rebelinho
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On another note, your front three are set to SS, CF, SS. Do you set it to these roles based on player cards?
Not sure where you saw that, but yeah, player cards matter quite a bit. I should ideally be using SS in my Real Madrid but wingers are working so well I won't bother to change.
For example, I'm embarking on an experimental Manchester United career on my Master League, I noticed that Depay and Martial has the Prolific Winger cards and they generally play much better when set as LWF and RWF respectively. I was just wondering for your case, do your players in SS have any cards to complement that position?
As expected then. Denis Suarez is a AMF with the prolific winger card (although he only has B in LWF affinity), and while he can play as a CMF too (and I prefer to use him there) he just looks lost. I don't know, it's hard to explain,but it's like he doesn't know how to behave n that position.
As for SS maybe Hole Player or Creative Playmaker. But if you use them out wide Dummy Runner should be the most suitable.
Adding to your input on tactic when in possession, I too have adopted a similar approach with regards to formation as well as tactics. There are triangles formed between the 3 midfielders in the middle, LWF/SS, CF and AM, CF, RWF/SS and AM etc hence the greater enjoyment when stringing short passes together up til the opposition's net =) then again, I'm unsure too if this is because Team Spirit is sky high at the moment and that even with low TS at the start of the campaign, my team was still able to play beautiful football.
What's your take, eh?
Good to hear. Team Spirit does seem to have a huge impact in the overall cohesion and teamwork, not sure exactly how but it makes a difference. Having a compact tactic like yours and mine helps as well, just like reducing the support range bring players closer. That's why I tried wingers first, to avoid having the SS on the sides that'd just come to interior areas, leaving the hole team compacted. This way I find they'll stay a tad more to the sideline, giving me more options.