Help Critique my tactic?

[Gaza]

Need help to critique my tactic.

The main goal is to have build-up play from the RP but i read an article that says if AP(AMC position) combined with RP would blocked the RP movement.

Honestly i just begin to play this game on this year and rely too much on tactics from this community. And once i create a tactic it wouldn't be so much far from this.

Sometimes i switched from AP into SS if im desperate for goals since Valverde has good average shooting stats and also switched IFs into wide forwards too.

 

What should i change and what's wrong with this tactic?

Any suggestion would help me alot, thanks!

Edited January 5 by Gaza

[Pinuccio]

you have a very tight team that plays fast. There is no point in having offensive full-backs if you play quickly: there is the risk that they will go up and down without being served. To have greater balance I would play with normal and non-offensive full-backs, having already set up the attack, the full-backs will still advance into the offensive zone. Playing tight, I would use a game without playmaker You have a fast game and the playmaker slows it down. I would put Bellingham (SS) and valverde (CD). Arnold (FB)

Edited January 5 by Pinuccio

[Pinuccio]

5 minutes ago, Pinuccio said:

you have a very tight team that plays fast. There is no point in having offensive full-backs if you play quickly: there is the risk that they will go up and down without being served. To have greater balance I would play with normal and non-offensive full-backs, having already set up the attack, the full-backs will still advance into the offensive zone. Playing tight, I would use a game without playmaker You have a fast game and the playmaker slows it down. I would put Bellingham (SS) and valverde (CD), Arnold (FB).

 

[Gaza]

28 minutes ago, Pinuccio said:

you have a very tight team that plays fast. There is no point in having offensive full-backs if you play quickly: there is the risk that they will go up and down without being served. To have greater balance I would play with normal and non-offensive full-backs, having already set up the attack, the full-backs will still advance into the offensive zone. Playing tight, I would use a game without playmaker You have a fast game and the playmaker slows it down. I would put Bellingham (SS) and valverde (CD). Arnold (FB)

The purpose of using IWB is to do the "no cross" tactic since Mbappe has no aerial advantage but after reading your suggestion i would like to try to switch into FB.

Thank you for the suggestion as it gonna make me a better manager!

[Pinuccio]

20 minutes ago, Gaza said:

The purpose of using IWB is to do the "no cross" tactic since Mbappe has no aerial advantage but after reading your suggestion i would like to try to switch into FB.

Thank you for the suggestion as it gonna make me a better manager!

Arnold is phenomenal along the right wing, it would be for him to play slow if he goes to the center. You can set this to avoid high baseline crosses and use quick low crosses.

[DanEnglish]

Nice tactic. If you wanted to tweak it, then here are a few options:

• IFs - generally believed to be more effective if pushed further forward (to the FR/FL positions) - in the same row as the striker.
• RP - you're right that the RP will try to take the same position as your AP. However if the players are smart enough (high movement and/or decisions?), then they will try to take different enough positions for it to work. You'd have to test and observe what happens.
• NCB - was surprised by this choice. I don't use them often, so guessed they just clear the ball randomly. Would guess that normal CBs would be more suitable, to play simple passes to the others around them ... ?
• Sweeper - currently you have a high line, a high press, two DCs and
• DMs vs MCs - the advantage of having 2x DMCs is that they are very defensively solid - there is not much space for opposition attacking midfielders. However I prefer moving them forward to be 2x MCs which is less defensively solid, but more offensively useful - unfortunately sometimes your 2x MCs don't defend as effectively if the opposition has multiple attacking midfielders, BUT 2x MCs are more advanced / closer to the opposition's goal when in possession, plus secondly the opposition ST is less likely to be able to close them down (we create more space if the opposition midfielders have to close our midfielders down). Your choice.
• Shoot on Sight - if you find you're shooting too often, but not on-target, then turn this off. If you still don't have enough shots on-target, or don't have enough CCC (clear cut chances), try turning on 'work into box'. Again you'd have to test and observe what happens.
• High Line - am not sure about this, but you may want to have a 'normal' defensive line, to (hopefully) have more room behind the opposition defenders for speedy Mbappe to exploit. I'm not sure if this is how the game actually works, so again you'd have to test and observe what happens.

If you're desperate for a late goal, then definitely go more attacking. Push those IFs forward to FR/L, push the DMCs forward to MC, change the AP to SS, turn on overload and turn on all 3 left-sided options ('cross early', 'shoot on sight', and 'run at defense').

If you're desperate to avoiding conceding a late opposition goal, then definitely go more defensive. Pull your IFs back to be DWs / WMs (with man-marking to cover the opposition FBs/WBs), move the ST and AMC back, change to more defensive player roles (NCBs, DFBs, MCs, etc) and change to 'defensive' mentality. You can see my 'defensive 41410' tactic as an example if needed.

Overall you have a solid tactic - sensible to setup for a low-aerial ST - and good luck tweaking! Hope some of this is useful for you 🙂 

[broodje kip]

The tactic itself is fine though I think you might be wasting TAA's crossing ability by playing him as an IWB haha. Also, I'd prefer to use normal tackling and balanced creative freedom when playing high line since your tactic is based on retaining possession as quickly as possible and counter the opposition back. However it's worth to note that you're playing as Real Madrid so any tactic should work well with the quality of your squad as long as it's logical enough.

About the RP and AP, it's still doable though unnecessary since the RP would be doing exactly the thing that the AP would and might have some conflicting positioning. The RP would work like some kind of a Box to Box or a Segundo Volante but with the playmaking duties.

Edited January 6 by broodje kip

[rseven]

After my several tests, I will suggest to move your RP at MCR position instead of DMCR. 

then RP will go more forward and will not be blocked by AP at AMC. 

More your IWB will also have space to move inside to support midfield.