retired_astinson

Here's a question.

I'm on the road playing a superior opponent. I'm playing with a 5x5 with my d-line deep and counter-attacking. I go wider than I usually do on the road b/c I feel like their central defenders are just too tough for me to score at all in a narrow game. Lo and behold, I score first in the 26th minute. To this point I have generated 5 shots, 4 of them on target, while my superior opponent has generated just 2 with neither of them on troubling the keeper.

So having scored first what do I do? Should I A) keep playing the same stratgey that has so far suceeded or B) change to an ultra defensive tactic and try to hold onto my one goal lead? Having stolen a goal part of me wants to try to protect it, but the other part tells me that going defensive just sets me up for them eqaulizing before the half and then breaking my heart with some 80th minute 4-2-4 nightmare. Then again, keeping wide on the road seems just as sure to turn me into a pumpkin.

What should one do in that situation?

FYI: I decided to keep wide and try to get a second goal ... which I did! right before the half. I came out in the second half with a defensive replacement and went into a 5-3-2 super narrow. Of course they scored twice in the second half and I recieved a very unsatisfying draw. This suggest I should have just stayed with what was working, but deep down I feel that if I had come out wide to start to second half I wouldn't have even walked away with the point I got.

Thougts?

retired_abelin

Sounds to me like you did the tactically astute thing. After all, you escaped with a valuable point against a superiour opponent, right?

I actually find it very pleasing with a "valuable point" in this version in contrast to previous versions where for me anything less than a victoy was annoying.