Pirlo Reborn v1

In my current 10-year save, I've been using this tactic and I've won the Champions League two years a row as a Belgian club, and I've built the best team in the world. I wanted to see how well it does compared to all the other tactics on this site.

The tactic is inspired loosely on Pirlos time at Juventus, where they employed Pirlo in the DM strata, and 3 midfielders in front of him. That's just the basic idea I was going for, the rest isn't based on how Juventus actually played during those years as I haven't studied them.

This is quite fun! But 'play out of defence' doesn't seem to work against the teams in FM arena's testing league despite doing well in your save. Maybe it's possible, but it's a whole different formula for the Team Instructions

dakwatalgojo said: This is quite fun! But 'play out of defence' doesn't seem to work against the teams in FM arena's testing league despite doing well in your save. Maybe it's possible, but it's a whole different formula for the Team Instructions Expand

Yeah I've come to realize that a lot of the meta tactics on here are all about to exploit every bit of the match engine and not "realistic" in the sense of how I like to play the game and build tactics. I try to always steer away from all the meta instructions, but I've been here too much at this point..

dakwatalgojo said: This is quite fun! But 'play out of defence' doesn't seem to work against the teams in FM arena's testing league despite doing well in your save. Maybe it's possible, but it's a whole different formula for the Team Instructions Expand
I can confirm that "Play Out Of Defence" TI works in a regular season. It just does need a different approach in general. This one is an example with a 1.3 point difference from the first tactic in the table:

https://fm-arena.com/thread/11322-problem-solvin-v24-dzek-tweak-2/

dzek said: I can confirm that "Play Out Of Defence" TI works in a regular season. It just does need a different approach in general. This one is an example with a 1.3 point difference from the first tactic in the table:

https://fm-arena.com/thread/11322-problem-solvin-v24-dzek-tweak-2/ Expand

Ah, thank you! Might test if it'd work with other structures

dakwatalgojo said: Ah, thank you! Might test if it'd work with other structures Expand
I’m looking forward for your tests