confused about players "blending in"

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"Blending well" in the team talk feedback (which is the one you should worry about, not so much individual strugglers) is at the low medium end of the team cohesion scale. You should perhaps use "teamwork" focus in match prep untill the feedback says "strong understanding". After that, playing and training together will take care of increasing cohesion even more. It will go through a couple more "levels" untill ultimately reaching "willing to die for eachother". But no need to waste valuable match prep after "strong understanding" is reached. In addition, a week or two per month with team training focus set to "team cohesion" will speed cohesion up, but will slow down attributes gains.