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First i want to say that this is my first major post, but i feel that i have to share with you my approach of the game after many many months of struggling og finding the right way to play this game
My goal
My goal of the game is to make it as simple to play as possible. In that case i wanted to keep clean sheets and score goals.
Tactical possibilities
After having studied many topics of how to play the game and checked and tried many of the tactis available, i found out that the best way is to make your own tactic. So you know what to do when things go wrong
As my idea is to make it simple i took a predefined tactic 4-4-2 diamond with and AMC and DMC with longfarrowed wingers and barrowed fullbacks. I then adjusted all of the players to fit to the way i want them to play.
Tactical adjustments
Again ive studied most of the topics and found out i wanted to use the rule of one, starting my goalkeeper with the mentality of 1 and ending up with one of my strikers to 8. I use global passing of my fullbacks and DMC and my wingers.
The only reason i do that is i feel i contol the games easier. When my current season is over i will experiment with global closing down on the same players.
Playing games
This i feel is the most important thing. I ALWAYS check out the scoutreports on every game.
When i start i check out wether they play defensive or offensive, counter or not, quick or slow, if their midfield is strong or not.
BUT it could happen that the instructions i start with is the opposite that i end the game with. That means that i often start the games with direct, quick football but could end up with playing slow and short.
When playing i follow every thing and i change the things that seems not to work. Chances and possession, good passes, player ratings. I have experienced to change instructions 12-15 times during a game, but believe me it works.
Results
All of this have given me a boost of confidence to continue playing this game. I gave up for some time, but know im "boosting" away alomst every team that play against me.
Currently im scoring 3.1 goals a game and letting in 0.8 a game, so im happy with the progress that im personaly is achieving at the moment
At the moment Wrexham(who im currently playing) is battling for the Championship title in my third season.
Conclusion
I will say that this is my way of playing the game, so this is no formula of how to play it.
But maybe it could help one of you strugglers out there.
My objective was to play defensive counter attacking football and keeping clean sheets.
But I use global setting on ALL players except for the GK when it comes to passing.
After reading this I will consider set my DC's on Direct, my Strikers on Short, rest on Global (11 as default, tweaking before each game, depending on weather etc). Will Still have Long balls on my Keeper since I am in Conference South.
A very good post and a very sensible approach to the game imo. Keeping a few key factors global to make them easy to adjust in accordance with the scout reports definitely makes sense, and is something I have done myself to some success.
My approach 
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