[Suggestion] Modern Wing-back

[chewbaccaloveaddiction]

The wing-back is an essential part of modern football, especially for 352 or 343 formations.

 

Here Dumfries (2) attacks to receive a cross at the far post

 

 

at the same time notice how deep Dumfries defends 

 

 

This behavior is impossible to recreate in Football Manager 

 

The Defensive Winger in attack is great:

 

The WB on the other hand is too passive:

 

The Defensive Winger's positioning in defense is mostly terrible:

They don't track back and leave massive gaps 

Even worse, in this situation the DW just stops:

 

and if the right DW(2) tracked back, the CBs could have shifted over and defended that run even if the left DW was too slow.

 

Similar situation with a WB:

The WB tracks back and clears the ball to a corner.

 

 

A Wing-back should attack and press like a Defensive Winger and defend like a Wing-back. A new role like a WB in M(R/L) position, or a rework of the Defensive Winger or Wing-back is necessary to recreate realistic 343 or 352 tactics. A new role can easily be marketed, but especially beginners might be confused by too many roles. Reworking the Wing-back or Complete Wing-back also fixes this problem, but that probably doesn't increase sales.

[Zachary Whyte]

Thank you for your detailed input, we appreciate your feedback. This is something that has come up within the community before, this may yet be rejected or end up in a future version of FM.