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

Thanks for the advice. I studied up on tactics after I got home (made that prior post from work) and found I had set a few conflicting things in tactics. (Attacking mentality with a deep defense, for instance.) I took your advice as well. I've only played one game, but I did much better. We'll see if this can hold up against Chelsea (who eliminated me from the Champions Cup semis) in the FA Cup Finals.

Thanks!

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

Okay, here's a fairly dumb question. I'm asking it here because I'm not entirely sure the problem is tactics related, but I think it is.

At first, I was doing great. I was fighting with with Manchester United for first place. But now my team is completely falling apart. It started happening with about a quarter of the season left. I have 4 league games left currently and then the FA Cup Final. (I'm playing Arsenal, for reference.) My team seemingly has forgotten how to play well together. No one is playing well at all. It's basically a disaster. (and cost me first place in premier .. I'm gonna be lucky to get 4th at the rate I'm going. Mathematically, I could still get 2nd place, but I doubt I'll manage that.)

I'm thinking this can be cured by changing tactics, but I have no idea what to do. I've been playing a 3-4-2-1 for most the season. (It's weird, I know. It came about as a result of multiple injuries and people getting called up to the Internationals, and it worked really well up until recently.) Would switching to a more standard tactic like 4-4-2 help, maybe? I'm wondering if I'm getting predictable, actually. I've been playing the same tactics for 80% of the season.

For the record, while there are multiple problems, my biggest problem is my striker and attacking midfielders (despite me not changing tactics) have started taking shots from way out.. and the majority of these shots are off target. I'm not really that great with tactics, so I'm not sure how to fix this. (I'm especially confused because I haven't changed tactics recently, they just started doing it.)

Anyway, any help on this is appreciated.