papa_wengz

I believe what he's actually referring to is positional play ie the opposition DR in an IWB role moving to the DM strata - does the AML follow him and mark him in the DM position he now occupies.

Your post taught me more about tactics in FM than anything else I have seen haha THANK YOU. I've been using this in my new Arsenal save and won the PL & FA Cup double in the first season, beating Liverpool to the title with 97 points to their 89 with a 75GD, and winning 4-1 against Man Utd in the FA cup final. Unfortunately I was humbled by RB Leipzig in the CL quarter finals, their 4-2-2-2 narrow tactic completely dominated me, even at home. I tried to make my team wider and play more through the flanks to go around their 6 central players but it wasn't enough. Overall, I made some minor tweaks, like switching the LW and RW to an IF-s and IW-a. I didn't like Martinelli constantly running down the line even with his traits, I feel like switching him to an IF-s (with the stay wider PI) allowed him to be more involved in goal-scoring and also allowed the Mez-a to overlap him more and create. Same thing with Saka, even though he is pretty good with his right and has decent crossing, he felt way too isolated as a W-a so giving him a more inverted role (with stay wider) made him more dangerous, especially if you change the RB to a fullback on support against weaker teams The fb-s on the right really helped support Saka, he remained in the midfield for the most part, creating a 2-3-5 shape but would sometimes overlap and go for crosses when the opportunity was there. Against stronger teams I left him as an IFB. The main problems I have is even though I changed the LW to an IF-s, ideally I would want Martinelli to be an IF-a, since he has good finishing and isn't super creative, he can overlap the CF-s and take shots. However I haven't been able to make the system work. I tried a CWB-s on the left, but even with an RPM or DLP on the left, the double pivot stopped existing and we were nowhere near as balanced. I will try and create a 4231 system with the two DMs as a double pivot maybe. Also Odegaard in the RPM role on the right isn't doing it for me at all, averaged a 6.77 rating. Had a lot more luck with Smith-Rowe in this role, perhaps because he is right footed as opposed to left for Odergaard. Any advice on what I could do to get more out of Martinelli and Odegaard? And again thank you!!!