We will obviously need to address the impact of roles (and we will) later on for now I’m just showing how the spread of duties can positively improve the balance of the team! The left back will offer more of a possession outlet for the left winger and central midfielder because of his support duty. The right flank will have a natural overlap created by the right back getting on past the right winger. In this instance, the flanks are setup to provide different types of opportunities 2. A striker on an attack duty, with a support duty AMC behind him can work well too – consider if you are trying to drive into space behind a defence, or if you want penetrating runs from deep instead. My central pair also share an attack duty and a support duty – they could be placed the other way round very easily too. I have got an attack duty on one flank and a support duty on the other, this helps change the angles of attack. I tend to think of this as a quartet, as well as a series of pairings. In this example we’re trying to balance out 2 attacking duties and 2 support duties in the final third of the pitch 1. So we have already discussed not overloading all your attacking duties into the top end of the pitch. Let’s look at two examples one bad and one good: If you have all your attack duties too high up the pitch it creates a disconnect between defence, midfield and attack – if you have all your attack duties over on a single flank, it can see you leave massive spaces on the break, whilst robbing you of penetration in other areas of the pitch. This will determine in large part how aggressive your team behaves, in terms of forward runs, take-ons and risky passes.ĭuties should be spread both vertically and laterally in your team – this means, not having all your attack duties at the top end of the pitch and not all down a single flank. In terms of duties, this means the number of defend, support & attack duties and how they are spread throughout the team. Simple really, it’s about using your roles and duties to spread your team well, create different types of chances and to have a coherent defensive strategy. What I mean by balance is having a team that can maximize our strengths and minimize our weaknesses, this is achieved by covering as much of the pitch as possible and fulfilling all the key functions that a team needs to be able to use. How do we achieve balance?įirstly, let’s define what we’re talking about here, because it is central to what I do as a manager. I hope this makes you a better manager and I hope you share what you’ve learned and carry on contributing to the FM community. Everyone who has had something useful to share has helped make me a better manager. I’m focusing on what comes more naturally to me – getting a balance setup together. This guide is going to have some useful things in it for you, but there are so many brilliant writers, bloggers, vloggers and contributors to discussions for this reason I have scrapped the sections on in-game management and team instructions – a lot of people do that a lot better than I do. Football Manager has got smarter it’s tougher to break sides down, you get punished on the break for leaving gaps and you can’t just press play and expect to win every game. I’ve generally stuck to a consistent playing style, with a balanced system. I’m not talking about just tactical styles, but how you adapt to challenges, how you create variation and how you turn defeats into draws and draws into wins. Sure there are ways which are making it tougher for yourself and ways of making it easier for yourself, but there are many ways to play the game. Some of what you read in this guide is the same as last time (hence it’s an update), but there is a lot of new information for everyone to get stuck into, mainly due to the number of new roles introduced in FM.įirstly, most importantly, there is no “right” or “wrong” way to play Football Manager. It’s been 5 years since I last wrote a similar guide and it is probably time to pick up the proverbial pen again. I am delighted to release the 2020 edition of Pairs & Combinations! Please do not redistribute any of the following content without llama3’s expressed permission. For any questions about this article, please use the comments section on the Sigames forum. pdf file in this thread on Sigames forum. This article is written by llama3 and is a direct transcript of his tactical guide made available as a downloadable.
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