Attention Moi: Hard Defending and The Assistant Manager

[Bunzo]

The only one I can think about off hand was last season away in the cup I was 2 up went to "hard defending" assistant manager kept going on about that we´d never score with this formation & mentality……eh?
There should be some support for defensive tactics.

[Tactician]

There should be some support for defensive tactics.

There are advises for the defensive side. The question is: are those advises supportive or appropriate as such or are they just due to some random or inappropriate calculations made by the game or are they like I have said above, that is sometimes they are deliberately good and sometimes deliberately bad?

For sure, some of the assistant advises are not logical to football tactics and decisions. For instance, 'he' tells you to use force counter attacks, and then a few minutes later to use full pitch pressing, and the opposing manager is not even present? So how come the orders have to been changed like this when the other manager is not present to make adjustments for the opposing team? Or, does the game automatically make adjustments for teams when the manager is not present (as suspected by Talisman)? Another example is that you can clearly see that long balls or mixed passing is the best choice, and yet the 'he' asks you to use short passing. Another example is when you have won the first leg, and yet 'he' asks you to go out and attack rather than defend in the second leg, and the funny thing is that when you don't attack, you may lose the match and even get disqualified. I think that there are flaws in the the functioning of the game itself in terms of football tactics and decisions, which is why some of the assistant manager's advises seem to be non-appropriate but yet when such modifications are made, your team seems to have an advantage..