[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

1 hour ago, Viking said:

How do I defend against this tactic? Every single team uses this against my 4-4-2, and I am helpless against it. Apparently I get "seriously overun in the midfield", which baffels me as they have no players at central midfield at all, as far as I can see. I am useless at tactics, so explain like I was a two year old ferret.

Hard to say without actually watching the behaviour of your players. However, the following might be the problem with midfield.

Your DL and DR probably mark their AML and AMR. Your ML and MR probably mark their DL and DR. Your DC's probably mark only their ST. DC's tend to stay in line, giving their AM room to move between lines.

That leaves their two DM's + AM for your two MC's. That's a 3 vs 2 in midfield.

One solution is to have your DC mark their AM. Through a player instruction or through high defensive line + closing down. However, this might cause your DC's to be drawn out of position, leaving you 1v1 at the back.  Another solution is to drop one ST to AM, offering help in midfield.

I don't often talk to two year old ferrets, so hopefully this makes sense.

[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

24 minutes ago, herne79 said:

 

Kind of, the issue is that the game doesn't tell us why the players play well together or not as the case may be.  It just says they (don't) play well together and players x & y are (not) well suited to their roles.  There are also many positions which don't ever get linked together (good or bad) regardless of how well your team are playing.  I could show you a screen shot of where my central defenders have a red line between them and no line at all to my striker from any other player, yet we're top of the league with a solid defence and scoring for fun.  It's potentially a useful feature but needs work if it's going to become useable.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I've been playing 3 seasons with (almost) the same squad in the FM 2018 Touch version on PC. I haven't seen a line of whichever color yet. However, I do have a lot of players that show "likes to play with [player]" in their information screen. I don't know the exact text since I don't have access to the game at the moment. Shouldn't this relationship translate to a (positive) line on the tactic screen? On the top of my head, I know that my DL and AML like to play together.

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I just bought FM2018 and haven't played since FM2016. On some screenshots on these forums, I see lines drawn between players. Like a link-up on the tactical analysis screen. What do these lines mean? I exclusively play FM Touch. Are those lines exclusive to the full version of FM?

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I've been keeping up with this thread for quite a while now, just wanted to thank everyone for helping me understand training in FM so much better. My offensive midfielder has taken a liking to his training schedule!