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Hi guys, as requested by one of you, I tried to emulate a different type of tactic today, different from the type of tactics most of teams play nowadays, positional play, tikitaka, gegenpress, etc. Today I will emulate a old style, the long ball play which was very popular 30-40 years ago. And I will do by emulating an historical club, a club that could rise from the low tier to a FA CUP win against Liverpool! I am talking about Wimbledon, the FA CUP winner in 1988.
Tactic Analysis
It certainly wasn’t football for the purists. Wimbledon typified the long ball and were happy to scrap with anybody and use dirty tricks to gain a competitive edge. It may not have been pretty, but it was effective.
Their first season in division one saw Wimbledon finish 6th, which remains their best ever finish in the top division. The following year, they finished 7th but made it to the FA Cup Final. They would face Liverpool in the final who had just been crowned league champions and were strongly fancied to complete the double.
But the Crazy Gang had other ideas. They got stuck into Liverpool, realising this chance may never come around again. And eight minutes before half time, a Dennis Wise free kick was headed home by Lawrie Sanchez.
The second half saw a Peter Beardsley goal ruled out for Liverpool and the first ever penalty save in an FA Cup Final as Wimbledon goalkeeper Dave Beasant denied Irish international John Aldridge.
How to create the tactic on Football Manager
We won't be bothering with all that tiki-taka, gegenpressing nonsense. Instead, we'll embrace a "four-four-fucking-two" approach, focusing on direct football, robust challenges, and early crosses.
Mentality: cautios
In possession instruction: fairly wide attacking width, overlap left and right, more direct passing and slightly higher tempo, hit early crosses, shoots on target (* I chose this instructions to create more chances but removed it later), mixed crosses, be more disciplined (with a low tier team it is better) , run at defence.
In transition: counter press, counter, long kicks, distribute to target forward (Goalkeeper often played long ball to the target forward, Fashanu, who could then distribute to other teammates. Then other teammates according to the situation decided what to do).
Out of possession: mid-block, lower defense, much more often pressing, get stuck in (of course!, Crazy gang members were famous for their hard tackles!), drop off more, trap outside, stop crosses.
Now, roles and tasks
The formation was a 4-4-2, all players were marking much tighter and of course tackling hard, so I gave those two instructions to all my players.
Goalkeeper: simple goalkeeper on defend
Full-back right: defend: cross aim target forward, run wide with the ball, stay wider, tackle harder, mark tighter
Full-back left: cross aim target forward, run wide with the ball, stay wider, tackle harder, mark tighter
Central defenders: both on defend with same instructions: pass it shorter, take fewer risks, close down less, tackle harder, mark tighter
Right wing-attack: cross aim target forward, tackle harder, mark tighter
Left wing-attack: shoot more often, cross aim target forward, tackle harder, mark tighter
Right central midfielder- support: take more risks, cross aim target forward, dribble more, run wide with the ball, shoot more often, get further forward, move into channels, tackle harder, mark tighter
Left central midfielder-defend: pass it shorter, take fewer risks, dribble less, tackle harder, mark tighter.
Target forward-attack: take more risks, run wide with the ball, shoot less often, roam from position, move into channels, tackle harder, mark tighter
Deep-lying forward- support: dribble more, shoot less often, tackle harder, mark tighter
I tested this tactic with Wimbledon, a team which according to the bookmakers should finish 20th in Sky Bet League two, but I managed to finish 9th, without making any player transfer, so the squad I started the season with on July 2022 is the same I have now at the end of the season 2022-2023.
I did not test this tactic with stronger team so I do not know if it works with them or not, if you want you could give it a try.
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