I have been following this thread and your advice religiously, and I'm so glad I did as it has made me play FM in a totally different way!
I am playing as Porto and as you might expect 90% of teams in the league sit really far back and limit the space. I know you've already given some advice on this matter but I am wondering if you have any more tips on how to break these teams down? I have pretty much been using the exact same deep tactic that you've been using, same roles and TI's apart from I have added "close down keeper distribution, play out of defense and work ball into box"
Would you even recommend dropping the mentality down further and lowering the defense line? I try to test different things but my FM playing time has been seriously reduced recently
Cheers
Only limited 'testing' done on this so far, but having read a few recent threads in here I've started changing structure as opposed to mentality when having this kind of issue (going from less to more structured). So far it has produced better results than dropping mentality, which I used to do on FM17. I also tend to increase width, drop defensive line and add roaming.
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Only limited 'testing' done on this so far, but having read a few recent threads in here I've started changing structure as opposed to mentality when having this kind of issue (going from less to more structured). So far it has produced better results than dropping mentality, which I used to do on FM17. I also tend to increase width, drop defensive line and add roaming.