Wingbacks - Where Do You Stand On Them?

retired_mtb_grrl · 01-20-2008, 02:13 PM

I've always been a fan of the wingback system myself. I play a 5-2-1-2 formation with my 2nd season leeds team (ie 3 CBKs with WBKs, 2 central midfielders, an attacking mid and 2 strikers).

I feel this allows 2 of my CBKs to deal with the oppositions strikers and leave one as a sweeper. The wingbacks give me the option of wide players when attacking, and can deal with the oppositions wide men when defending.

In FM06 it was a ridculously easy formation and my wingbacks would regularly get 9s and 10s for their performances but (thankfully in my opinion) this isnt the case now but I feel it is still effective.

Overall, I reckon this gives me an edge in defence and midfield. But what do you think to wingbacks in this game?

retired_gwenlyn · 01-20-2008, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by route1:
I've always been a fan of the wingback system myself. I play a 5-2-1-2 formation with my 2nd season leeds team (ie 3 CBKs with WBKs, 2 central midfielders, an attacking mid and 2 strikers).

I feel this allows 2 of my CBKs to deal with the oppositions strikers and leave one as a sweeper. The wingbacks give me the option of wide players when attacking, and can deal with the oppositions wide men when defending.

In FM06 it was a ridculously easy formation and my wingbacks would regularly get 9s and 10s for their performances but (thankfully in my opinion) this isnt the case now but I feel it is still effective.

Overall, I reckon this gives me an edge in defence and midfield. But what do you think to wingbacks in this game?

Up until CM4 (I think) I always played with 5 and used wingbacks. In each version of FM though there has been a dominating position (due to the way they appear to weight the attributes). In this version, dribbling is heavily weighted so wingers and attacking mids in general are really effective. So, I now play with wingers rather than wingbacks.

In the previous 2 versions you could even get away with playing just 3 DCs and no DR/DL or wingbacks, but in FM08, I now have to play with the basic 4 man defence.

To maintain your edge in midfield (as you said the wingbacks definitely give you), you need three in the middle (whether MC, DMC, or AMC or a combination).

How is your goals against column looking wit wingbacks in FM08? And what league are you playing in.

I play in the Spanish league most of the time and tried wingbacks because the wingers are so effective, but they could not cope so I reverted back to my 4-5-1 and it works for me. My goals info (for the first two thirds of this seaon) is scored 59, conceded 11. So it does show that with two good central defenders and a central DM you may not be able to stop the wingers but these three players can stop the players trying to get on the end of their crosses.