How's Your FIFA Career Mode Going?

[indiblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by moose141

Really great and in depth write-up, and with such a detailed talk about the tactics I'm definitely going to consider giving this a shot with my West Ham club because with a few of the purchases that I just made I think it will actually fit really well. The set up would be: GK - Adrian LB - Razvan Rat/New Purchase (can stay more defensive) CB - Winston Reid CB - James Tomkins RB - Kieren Trippier (great at going forward, good pace) CDM - Mohamed Diame (solid rock defensively) LCM - Ravel Morrison (more attacking minded) RCM - Mark Noble (more rounded/defensive minded) LF - Matt Jarvis (wide player) RF - Alexandre Lacazette (attacker/second striker) ST - Andy Carroll Hate the idea of it bumping Kevin Nolan out of the squad because he has played so well but I really want to get Lacazette into the squad and I think this will utilize all of our strengths well. We shall see how it would continue into season 2 with Clement Grenier (CAM) coming into the team on a pre-contract. Grenier doesn't have a ton of pace though but he has unbelievable technical stats on the ball, so he might even fit into the CM role in Noble's position to bump Noble back to the CDM role where I think he is best suited. So it definitely provides plenty of options at least in terms of tactical ideas from my normal 4-2-3-1.

From my experience, Nolan is fantastic but not nearly as great in attack as Ravel or as good in possession as Grenier. I would use him as an impact sub or when you want an extra midfielder to support your attacks, i.e. big games or when chasing results.

Also, don't implement the 4-3-2-1 without the custom tactics below:

Build-up play:
Speed 50
Passing 45
Positioning: Free form (use Organised until you have a better LB than Rat)

Chance creation:
Passing 30
Crossing 50
Shooting 70
Positioning: Free form

Defence:
Pressure 50
Aggression 50
Team width 50-70 (try different values in this range and settle on what works for you)
Defensive line: Cover (I use Offside trap with two CBs with 75+ pace)

[RonMexico1992]

I think FIFA when played on a good setting, can be rather tactical, if you choose to approach it that way, because like QB said, its for people who want to explore it....

Every game, i use my own custom tactics, always leaning more defensively from the start... Also if im playing a fast team, instead of matching speed, which can be hard to do, i counter with strong defensive backs.

Also, thats the beauty of actually playing the games vs simming them, if you play a certain style, as a manager you can see who fits and doesnt, so that in itself is tactical in who you choose as a starting 11 & your approach to the game..

Great in depth discussion

[indiblue]

Agree with Ron in that playing games forces you to make tactical decisions as both player and manager, such as how to approach a big game that you must not lose.

FYI, I'm toying around with another 4-3-2-1 system. Two M/M centre backs, a pair of H/M full backs, a M/H CDM, H/M CMs and RF/LF, and a H/H striker. I should have the results up by this weekend.

[moose141]

Quote: Originally Posted by indiblue

From my experience, Nolan is fantastic but not nearly as great in attack as Ravel or as good in possession as Grenier. I would use him as an impact sub or when you want an extra midfielder to support your attacks, i.e. big games or when chasing results.

Fair enough, I wholeheartedly agree. I just did a depth chart analysis of the team and I think if it actually works out that we are set up better to play the 4-3-2-1 as I want to get Lacazette and Carroll into the squad while still keeping some strength in midfield. Obviously with Grenier next year it may support the 4-2-3-1 with 3 AM's or the 4-3-2-1 but we can cross that bridge when we get there. Definitely need to address the LB position and potentially depth at both central midfield and on the wings as cover for Jarvis.

Michael Bradley is definitely someone I may look to convince to come over to the EPL with my remaining 3 million pounds or so to upgrade over Diame as the ball winner in CDM.

[Dragunov]

Started a new cm with Man United. Changed difficulty to world class (no sliders). Currently 8th in the league. 1st in champions league group stage. Still in capital one.
So far this season has been terrible. I've suffered many defeats and draws to little teams. Currently using 4-3-3 formation any tips on finishing well on world class. I usually have high ball possession stats, but terrible shot to goal ratios.

Current Squad.
Gk-De Gea
Lb- Luke Shaw
LCB- Mats Hummels
RCB- Raphael Varane
RB- De Sciglio
LCM- Christian Eriksen
RCM- Jack Wilshire
CAM- Fabregas
LW- Marco Reus
RM - Bakkali
ST- Sergio Aguero

[eF 5ive]

Really getting my free kick accuracy going. Two games straight I've hit the post. Can't wait till I can knock these down consistently.

Great convos above also! For a while I felt like this thread was just updates with little to no interaction.

I haven't done much in terms of customizing my set as I get a bit over whelmed. But with scouting, and having built my team with players I wanted, after this next BPL game I'm going to start changing strats based on team and be more involved.

[LionsFanNJ]

Well hell im nowhere near as knowledgeable and in depth as you guys are iin your careers. I just got a few players in Milan to play the way I want.

Im in my second season and after selling Kaka and Robinho along with a few other bench players I brought in Alexandre Song from Barcelona and Aubameyang from Dortmund for the wing.

So now I have El Sharaaway and Aubameyang on the wings with Honda in the middle and of course the monster Balotelli up front. I like to have blazing quick counterattacks and all four of those guys are pretty pacey. Song helps setting that up intercepting things in my end on defense. 4 - 2 so far on the season

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[ThatKidNamedTae]

Currently in season 2 with America from the Mx League. July 28th to be exact. Last years goals were to win the both cups but I didn't win either. Trying my best to change that this year in fear of getting sacked.

So this transfer window brought in some major future contributors. Getting about 9M a year in transfer budget, I managed to bring in Max Meyer from Schalke for 9M +Medina.

With the left over wages, I converted that into enough transfer budget to sign Simone Scuffet for 1.4M

Looking forward to a great year. My attack should be able to take over this league, but depth is really going to kill me this year so I need to pray for minimal injuries.

Customized 4-3-3 Attack

GK- Simone Scuffet (69)
RB- Deandre Yedlin (69)
RCB- Eric Pimentel (70)
LCB- Aquivaldo Mosquera (70)
LB- Pablo Aguilar (73)
RM- Gael Bigirimana (67)
LM- Valentino Lazaro (66)
CAM- Maximilian Meyer (73)
RW- Victor Andrade (67)
ST- Raul Jimenez (77)
LW- Raheem Sterling (77)

P.s- I don't know what's going on. I recently made the switch from professional to World Class. On professional, I would win games like 3-2 or 2-0 and draws bunch of games. Now on World Class I'm winning games like 4-1,5-0. I think Fifa is trolling me.