The Boot Room (new managers zone)

[Saransh Vatsa]

This sucks! i got trolled 3-nil away
Started with 3-2-2-2-1 Butterfly vs his 4-4-2, then switched to 3-4-1-2 when 1 goal down then lost 2 goals.
We were evenly matched team-wise, but his squad is 3* while mine is 2. His 1st 11 were all 3*, mine were a mix of 4, 3 and 2*.

So now, I'm knocked out of the Cup already on the 1st round. Top 2 players' morale deteriorated to Poor and my Keeper's morale also down to Poor after playing a friendly match.

Has anyone every had only 1 keeper in the squad for a period of time? My other keeper retired but I'm waiting to see what I get from the U21 in 5 days time

Guess it is ain a 4-4-2 domination season. Nothing works against it from 4-5-1V to 4-2-2-2 hexagon!!! Leave alone ND it stopped working long ago. Even I lost to it and am out of cup!!!!

[Saransh Vatsa]

4-4-2 'The Killer' Classic


The cup curse continues. I had drawn the first home leg 1-1 and 2nd leg I was leading 1-0 after Cazorla scored. Then bang they scored from the super overpowered 'Double Corners'. It was then long time, I made a few changes, came back to square one and at 80th min, they scored again!!!! I only needed to equalise and wud have advanced on away goals but even that was too much for me to ask. Match ends and I lose.
And our Q was almost same, he was .8 behind. But the reason for my defeat 4-4-2. He was using it. I tried 4-5-1V and Hexagon but nothing works against that crap. I hate that in a football manager simulation game, there is one formation which is so dominating that it is difficult to win against it...... Well, I won't waste my time venting no more as I don't want to take trouble IRL for this stupid game.
And ya, I had win bonus set to 600K and yet no win lols

[Zangy]

Looks like you got trolled like me.
At least for me its only my 3rd season so I could use the less cluttered fixtures to recover

[Saransh Vatsa]

There is just 50 mins b/w my league match and CL match tonight. So will have to apply greens.
I will get 5% CND naturally just after the match so I will have to apply 1 green each to take them on to 95%.

[Saransh Vatsa]

Looks like you got trolled like me.
At least for me its only my 3rd season so I could use the less cluttered fixtures to recover

Even I will concentrate on my highly competitive league and also CL. I have a lot of cash this season and don't need much of it so the cash from the Cup is not much problem. But I wanted to hang up and be in the run for the Cup for a while. It is almost sure for me to be on the next round of CL as my group is very weak.

[Zangy]

So out the cup and lost my 1st Lge match due to being scheduled too early for me.
Does losing and/or not bringing in new players cause players' morale to plummet?
I've got another 3 player drop to Poor.

Also got dragged into the Transfer market because my inside right DC are either injured or 1-2*
Speculated 1T on this guy before I went to sleep and got him


Also keeping an eye on this youngster, hopefully his price deters everyone from bidding on him

What do you guys think about him?

[Dman2pt]

So out the cup and lost my 1st Lge match due to being scheduled too early for me.
Does losing and/or not bringing in new players cause players' morale to plummet?
I've got another 3 player drop to Poor.

Also got dragged into the Transfer market because my inside right DC are either injured or 1-2*
Speculated 1T on this guy before I went to sleep and got him


Also keeping an eye on this youngster, hopefully his price deters everyone from bidding on him

What do you guys think about him?

The last one he is not a fast trainer, to be it His price should be near 5M.

[Zangy]

The last one he is not a fast trainer, to be it His price should be near 5M.

Thanks
5M is beyond my budget lol
I think I'm going to look for some cheap buys <1M. My current DC is like 23yo 580k now. He still gets +150 a game, I'm hoping to find another gem like him. Or is this a freak occurrence?

Anyway, 2 ppl bidded for him at 2mins so that put me off already

[Wilderness]

Sorry to hear about you getting knocked out Saransh. I would agree though if you don't have good wingers (AML/AMR) your 4-5-1 is going to struggle. My last season using this formation in almost every game my wingers were what killed the game or lifted my slightly over my opponents. Eg In my opening cup came vs 3-4-3, my AML (28 quality 4 stars corner specialist) provided 4 assists and scored a goal himself, I then subbed a 1star quality AMR in for my other AMR (This 14 overall 1 star AMR never fails to amaze me 3 games as a sub and he has 3 goals, its like his quality is irrelevant when I use him as a sub) came in and added 1 more to the tally of the wings. Though my ST scored 3 (2 headers and 1 solo run)

From that above information I feel that the lifeblood of this formation is the DMC and the 2 wings.

An update on my progress, the 2nd leg of the cup game I fielded a weaker side taking July Fourth's advice of if you in the clear on a leg do not risk injury. The opponent however did not pitch up which made me sad since I wanted to fight it out and the pressure on me would have not been to great so I could of seen if mixing with certain things while live would have made a big impact. My MC scored a goal from the 1st move of the game driving in 1 from 25 metres. Then my weaker defence let 2 goals slip (Rested my 2 main DC and main GK). At half time I decided to bolster my defence and brought in my main DC and my super sub (as mentioned above the 1 star 14 quality AMR). 15 minutes later they made an impact with my super sub scoring from a cross and my main DC netting a free kick. My AML adding a solo effort to bring the match to a 4-2 to me and a aggregate of 10-3 over all.

Since then I have been carefully monitoring the transfer market and picked up a DMC and a MC to bolster my main squad. Using the old 1's as subs for the main team.

League wise I started off with a 2-0 away win to a team that was slightly weaker. He was playing a 4-1-3-1-1 against my V style but I had most of the possession since he was not there and the score line should have been slightly more in my favour, but alas my finishing was poor. On this instance my ST netted in the 1st 9 minutes then in the 2nd half provided an assist to my super sub who netted a header.

Champions league later against a team that was in my last league, will be keen to see whether he will step it up and pose a threat or if the story will continue like last season where my team walked over his.

Wish you guys and girls the best of luck with your leagues as well.

Regards
Wilderness

[ahmadowskianaya]

I get the worst result in Cup in this season!First match i Lost 4-0 i have better team but i dont know what happened!so i need 5goals to win! In away match i make everything what i can!the result was 5-1 for me then they get a goal by corner!its min 86 and 7-2 and what?they make a counter attack and goal and good bye from cup:-(