RawJah said: Congratulations my friend. Leading Stuttgart from 12 to EL in that few games is quite impressive. I noticed, that you're probably scoring good from corners (or set pieces in general), right? I recognized a certain one legged french Giant scoring a bunch of goals, that must have come from Corners I'm a BVB-Fan for more than 30 years irl (and yes, I'm doing a Bayern-Save. As a CM/FM-Veteran I dont care about these matters haha) and loved Dan when he was with us. In former FMs when I had him in my team he was a goal-scoring machine from corners as well, always becoming one of my starting CDs. I also love how literally every other player looks small and skinny next to him irl. Expand
I'm also a Borussia fan, but let's say I support football when it's well played! That's why I started a save with Stuttgart, I think they are playing very well and putting pressure on the opponent, as is the case with this tactic, and it fits perfectly. Zagadou's goals were from corners, along with Waldemar Anton, another excellent defender! But the rest of them, especially the goals from Guirassy and Milot, were all well-worked plays, very beautiful to watch.
RawJah said: This post might be a bit premature, but since its friday and if someone like me, who loved how the Katana V3.1 worked for you and now you dont dare to continue your savegame in fear of ruining your run, I advise you to go for V3 of the Katana, that CBP87 linked a few posts above. Here is the link again: https://fm-arena.com/thread/9024-katana-4231-100p-v3/
My sample-size is tiny so far (only 3 games, one of them was a friendly) but the dominance so far is the same, with a few changes, that I noticed and so far, these few changes are even for the better, which is hard to comprehend because of how dominant 3.1 already was.
These changes are:
One of the "weaknesses" of 3.1 was, that your team wasnt automatically the team with more ball posession, even if you smashed your opponent. My last game in the league before the update and therefore change to v3 was against a promoted team. We won 5-0 but had only 46% ball posession. Since the change to v3 I had two league games against better teams than the promoted one. One at home and one away. We won 5-2 (opponent had 2 penalties *shrug* lol) and 5-0 and both times above 60 % ball posession.
The goal distribution (i hope its the right word) changed. Before I had 85 to 90 % goals from inside or very close to the six-yard-box, because the FBs would cross from the line right into the box that it became almost ridiculous how many players (mine and opponents defenders and gk) would hang inside the box lol So far I've scored way more different goals, arguably even more beautiful goals, but thats subjective. Also I wanna say, that more different players scored but the sample size is way too small to really say anything about that. Its already tiny to say the stuff that I have said. But I wanted to get the word out quickly, because its friday evening and it would be a shame if someone stopped playing because he had no promising solution for the update yet.
I can only recommend trying V3 because so far it looks like the perfect answer if you loved v3.1 and want to continue your dominant run without changing your tactic majorly in the middle of the season. Have a fun weekend guys <3 Expand
I think we are too, its friday then!
I just finished the season, as I said before, I caught the team in the middle/end of the season and I made a point of starting a save with them in bad shape (they had lost the last 5 games). After a few games I noticed that I was losing a lot of goals and taking a lot of goals too so I changed my mentality from positive to balanced (I changed after the game against Werder Bremen) I still ended up conceding a goal from Bayern, the ball hit the post during a foul and went back to Muller lol. With a balanced mentality and lowering the tempo, it seems to be working very well. I still managed to qualify for the Europa League.
I started a new save with Stuttgart in the middle of the season in a bad phase, first game against Hoffenheim away, with the original tactic I lost 3-0, with lowering the tempo and a positive mentality I won 7-2
CBP87 said: Ok this is something I've struggled wit as well because they tend to park the bus against you. I found lowering the tempo to slightly lower helps as you retain the ball which hopefully in turns draws a player out of position for you to exploit. In my current Barca save I found this against every team I came up against so reduced the tempo to slightly lower and I've lost 1 game in 2 seasons in the league Expand
I was also suffering from this in Stuttgart, I did that and it improved a lot. I will test after the update
I'm also a Borussia fan, but let's say I support football when it's well played! That's why I started a save with Stuttgart, I think they are playing very well and putting pressure on the opponent, as is the case with this tactic, and it fits perfectly. Zagadou's goals were from corners, along with Waldemar Anton, another excellent defender! But the rest of them, especially the goals from Guirassy and Milot, were all well-worked plays, very beautiful to watch.
My sample-size is tiny so far (only 3 games, one of them was a friendly) but the dominance so far is the same, with a few changes, that I noticed and so far, these few changes are even for the better, which is hard to comprehend because of how dominant 3.1 already was.
These changes are:
One of the "weaknesses" of 3.1 was, that your team wasnt automatically the team with more ball posession, even if you smashed your opponent. My last game in the league before the update and therefore change to v3 was against a promoted team. We won 5-0 but had only 46% ball posession. Since the change to v3 I had two league games against better teams than the promoted one. One at home and one away. We won 5-2 (opponent had 2 penalties *shrug* lol) and 5-0 and both times above 60 % ball posession.
The goal distribution (i hope its the right word) changed. Before I had 85 to 90 % goals from inside or very close to the six-yard-box, because the FBs would cross from the line right into the box that it became almost ridiculous how many players (mine and opponents defenders and gk) would hang inside the box lol So far I've scored way more different goals, arguably even more beautiful goals, but thats subjective. Also I wanna say, that more different players scored but the sample size is way too small to really say anything about that. Its already tiny to say the stuff that I have said. But I wanted to get the word out quickly, because its friday evening and it would be a shame if someone stopped playing because he had no promising solution for the update yet.
I can only recommend trying V3 because so far it looks like the perfect answer if you loved v3.1 and want to continue your dominant run without changing your tactic majorly in the middle of the season. Have a fun weekend guys <3
I think we are too, its friday then!
I just finished the season, as I said before, I caught the team in the middle/end of the season and I made a point of starting a save with them in bad shape (they had lost the last 5 games). After a few games I noticed that I was losing a lot of goals and taking a lot of goals too so I changed my mentality from positive to balanced (I changed after the game against Werder Bremen) I still ended up conceding a goal from Bayern, the ball hit the post during a foul and went back to Muller lol. With a balanced mentality and lowering the tempo, it seems to be working very well. I still managed to qualify for the Europa League.
from my testing today, Positive and Balanced mentalities are performing much better than the attacking version.
I'm going to request for https://fm-arena.com/thread/9024-katana-4231-100p-v3/ and https://fm-arena.com/thread/9062-katana-4231-99p-v3-2/ to be retested once the option is available
I started a new save with Stuttgart in the middle of the season in a bad phase, first game against Hoffenheim away, with the original tactic I lost 3-0, with lowering the tempo and a positive mentality I won 7-2
I was also suffering from this in Stuttgart, I did that and it improved a lot. I will test after the update