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Kop Diaries - A Winter Break? Football Manager 2019
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Counter Attack – FM Style
Q. “You got the victory today despite only having 38% possession. Was that part of your plan, to allow the opposition to have the majority of the ball and then look to catch them on the counter attack?” A. “We had a plan coming in to the match just as we would any fixture. That’s all I’m prepared to say on the matter.” Jose Mourinho once famously said “‘If you don’t play Counter-Attack then it’s because you are stupid“. A bit extreme from the Portuguese legend but then again we would expect no less from a man of Jose’s notoriety. However, I believe what he meant by this is that, if your team is not set up to break on the counter and catch the opposition off guard after possession is won, you are missing a golden opportunity to not only score goals but ultimately break teams down by absorbing pressure and waiting for the perfect moment to break with pace and punish the opposition accordingly. In FM terms, this is generally referred to as Direct or Fluid Counter Attack Style. This style is one of the main and most effective strategies I have incorporated in my current Tenerife save, whereby our game plan against superior opponents is to close down the opposition in our own half, regain possession of the ball and subsequently turn defence into attack by breaking on the counter via pace on the wings and a quick direct passing style to get the ball forward as soon as possible. Having started off FM19 in the La Liga Secunda Division (SD2), the price of gaining promotion and climbing up towards the higher echelons of La Liga is that we were often the inferior team over the first two or three seasons and as such we had to adapt when playing stronger teams, particularly when playing away from home where we were often the outside bet to win or draw the game. The Formation We generally go with a 4-1-4-1 Wide formation when playing away from home or when up against stronger opposition – the objective of this tactic is to absorb pressure and allow our opponents to have most of the possession until they enter our own half, upon which we then close down immediately to win back the ball and break forward on the counter. By packing/overloading the centre of the pitch with three midfielders, we aim to nullify the opposition’s attacks by narrowing the space and forcing them out wide where we have hard-working wide players and fast full-backs that have strong Tackling, Anticipation, Positioning and Acceleration, and therefore are used to win back the ball and release accordingly. The Strategy As mentioned above, the objective of this strategy is to soak up pressure, regain possession and convert defence to attack as quickly as possible by moving the ball up the field at speed and catching teams on the break by playing the ball in to space and being clinical with our finishing. When I think about what this should look like in a match situation and envisage how I want us to successfully implement a Counter-Attack strategy in Football Manager, I picture that epic Wayne Rooney tackle & assist in the MLS recently where he tracks back, closes down his man, makes the tackle and then gets the ball back up the field as quickly as possible in order to catch their opponents on the break – resulting in an awesome goal to win them the game in the dying moments: To implement this, our Team Instructions are set up as follows: The Result While the above outlines the intentions of this strategy, it’s important to ask the question – does this actually work? Is Counter-Attack football effective in Football Manager? We have just finished our fourth season as Tenerife manager, and for most of the season we went with a Counter-Attacking style for all of our away games and fixtures against superior opponents (on paper) – I didn’t realise until the season ended, but in addition to finishing 2nd in La Liga we also had the best away record for the whole season, even better than Champions Real Madrid: I won’t claim that it works on every single occasion, however this strategy led to some cracking results including away wins over Atletico Madrid, Valencia and Roma as well as a smashing 6-3 Home win over Real Madrid where despite having much less possession, we stuck to our plan of breaking them down, absorbing pressure and being far more clinical in front of goal by taking our chances and punishing them on the break: To cap things off, our piece de resistance was scoring an almost mirror image of that Wayne Rooney assist above whereby Lookman (on loan from Everton) tracks back to make a perfectly timed tackle, and then pumps the ball forward at pace into the path of the onrushing Joveljic who smashes home an 85th minute winner – this epitomises our Counter Attack strategy and is exactly what we set out to achieve when using this tactical style. Thanks for reading, hopefully you found some of this useful and applicable to your own save wherever you are in the FM world! Feel free to share thoughts, feedback or questions either on Twitter or via my own blog any time – thanks again and good luck for the rest of FM19!! Cheers, MaddFM.
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