[Mr Hough 10.3 Tactics]

Ipswichjon this is my Ipswich team 5 games into the season:

GK:Murphy as Fulop is injured

RB:Peters/Ricketts

LB:Civelli/Kennedy also got J Lloyd Samuel on loan

CB:Smith/McAuley

CB:Muniesa/Spence

DM:Healy/Koke

CM:Norris/Leadbitter

AMR:Edwards/Garcia

AML:Townsend/McDermott

SC:Santo/Stead

SC:Priskin/Iversen

I'm 5 games into the season and I know its early days but I'm unbeaten Swansea(H) 6-5, Torquay (H) 5-0, Millwall(A) 1-2, Coventry(H) 2-1 and Barnsley(A) 1-2 and apart from the Barnsley game none of the opposition have had more than 1 CCC. I will let you know how my season progresses.

I've decided to give it another go with wingers but I'm tweaking it so there's now two central midfielders (same settings for both) and one striker (iversen/John Sutton) and I've adjusted the wingers to have a touch more creative freedom, dropped the defensive line back 3 notches, lowered the defenders mentality and closing down to 3 notches from the lowest and I'm looking much tighter at the back.

Preseason results have been very promising, I'll update after the season proper begins...

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I think it's partly my team too, Ipswich 2009 aren't the strongest and the 4-1-2-3 formation is much stronger for less able teams, especially defensively, I might give the Gav1979 tactic a try with my 2014 save game thoughas my Ipswich team are very strong but I'll have to wait till the end of the season as I've got no wingers.

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The tactic Mr Hough released was just a 'beta' for you to try out, he is working on the defensive sides of it, to improve it.

Steve

yup, that's why I left more detailed feedback in earlier posts and why I'll wait for him to finish working on the defensive side while I use one of his other excellent tactics...

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Okay I'm gonna have to give up on the winger tactic for now, it has led to a less successful first half of the season than any of the previous tactics I've tried so I'll wait until Mr Hough has maybe sorted the defence, competitive results in the end were:

Played: 12

Won: 5

Drew: 3

Lost: 2

Goals For: 28

Goals Against: 20

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Another quick update last games:

Middlesborough (H) lost 2-1

Hull City (A) drew 3-3

Thats 17 conceded in 8 games more than 2 a game but 23 scored, nearly 3 a game, if the defence can be tweaked just a touch to reduce the goals per a game conceded this could be a world beater!

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Update after 14 games with Ipswich - 8 pre-season 6 competitive, Going forward the goals are flowing, in the last 6 games I've scored 3-4 goals in each match bar 1, but defensively it seems to be a bit all over the place, as you can see from the last 6 games I'm conceding alot and as i posted before, goals from crosses and the striker running in behind the CB are the main culprits, I've also noticed after watching a couple of games all the way through that teams are dragging my man marking centre backs out of position, my full backs seem to be quite a way up field and wingers/midfielders are getting in behind as well, results so far:

Swansea (A) lost 3-0

Swindon (A) won 4-2 AET

Leicester (H) won 4-3

Scunthorpe (H) won 3-2

Millwall (A) won 4-1

Oldham (A) won 4-2

I use Ast manager team talks (I've got in Mark Venus who has good stats in all the right areas) and no opposition instructions. When I compare this with previous Mr Hough tactics I'm really liking the play going forward (especially on the break where teams get ripped apart) but the opposiiton, even weaker teams, are getting at least 2-3 CCC compared with very few CCC with previous tactics. Possibly stronger teams work better with this tactic as you'll be more likely to have quicker more technically gifted players who'll have more possession and better defensive stats

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Going forward this tactic is really strong, an example of the potency comes in the CCC created, with Ipswich at home to Charlton, a relatively strong preseason friendly opponent, match stats: 6-3 win 22 shots 10 on target 8 CCC and some lovely passing moves going on but as has been mentioned the defence is an issue and in all my preseason games I've conceded, and the goals have all come from the same 2 sources:

(1) opposition strikers running in behind and outpacing my centre backs (my guys aren't super quick) I think maybe the defensive line is a little too high and you need very quick centre backs. A way around this could be playing with an offside trap.

(2) From crosses, usually with a player winning a header against my fullbacks at the far post, does this mean a need big guys at fullback, should it be man instead of zonal marking?