crido

Hi. Recently I defeated Aston Villa 3-0 and Arsenal 2-1 at home with Liverpool and I am top of the league by 7 points. But my next game was away to Derby and I only won 2-1 and Derby had most possession. My next game was Wigan and it was a goalless draw. What can I do?

op1

Play defensively or check out the tactics forum; there's some good formations that work there you just have to trial them.

Hawshiels

This is a classic problem that people have. If you watched a full match (even on very fast), you'd see what happens, but perhaps not understand what to do to fix it.

What is happening (proof if you watch the full match) is that Derby will have high time wasting set and will just keep passing the ball around at the back. In some cases, a team can have as much as 80% possession even against a team like Liverpool. They have little chance of scoring, but then so do you - and that's why the AI plays the game like this.

So, a few things you can do to overcome this:

1. How high is your defensive line? If they have too much space in front of you, they can pass the ball around all day and you'll never get possession. So, make sure you set it high (not too high that they get a fast striker and sucker punch you, but certainly as much as 4 or 5 notches from the right). This will reduce the amount of space they have to pass the ball and are likely to lose the ball to you more often.

2. Have your players close them down more than usual. If you have 3 or more midfielders set to close down (at normal or higher), it should be more than enough to get you more possession.

Now that you are getting more possession (which you will not get), you have to use it better. In these games, your creative and flair players are so important. Give them the option of free roles ad increase their creative freedom slightly.

It's a game of statistics and probability. If you can increase your possession, you will have the chance to increase your GOOD shots at goal or to win corners. If you have enough of these - even against a well drilled defence - you will score eventually. There will still be games you don't score in because this is not a magic trick, but these games will be few and far between.

Hope this helps, but try and let me know how you get on. If you need more help, there are plenty of people on here that are happy to help.

p.s. Spend some time setting up your corners and free-kicks (if you haven't already) as sometimes this is your best chance of scoring against teams like this that have 11 men behind the ball.

Hawshiels

p.s. If you go to the tactics forum, it's the best place to discuss it. I'll look out for any posts you have on there.

THC_lean

Croats classic tactic seems to work equally well home and away maybe check that out.

kopsy101

i play more defensive. if they are dominating as they will go for counter attack. it really works

Jops14

I find away games often very hard, wiht fiore i had the best home record, but 7th best league.
I've fixed that now, i just got a team full of attacking flair (Keegan-esque) And they concede 1 or 2 normally, but they score about 4.

allanshearer

i am dundee utd now and i found i hard just lost 2.1 to motherwell anyone know away to win a way