Question about possession

[David Grizzle]

Possession is really not connected much with scoring. As stupid as that is it appears to be true. I am constantly annoyed at getting 70-80% possession and the opp has almost the same # of shots and on targets. The only thing that seems to separate my quality beyond possession is that my shots on target go in a whole lot more often than my opps.

I have found that only hard attacking really works, as well as been told as much by more experienced players.

How has your players form been recently? I look just as much at form trends than anything. If you have attacking players who have been out of form for long stretches you may need to bench them a while or replace them permanently.

One thing I do when I am not getting enough scoring chances but have the better team is switch to force counter attacking during the match to boost my chances. It does pay off in those cases most times.

[po_zdrach]

Possession is really not connected much with scoring. As stupid as that is it appears to be true. I am constantly annoyed at getting 70-80% possession and the opp has almost the same # of shots and on targets. The only thing that seems to separate my quality beyond possession is that my shots on target go in a whole lot more often than my opps.

I have found that only hard attacking really works, as well as been told as much by more experienced players.

How has your players form been recently? I look just as much at form trends than anything. If you have attacking players who have been out of form for long stretches you may need to bench them a while or replace them permanently.

One thing I do when I am not getting enough scoring chances but have the better team is switch to force counter attacking during the match to boost my chances. It does pay off in those cases most times.

I noticed that every single player play good for 4-5 seasons and after that his rating drop down, no matter if he is scout, nordgen or from youth academy. In this moment I have only one MC who plays badly (before this season his rating was 7-8, now is 5-6).

I will try with hard attacking mentality in next game. Do you use arrows or offside trap in this mode?

[David Grizzle]

I noticed that every single player play good for 4-5 seasons and after that his rating drop down, no matter if he is scout, nordgen or from youth academy. In this moment I have only one MC who plays badly (before this season his rating was 7-8, now is 5-6).

I will try with hard attacking mentality in next game. Do you use arrows or offside trap in this mode?

I use forward arrows on all players except CB and obviously GK. I never use offside trap, it doesn't work well. It depends on the talent advantage as to the use of counter attacking. If I am doing well I don't use it. If I am having less than 70% possession or more importantly it seems the other team is getting too many chances I will tick it on.

I always play full team press and man to man marking unless something goes wrong. I think my record of allowing so few goals justifies the man to man even though according to Nord the vast majority use zonal marking.


Have you been keeping your long term players up to the lvl you are at? I mean adding a star each season you promote. I have had the core of the team together for the 4th season now and only one guy had any consistency issues, I resolved that by moving him inside from RB to CB and he is back to 7-8's. Of course I have had busts but all my good players have stayed that way so far.