Help me score ...

[Accyrover]

.. more goals.



My squad's Avg quality 31.0
Last five matches:
Away League . vs 18.1 . 6-0
Home Champ. vs 20.6 . 3-0
Away Friendly vs 18.5 . 3-0
Home Cup .....vs 18.5 . 4-2
Away Cup . . . vs 18.5 . 3-0
I'm winning, but I should be .. my issue is I see a 21.5 scoring 6-0 against a 16.0, an 18.5 5-1 over a 15.4, a 24.5 7-0 & 5-0 over a 14.4, a 25.9 with 9-1 & 7-0 over a 14.4

That 6-0 result is by far my highest scoring match to date, but it seems I should be scoring that or more fairly often, if not regularly against lesser quality opponents. I heavily invested in strikers, picking up the 34 & 35 5* Berezin and Edri, but together they have 5 of my 19 goals.

Soon I'm going to be playing against stronger opponents in Cup and if i can't score more against lower quality teams, i think I'm going to be in trouble.

So,
1. How do I score more and/or get my strikers more involved?
2. Suggestions on upgrading my team?
(I plan to replace montano and lepine, also looking to find some AM* players once the market is a bit less crazy, particularly an multirole AMC. Riquelme and Onuoha are candidates for replacement by more versatile players as well. Marin and McLeish are training hard and I hope to get them up to speed with the rest of the team, but they may not advance fast enough and end up on the block as well.)

My preference has been an 4-5-1 V or 3-5-2 V, but I adapt to my squad and opponent. I use 3-1-4-2 quite a bit.
Usual Tactics :
Attacking (Hard attacking never seems to help, normal doesn't seem much different either)
Focus passing depends on formations
pressing, own half. Full just fatigues them too fast
Tackling, normal (or easy for friendly)
Passing - usual mixed, but I've experimented a bit with short and long with other settings
marking: Zonal always

Force counterattack - have tried .. still unsure if it's good or bad
Offside trap - never used

How do manage to play 4-5-1 V with no AML or do you mean 4-5-1 flat with red arrows on MR/ML

Have you tried switching the strikers around left to right side.

AS Gabe says a win is a win but GD is a sickener to lose a trophy by.

Also as Potemy says another AML/AMC and a AML/ML would not go a miss.
Always better to get MR/ML with AM as a second position.

[Razz]

How do manage to play 4-5-1 V with no AML or do you mean 4-5-1 flat with red arrows on MR/ML

Both. I had a different lineup last season, but upgraded my strikers for this season so my AML moved on to somewhere else. I did just pick up an ML/AML 34 skill who quickly trained up to 6 star .. we'll see how he does in his first match here in 30 minutes or so.

Still working on upgrading my MR/AMR or finding a multirole AMC or AMR.

I've had success playing players out of position, despite the overwhelming advice against it. As long as it's a position they can learn, it seems OK. Or playing an MR with red arrows seems almost as good as an AMR?

Have you tried switching the strikers around left to right side.

Yes, I experiment with that until i find where they seem to perform best.

Also as Potemy says another AML/AMC and a AML/ML would not go a miss.
Always better to get MR/ML with AM as a second position.

Multi-role AMs seem to be tough to come by. There was an MC/AMC on the market last night - first one I've seen - but the bidding frenzy was way too out of hand.

I'll keep plugging away and trying different things. Was just hoping maybe there was a glaring flaw that I've overlooked that some more experienced players could point out.

The thing that worries me is if there's something in the code that penalises for switching tactics or formations, which would lead me to miss the subtleties of the changes if i don't stick with them for several games.