Form in ML

[watty1877]

So I'm at the minute halfway through my second season in the Master League playing with Tottenham. I won league, Champions League and FA Cup my first season and I'm still in all three this. As you can imagine I haven't lost a massive amount of games so far and in the whole I'm enjoying the game immensely.

One thing that is getting to me though is the players form. I straight away signed a coach that excelled at form when I started the ML but all I have noticed is 9 out of 10 teams I play all have this immense form. Being either red or yellow on the arrows even if their team is bottom of the league. My team however is every game either green or blue with the very rare yellow or red arrow.

I assumed that the better you play and the more games you go unbeaten the better the form... Or that if let's say Defore scored 4 in one game the next he'll surely be on form. But nah, this doesn't happen. He was actually purple and had to be replaced.

My question is, why... Am I doing something wrong, is there a way of improving this or do I have to just live with it? It's annoying because now in my second season most teams (including Liverpool and Man City) play the same defensive formation home or away. A 4-3-2-1. And I'm really noticing the the lack of form. Especially when players like Defoe and van der Vaart are on greens and Lescott, Toure etc are all red, they just gobble up every forward run or pass I make and end up playing out for a 0-0 draw.

Help please!

 

[proevolutaion]

yh awlays happens to me bout other teams form..

 

[lyc10]

lol just like my mlo team..my best players are always purple or blue

 

[Edgar442]

you need to check each players stats, and look at the players form, they range from 3-8

8 being best form like lampard who has 8 on "form"

 

[Edgar442]

was gonna sign rio ferdinand for my MLO but he has a 3 for form and Injury prone C which is not good as I need players who can play 90mins without injury and be on form at least 4 or 5

 

[proevolutaion]

try toulalan 7 form A for injury hes fab at defending my captain for OL

 

[proevolutaion]

ive got the argentinian coah which focuses on form so i normaly have most green arrow + except ayew hes only 3 form which is dissapoiting when hes on form hes brilliant

 

[lyc10]

you need to check each players stats, and look at the players form, they range from 3-8

8 being best form like lampard who has 8 on "form"

yeah i have van der vaart and podolski who are both brilliant when not injured but then most of the time the other teams just take them out easily and takes the yellow card

 

[Avelives]

Got the exact same problem, playing in D2 my form is rarely above green on average, even weirder it tends to work how everyone (regardless of their personal stat) is on similar form, so you get one week everyone is on blues purples and greens despite winning nearly every game and the AI is rarely blue, if ever.

Another thing is the silly defensive formations which are totally unrealistic, most teams play 4-5-1 against me with 9 men in their own half then just launching rocket through balls to 1 man which are tough to intercept cause of the retarded use of X which im convinced i must be doing wrong, I see the ball, run perfectly in its path press X and the ball just trickles past me while I stand rooted to the spot.

I manage to defend purely cause attackers are so slow, but really its annoying playing against teams every week who defend with 9 men and just hoof the ball aimlessly up the pitch all game... Has anyone found a way to break this tactic down? Ive tried narrow, wide, high support, low/high pressing, just about everything, has anyone got any clue what im doing wrong?

 

[watty1877]

Thanks for the replies folks, but a lot of my players have decent form ratings anything from 5-7 but it makes no difference. They are very rarely above green. And you can't tell me every other player that plays for every other team has a form rating of 8.

It's just annoying and obviously i cannot do anything else to help it, so I'll live with it I guess.

As Avelives said above about the defensive formations. This is crazy too. The first season wasn't too bad, just a few teams like Wigan, Fulham etc were defensive. But seems like now I'm Champions and winning most games even the big clubs like I said in my first post are playing defensive against me.

They'll play this 4-3-2-1 formation with the 3 central midfielders playing right infront of the back four... then two wide guys and one striker... Which again like Avelives said, they find occasionally with incredible precise 50 yard through balls.

Only way I've found to beat them is to be patient with OFF Possession play on, and with width. Simply keep possession stretching em this way and that then finally you'll get an opening. (Realistic i suppose.)

Anyhow I play a 3-5-2 with a sweeper, a deep DM, very wide LMF and RMF with one advance and an SS. It's the best formation I've found.

-------------GK-------------
-------------SW-------------
-------CB---------CB-------
-------------DM-------------
-RMF------------CM---------
---------AMF-----------LMF-
-----------------SS----------
------------CF---------------

Sliders set at:
Player Support = 20
Support Range = 10
Position Switch = 15
Attacking Style = 6
Pressing = 14
Defensive Line = 12
Compactness = 6

No idea if that'll help anyone, but works for me.

 

[karim.italy]

I am sure 99 % that it depends on each player development progress in your squad list and if you refused an offer to a player who wants to leave this development progress will be lower and that makes the player form not high in most of matches you must check them in your squad list