utd

I found out that the defensive line is not just about defense it determines how much the team is strechded along the pitch.

I tried to play with Defensive line with 1 notch and then with 2 notches and it made a big defference in the team's play the players were closer to each other with no gaps a more smooth play.

I'm expermenting at the moment, but it seems that mentallity is not the reason why you have gaps it's the defensive line.

the higher the defensive line is set the higher the players will be up the pitch and more streched thus leaving gaps between them.

if you set the mentallity for defenders too defensive and for forwards too high it doesn't affect creating gaps as some suggested before.

I'll keep expermenting and report back.

utd

48 views and no single reply ???

I played two games won 1 (4-3)and lost one
(2-0) both away

the reason why I lost was the defender's mistakes and also in the game I won they made horrible mistakes so it's anything tactical

and we don't finish well, have a lot of chances more than the home team and on target but we lack lethal finishing.

UNITED!!!!!

perhaps you could post some screenshots of how this makes no difference as I think that the defensive line only comes into play when you lose the ball and the opponents are in your half.

Perhaps you can prove ne wrong but I doubt that defensive line effects the whole team

utd

you can try it by your self and see

since I made that change I lost only twice and that because my GK's and DC's mistakes.

all I'm saying it changed my team play to the better I seem to score almost every match and have a lot of chances on target but my strikers don't have high finishing I play as Grimsby from league 2 in ENGLAND so I don't have good players and also I can't buy players because of the financial situation.

Taunton

So where do you set your defensive line?

1,2, 6 ?

What do you recommend to be the best settings?

utd

right now I set it at 2 with no offside, no tight marking, width at 7.

recently I got defensive mistakes from my defenders but I solve the problem by changing the passing from short to direct.

Dane

This does appear to be the case and indeed it should as it's how it works in real life. If defenders are sitting deep, it has a knock-on effect throughout the team as the midfielders, then forwards will play deeper to compensate (as seen in the England/Israel game where the commentators noted the team were playing too deep when there was no apparent attacking threat)

Especially noticible at home I find where playing too deep (damn my slow ass defenders) results in my forwards playing someway infront of the opposition defence and often taking pot-shots from way out. Pushing the d-line up so my forwards are rough;y in line with their defenders (or 'on the shoulders of' as it were) sorts this out.

utd

I'm 12 in the league 2 the highest I ever been.

every year I was strugling against relegation until the final day of the season.

I'm in april and with a little bit of luck I could even get a place in the play offs.

I think this tactic if it's that good with a team like grimsby then imagine what it would do if used with a good team like manutd, it can destroy teams.