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    September 09, 2021

    Football Manager - Who cares about an 8-goal classic when we can instead fondly remember a hard-earned 1-0 away win?

    Who cares about an 8-goal classic when we can instead fondly remember a hard-earned 1-0 away win?

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 11:23 AM PDT

    What more can I offer you? My house? My car? My girlfriend?

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 03:56 PM PDT

    Now that we know FM22 will drop on Nov 9th, with BETA probably being released October 26th, what new features would you like to see in the new game?

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 11:29 AM PDT

    FM22 release date is 9th November (screen in comments)

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 06:50 AM PDT

    Finished my responsibilities with work, self care, family and other relationships. Now it’s just wine and FM

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 12:47 PM PDT

    How I (A Noob) Created a Tactic without knowing ANYTHING in FM - Noob Friendly Guide

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 04:58 AM PDT

    Greetings everyone. As you can see from my name, I created my account yesterday on Reddit. The main purpose of it being on how to actually learn this beautiful game.

    The purpose of this guide is to help noob players out there who were like myself - And how they can go from being ABSOLUTELY clueless to creating a tactic that they can use. I've tried searching for videos on this, and reading blog posts but they kept pushing me down a rabbit hole where you read more, do less and understand nothing!

    Hopefully this is the LAST guide you should read and go out creating your own tacticn without relying on other people to do the job for you. Trust me, IT'S SO MUCH FUN!

    NOTE: The guide may appear long and daunting, but i've kept it as NOOB FRIENDLY as I possibly can!

    How I used to play before: I started playing FM in its FM19 era. Usually googling plug'n'play tactics, without knowing what the roles meant. Using the FM editor to give myself the best of everything. Download training schedule packs without realising what they meant and how it affected my tactic. And last but not least, ticking every gat-damn instruction on there.

    Then I saw how passionately Lollujo plays in his videos on youtube - Non-league to Legend and among other of his saves. Which made me want to try out learning the game for myself. Huge props to him. May he continue making more videos.

    Honestly, ever since creating my tactic, seeing how players play, move, pass, and then score is just majestic. There's no other feeling quite like it!

    I'll be breaking this down into several steps. It might appear daunting at first, but don't quit before you haven't even begun your journey.

    If I can do it, ANYBODY CAN!

    Pick the best team first:

    If you are a total noob, chances are, you really don't know what the hell you are doing. Go to the top divisions like England, Spain etc and pick their best team. In my case, I went with Liverpool. You can go with any team but the purpose of your selection should be the learning curve you'll get.

    See the Team Report:

    If you don't have any idea about the styles on which football is played, the team report can help you decide what your players are capable of and what they're not capable of. You can access the team report by going to:
    Team Report (under the tactics on the left side) and clicking Assistant Report.

    Now, if you chose Liverpool, which is a good starting point to see the Report, you'll see alot of pros with very little cons. The main standout attributes that standout in the pros are:

    • Their first touch is good.
    • Their concentration levels are good.
    • There is a good level of anticipation.
    • Players can mark well.
    • Players can make good decisions.
    • Technique, Vision, Agility and Determination are excellent.
    • Good depth at wing-backs plus, the squad is good at crossing.

    Now, if you can collect the pros, you can judge from this report alone, that the players are good at a high-pressing game. In simple words, they can defend at a much faster rate, and then counter as soon as the ball is won. In the last point, wing-backs and crossing: You can also start to imagine a basic skeleton of the formation at this point - Wingbacks will be used for crossing the ball.

    Visualizing a formation:

    This was all the thought process going in my head up-to this point. Okay great. But how do I select a formation?

    A simple rule of thumb, if this is your first time understanding tactics,always ALWAYS create a formation that suits your players. No need to tinker around things you don't understand.

    To find who your best players are at which position, go to:

    • Squad -> Players -> Right next to Players, you'll get a drop down menu that shows what different views you can use to view your squad. Click it and then choose Reports. Click the Ability and it'll sort your players out from the best to the worst.

    See the tab of Best Role and Insert the column of Position instead of Best Position.

    If you're on Liverpool side and following me along, you can see the top 6 positions are as follows:

    • Sadio Mane - Inside Forward.
    • Virgil Van Dijk - Ball Playing Defender.
    • Mohammad Salah - Inverted Winger.
    • Alison - Goalkeeper (Lets exclude this for now and focus on the main outfield players)
    • Andrew Robertson - Wingback (NOTE: if you're unsure which position he plays as a wingback, there's a L written besides such as WB(L) which means he plays on the left side of the wingback position)
    • Jordan Henderson - Box to Box Midfielder.
    • Fabinho - Defensive Midfielder.

    Now without any formation, you can visualise a formation on how your team should play because you have to play according to the strength of your team.

    • You have two players who can play on the right and left side of the pitch further forwards. Mohammad Salah and Sadio Mane.
    • You have one strong defender.
    • Wingbacks to supply the crosses.
    • A strong holding midfielder such as Fabinho.
    • And a hard working midfielder Jordan Henderson.

    TIP: If you focus your game down the center of the pitch using your midfield players, the best players of your team, Salah and Mane will be useless because they don't work well within a midfield pairing. Getting my point?

    Now you should be confident enough to create a SIMPLE yet effective tactic even if you haven't created before. If you're not sure what roles are, I will be explaining it after the tactics end. You'll have a much more complete view rather than the vague descriptions that FM has.

    CREATING A TACTIC AND HOW I CREATED MY OWN CUSTOM TACTIC:

    If you have read this far, I applaud your determination. Don't worry everything will be fine.

    Just a precaution: I have explained why I chose a specific role, and why I didn't choose the remaining roles. Highly recommend you read it all and try to visualise what's happening.

    Go to your tactic screen which can be found on the left side of the tabs. In front of you, you'll see a list of options on different styles of play. If you have chosen Liverpool, like I did, we know this team has excellent attributes of Gegenpressing.

    Scroll down and Create a New Tactic with a Clean Slate. Choose any formation and click continue. Formation doesn't matter at that screen.

    When I was creating this tactic, I had one goal in mind: Attack wins you games, Defense wins you championships.

    How do I create a tactic that works well offensively and works just as good defensively?

    This is where the roles, duties and position knowledge is going to come into play. Without bogging down your mind into an endless tunnel of instructions, roles and whatnot. I'll explain them to you in the most simplest of fashions of why I used these roles and why other roles wouldn't work in my formation.

    Note, ALL positions that you select, have to link with each other in a formation to make it work effectively.

    Forward Position:

    ​

    • Deep Lying Forward (Support)
      I chose Firmino to play as a Deep Lying Forward. Deep Lying forward in simple terms drops down to help defend the ball from his attacking position. He roams down the left and right side of the pitch area and sometimes even dropping a lit bit deeper to help his team-mates out. This lines perfectly with a gegenpressing tactic. As we want everyone pressing the ball.
      With a Support Duty, he will most likely support his team-mates, creating chances for them to score rather than selfishly take his own goal-scoring opportunity. If it was an Attack duty, he would take more goal-scoring chances and not pass out to his team-mates. The chances are there that he'll pass but they're quite low as compared to him being on support Duty.

    Why other Roles would NOT have worked:

    I will explain these briefly as they're quite easy to understand. Will go in the Defensve and Midfield in more depth as they're often confusing to people.

    • Advance Forward: Too attacking. Not much defensive work. Players like Aguero.

    • Poacher: Who only look to score goals. Again, not much defensive effort.

    • Target Man: Target Man generally work on a 2 striker formation. Not much use here.

    • Complete Forward:
      Like the name says, is a complete forward. Has all the abilities but if you see the description, it says He is equally adept at playing in others, fashioning chances for himself and getting on the end of team moves. Such a player transcends tactical instructions and simply be allowed to do his own thing. Unless you're Messi, Ronaldo, Lewandowski etc, I wouldn't want my forward to do as he pleases.

    • Pressing Forward:
      Like the description it says, he puts pressure on the opposition, closes them down and chases any loose balls. This sounds like a perfect gegenpressing player. But, why didn't i choose him? Because this role involves the player getting into rough challenges. Get Stuck In instruction, whereas i don't have that instruction in my Team Instructions.
      TIP: Always always choose an individual role to the player that connects with how your team plays collectively.

    • Trequarista:
      Most people get confused to what this position is. The simplest explanation is: Look at a 32-33 year old Lionel Messi. He rarely does defensive duties. He stays in the attacking midfield or central forward positions. Drops into the holes of the oppositions midfield and defense. Since he does not do anything defensively, you're basically defending with 9 men instead of the usual 10. But when you do get the ball, you use the Trequarista as your main outlet of attacking. That's why there's only one duty of Trequarista which is Attack.

    • False Nine:
      False Nine is a lone striker who often comes very deep in the midfield as to bring a one or two defenders out of position to help the inside forwards attack. This is good for a defensive duty to what I'm looking for, but since he doesn't do attack himself and rather looks for passes or tries to play others, I don't want that.

    ​

    I wanted a good defensive plus attacking option in my formation. Hence, why Deep Lying Forward is what I went for instead of choosing other positions for Firmino.

    ​

    TWO OTHER ATTACKING OPTIONS:

    ​

    • On the Left side, Inside Forward (Attack) and on the right side Inverted Winger (Support):
      For these two, I put Sadio Mane on the left with an IF (Attack) role and duty, while Mohammad Salah is put on the right with an IW (Support) duty. Most people get confused on how these two roles work. To give you a real life example.
      Look at how Hakim Ziyech (from Chelsea) and Raheem Sterling (from Manchester City) play in real life. Hakim Ziyech is an Inverted Winger where he cuts from the right hand side to a more central position and then looks for a passing, crossing (supporting role duties) to his opponent to score from. He will also take chance to score himself but the % of him supporting is more than his own goal-scoring chances.
      Raheem Sterling is an Inside Forward who'll also cut from the wing into a more central position, but he'll rather look to score himself rather than pass or support his team-mates to score. He'll use one touch passing or look for space for his team-mates to pass the ball so he can score in such an opportunity.

    Now you can visually see how both Mane and Salah will play in my formation. Instead of selfish shooting from everywhere, my forwards have a balance of attack plus supporting each other.

    ​

    Why didn't I choose other roles:

    ​

    • Winger:
      Winger does not cut inside from the left to the right side of the pitch, nor he cuts from the right to the left side of the pitch. He goes forward down the plank and looks for a cross. This does not work with the wing-backs I wanted to have (Will talk about this when i discuss Trent Alexander and Robertson in the defensive roles). Since I want a Gegenpressing tactic, i want the wide players to link up with the midfield or with each other rather than aim the ball without any ambition without any plan.
    • Advanced Playmaker:
      According to the description, The AP aims to drop into the oppositions midfield and defense, making himself available for the team-mates passes and turn defense into attack in an instant.

    Since we want an attack minded player, this description does not fit at all to what we want from a player who's on the outskirts.

    • Trequarista:

    Same principles to what I have discussed above in the attacking side are applied here.

    • Wide Target Man:

    The Wide Target Man will be the main outlet when the ball is cleared. Ideally positioned against a smaller full back. With an attack duty, he will be the main focal point of the attack.

    I don't want one man to be the focal point of my attack. If he gets man-marked, my tactic is fucked because the man responsible for is fucked.

    • Raumdeuter:

    A raumdeuter can be described as a Wide Poacher. He waits patiently outwide waiting for opportune moments when he can burst in and get the goal. Again, this is a role which is only covered in an Attacking Role, hence, he doesn't offer any defensive duties for my team.

    In a nutshell, i chose Inside Forward on Attack and Inverted Winger on Support to bring a balance of Attack+Defense that any of the other roles mentioned couldn't on my tactic.

    ​

    • For my attacking midfield role, i have left it empty.

    • For the central midfield role, I have chosen the option of Central Midfielder with a Support Duty.
      Why did i choose this role: Since I want a balance of attack and defense, if you look at the Role description by hovering over it, it tells you that this guy is the link between the attack and the defense. He will go forward as well as come back to his defensive duties. You need a very all rounded player to perform this task. Thats why I chose Jordan Henderson for it. Jordan's work rate is going to compensate for the fact I have no attacking midfield role and will help the attack in that regard.
      Why other roles wouldn't have worked in this case:

    • Deep Lying Playmaker: In the description it says Operates in the space between Defense and the midfield and aims to create attacking moves via pinpoint passes to players positioned higher up the pitch. Although a primarily creative player, he has to be competent in the art of defense.

    By looking at the description above, you can see that this type of player would be around the central area of the pitch, not looking to go forward and support the attacks. It would not compensate for the lack of attacking midfielder I have upfront.

    • Box to Box Midfielder:
      If you want to imagine what a Box to Box midfielder is, imagine Donny Van De Beek from Manchester United or from his Ajax days. The guy is a brilliant B2B player. But if you see him play, he is a great asset when it comes to pressing and defensive duties as a midfielder, but when he goes into attacking, he will look to pass the ball to another player rather than shoot himself when the opportunity arises. This is essentially a Box to Box midfielder.
      This type of midfielder is useful, but he isn't the type of player who is going to compensate for the lack of an attacking midfielder upfront.

    ​

    • Advanced Playmaker:

    In the context of the midfield, he is a bit different as compared to being out in the wide. He will expect others to defend while he sits waiting for an opportunity to get a pass, and then he plays a threatening ball to your team-mates. Since we don't have an attacking midfielder who is there, we DON'T need an AP to sit around, and wait for defending to happen. We need someone who does DEFENDING and ATTACKING on the same priority levels. Again, to compensate for the lack of attacking midfielder.

    ​

    • Ball Winning Midfielder:
      According to the description, Playing in central midfield the BWM main function is to close down the opposition and win the ball.
      So far, so good?
      however, he also needs the technical skills to help the team keep posession and fashion out chances for players with attacking roles.
      Hm, this seems interesting, but why didn't i use it?
      Because of the Defend and Support duties, the BWM goes out the window.
      On Defend Duty: On a defend duty, a BWM quickly wins the ball back and distributes it to other players.
      On Support Duty: On support duty, a BWM wins the ball higher up the pitch and then involves counter-attacks.

    On both of these roles, BWM becomes useless for my Liverpool's formation. Because if he is on Defend duty, he'll remain central and won't contribute anything towards the missing Attacking Midfielder position. And if he is on Support Duty, he is going to be more in the oppositions half, leaving a big gap in the central midfield for the opposition to exploit.

    • Roaming Playmaker:
      The real life example of this is Paul Pogba. Even though this is a good option to have, I was almost as close to selecting this over Central Midfielder role. But this role has an instruction that the player will come deep to get the ball. I don't want a midfielder who's in the center, coming back to get the ball. I already have a player in mind who's going to do that. And if he leaves his central position to come and get the ball, the central position is going to be left exposed.

    These are the tiny nuances you have to see when you're selecting a position. Its quite easy once you have formulated a tactic of what you want to implement. You keep the good stuff in that fits your tactic and remove the rest of everything bit by bit.

    After doing all the its and bits of positions, I was done with my attack and my central midfield position. Now it was time to decide the Defensive Midfield position. This was such a crucial position that I kept wanting to go back to the quote Attacks wins you games, Defense wins you championships.

    DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER:

    I wanted a role which would be solid defensively in the defensive midfield area, but when we lose the ball, I want that defensive midfielder to come back in line with the defenders and help them out as well.

    Again, to recap: I wanted a position that my player could defend his area of the pitch, but also come back and help out the defenders by tucking inbetween them. E.g, if you're playing with a 3 defender fromation, and you have that position selected, when he'll come back, you'll have 4 defenders instead of 3.

    The position I selected was: ANCHOR MAN.

    This position does exactly what I want him to do. And for this role I chose Fabinho. He's just a monster at this position.

    Why i didn't choose any other role:

    TL;DR: Even though other roles were good at their respective defensive midfield position, they didn't tuck in with the defense like I had envisioned. Only Anchor Man does that.

    Plus, Anchor Man and Central Midfielder also have a good balance between them. Anchor Man is a solid work in the defensive midfield area, while also supporting the defenders. Meanwhile Central Midfielder can offer his support and defensive and make a more meaningful impact knowing a Strong Anchor Man is between the defense.

    DEFENSE:

    I went with a strong 3 man defense. Position and Players selected are as follows:

    Virgil Van Dijk - Ball Playing Defender (Stopper):

    Joel Matip - Ball Playing Defender (Cover)

    If your defender is good on the ball, his passing is good, composure etc, that means he can take more risk with his defending and target his anchor man for a pass much better. With a Stopper duty, it means when a ball comes over the top to the opponents striker, this person will be the one who heads it clear or attacks that ball.

    With a Cover duty, Matip will be lower or behind from where Virgil is. They'll be similar but Virgil will attack the ball while Matip will be behind him.

    Joe Gomez - Central Defender (Cover)

    if you don't want to take a risk with your defender and know they might MIGHT make a mistake, put them on Central Defender. They'll take less risks and won't feel pressured to try and create passes for the anchor man or anybody else.

    WING-BACKS:

    Instead of the traditional wingbacks which are with the defenders, i put them just below the half-line position.

    Andrew Robertson - Wingback Support
    Trent Alexander - Complete Wingback Attack

    Now first of all, know the difference between the two of them.

    A wingback will do his role of defensive and attacking consistently. He'll move up and down throughout that left handside (Robertson), looking to get more crosses in, making overlapping runs etc.

    Whereas a Complete Wingback's starting position will be around the half-way line. He will still come back to defend but he will more likely be an attack minded player, looking to get more crosses in, making an overlapping run etc.

    Both of them are similar. One is more of a balanced between attacking + defending (Wingback Support), the other is more of an attack minded mentality when the opposition has the ball, and will only come back when its out of possession.

    Now a couple of things have to be noted here:

    1. Wingbacks will only complement your forwards if the forwards cut inside making room for the wingbacks to make an overlapping run. Such as Inverted Forwards and Inside Forwards cut inside, and your wingbacks can make a forward run for them to be passed the ball on.
    2. If your forwards are wingers, and your defensive players are also wingbacks, both of them will move in the same direction, no coherency will be displayed and nothing come out of it as a result.
    3. If your forwards are inverted wingers or inside forwards, DON'T put your defensive players to be Inverted Wingbacks. Inverted Wingers will also be cutting inside, and inverted wingbacks will also cut inside when they come forward and the extra space ahead will go to waste as no one is making that run!

    So whatever position you pick, MAKE SURE that they complement each other otherwise they're going to negate each others affects and your team will likely get stomped.

    MY VERY FIRST FORMATION:

    After carefully selecting all the roles, my very first formation is 5-1-1-3 DM WB Wide.

    For the people that have still a bit of trouble understanding what it means:

    5 defenders (Including wingbacks Robertson and Trent)

    1 Defensive Midfielder (Anchor Man)

    1 Central Midfielder

    3 Forwards

    This is the standard formation.

    When it goes in attack mode:

    3 Forwards+ 2 wingbacks + 1 central midfielder: 6 attacking bodies while 3 defenders and an anchorman remain back.

    When it loses possession:

    Anchor Man drops deep with the defenders, wingbacks come back and it becomes a 6 man defense but my forwards also press so we become solid defensively while the entire team in a way starts to win the ball back collectively!

    This is the entire skeleton of the tactic creation and how I went on about creating a tactic!

    PLAYER AND TEAM INSTRUCTION

    Your formation is now complete. You've designed the roles like a magician. They'll play like the positions but, how the team performs collectively while also being in their position is now going to be done in Team and Player Instructions.

    Player Instructions:

    I don't mess with these. I let the players decide what they want to do. And its completely situational based on depending on the match and what you are seeing. If the player isn't crossing more often in the match, pause the game, and for that specific player, edit the player instruction to Cross More Often.

    That's it.

    Team Instruction

    A team functions in three phases:

    In possession

    In possession means, when your players have the ball, how would you like to approach the play?
    I will break down each of what they mean, and what I used in my formation to suit how I want them to play the game.

    ​

    1. Attacking Width:
      Attacking Width in simple terms: If you're using wingbacks, inside forwards etc and you want the players to be positioned at a more wider areas of the field, you want the Attacking Width to be one slider to the right, which says Wide. That's what I have done on my tactic.
      Similarly, if you have a central point which is strong, where you have a 4 midfield setup along with 1 attacking midfielder, then you want to have an attacking width to Narrow. To allow players to move closer to each other instead of being apart.
    2. Approach Play:
      Approach Play in simple words mean, if you want to focus on a certain area of the pitch that you think your team is strong in. E.g, if your also playing with inside forwards, and you know your left inside forward is weak as compared to the right one, then you can select the Focus play down the right.
      Let me also debunk this absurd myth around Overlap Left, Overlap Right, Underlap Left, Underlap right.
      If you select OVERLAP LEFT, OVERLAP RIGHT, Or any of those options, it DOES NOT mean your player is going to make an OVERLAP, UNDERLAP etc to that specific position. It simply means if you have a left inside forward, and he is about to cut inside and run forward, and you have selected the option of Overlap Left, instead he will hold the ball, potentially ruining a chance of a clear cut goal, just till someone makes an overlap to the left side.
      And just to make things clear, if you have selected Wingbacks on Support or Attack, they'll automatically make those OVERLAPPING RUNS. You don't need to select any OVERLAPPING or UNDERLAPPING options. Even if you hover over the Descriptions of these, it will tell you that the player will LOOK for an overlap.
      And for those who don't know what an overlap or an underlap is, if a wingback runs behind someone, its called an overlap. If your wingback runs infront of someone, its called underlap.
      I usually don't tick any of these, not even pass in space. because Gegenpressing is a relatively direct passing game where alot of the ball is going to space anyways. So adding that additional option is going to mess with my passing.

    3. Passing Directness:
      Passing Directness means, the distance of pass a player is willing to make. If it's on short and shorter, then the player will most likely pass his way through the pitch. If it's on standard, then the players will do a mixture of passing. From short, to shorter and sometimes the long ball to create chances. If it's on slightly more direct or much more direct then the players will play long balls for longer periods of time.
      A rule of thumb: Gegenpressing, TikiTaka, Possession based tactics where you are expected to control the game work on Shorter and Standard Passing. For counter-attacking tactics where you're not expecting to have much of the ball, you use direct passing to maybe spot a striker and he can do the goal your team desperately needs.
      My passing directness is set on Standard.

    4. Tempo:
      Tempo in this game does NOT mean how fast you should be playing the game. It means how direct your passing is or in simple terms, how urgently a player decides to give the ball away in search for a pass.
      For example, if your tempo is set on Higher, your players will MOST LIKELY use long balls and are going to lose possession rather quickly. If you feel like your players are loosing too much ball possession, just lower the tempo.
      My tempo is also set on Standard.

    5. Time Wasting:
      Pretty much self-explanatory. Your players will tend to waste time in order to eat the seconds off of the clock. I have put it on NEVER. But when i'm winning the game at around 82nd to 83rd minute i'll set this up to maximum. I see my players faking an injury and that eats up alot off the time. People will take their time in throwins. free-kicks, corners, etc you name it.

    6. Final Third:
      Final third is what you want your players to do when they're around the oppositions goal. I usually leave this as it is. Let players do what they feel is natural.
      Work Ball Into The Box: DO-NOT select this. This does not mean your players are going to just go in the box, and then shoot on first sight. If they don't find a CLEAR-CUT chance for the entire game, they will not SHOOT.

    7. Play for Set Pieces, Creative Freedom, Dribbling:
      I don't select any of this because I let players do their own thing rather than get bogged down by instructions. They play well regardless.

    We have done the IN-POSSESSION Section. Now lets move on towards IN-TRANSITION.

    In Transition:

    In-Transition is split into three further categories:

    1. When possession has been lost.
    2. When possession has been won.
    3. Goalkeeper in possession.

    Let's discuss them.

    When possession has been lost:

    When you lose the ball, how do you want your team to go on about winning the ball back?

    1. CounterPress (Which is what I do in Gegenpressing)
    2. Regroup

    If you have a good side that has a high work rate, teamwork, and can do multiple task at once, then you choose counterpress where everyone wants to win the ball quickly and relentessly from the opposition.

    Similarly if you don't want to fight back hard to win the ball, and want to focus on your defensive shape because you dont have the attributes for gegenpressing, you can choose to tell your players to Regroup and then win the ball back.

    When possession has been won:

    When you win the ball back, either through gegenpressing or regroup, what do you want to do with it?

    1. Counter (Which aligns with Gegenpressing)
    2. Hold Shape (Which aligns with the play a team that does regrouping)

    Counter simply means when the ball has been won, they'll quickly transition into an attack and then burst forward with that energy. Which is what gegenpressing is about.

    Hold Shape means that the players will be asked to follow a more patient approach in building upto the play. Basically following a structured approach.

    When Goalkeeper is in Possession

    Where do you want the ball to go when your goalkeeper has the ball?

    Remember when I told you that Ball Playing Defender is the one who has the best of ability as compared to his defenders? I usually select Virgil to be given the ball so as to not lose possession. If I don't select him and kick it long, oppponents can get the ball and possibly counter. Even if I am strong defensively, i don't want to watch a counter-attack. Rather I'd be the one doing counter-attacking football.

    Last but not least,

    Out of Possession:

    What your team does and how it behaves when it doesn't have the ball.

    1. Defensive Shape: I normally don't use the offside trap unless you're defending quite high and your partnership with defenders are quite strong. Since i have a 3 man defender with one anchor man, i normally dont use this.
    2. Line of Engagement and Defensive Line: In gegenpressing as I mentioned, attackers will be doing the defending. So it makes sense for the Line of engagement for attackers to be MUCH forward to the max. And for the defenders, it depends on the game. If, I'm facing an opponent whose striker is extra pacy, I might drop the engagement line to Standard. Otherwise I keep the defensive Line high. As to give a more attacking minded defesiveness to my team.
    3. Marking and Tackling: I use tight marking because I have good defenders who can mark their players with ease. If you have defenders who have low marking and tackling, i don't advise in checking this option.
    4. Pressing Intensity: It is pretty self-explanatory. I have put it on More Urgent so players are pressing and trying to win the ball back much quicker. Rather than be lethargic and lazy if I don't set this.
    5. Prevent Short GK Distribution: Remember the defensive duties i talked about for a Deep Lying Forward? This is where it comes into play as well as your inside forwards and inverted wingers. they'll press the oppositions goalkeeper so he doesn't try to distribute shortly but rather takes a long kick and loses the possession.
    6. Tackling: I don't check any of the boxes. As I want players to tackle like they normally would. Get Stuck In would cause more yellow and red cards. And I would like to play with a 11 man team.

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    Aaaand that's it for the tactic guide and breakdown of how I made my first tactic!

    If you guys have read it this far, then I hope you learned a thing or two. The only intention I had for writing this much was to educate people who are just like me like how i was 17 hours ago, looking for solutions on blogs, youtube videos and not finding anything.

    Any helpful comments to me on how I can improve myself further or any mistake I might have made in the guide, pls do tell and I'll edit and fix it.

    If you also want me to make a similar guide on how I approached my Pre-Season, my Training, Scouting, then let me know and I'll make it for you lot. Because training and pre-season are directly linked to how your tactic should work. If you have put gegepressing tactic but are using schedules of wingplay or tikitaka, then your tactic isn't going to be efficient nor its going to work.

    NOTE: I haven't gone into the deeper aspects of youth development, managing under 23's and whatnot. But I will later.

    Hope you enjoy and peace.

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    Relegated Norwich Won the FA Cup - qualifying them for the Euros - by beating Arsenal, thus denying my Nottingham Forest their first European football in about 30 years. Sigh.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 11:53 AM PDT

    Must be some big money transfer

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 02:32 AM PDT

    I thought I'd share the absolute shithouse that has been the last few years of Champions League

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 07:28 AM PDT

    Probably not that unusual, but the team in second has already qualified, whilst top hasn't.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 02:16 PM PDT

    FM 22

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 07:15 AM PDT

    After 22 seasons, I've taken my local side from the 6th tier to the prem in my dof challenge!

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 02:00 PM PDT

    thank you kind sir for your generosity

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 07:56 PM PDT

    Football Manager 2022 - £26 EU-UK version

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 10:31 AM PDT

    ShopTo regularly provide the cheapest price I can find for a Sega verified retailer.

    https://www.shopto.net/en/dwnld65016-football-manager-2022-p1151983/

    As they're a verified retailer, you'll get beta access. Just for confirmation of that, it tells you in the description, and Neil Brock confirms it here:

    https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/556718-football-manager-2022-%E2%80%93-debuts-november-9th/

    With the list of verified retailers here:

    https://www.sega.com/sega-approved-partner-list

    You get the code straight away - it's sat in my Steam library as we speak just waiting for the beta to drop (roughly two weeks before release) so I can download it!

    Hope someone finds this useful

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    Football Manager 2022 launching Day One on Gamepass!

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 07:07 AM PDT

    Just started playing FM21 and decided to take a chance on this not fully scouted 17 yr old. Safe to say I’m glad I made this decision!

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 09:53 PM PDT

    I found this way funnier than I should have.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 04:09 PM PDT

    AI PSG not playing around (start of season 3 & still no UCL title)

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 01:03 PM PDT

    When you realise it's time to let you DoF go

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 01:36 AM PDT

    What are you doing in North Korea Ivan?

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 10:53 AM PDT

    Picked up this beast on a free when he was 16, he's developing nicely

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 06:08 PM PDT

    Part 4 Managing the “toughest” club in FM (AFC Turris-Oltul Turnu Magurele)

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 12:45 AM PDT

    Part 4 Managing the

    Over halfway thru the season now, and I'm staring to get more and more invested in this save.

    A lot of news to talk about, not that many games because of the Winter break.

    First BIG news is that Casper (TheFmKits) Have been so kind to make some custom kits for this save, and I have to say they are so beautiful, I wish I could buy one of them I real life, I'm so thankful for this, and please go and follow him on Instagram.

    https://preview.redd.it/b4m7nsapmfm71.png?width=643&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a8be3182bb9c18f0c99dd3615853877709c69eb

    Away kit and Third kit

    Back to FM and there have been some things happening at the club, things like the press acknowledging who the real GOAT of Romania is.

    The press knows who the real GOAT is.

    He even got into the team of the week, I think he's the first of my players to get into TOTW, I'm sure he must be the oldest ever to be in team of the week.

    https://preview.redd.it/sywsyt4smfm71.png?width=643&format=png&auto=webp&s=86b08f826caa3f0e78e8e0e47229f12d255f241e

    I also got a lot of rumors about a potential takeover, but from my experience it's highly unlikely that the worst team in a league get taken over, I find that it's usually one of the biggest clubs or an up and coming club that gets a takeover, but if a consortium thinks we are a up and coming team, the by all means, spend as much cash as you like in this club.

    https://preview.redd.it/z3u0wlxsmfm71.png?width=643&format=png&auto=webp&s=3899ca8775c49c61b76ed801bdd84cd4badd49ac

    We have played a few games, but not too many because of a Winter break.We ended 2020 of with 2 defeates, one of which we should have won, because Steaua is fighting for relegation with us, the other game, was more of a beat down then what the score line suggest.

    https://preview.redd.it/mx6k8litmfm71.png?width=608&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7040eb7d74ce7135056c8a7ed2ac741ff3cc9e4

    We start 2021 out with a bang, a great win against a better side then us, if you would like a run down of this game, I recorded this game in Ep. 3 on my Youtube channel

    https://preview.redd.it/g3yav43umfm71.png?width=627&format=png&auto=webp&s=29d4a0d357e080a12991aaf8f87db44ee62f1ba4

    In the Winter break there was a transfer window, but we weren't that active, we brought in a new RB and ST to be backups, and a new Mezzela CM to be more attacking and helping my striker.And lastly as someone on reddit said, I went thru some of the higher teams and loaned a LB at CFR Cluj.Some of the new players got their debut in the 2-1 win, and some of them played a important role in ud getting the 3 points.

    Even though we got 3 points from those 3 games, the league table isn't pretty, it's very close, and will be a real struggle once we go into separate pots.

    https://preview.redd.it/rw35bcdvmfm71.png?width=557&format=png&auto=webp&s=c3e291e3faff09fcd5a6d7ec6cb0292b7140d5f1

    I still have a hope that we can survive, but the league is getting tighter and tighter, and it's more and more important to get the points against your rivals down here at the bottom of the league.

    Once again a big thanks to Casper (TheFmKits) for the beautiful custom kits, if there is anything you want to see please leave a comment about it and I will include it, or maybe check out if I have included it in my Youtube video.

    Se you in the next post.

    Have a lovely day.

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    After being promoted back to the Bundesliga, Augsburg became german champions on the last day!

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 06:24 AM PDT

    Introducing...Osvaldo Jorge.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2021 03:21 PM PDT
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