Simple question - is the game advanced enough to recreate The new Pep style of tactic with Stones moving into the middle pivot, creating a 3-2-2-3?
This new (or re-creation of the 1920s WM) from Pep is starting to take world football by storm. We are seeing Pep pioneer it, Klopp, Arteta, Xavi all starting to do it now and it seems to be the new wave of tactics that will dominate football for a decade - Not since the original Pep Tikki Takka have we seen this level of trend in a new style of tactic for a long time. It is actually an adaptation of a very old tactic from the early 1900s called the WM tactic.
The basics of it
1) You start with a back four and an attacking formation like 4-1-2-3.
2) You then move a player from somewhere to the middle to create a box four in the middle and turns it into a back 3, with a 4 player box in midfield and overload up top. It looks something like this:
The box is created by the two CDMs and two CAMs, current teams are doing it by:
Man City - moves Stones to the Right CDM spot and spread out the LB/CB/CB as their back three
Arsenal - moves Zinchenko to the Left CDM spot, spreading the remaining RB/CB/CB as their back three
Liverpool - Started to move Trent to the RCDM spot and spread out the LB/CB/CB as their back three
Barcelona - They do it differently, they are dropping their LW Gavi to the Left CAM spot and push their LB up to LW - RB/CB/CB are the back three
3) Because of this, you always have men over in nearly every scenario - Video below explains the rest
Man city and Arsenal are even using their GK as part of the play to get an extra player on either wing
So can you create this in FM or not?