Team % Bonuses - Your favorite?

[nash123]

I had a lot of success today with possession bonus with my twin account against two much better opponents (I where down 10-15% in both match-ups) in the FA. They where a little weak at central midfield, only had 2 CM/DMCs per team, so with 3 and 4 respectively on my side I sat passing through the middle and had 14% possesssion bonus plus the 50% increase, which puts it at 21%, on my side. With 60-70% possession I dominated both games and got a win and a real troll tie where I gave up 2-1 in the 87's and 2-2 in the 90th on a FK...

I think this is for sure the best way to play a better opponent that isn't overly strong at center midfield. You will have a good shot in any game if you can get 60+% possession. I have several times had a lot of success with it.

But I think, there is one problem: What do you do, if opponent switch positions for 3 MCs oder 4 ML/C/R? Or uses another formation at 2nd leg?

I beat some strong opponents this season and I rarly used possession-bonus. I mostly use condtion and attack. Maybe it's because I've a pretty good offensive, so I try to score more than my opponent.
Maybe I had have won today at FA, if I took pessession bonus instead of attacking... but if you take look at the screenshot, my team had 49% possession with only 10 players...

[Al Svanberg]

But I think, there is one problem: What do you do, if opponent switch positions for 3 MCs oder 4 ML/C/R? Or uses another formation at 2nd leg?

I beat some strong opponents this season and I rarly used possession-bonus. I mostly use condtion and attack. Maybe it's because I've a pretty good offensive, so I try to score more than my opponent.
Maybe I had have won today at FA, if I took pessession bonus instead of attacking... but if you take look at the screenshot, my team had 49% possession with only 10 players...

Yeah, to put it like this, this is especially a -- monster strategy -- if you face a player with less possession bonus than you to start with, from not attending or having less fans attending, and that doesn't adjust and match me at center midfield. I have not noticed that it does not kill me if I am overpowered on the wings, as long as I have an advantage in numbers at center midfield (DMC and MC, but AMC also helps).

Like in an association game, lets say you have 10% possession bonus. That is trained up to 14% by another member. You use the 50% booster which puts you at 21%. You have home field, and one more association member is watching your game than the opponents game. You have an advantage at center field which gives you more possession. If the opponent only has 2 MCs or fewer, you can also use short passing to give you even more possession. Lets say your opponent at least doesn't use his 50% bumper for possession. You see where it is heading, even if you face someone with 20-40% more ability than you -- you can get a significant edge in possession. If you have a significant edge in possession, you always at least have a shot in a game. Right?

So yeah, it can of course always be countered by a better player, I mean, he can always do what you are doing with possession and so forth. For sure. But my impression is still that many aren't doing that. They are probably a bit too confident when they are up that many % in ability. And its also not that easy to figure our exactly what happen, at least I might not have thought about it before. I mean, what is happening in the actual game for the player that face this? He is a better team, he creates some chances and normally at least get as many shots as me. The possession often ends up being maybe like 58-42 or 60-40 or something like that. I've seen all kind of reactions, but mostly it seems like people attack more and that is also not a good strategy, you can use counter against that so its probably better to use normal/defense against it.

And if the draws in an association tournaments allow it, your association can also use it to give someone 4+4=8% extra in possession bonus, if not more. I mean 10+8=18% will give you a possession bonus of 28% when you use the 50% booster. 22% gives you 33%.

The best success I have had with this strategy was against a Turkish association with a leader with 150% ability (the rest was around 90-105%, it was early in this season so I was at around 100% at the most...). My possession bonus was not trained up to 14%, it was only at 10%, but we all attended our games and only two from their side attended. This guy was probably used to dominate his opponents so he played 3N-2-1-3-1, I had 2 DMCs, 1 MC and 1 AMC. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't have max bonuses. With short passing through the middle and a possession bonus of 5% (home field), 3 more fans watching giving me 6%, 10+5=15% from activating the bonus plus the unknown possession bonus I got from short passing through the middle and having 2 more players at center field, it gave me a possession advantage of 26% + X (short passing and more heads at center field) - whatever possession bonus he had, maybe like 6%. It felt like I had a good 30% edge, and instead of being dominated 60/40 I ended up with just under 70% in possession. Before that game, I considered gutting my team loaning its best players to my twin account because I was down so much in ability, instead I won 5-2...