MarnixKolder
I'd love to have this tested, to see if it is as good as I hope it can be.

So far, half a season in, other than three early losses, I am unbeaten. Not only that, I have won every game. And only that, but I haven't conceded in my last 13 matches in all competitions. Crazy!

The idea is to pack the midfield, but then ultilise IW and Mez on each side crossing from out to in and in to out. The DLP-De then sits in the middle of the park and sprays the ball around.

The striker is perhaps not as effective as I would like in terms of numbers of goals he scores, but he links the play really well with the IWs and Mezs with the one-twos, holding the ball up and balls round the corner for runners.

Thanks so much.
When you get a chance to test this I'd love you to give it a go. I wanted to create something completely different.

The idea behind it is to have two triangles heavier at the bottom in defence but flipping round in attack. The width is provided by the CWBs and the aim is to have a patient breakdown is the initial counter breaks down.

Not far into the season yet, but after 18 games of the Bundesliga we've scored 37 (so good but not amazing) but only conceded 7.
A few weeks ago I submitted my 'Rosler meets River Plate' tactic as it was doing great things for me. The following year, like always, it stopped doing so well and my 3 year Bundesliga run was ended. I needed to make some changes.
I'd brought in a young Brazilian who looked like he could do some amazing stuff. He is an AM though and I didn't have one of those in the formation, so I had to make some changes.

I pushed my central MC up into that AMC slot, retaining the AP-At role. That left me with two BBM's in the centre of midfield and I felt something needed shaking up there. I've always like a CM-At and I've never used a RPM so that's the way I decided to go. I also tweaked some PIs within them to make them a little more aggressive, both in attack and defence.

I also tweaked PIs on the HB and the WBs too. Just finessing them really but they weren't quite doing what I wanted them to.

The final change I made was to switch one of AF-At into a F9. I just felt the AP-At, the F9 and the AF-At might be a nice trio playing together.

And wow, things could not have gone better. Halfway through the season, I am unbeaten in the league (scoring 45 and only conceding 11 in 18 matches), into the Pokal 3rd round, I won 6 out of 6 in the Champions League group stage.

The AP-At is my top scorer and top with average rating. The RPM is top on assists. And the football they play is beautiful, it really is.

I would love to know if it just a factor of my players but a great tactic all round. Thanks!
Rosler meets River Plate - 020520 - more attacking.fmf
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The background - I wanted to play 3 at the back (with a libero but I could never get this to work!) with rampaging wing-backs and two up top. I came across Mr U Rosler's 'Enganche 20.4' and used this as a basic template for my tactic.

A bit of trial and error resulted in a few changes of roles (PFs become AFs, Mez's become BBMs, CWB-As become WB-Ss, G-D becomes SK-S) and dropping the Enganche back to an AP-A. Although I wanted to play a libero I found that the HB role plays similar-ish, but doesn't stray too far forward or roam too far. It plays as an attacking 4-4-2 diamond going forward, and a solid 5-3-2 when defending.

The template also takes some inspiration from Knap's Argus 352 and FM Grasshopper's River Plate 4-1-3-2 (although most of the things borrowed from that have since disappeared). The tactical style and PIs borrow heavily from TFF's Gladiator V2 from 2019 as I loved the way that played and I won *everything* using that tactic with Dulwich Hamlet in FM19.

So yeah, it's a bit of a Frankenstein's monster with my own little twist of lemon on the side.

In terms of results, I've taken 1860 Munich from the German 3.Liga to champions of Germany. And you'll see that I've won the Bundesliga 4 out of the last 5 times, with a couple of recent Pokal wins for good measure. This season was the my best so far in the Champions' League, losing 4-3 on aggregate against PSG.

I'd love to have this tested to see how it stacks up against the masters of tactics. Thanks
Rosler meets River Plate - 2903020.fmf
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