Season 40

[Ljepoje]

After the harsh beating in the cup FCK redeems itself, 5-0 in the league (me 4-4-2 vs. 3N-2W-3N-2ST) and 7-0 in the CL (opponent was active, but did not know about illegal formations, me chose DC-DC-DC-DR-DMR-MC-MC-3ST).

@Ljepoje's question about the cup tactics: Yes, that was my manager mistake. I chose 3W-2N-3-1-1 vs. 4-1-2-1-2 ND, which worked in the past, but the opponent probably motivated his AMC, so it was 3 strikers vs. a 3W defense and that is punished by the game engine. I corrected it after 15 minutes (0-1 at that time) to 4-1-4-1, but the match engine did not react, the opponent got chance after chance and at the end was a 0-4 home defeat. Bitter loss, but I don't mind too much about the cup. Everyone uses hard tackling there, there are higher level player with 12 more quality than me (hello Nordeus, how about performance based cup). So it is a pain in the a** each year and this way I can concentrate on league, CL and friendlies to improve the squad.

Aha, that was "it" then. I used to play formations/tactics, using the "through the middle" logic (diamond etc), but then I changed and adapted the 4-2N-3W-2 "butterfly" formation instead. This helped me alot, especially against "stronger" opposition. Sometimes, "fire with fire" is the best solution when your out of ideas.

And yeah, the 3W is more or less sh*t, but not if you use 2x DMC'´s to back them up. You could go with a 3N instead + 1 DMC (3-1-4-2 or 3-1-3-1-2). But it's up to you, you know your players and the way they perform in curtain situations.

I use hard tackling since season 3 and so far - all good... .. The "key" behind it is to NOT change your settings (from easy, normal to hard etc), then the engine could strike at you. I don't get so many injuries anymore, all of them come from PT more or less.

Then again and as I said, players at the old server are struggling against better opposition while players on the new (like myself) are playing against equal opposition (all lvl5). That's why I might have a advantage.