Ste1978

First off, I am sorry if this has been asked before. I am sure there is another thread like this.

I want to find some info on this - when my scout gives me a report of my next opponents, what is a good idea to alter in my tactics?

Would someone be kind and point me in a direction of another thread with these questions.

I used the find function but there was a lot of info to look through.

Ste1978

I have found this bit of info useful. I will post more as I find them

(by Cleon)my next game is against Newcastle and my scout said ' Newcastle play a defensive 442 and like a quick direct style to hit teams on the break'. Now this tells me I can play quite attacking against them, as they tend to sit deep and hit me on the counter attack. So as long as I don't over commit on the attacking front, I should have quite a few shots if I can break them down. Another thing I can do is play a short slow tempo game and try and limit the possession Newcastle have, because they play on the counter and rather direct, I should dominate possession in this game as at times they will give the ball away. So by playing short and slow I will be making them play a style which does not suit them at this time.

I will probably drop my defensive line slightly too, as i know they got fast strikers just by looking at their probable line up. So I don't want my defence to play too high or they might get caught out here, especially as my defenders lack pace. As you can see, I can change quite a few things here, it might seem a lot of messing about, but really its not. All this should take no longer than 30 seconds to change, it sounds harder than it actually is. Newcastle line up against me defensive as I am one of the better sides in the league now, but you get the drift about what I mean with scout reports hopefully? One more thing I should add, is that if my defenders have good man marking attributes then it might be worth while man marking their fast striker who is likely to cause me trouble, I find this helps keep them at bay most games.

DirtyACE

I always tend to set up my tactics so as to play the opposite of what my opponent will be doing. So if they go with possession passing, meaning short passing and slow tempo, then I'll go with quicker tempo and more direct passing. Also width wise I'll go wider because their possession game requires narrow width.

All these lessons I learned here on these forum, especially from people like Cleon and wwfan.
Check out Cleon's Sheffield thread. I think it will help you a lot. It did for me, and I was very confused when I started the game.

DirtyACE

Sheffield thread

Here's the link to Cleon's thread I mentioned above.