pgsonline said: I've been managing in the Croatian top flight for a few years now. I was an underdog, but am now the top rated team there. However, there is no league or cup money and it is hard to attract big names. Therefore doing well in Europe is important.
I've tried many tactics and they are great domestically, but can't cope with the leap to European major clubs. This season, after finishing third in the Champions League group stages, I decided to switch it up. I played with this formation on FM19 and enjoyed it - but I had a big club then, I was unsure how it would cope with a team with less ability.
In all, I played 17 games (to the end of the season). It went unbeaten. I won the domestic cup 5-1 against my biggest rivals. But in the Europa League it surprised me. Took down PSV 7-2 over 2 legs, then Porto 9-2. Final against Atletico Madrid. A team on paper who are way better than us. We won 4-1.
This comes with a caveat that it does seem to offer up chances to your opponent, but we made plenty of good tackles, blocks and saves. The AMC floats in out of games and the wide players still have the urge to run into corners and not get enough good balls in. But, it scores nice goals, plays some nice footy and can clearly push a teams performances. Whether it will cope when it comes to playing Barcelona, Liverpool, Juve etc, I don't know. Whether my players just suited the roles and were starting to hit new levels anyway, perhaps. But it has pushed my team to a new level and added a new spark to the save.
Great stuff - I'm enjoying it. Expand
Thanks for the great feedback, I agree there are some aspects of the tactic that can be improved and it is something I am looking at the moment
Just added a tweaked version of the tweaked version
Main change is DW role is now WM. Ran a test with 3 teams, Liverpool, PSG and Villa. AM in charge of team selection and training. Goals galore with not much difference in the defence.
Liverpool won the treble 154 goals scored with Salah scoring 67. Some ridiculous results in terms of goals
PSG won a double 174 league goals scored with only 14 conceded (I know, I know its PSG) Mbappe top scored with 69. Check out some of the results!!!
Villa finished 3rd 90 goals scored (best in league) only 38 conceded (4th best) Watkins top scored with 30
Still enjoying this one. Really nice to have a tactic with 2 strikers. Still find some annoyance with wide players running into dead ends - but they do assist and score, so hardly a big gripe.
Testing my Croatian team in the Champions League now - so stronger competition. Firstly played Real Madrid in the Super Cup. They had a 32 year old Mbappe (still amazing). Turned them over 4-0. Lost against Leverkusen in Cl group stage, but also beat Galatasary 3-0 away and Arsenal 4-1 at home.
So sitting pretty on 6 points after 3 games. Hope to keep building the rep so I can bring in some better class players.
pgsonline said: Still enjoying this one. Really nice to have a tactic with 2 strikers. Still find some annoyance with wide players running into dead ends - but they do assist and score, so hardly a big gripe.
Testing my Croatian team in the Champions League now - so stronger competition. Firstly played Real Madrid in the Super Cup. They had a 32 year old Mbappe (still amazing). Turned them over 4-0. Lost against Leverkusen in Cl group stage, but also beat Galatasary 3-0 away and Arsenal 4-1 at home.
So sitting pretty on 6 points after 3 games. Hope to keep building the rep so I can bring in some better class players. Expand
Glad you're still having fun with it, I was looking at potentially changing the wide players to wingers but I think someone has already released something similar using wingers
pgsonline said: I've been managing in the Croatian top flight for a few years now. I was an underdog, but am now the top rated team there. However, there is no league or cup money and it is hard to attract big names. Therefore doing well in Europe is important.
I've tried many tactics and they are great domestically, but can't cope with the leap to European major clubs. This season, after finishing third in the Champions League group stages, I decided to switch it up. I played with this formation on FM19 and enjoyed it - but I had a big club then, I was unsure how it would cope with a team with less ability.
In all, I played 17 games (to the end of the season). It went unbeaten. I won the domestic cup 5-1 against my biggest rivals. But in the Europa League it surprised me. Took down PSV 7-2 over 2 legs, then Porto 9-2. Final against Atletico Madrid. A team on paper who are way better than us. We won 4-1.
This comes with a caveat that it does seem to offer up chances to your opponent, but we made plenty of good tackles, blocks and saves. The AMC floats in out of games and the wide players still have the urge to run into corners and not get enough good balls in. But, it scores nice goals, plays some nice footy and can clearly push a teams performances. Whether it will cope when it comes to playing Barcelona, Liverpool, Juve etc, I don't know. Whether my players just suited the roles and were starting to hit new levels anyway, perhaps. But it has pushed my team to a new level and added a new spark to the save.
Great stuff - I'm enjoying it.
Thanks for the great feedback, I agree there are some aspects of the tactic that can be improved and it is something I am looking at the moment
Just added a tweaked version of the tweaked version
Main change is DW role is now WM. Ran a test with 3 teams, Liverpool, PSG and Villa. AM in charge of team selection and training. Goals galore with not much difference in the defence.
Liverpool won the treble
154 goals scored with Salah scoring 67. Some ridiculous results in terms of goals
PSG won a double
174 league goals scored with only 14 conceded (I know, I know its PSG) Mbappe top scored with 69. Check out some of the results!!!
Villa finished 3rd
90 goals scored (best in league) only 38 conceded (4th best) Watkins top scored with 30
Dortmund won the league
110 goals scored in the league, Haaland responsible for 54 of those. 28 conceded
Forest won the Championship
130 goals scored in the league with Lyle Taylor scoring 44 goals. Conceding 42
Nice one, keep up a good work
Milakus said: Nice one, keep up a good work
Thanks mate, appreciate the kind words
Still enjoying this one. Really nice to have a tactic with 2 strikers. Still find some annoyance with wide players running into dead ends - but they do assist and score, so hardly a big gripe.
Testing my Croatian team in the Champions League now - so stronger competition. Firstly played Real Madrid in the Super Cup. They had a 32 year old Mbappe (still amazing). Turned them over 4-0. Lost against Leverkusen in Cl group stage, but also beat Galatasary 3-0 away and Arsenal 4-1 at home.
So sitting pretty on 6 points after 3 games. Hope to keep building the rep so I can bring in some better class players.
pgsonline said: Still enjoying this one. Really nice to have a tactic with 2 strikers. Still find some annoyance with wide players running into dead ends - but they do assist and score, so hardly a big gripe.
Testing my Croatian team in the Champions League now - so stronger competition. Firstly played Real Madrid in the Super Cup. They had a 32 year old Mbappe (still amazing). Turned them over 4-0. Lost against Leverkusen in Cl group stage, but also beat Galatasary 3-0 away and Arsenal 4-1 at home.
So sitting pretty on 6 points after 3 games. Hope to keep building the rep so I can bring in some better class players.
Glad you're still having fun with it, I was looking at potentially changing the wide players to wingers but I think someone has already released something similar using wingers
Not even half time yet, i feel like changing my tactic to give them a chance! Only joking.
GlynnLFC said: Not even half time yet, i feel like changing my tactic to give them a chance! Only joking.
@CBP87, looks good but why didn't you create a new thread for it in the FM22 tactic sharing section?
It doesn't make sense sharing a FM22 tactic in FM21 sharing tactic section
Lapidus said: @CBP87, looks good but why didn't you create a new thread for it in the FM22 tactic sharing section?
It doesn't make sense sharing a FM22 tactic in FM21 sharing tactic section
I didn't even see that new section pal, my bookmark takes me straight to the FM21 tactic. I have created a new thread in the FM22 tactic sharing section https://fm-arena.com/thread/1618-mongoose-4132-fm22/#thread-name-anchor
Will delete the post above