Playmaker on a Striker???

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04-21-2013
July Fourth

Playmaker on a Striker???

I was playing a few friendlies the other day and I forgot to post about this one.

I was rotating players around to reduce condition to optimum levels by playing a few different formations and playing players OOP. I have Ronnie O'Sullivan who is a 6*109 MR/AMR playmaker and put him on as a striker in the second half of a friendly match vs an abandoned L11 team which still was on my friends list and in the space of 10 mins, he made 2 goals and 2 assists. So it made me think that could the playmaker SA work well for a ST.
04-21-2013
Capticus

Do some more testing? How many matches have you play with him as striker? :)
04-21-2013
July Fourth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Capticus

Do some more testing? How many matches have you play with him as striker? :)

None. I was rotating my squad around using the players with the most condition first for the friendlies.
04-21-2013
dv8r

I'm not a fan of playmaker, I've owned 5 in the last 2 seasons and they're pretty much all useless. Mostly MC but my non-playmaker scored more goals in that season. Not sure if it would work in the same way for a striker though
04-21-2013
Capticus

Quote:

Originally Posted by July Fourth

None. I was rotating my squad around using the players with the most condition first for the friendlies.

can you play one more match with the playmaker as striker against a better team?
04-21-2013
July Fourth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Capticus

can you play one more match with the playmaker as striker against a better team?

I will do it in a league match later on this season when I have practically sealed the league title.
04-21-2013
nsretkovic

July Fourth do you can help me? How best to fix it? because this season is going poorly I'm 2nd in the league and the Champions League is going a bit better but that's not it.
Srry 4 my bad english, i use google translater...
My team : http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1d/uY/Muc3oKQ/my-team.jpg
Settings: Attacking metality
2. Down Both flanks
3. Whole Pitch
4. Hard tackling
5. Mixed
6.Man to man
CounterAttack yes
Offside trap no
What change here?
04-21-2013
Capticus

Quote:

Originally Posted by July Fourth

I will do it in a league match later on this season when I have practically sealed the league title.

A good time to play, now its work :p
04-21-2013
CameraLagg

Well theoreticly the playmaker isn't supposed to score goals.. Just get the ball past the opponent's defence with long intelligent balls. Which means or assists or him being the person who does the "Long ball ahead for... " thing
04-21-2013
SimplySimon

Quote:

Originally Posted by nsretkovic

July Fourth do you can help me? How best to fix it? because this season is going poorly I'm 2nd in the league and the Champions League is going a bit better but that's not it.
Srry 4 my bad english, i use google translater...
My team : http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1d/uY/Muc3oKQ/my-team.jpg
Settings: Attacking metality
2. Down Both flanks
3. Whole Pitch
4. Hard tackling
5. Mixed
6.Man to man
CounterAttack yes
Offside trap no
What change here?

Some thoughts:

You are playing a flank attack with no wide midfielders. Consider playing through the middle

Whole pitch pressing + lots of arrows = massive stamina drain. Consider pressing in your half only

Attacking + forced counter attack = confused strategy. Consider dropping forced counters

Man to man marking works best if the opponent is in roughly the same formation, or your players will be pulled out of position. Consider zonal

Hope that helps :-)
04-21-2013
July Fourth

Quote:

Originally Posted by nsretkovic

July Fourth do you can help me? How best to fix it? because this season is going poorly I'm 2nd in the league and the Champions League is going a bit better but that's not it.
Srry 4 my bad english, i use google translater...
My team : http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1d/uY/Muc3oKQ/my-team.jpg
Settings: Attacking metality
2. Down Both flanks
3. Whole Pitch
4. Hard tackling
5. Mixed
6.Man to man
CounterAttack yes
Offside trap no
What change here?

Get your fitness levels up would be a good start.
04-22-2013
Razz

Quote:

Originally Posted by nsretkovic

July Fourth do you can help me? How best to fix it? because this season is going poorly I'm 2nd in the league and the Champions League is going a bit better but that's not it.
Srry 4 my bad english, i use google translater...
My team : http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1d/uY/Muc3oKQ/my-team.jpg
Settings: Attacking metality
2. Down Both flanks
3. Whole Pitch
4. Hard tackling
5. Mixed
6.Man to man
CounterAttack yes
Offside trap no
What change here?

Yikes! You're second in your league??? How??? That's an example of how to do everything wrong .... and people wonder why they have so many injuries.

Add to what Simon said, hard tackling also drains condition and increases chance of being carded, and probably increases chance of injuries. Use normal tackling unless you a) have already been carded and/or b)are behind and desperate.