[Ajax- what to play my wingers on?]

Thanks everybody who replied! 

1 hour ago, Experienced Defender said:

Yeah, I know. He asked about potential wide forward roles. But the problem is that you cannot look at tactical elements in isolation from one another in order for a tactic to work. You need to take a number of factors into account. You may assign each player to a role that "ideally" suits him individually, and your tactic can still fail because the system as a whole is not well balanced.

I am actually struggling with this, since one of my CMs is a natural defending I retrained and does the job really well. 

However, the other one is more of a natural CAM (Donny van de Beek) and while he has great workrates, stamina, etc, he lacks defensively. 

However, I can not not use my star player. Any advice here? 

 

Thanks a lot anyway everybody❤️

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35 minutes ago, PinkSpeedos said:

Thanks for your feedback. 

I've tinkered with it again a little bit (before seeing your comment) and beat top of the table Liverpool, 3-1

Went with the following:

SK(D)

WB(S) - BPD(C) - CD(D) - WB(S)

HB(D)

MEZ(A) - BWM(S)

IF(S) - IW(A)

DLF(A)

Shorter passing, play out, low crosses, focus through the middle, lower tempo

Distribute to CBs, hold shape, counter press

Defender narrow, higher line of engagement, more urgent, prevent short GK kicks

 

DLF seems to hold things up top a little better which takes some of the pressure off the defence. The Mezella scored a hat trick so I was probably missing that attacking threat from midfield (as was mentioned further up). 

 

You've said about defending wider - can I ask why you think that would be a good idea? 

 

Thanks

I do NOT think defending wider is a good idea for you

I just said that your original tactic could easily be countered by defending wider and as such needed a threat in the middle, your mezalla now. 

I think your tactic rn seems fine, althougj I would suggest to turn your WB on the side if your MEZ to a FB against quick sides, as a MEZ and a WB might leave you exposed om the break

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To me, the real question would be why you chose overlap with 2 inverted minded wingers. Who is there to overlap? I'd think that the mezzalla gets dragged out of position so much by that that the centre is underwhelmed and when faving a setup like yours, I would definitively play through centre and defend with more width. 

Imo you should think about underlapping and definitively balamce your side out. 

2 wingbacks with 2 inside forwards or if you want 1 inverted winger. 

More stable midfield. It seems like a variant on tiki taka so a registra would do as dm if you have over 60% possession, with a bwm and a bbm on midfield, or if you are under a 60% possession, have a halfback as dm with a mezalla and a bwm and then switch the wingback on the side of the mezalla to a fullback

As me anything you didnt understand, I see now my post has become a bit cluttered. 

 

So if youre dominant, Id line up

PF

IF IF/IW

BWM BBM

REG

WB BPD CD WB

SK

That is, if you would rather win 3-2 than 1-0 ofc

 

If you are often the weaker side:

PF

IF IW

BWM MEZ

HB

WB CD CD FB

GK

[Ajax- what to play my wingers on?]

I am currently playing a 4231 gegenpress, yet have failed to archieve real success against smaller teams with stamina depleting quickly and am thinking about switching to a 4231 with:

 Tadic (PF) 

 

Rw: Neres

Cam: Zyjech (am-a/s) 

Lw: Promes

 

Cm: Donny van de Beek (dynamic midfielder/mezzalla-s) 

Cm: Alvares (playmaker for defence-defend) 

 

Lb: tagliafico (wb-s)

Cb: Martinez (bpd-d) 

Cb: veltman (bdp-d)

Rb: Mazraoui (wb-s) 

 

Gk: Onana (Sk-s) 

 

Anybody tips for roles and advice whether or not to switch to a tiki taka with this squad

There is a real talent I signed, a fast and agile striker who needs to focus on finishing and long shots (9-9). He might replace tadic sooner or later

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