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Credit to WicksyFM's 5-3-2 which I used as a base for this.
Tactic is strong defensively and fairly good going forward, I used this towards the end of my Nottingham Forest save where we went on a great run and won the Championship, have also holidayed half a season with Liverpool which see just one defeat and some good wins, 3-0 away at Tottenham, 5-2 home to R Madrid and draws away to Man Utd and Man City.
Obviously play as many friendlies as possible to get team familiarity high as quick as possible.
I generally start all games with the attacking mentality, but if its against a tougher opponent I'll switch to balanced if take the lead especially if away from home. Just use common sense with game management really!
I use no opposition instructions.
Let me know how it goes for you.
*UPDATED TO V4*
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VP.
I've updated the file last night with two attacking corner routines (made by Guido Merry). Also if using with a smaller side I'd suggest against the bigger teams to start with the balanced mentality rather than all out attack when away from home. At home I still start attacking no matter who I'm against.
Though as I said in the main post, match mentality is really down to yourselves as you'll know how good/bad your team is.
VP.
VP.
vadoalmax
VP.
Try using balanced or defensive mentality for away games until your squad is stronger
vadoalmax
I'll try in the second season.
VP.
Where did you finish in first season and what was your predicted finish?
vadoalmax
Predicted 7th, finished 9th.
Now boards wants to qualify to EL,new season starts good, 2 win 1 draw and 1 lost (ManCity, away) and 7-0 to Tottenham (away) in EFL Cup.
VP.
Very big defeat at Tottenham, did you create many chances though as I've found I very rarely get completely outplayed it's usually just the opposition take their chances and we miss ours.
vadoalmax
I WON 7-0 at Tottenham stadium
VP.
Oh bloody hell, brilliant result!
vadoalmax
VP.
Very nice win, well done
DoubleR92
vadoalmax
I used balanced and defensive mentality more often.
Dan
VP.
Good to see people are using it and working for them, certainly seems to perform better for sides not expected to win the league. But I think that is a problem with the game itself as if it performs for them then surely it'll be even better for the top teams!
FM Base
There's something about the way teams set up based on reputation, might have a part to play in that
VP.
Yeah there definitely is, personally I think it's too overpowered and can really destroy people's saves. Obviously you expect the game to get a bit tougher but usually there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop a terrible run of results start usually because you're at the top of the league.
Though it does seem that if you just stick at what you're doing and not start messing with the tactic you will come out of the run.
Shedender
VP.
Yeah I generally use positive much more, seems to work better than attacking even at home.
VP.
We went on to win the league plus the Europa and FA Cup.
Season 3 has started well also.
Current starting line up (yes that is De Bruyne
Have made a couple of changes since the original upload, positive mentality and all 3 center backs are now ball playing. Will update the download incase I've made anymore that I cannot remember over the weeks!
Marck
VP.
Should work well with them, but may need another central midfielder (Mezzala) and maybe a left wing back as I'm not too sure how good Luke Shaw is on this version?
Marck
do you use any PPMs
VP.
No not usually but I do train the players in each position to improve them. The assistant nearly always trains players in their preferred position which makes little sense of already comfortable in it...
Marck
have had a hard time getting started with a game. so will make arsenal the best club in the world, remember your strong start 11 in the first season?
murray110
Managed to win the Champions League (somehow) but only finished 12th in the league and got the sack during the summer.
Continued the tactic with Fiorentina and are in second place (9 points behind an undefeated Milan) during winter break, lots of 2-0, 2-1 wins and a winning streak of 8 games in a row.
A bit concerned since both games I've played after the latest match update to the game have been losses though. Will see how the season ends!
VP.
I play using the public beta so the newer ME was available a while back on there and I noticed the difference in results straight away. I may look to make a new tactic once the winter update is out but no point at the moment as fairly certain there will be another ME update to come. Though I will say the current version is a lot better for scoring one on ones and there seems to be a lot less long balls over the top.
murray110
Only manged to win once he left...
Super tactic anyway!
Time to change teams and tactic.