Being competitive from the start, tips and images

[NicolasFC]

So, here we are at the half of the season running for the 3 goals of the season.

Let me explain how this season started. My main focus was to improve the team by replacing the older players and the ones that had their contract ending this season. Had no special will to compete for a treble but advancing during the season has brought me with an advantage of proceeding to quarter-finals in Champions league with 5 goals advantage from the first match and 4 goals ahead in the Cup which will bring me to the semi-finals of the Cup. Note that I am the lower team in level competing for the Cup.
As for the League this has been the hardest League so far which much better oponents from past seasons, and by experimenting on new formation for this season during the first week I lost the 2 first games and started with -6 points. Now, after finding the proper formation and tactics the team is playing the same way during all games being undefeated from the second week till now. Only 1 point behind the first place, and by respecting every oponent we are just being patient and focusing on every game differently.

On this Chapter we will see how to have all our players with high form.
Personally I managed to have 90% of my players with a decent form in every game, meaning 7-8 or 9.

So, the first thing I advise you to do is checking your players ratings and form after the game. This will give you a general idea of how your players are performing better after each match.

A player might perform better on a different position (if able to play more than one position). So what we want to do is having the best 11 starting the game and use our players where we will have the most benefit from them. It takes time and some observation of different factors. Beware that a change of formation and tactic/orders might affect your players if you are not stable to a plan.

Let's start by taking a look at our players form :



Personally I know about every reason why my player's form increase or decrease, and this has been tested.

So we see our new player Papara having a 7-6-7 so far. We are checking for his form very closely. We know that we are not using him where he performs better (DL) but so far persisting on him to gain his place on the first 11 starting gave him more confidence.

We have our main striker Guajardo that had a 9 (scored 4 goals + 1 assist + a penalty won in one match), then scored another goal on the next game which gave him a 8, and after that hasn't scored since so a long row of 7s. And suddenly there is a 6 on his last game that he didn't score .
To tell you the truth that was expected.
So, as we know that strikers are made for scoring, we will put him on an easy game where we expect him to score, as well put him on penalty and free kicks taker order to raise his form again. If Guajard scores on the next game we will have him again where we want him to be.

The other players with some bad performance during some games are Maltsev and Rauch. The reason they are not performing well is because they are not playing much, both are on their last year of contract so we don't expect much from them.

I can say that for the rest of the players we are pretty staisfied of their performance.
So, what we have seen so far is that we have a team with good form in general, and we know well our players. Observing your team's performance is a must. Many times I prefer using a player with lower quality but with better form. You simply have to use 100% of your players abilities and not let other factors determinate a match result. So, know well your players, know how they perform better and don't play too much with their mind changing tactics in every game or 3-4 times per game (you will drive them crazy ).