Pilcs Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) Recently I've found myself getting bogged down trying to perfectly replicate certain managers' style of play in FM. I found myself editing all sorts of team and player instructions just to try and replicate a certain move or pattern that most of the time wasn't even possible. I realised that by trying to do this it was ruining my experience of playing the game. So I decided to do what I always do when I'm struggling on FM, hit the reset button and read some content. https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/328398-building-a-tactic-from-the-beginning-and-maintaining-it-long-term https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/407593-marcelo-bielsas-tactical-philosophy-in-football-manager-2017/ After reading these articles (not for the first time) I thought it might be fun to replicate a manager's tactics using only a Balanced mentality, limiting myself to only 3 selections per in possession, in transition and out of possession team instructions as well as banning myself from adding any player instructions. I quickly found myself enjoying this newly found restricted freedom and went about creating replications for a number of different managers. I thought it'd be fun to share them on here in the format of a quiz. I'll show the team instructions, you can reveal the formation for an extra clue or just reveal the answer. All tactics have a Balanced mentality, I'm limited on the amount of team instructions I can select and the formations are what I consider the main formation for that manager. Also these are just my interpretations so they might be way off on some of them, hopefully it's just a bit of fun. I've only done 5 for now but happy to do more if people want. Let me know what you scored in the comments and if you want your money back... Manager 1 Formation Spoiler Answer Spoiler Johan Cruyff Manager 2 Formation Spoiler Answer Spoiler José Mourinho Manager 3 Formation Spoiler Answer Spoiler Julian Nagelsmann Manager 4 Formation Spoiler Answer Spoiler Jürgen Klopp Manager 5 Formation Spoiler Answer Spoiler Roberto De Zerbi Edited September 18, 2023 by Pilcs 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 (edited) Did 4/5, the first one was tricky lol. What really confused me was Spoiler Julian Nagelsmann , when did he play a 4-4-2? I don't recall that last year... Edited September 18, 2023 by Poison Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilcs Posted September 19, 2023 Author Share Posted September 19, 2023 Yeah, the first one is definitely my interpretation of it haha. I think it's probably one of the shapes he's not used as much but one that makes me think of him! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocoadavid Posted September 19, 2023 Share Posted September 19, 2023 This was fun. But I think for Manager 4 you should definitely add Counter in transition, it's one of his main principles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilcs Posted September 20, 2023 Author Share Posted September 20, 2023 Glad you enjoyed it. That's true, definitely an oversight on my part for that one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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