retired_appoint

Playing as West Ham and have Ashton and Bellamy.

Bellamy is an enigma, great pre patch, awful post patch. His biggest problem is he is either offside all the time or he misses untold one on ones, but that could be down to the match engine.. (oh for an option to round the keeper!)

I'm tinkering around with a 4-4-2 at the moment and nearly all my players get a 7 stat except for these two who are almost always on a 6. So how can I get my best out of them?

I'm trying to get my team playing a short passing, high tempo game with a normal width and a high defensive line. I found a slow tempo with short passing didn't reall work.

Ashton : I have him on the left and he is down as a target man. His ststs are good enough but with target man supply on mixed he doesn't win enough headers to flick on. So I have recently put supply to feet and hold up ball to see if that makes a difference. I have him on an attacking mentality with short passing, mixed forward runs and rare at running with ball. I have him on mixed through balls.

I have my full backs and wingers on crossing to him. Full Backs on mixed crossing from mixed and wingers on mixed crossing on often. I have the left sided players crossing to near post and the right sided players crossing to far post. This is implemented as he is on the left. I do wonder if I am better to have it set at cross to target man?

One thing about this is if you have target man supply to feet, is that what the crosses will do, go to his feet????

Bellamy : He is on the right and has an attacking mentality. I have him on short passing, run with ball often, forward runs often, and rare through balls.

I don't use and BArrows on them.

I just can't get them scoring. Any ideas would be gratefully received.

retired_truebamichael

Your tactics look good, but then what do I know.

But have you thought it might be to do with a personality clash between the players? It might not say that they don't like each other but that might just mean that their dislike isn't serious enough to be reported on. And knowing what Craig Bellamy's like, it may well be worth replacing him with another quick smaller guy, e.g Obafemi Martins?

retired_appoint

Intresting thought, I might try that.

One other question I failed to ask is it worth not using Ashton as a target man? Keep all the stats the same but just use him as a normal player???

What confuses me with Target Men is the Hold Up Ball box. If you play balls to the Target Man's head with the HUB box ticked does that mean the player will try and get the ball under control rather than flicking it on?