To my credit I changed tactics immediately after conceding, but the obviously the effect was not immediate. In a cup tie I lost 1:2 at home playing defensive and won 0:6 away simply by switching to offensive. I feel like the algorithm might work like this in a continuum
well, sometimes, this "algorithm" can't change during the game, even if you take dramatic decisions or tweak everything.
Sometimes it can.
It's like you 're in a cockpit of a jumbo or airbus, with thousands buttons.
You don't know (or not sure) what exactly every button is doing but you see that the airplane is heading towards a mountain.
So , you just must do something. If the wheel isn't following you, than you just switch on-off buttons.
Some times, you save the plain, sometimes not - LOL

Another important thing I speak for first time it's the instinct.
A player many times have a "feeling", a sixth sense that something is wrong (or something gonna be alright).
Some times I take decisions by my instinct.
Example.
I started this season with NIK F.C. playing vs a weak opo in the Cup.
Much better q team, condition-morale ok, the right formation (facing all his attacker-dangerous player and trying to take the advantage from the flanks).
Watching the game with some supporters, what else ?
Nothing . Started with defense-counter-flanks, in the 2nd half, switched to attack, nothing again.
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I had to do something better than this in the second leg.
My instinct said - 'You did all the right things. There is nothing else to do, so why not let your team playing in auto ? "
And that's what I did (even if I 'm saying that the presence of the manager is one of the major things).
But I had to avoid the "mountain", so I open later the game and saw that result - lol
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