Jack Joyce said......

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1 hour ago, Jack Joyce said:

if you use the OI too much - you could end up making your team lose their structure too often chasing the other team around the pitch. When you've triggered a press, your team will leave their tactical positions to engage to try and win the ball back, which at times can be fine but at other times can be disastrous.

 

Now imagine a game of FM where a team is struggling to get results, they keep losing. So I press 'Consult Assistant Manager'.

A conversation pops up: 'how can I help?' he says.

You select the option: 'We've been struggling for results recently and I wondered if you had any ideas about what might be going wrong?'

He replies: 

if you use the OI too much - you could end up making your team lose their structure too often chasing the other team around the pitch. When you've triggered a press, your team will leave their tactical positions to engage to try and win the ball back, which at times can be fine but at other times can be disastrous.

You thank him.

The next game. you play closer attention to how you players are pressing, and what they were doing when they conceded.

Then you decide to make adjustments to the OI on this basis.

Et voila, you now have better game immersion.

This will especially help novice players, and the many thousands of FM players who do not consult specialist forums like this.

[Jack Joyce]

I agree, we should be generating backroom advice to help out here - for situations where the manager is overusing the pressing instructions.