weather question

[goalash]

Hi,

I always considered the weather factor to be an important one in regards to the tactics, mainly to the passing style. I divide weather effects into light ones and heavy ones.

The way I see it:

sleek - beneficial to avoid short passing

showers - only direct

heavy snow - only direct

breezy - beneficial to avoid direct passing

strong wind - only short

wet - beneficial to avoid short passing

and so on.

It means that the weather can be either my sidekick or my enemy. If I'm planning to go heavy and direct on a weak opposition and the winds are howling, it would not really work. Probably also makes my target man useless. Again, if I'm visiting Man U planning to keep as much of the ball as I can, same situation turns out as beneficial for me.

Do you also tend to adapt slightly to the weather conditions?

One more things: I read somewhere that wet pitch means you should generally avoid distributing the ball through the middle, as it's, yeah, wet and muddy. It went the opposite way with snow, something about avoiding the frozen central part of the pitch. That part I never bothered with, but I wonder if I'm wrong.

Your opinions?

[herne79]

I never pay any attention to the weather.

[summatsupeer]

I only pay attention if its turning into a bog which isn't likely at premiership level.

[TacticalMoron]

probably depends more on the pitch condition i would imagine than the actually weather, most passing teams water theres pitches anyway, i think gone are those boggy muddy pitches in FA cup games from days gone by

[smajliss]

I always use higher tempo in heavy weather.

[OrientTillIDie]

I would almost be tempted to argue that when it's windy, lumping the ball into the box can be a positive because the defence are going to struggle to deal with it. How many 3rd round FA cup games where a minnow is playing a giant at home are won by the minnow because the Prem team can't deal with long balls when it's blowing a gale? Top flight keepers just don't have to deal with it because the grounds are huge and stop the wind getting in. But stick them at Fleetwood or Exeter near the coast in January after it's rained all week and they have no idea what's going on.