Do you use arrows?

[El Pistolero]

I often play with mainly wingers so I put red arrows on my DMC, AML and AMR when I play a 4-5-1V.

I used to have all defence on blue and all attack on red arrows.

My question is how do you spread out arrows? Do they make much of a difference.

[Sjenon]

Never used, (probably) never will.

How much they actually affect your formation, i got no clue - but i would guess "not alot".

[magic3]

Seldom

[Morgan O'Bree]

I was used to red arrows only and at max blue on DMC, but since i adopted the blue arrows on my DCs to let them act as sweeper my goal against dimished sensibly.

[El Pistolero]

Morgan makes a good point about the blue arrows. When I used to adopt arrows to every player, I kept more clean sheets with blue arrows on defence but I wasted a lot of shots with red arrows on MC's. (normally 2 centre midfielders)

I'm going to experiment with arrows against my opponents tomorrow. League match I should definitely win, my champions league match, I'm not so sure. Tough away game, same quality.

[Morgan O'Bree]

Morgan makes a good point about the blue arrows. When I used to adopt arrows to every player, I kept more clean sheets with blue arrows on defence but I wasted a lot of shots with red arrows on MC's. (normally 2 centre midfielders)

I'm going to experiment with arrows against my opponents tomorrow. League match I should definitely win, my champions league match, I'm not so sure. Tough away game, same quality.

I never use more than 5 anyways or the players tend to get confused.

[El Pistolero]

So probably not a good idea?

Ok, I'll apply blue arrows to CB's and red arrows to forward and wingers.

[dv8r]

From my understanding and experience, this is what I've noticed...

Blue on defenders invites the attacker to have more long range shots but less 1 on 1 opportunities... So more defensive but vulnerable to players like a shadow striker

Red on defenders is the opposite as they press up the field, reducing the chance of long range shots but are vulnerable to the 1 on 1 opportunity. They also go up for more corners.

So I believe that having no arrows will balance this out. I play with no arrows on all defenders.

Red on AML/AMR increases the number of chances from them. I do this all the time.

Red on ST means more chances from them and probably more corner goals too. My ST hardly ever gets goals from corners but after I gave him red arrows, he seemed to score more from them.

Blue on GK, I believe that this means less chance of the goalkeeper conceding from a long range strike as the goalkeeper doesn't go off his line. This needs more testing though. Although I think you can only do this on mobile and this has been removed from the desktop game. So probably a useless fact.

I don't bother with the rest... Red/Blue on MCs don't have much effect and you probably lose possession for that

[El Pistolero]

Thank you dv8r

My two CB's are blue and my attacking wingers and strikers are red.
My defensive midfielder has scored a few screamers, maybe it has something to do with the red arrow.

I'll post my results and see if the arrows made much difference.

[Ljepoje]

Depends on the current formation I tend to use...

Normally I go with
DL+DR+AML+AMR:RED
DMC: BLUE

When I use the 4-1-2-1-2 a red arrow on the AMC could work.