Quote Originally Posted by Siddharth Singh View Post
I was watching this match. I think you were playing defensive, force counter attacks with focus passing down the flanks.

Don't you think it better to play focus passing through the middle if you are playing defensive with force counter attacks ?

I saw your players were successfully executing counter attacks but since focus passing was set to down both flanks they were unnecessarily taking the ball to flank and then crossing from there which most of the time doesn't results in goal in top eleven. Instead of taking the ball to flanks if they straight away ran towards the goal it will provide a better chance to score a goal.

What's your thought on this ?

I got the chance to test both these strategies in detail during the King of the Hill event and I personally found that through the middle works a lot better than down both flanks when you are playing defensive.

This is why I am playing with through the middle focus passing with 2 AMC and 1 ST even though I had trained my players AMR / AML position specifically to play down both flanks so that my player Ludovic can score more in MC assistance competition.
Maybe you are right, I do play defensive, I like conceding hardly anything, I was expecting to do better but it is ok, we won, I play down the flanks because that is where my strongest players are and I have found my team does much better when they are playing down the flanks rather than down the middle, I played worse when I played through the middle, so I tend to disagree for now, maybe against this particular opponent it didn’t work, I know I am a serial complainer but it helps my team perform better in my opinion I try to fix the thing that went wrong in the match.


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