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6 hours ago, kr10 said:

 

 

Im enjoying the save anyway, singed a upgrade for centre midfield whos better than Drinkwater.

If your not a massive club its hard to find qaulity players a few years on, unless you have signed the known wonderkids early doors.

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Not made any progress in the league this season, if anything gone backwards a few steps, I'm certainly not on course to match last seasons points total and 8th place looks like my ceiling this season.

This means I need to win a trophy to stay in European Football, if I fail I'll leave Newcastle because this will be the point I cant take them any further.

So I need to somehow break into the top 7, or win the FA cup or Europa League (knocked out of Carabao cup at third round by Arsenal) 

It seems this year my success isn't as consistent Vs Bigger teams, however still good enough for a club of Newcastle size and my squad ability. Good wins over Manchester City and Manchester United this year, and Marsielle away in the Europa League was a pretty big win.

We have been awful in a few games, Vs Leicester, Bournemouth and Southampton, we should be taking points here.

What I'm struggling with is in certain games when I'm not creating anything, not much changes the game unless I abandon the tactic all together, which I'm not going to do this is how I want to play this save. It seems if the opposition score first I might as well give the game up rarely do we take points from loosing positions.

Looking forward anyway to see how this season ends up.

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2 hours ago, kr10 said:

I would also recommend not changing the full back on the WP side to a defensive one. At most, wing back support. Overlapping is a key element of opening up space for the WP

sorry I mean in tough games were the opposition are way better, defensive line is more solid when Ricca is maundering forward.

 

2 hours ago, kr10 said:

I just noticed that you didn’t switch your striker roles. With your version of the tactic, the AF should be on the left (ideally with a left footed player). This is so that the support striker doesn’t drop into the space of the WP. Imo this is quite an important change that will help you a lot, provided you have a left footed guy

Sorted that now, Batshuayi is double footed so he can play that role, my other striker Haaland for roatation purposes is left footed.

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8 hours ago, kr10 said:

Thanks for the update - cup finals losses are certainly infuriating, but this Newcastle side you’ve built is destined for bigger trophies - hopefully the CL or premier league one day. If you’re doing well against top teams, perhaps you could make a fairly tale run in the CL. Top 4 certainly seems possible this year. 

interesting note on the support duty sweeper keeper, I might have to give it a go. Does your GK have high “rushing out”? Does the support role make him come off his line more?

I like to train my WP to “dribble more” and “cut inside with ball”, to get the behavior you mentioned. That being said, I didn’t use an attack duty because it just doesn’t look right to my eye having 2 attack duties on the same flank, those things bug me. 

Another thing I have done is adjusting the defensive line and/or fullback duties against particularly strong opposition away from home. For example, when I played against PSG with Neymar, Mbappe, and a world class regen with 18/19 pace, I dropped my defensive line a notch, changed RB to WB(s), and LB to FB(d). Any/all of these changes can be made away from home or in a Cup final against particularly dangerous forwards. 

On the DLP front - I think it comes down to who is your best playmaking midfielder. I personally don’t like having more than one playmaker. If your CM(s) is your best player, you could also try a DLP(s) with an IW(s). Or even a DLP(d) instead of a CM(d). I started with this but went with the WP as he was my best player, and I do like the idea of building a team around a special player 

Sacked off the two playmakers, it stopped grealish getting the ball as much.

I want him on the ball because that tactic is set up to give him lots of passing options, and he has another option to go and run with it.

As for my keeper, his rushing out 15, although his acceleration is only 7.

Im on the lookout for a new goalkeeper to take me to the next level.

I was just about to ask what do you do to tighten up this tactic when protecting a lead, or playing stronger opposistion but you answered that in this post.

Tempted to make Ricca my LB a full back on defend duty  to stop him overlapping.

I'll update again around halfway point of the season.

 

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20 minutes ago, Mcfc1894 said:

Been on here a few times still haven't decided on a laptop recently got a Argos card with a value of £700 what do you think of this one I like to play FM with a lot of leagues with full detail in the top leagues would this laptop be decent with processing speed In this case

whats the GPU in that laptop, not vital for Football Manager but at that price point I'd expect a GPU able to play other modern games.

Processing wise it will be fine for Football Manager should process alright with around 15-20k player count

 

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1 hour ago, kr10 said:

A quick note, the duties on the WP and goalkeeper seem to be wrong, I would change those if I were you. The WP for example performs better in a support duty from my experience, while I generally stay away from a support duty goalkeeper. 

It looks like if you win your game in hand you’ll be 6th? I hope you can push for a top 4 spot next season. 

Ive found the tactic scales well with the quality of players as well. The winger and AF in particular are critical, they put up the best numbers for me. Try getting Pietro Pellegri if you can, he performs better in this tactic than any 190+ player I’ve owned 

Finished 6th in the end, but lost both my cup finals both times my team bottled it. 

Starting my 4th season now winning first 4 games, including a 3-2 win over Manchester City, Batshuayi with a hat trick in that game, iv'e never used a tactic that has gotten me so many wins over stronger opposition. Had a draw Vs Norwich because my centre midfielder got sent off for a stupid two footed lunge, did well to get a draw.

I've chosen to play Grealish my WP in  Attack duty because he likes to run with ball, on attack duty he seems to include driving runs into game which troubles weaker sides. Its another option he has as well as the passing options. When I play other players in that WP role they are put on support duty.

The Sweeper keeper on support I find helps counter over the top balls the tactic can be a little vulnerable too.

I've also changed Eustaquio to a deep lying playmaker on support, given how good his range of passing and mentals are to be playmaker, and hes not right next to my wide playmaker its worked so far.  

I'm looking forward to leaving Newcastle on this game, to try the tactic in a new team and league, for now I'll stay at Newcastle a few more years their fans deserve a trophy.

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4 hours ago, Hembrough747 said:

Hi Smurf, 

I’m a new member in need of some help!

Budget 350. Could possibly stretch to 400 if that was going to make a massive difference.

No problem if it’s refurbished etc

Any help really appreciated. Just looking for the best I can afford as I have very little knowledge in this area nd can’t afford to mess this up!

 

Thanks, 

 

Hembrough747

Laptop or desktop.

Massive difference in performance at that price

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On 10/05/2019 at 16:36, kr10 said:

 

It would be great if poeple could try it out and let me know their thoughts, I have personally very curious to see if this tactic works at all levels. Thank you for taking the time to read it.

I've had some success using your tactic, the tactic in the screenshot is inverted so my playmaker is Jack Grealish on the left, cutting in with his right foot. Hes had 6 goals, 7 assists and an average rating of 7.44 from 20 games so far this season.

I think I'm performing slight above expected in the league, and excellent in cups getting to the league cup final and still going strong in FA cup and Europa League.

I would say using this tactic at an average team is pretty good, you generally win more than you loose, however one thing I've noticed is its a giant killing tactic.

You can see on the screenshot multiple wins over Arsenal, a win over Totenham, Liverpool, Villareal and Napoli. Newcastle fans would be happy with that.

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15 countries loaded, all England leagues other countries just the top divisions.