It's my first tactic and a variation of a 451. I built it for my valencia side to play to their strengths and its not very old so would like people's opinions on it to make it better and maybe more suitable for away games :)
Need a striker with good finishing as he'll get plenty of one on ones.
AML needs decent long shots but more importantly pace,ball control and creativity. likewise with AMR as the get in around the edges of the box and try to find a way through for the striker to finish it off. the AML will shoot more than the AMR as vicente is slightly better long shots than joaquin and i didnt want too many balls being ballooned over the bar.
AMC has to have enough talent for through balls and shooting as he'll get amongst the goals also and work his way in/around the box.
MC (going forward) needs good passing and creativity
MC (going back) needs good tackling and stamina. he'll be closing down all over and tackling is set to hard so if anyone comes past he'll be taken out of it. so far its working for banega for me, lots of bookings but no red cards. I play a natural DM in this position.
all defenders require the usual or the best you have. wing backs tend to float around the half way line when attacking which is normal
Individual positions have been tweaked but you might want to set up the corners to be aimed at the best header of the ball at near post and far post. works the best for me.
ANyhow, havent used this for that long but won at home against werder bremen and real madrid comfortably(4-2 and 3-1) and also won away at chelsea 4-2 but should have scored more, hit the post about 3 times i think. Also beat the usual in the spanish league. getafe, who are always my bogey team got thumped 4-1 :)
Playing away the opponents seem to get a lot of chances so when you do play away either bring the attacking mentality down a bit or drop the AML and AMR back to ML and MR and arrows to the diagonal edge of the box so they can still do their runs and create chances and shoot etc.
It's my first tactic and you might not think its great but instead of just saying yes its good or no its sh!t could you leave a reason why you found it to be so, so i can improve and edit it.
Tactic was made with FM database and patch 8.0.2
