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[studbucket]

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The only countering tactic I've played regularly was in my AIK (Sweden) save when I faced better teams in European competition. What I did was set up a very defensive 3-5-2:

____ST_____ST____

WM____CM______WM
____CDM____CDM___
__CB____CB____CB
_______GK________

I would tell my guys to sit deep, stay off a bit on defense, and hit long balls. It was mostly about surviving, and it let me win about 20% of the time, tie 40%, and lose 40%. That's OK given I was facing Barcelona, Chelsea, Real Madrid, etc.

My wide mids were set as defensive wingers.

This tactic allowed quite a few crosses, but I have some huge center backs, like 6'4", 6'6" and 6'8" and they would take care of a lot of it.

[ImTellinTim]

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I find it's less what your formation is and more about having fast players up front and a team against you that is throwing a lot of players into attack.

If you're doing a full counter attack, the space between your midfield and attackers doesn't really matter. It's all about forcing the other team to settle for long shots then catching them up the field.

[Zac]

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I find it's less what your formation is and more about having fast players up front and a team against you that is throwing a lot of players into attack.

If you're doing a full counter attack, the space between your midfield and attackers doesn't really matter. It's all about forcing the other team to settle for long shots then catching them up the field.

This and playing a high temp with direct passing and closing down a lot, even when not playing on counter. I've had more counter attacks on control with high tempo, closing down a lot and direct passing than I ever do playing on counter. That is what I did in Belarus and I scored almost every single goal on the counter. Also in lower leagues, pace and acceleration are the key stats for every player. If they are quick, the other stats don't matter as much. Because the majority of lower league players are very slow.

[JHedges2]

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Great discussion guys. Def giving me the itch to jump back in!

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[Suntan Superman]

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Great discussion guys. Def giving me the itch to jump back in!

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I still don't understand this phenomenon of people doing something they call "not playing Football Manager"

[Zac]

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I still don't understand this phenomenon of people doing something they call "not playing Football Manager"

I'm still trying to figure why I own a PS4.

[JHedges2]

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I'm still trying to figure why I own a PS4.

MLBTS?

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[Suntan Superman]

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I'm still trying to figure why I own a PS4.

I own a Netflix machine as well.

[Velocityy]

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I own a Netflix machine as well.

I'm totally in that boat right now too...I have both an X1 and a PS4, but 90% of my gametime lately has been FM. I have other games I want to play...but when I sit down to play, it's FM that comes a callin.

[Matty Aqua]

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anyone know how to get a tacticss mod like this? http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/footb...-mod-help.html

[JHedges2]

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anyone know how to get a tacticss mod like this? http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/footb...-mod-help.html

I use the CFM Skin.

[jesmith29]

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When accepting a new job, what do some of you do with the current coaching staff?

Keep, fire and hire, a bit of both?

[Zac]

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I tend to keep everyone on and replace them as their contracts come up with better people. I only remove someone right away if their attributes for the staff role are really bad.

[Suntan Superman]

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Depending on when I take over a club, I'm very meticulous with my staff. When I join mid-season, I'll normally keep most people on-board, and add a few new faces to the mix if I have the opportunity to fill out staff. Then during the first off-season I'm with a club(or in some countries winter break), I enter all of the current staff into my database for coaching/scouting/medical, and undergo a fairly thorough evaluation, I then decide the people I'd like to get rid of(normally the majority of them, it's not like I'm taking over good clubs), and attempt to find replacements, as soon as a moderately viable replacement is found I'll offer mutual termination and approach the new staff member. I normally either have them equal my contract, or sign them for 3 years, whichever is greater, then every third year, I re-evaluate my entire staff and compare it with what's available on the market. Basically during the first off-season, and every third or so off-season I spend approximately 2-3 hours and 10-14 in-game days putting together my staff.

[Clemsonpanther]

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I have never played fm, only a bit of fifa. I want to play fm bc i love in depth realism and i have no stick skills. - should i get 17 or 18 and why? The steam reviews and some ppl say that 18 isnt as good, but others say 18 is the best