team wont be a solid unit and so they need a couple of months to settle in. so say look at west ham as a good example of that. they wont really start getting results untill december

2) the italian league is of a much higher standard than the spl especially when your playing as celtic to start off with.. if you'd of done this with st mirren for example... then i'd see where you were coming from.

retired_sterileheaven

its true

my 3-5-2 helped propel livorno into 3rd in serie a (brilliant title race may i add)

yet my villarreal with arguably better players were ona losing streak till i changed to 4-4-2/4-5-1

retired_janellewood86

I'm not sure how much the country affects things. I think it's more down to the fact that different teams have different players.

There are differences in that certain leagues play different formations, and therefore certain teams will have players suited to playing a certain way, but after a few years of bringing in your own personnel and stablising it with your tactics you'll probably be OK.

However, the problems you're talking about would happen if you moved from Yeovil to Bristol City. Different teams have different players and so will not necessarily be suited to your original tactic.

I believe changing countries will become more sophisticated than this for '08. That's just what I've heard.

retired_nashfine

I tend to find a slow tempo, with high closing down 4-4-2 in Italy works for most games.

retired_Myoplex

i think that fast tempo would work in italy as they are really slow so wouldn't it combat it?