[Mr Hough 10.3 Tactics]

Match Report

Champions League Quarter Finals 2nd Leg: At Madrid Vs Barcelona at the Calderon

(A) Prematch

Build up and Squad updates:

At Madrid

After resting my best players, i have them all fit and ready to go. Only change was i decided to start Dzeko instead of Adriano, for more mobility. The tactical change worked wonders, as u will read below.

Barcelona

Messi is back for Barcelona. will he be the deciding factor in the tie? Read on to find out!

Formation choice

At Madrid

I used Gsc's download formation and started my best 11. i left the tactic as is, because this is the first time i'm using it. I used Bubba's team talks, ie. 'Wish Luck' pregame talks to everyone. I used the Ass Manager's OI advise and left it.

GK Asenjo

DR Rafinha

DL Juan Vargas

DC Ivan Marcano (Cover)

DC Pique (Stopper)

DMC Ignacio Camacho

MCl Miguel Veloso

MCr Joao Moutinho

STl Diego Forlan (Poacher)

STc Dzeko (DL Forward)

STr Sergio Aguero (Adv Forward)

Barcelona

The started in their typical 4-3-3 formation.

GK Valdes

DR D. Alaves

DL Maxwell

DC Milito

DC Puyol

DMC Yaya Toure

MC Xavi

MC Ineista

AML Bojan

AMR Messi (He's back!)

ST Zlatan

(B) Game Start

Bringing an away goal lead into the 2nd leg, i'm sure Barcelona would start attacking me from the 1st whistle. They tried but got nothing out of my boys. i took control of the tie and played to my strengths. All 3 forwards were testing their defence. A few desperate blocks and interceptions in the penalty area were good signs that my players were testing the Barca defence. I had already tweaked the Hard Tackling and Time wasting setting so i was controlling the match and tempo.

At Madrid 1 (Dzeko, 20 min) - Barcelona 0

Aguero got the ball from the right flank, with the op DL drawn to him, he held up the ball waiting for an opportunity. Dzeko had switched with Forlan to be positioned on the left of the attacking 3 and he ghosted past his marker and began his run behind the Barca defence. Aguero superbly picked him out, Dzeko behind the entire defence in the 6 yard box, drilled it under the keeper! Dzeko's better mobility compared to Adriano was on display right there for that goal.

At Madrid 1 - Barcelona 1 (Zlatan, 35 min)

Being 2-0 up on aggregate was comforting, until horror struck! Idiotic ME decided to ignore common sense to make the GK follow his settings to the T and distribute to his defender (Defender Collect). However, a specific defender was selected right DC, Pique. ME decided to follow instructions, even though Pique was marked tight by Zlatan, ala Barca advanced pressing game. GK to Pique, Zlatan tackles him, run through on goal and smashes the ball into the roof of the net. What a waste! Besides Pique, all 3 defenders were unmarked and available and the ME decided to pass it to the marked Pique. I changed this immediately, even though it was too late.

At Madrid 2 (Pique 43 min) - Barcelona 1

Ok, Pique's rating dropped to 5.3 after his motivation went from 'Looking motivated' to 'Mistake led to goal'. However, he made amends by scoring from a corner close to half time to restore the 2 goal advantage.

HT

At Madrid 3 (Forlan, 55 min) - Barcelona 1

2nd half began in a flurry. Barcelona switched to a 4-4-2 with Bojan pushed up besides Zlatan, Ineista moving to the left flank. Before Bara could mount a comeback with momentum, Aguero worked his magic again for his 2nd assist of the night. Switching with Forlan, Aguero drifted into space on the left flank. He dribbled past Alaves and swung a cross into the box. Dzeko and Forlan went for it and Forlan connected with a diving header at the far post to put the match away. I did a check on the Barca player rating, and the majority of them were below 6.0.

At Madrid 4 (Rafinha, 83 min) - Barcelona 1

Everybody was getting in on the act. Barcelona switched formation yet again, to a 4-2-1-2 narrow diamond. Dont ask me why, maybe to limit the damage? with play so congested in the centre, the goal came from a 6 yard box scramble, with the rebound falling kindly to Rafinha who had come infield from the right. Rafinha's 1st goal of the season, the icing on the cake.

Match ends like that. With Barca players dejected by being blown away. Not surprisingly Pique picks up the Man of the match award. Somehow defenders who score goals normally win the award. I would have given it to Aguero for his 2 assists. But i'm not the ME.

© Observations

Fantastic win over Barcelona to setup semi-finals against Arsneal. That would be another epic battle with the Gunners.

Could you upload your tactic with the tweaks ?

TIA

[Knap FM10 Tactics]

Thanks knap, 442 doesn't work for me (as being a well known issue with fm10.2), but your 4-2-3-1 is fantastic, though corners are not working at all. I took privilege to edit your basic 4-2-3-1 according to corner theory.

When before I scored only 1/15, now with the corner theory ratio is 9/15. Well, call it a cheat or bug, I'm happy to use this tweak

Make sure to put your better header as DC

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/341939563/4-3-2-1-cornert.tac

All credits to Knap!

(edited DR to right DC)

Hi Mr Aok,

Could you please upload to a different host, because Im getting an overloaded server message at rapidshare or even send it to my email sg.aramis@gmail.com.

Thanks

Nevermid, I already get it gonna test it.