It's very pleasing to watch how this tactic defend. It presses in a very organized way, and 2 WMF will come to middle to cover space. I found most goals conceded are like these: 1. one opponent's AM is free to receive ball because 2 DM is shifted to one side of the pitch, and our WMF is pressing the opponent's DM, and then CB presses out while the opponent's AML/R attack the space behind him (between center CB and FB). 2. the opponent's CB directly finds ST because our two DMs are covering their AMCs and there is space in front of our center CB, and then this ST can shift the ball to sides, or because our center CB is pressing out, pass to ths space behind center CB when their AMCs attack this space.
Trying to solve that, I made a change: change PCM to a center DM, and put all three DM as PDM. The front 5 players press similarly and are flexible to opponent's attacking shape, for example if they have 2 DM then our 2 side DMs can press out.
I was trying to make a high-pressing tactic like 424 or 433 like Liverpool, but it seems not working very well in this engine. But this midlevel-pressing is currently my favorite defending shape, it really stops the opponent from creating obvious chances while at the same time have exciting counterattacks, not to say its excellent in-possession performance.
Thank you ZaZ! When facing stronger teams (dominating more), is this one better (for more counterattack) or 5.31 solid better (for more solid defense)?
ZaZ said: Unfortunately it would not work very well. The out of possession part of the tactic is not just for defense, but also has direct influence in where you recover the ball for counter attacks and what options you have available when the ball is recovered. The same for the other way around, with in possession part of the tactic being very important for defense.
One practical example of what I am talking about is to have a lower defensive line to create more space behind the enemy defenders to exploit with long balls. Expand
Thank you!
I also noticed that when I was attacking, the gap between back 3 defenders and front 7 attackers is really big, and in many cases the opponent can easily pass the ball to someone in this gap area and start counterattack. Do you have any suggestions on covering this gap area when attacking? Would that be a bad trade-off by sacrifing attacking?
1. one opponent's AM is free to receive ball because 2 DM is shifted to one side of the pitch, and our WMF is pressing the opponent's DM, and then CB presses out while the opponent's AML/R attack the space behind him (between center CB and FB).
2. the opponent's CB directly finds ST because our two DMs are covering their AMCs and there is space in front of our center CB, and then this ST can shift the ball to sides, or because our center CB is pressing out, pass to ths space behind center CB when their AMCs attack this space.
Trying to solve that, I made a change: change PCM to a center DM, and put all three DM as PDM. The front 5 players press similarly and are flexible to opponent's attacking shape, for example if they have 2 DM then our 2 side DMs can press out.
I was trying to make a high-pressing tactic like 424 or 433 like Liverpool, but it seems not working very well in this engine. But this midlevel-pressing is currently my favorite defending shape, it really stops the opponent from creating obvious chances while at the same time have exciting counterattacks, not to say its excellent in-possession performance.
One practical example of what I am talking about is to have a lower defensive line to create more space behind the enemy defenders to exploit with long balls.
Thank you!
I also noticed that when I was attacking, the gap between back 3 defenders and front 7 attackers is really big, and in many cases the opponent can easily pass the ball to someone in this gap area and start counterattack. Do you have any suggestions on covering this gap area when attacking? Would that be a bad trade-off by sacrifing attacking?
Thanks a lot!