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When deciding how to set your tactics there are many decisions to be made, and also many things that are not quite clear to a lot of Online Soccer Manager Gamers. This article will help you to get a clearer understanding of what means what when setting your tactics.
Style of play: This indicates how aggressive you want your players to be when defending. The more aggressive you set this, the more cards and injuries your team may sustain. Aggression can also be used as an advantage when playing against stronger teams by taking a risk and setting it to extreme. Looking at how strict the referee will be in your next match may also help you decide on what level of aggression to use. Most gamers decide to leave this on aggressive. This subject is pretty straight forward!
Long Ball: This should be used in formations with a high amount of forwards; 3-2-5, 3-3-4 and 4-2-4. This style skips out the midfield by playing long balls from the defence to the forwards. Playing long ball is beneficial against opposition with a strong midfield or if your midfielder are weak. Long ball is more of a defence tactic and is best use to counter stronger and passing still teams.
Passing: This should be used with a high amount of midfielders as the passing battle is won and lost in the midfield. Formations like 4-5-1, 3-5-2 and 4-4-2B are good with a passing style. 4-4-2B is also suggested because the midfielders in this formation play narrow and not wide like in 4-4-2A. This stye is best used if you have a strong midfield or if you wanted to counter oppositions passing tactics, but only if you have the better team.
Play Wide: This is best used with strong attackers and strong attacking fullbacks in your squad. Your team focus's it's attacks through wing play. Play wide is best used with a 4-3-3 or 3-4-3 formation although other attacking formations are adaptable. These tactics are mostly used by Goal 1-4 teams.
When deciding how to set your tactics there are many decisions to be made, and also many things that are not quite clear to a lot of Online Soccer Manager Gamers. This article will help you to get a clearer understanding of what means what when setting your tactics.
Style of play: This indicates how aggressive you want your players to be when defending. The more aggressive you set this, the more cards and injuries your team may sustain. Aggression can also be used as an advantage when playing against stronger teams by taking a risk and setting it to extreme. Looking at how strict the referee will be in your next match may also help you decide on what level of aggression to use. Most gamers decide to leave this on aggressive. This subject is pretty straight forward!
Long Ball: This should be used in formations with a high amount of forwards; 3-2-5, 3-3-4 and 4-2-4. This style skips out the midfield by playing long balls from the defence to the forwards. Playing long ball is beneficial against opposition with a strong midfield or if your midfielder are weak. Long ball is more of a defence tactic and is best use to counter stronger and passing still teams.
Passing: This should be used with a high amount of midfielders as the passing battle is won and lost in the midfield. Formations like 4-5-1, 3-5-2 and 4-4-2B are good with a passing style. 4-4-2B is also suggested because the midfielders in this formation play narrow and not wide like in 4-4-2A. This stye is best used if you have a strong midfield or if you wanted to counter oppositions passing tactics, but only if you have the better team.
Play Wide: This is best used with strong attackers and strong attacking fullbacks in your squad. Your team focus's it's attacks through wing play. Play wide is best used with a 4-3-3 or 3-4-3 formation although other attacking formations are adaptable. These tactics are mostly used by Goal 1-4 teams.
Counter Attack: This style of play is strongest with all the defensive formations available. 6-3-1, 5-4-1, 5-3-2, 5-2-3, and 4-5-1 can all be used successfully with the counter attack tactic. When playing with a lower goal team against a Goal 1-4 team I would suggest trying a counter tactic.
Shoot On Sight: There has been a lot of debate as to whether shoot on sight is a attacking or defensive formation. This is still very hard to determine because of its high success rate. Especially with the 4-2-3-1 formation. Shoot on sight is definitely more a defensive tactic than it is a offensive one. You are basically telling your players to shoot at any chance they get because a lower amount of opportunities is expected due to strong opposition. As for which formations to use with shoot on sight? It would have to be formations with a lot of midfielders; 4-5-1 and 3-5-2 formations.
Line Tactics: This will determine the mentality of your defence, midfield, and forwards. You should to keep this in relation to your formation and how attacking or defensive you intend on playing. You wouldn't play defensive and have your defensive line set to support attack so they bomb forward and leave the defence open, or play attacking and have your forwards set set fall back. It just doesn't add up. Also, your line tactics could help determine how well certain players perform. For example: having your defenders line tactics set to upcoming backs and then putting a defender with high offensive ratings left or right back would increase his chances of performing well.
Shoot On Sight: There has been a lot of debate as to whether shoot on sight is a attacking or defensive formation. This is still very hard to determine because of its high success rate. Especially with the 4-2-3-1 formation. Shoot on sight is definitely more a defensive tactic than it is a offensive one. You are basically telling your players to shoot at any chance they get because a lower amount of opportunities is expected due to strong opposition. As for which formations to use with shoot on sight? It would have to be formations with a lot of midfielders; 4-5-1 and 3-5-2 formations.
Line Tactics: This will determine the mentality of your defence, midfield, and forwards. You should to keep this in relation to your formation and how attacking or defensive you intend on playing. You wouldn't play defensive and have your defensive line set to support attack so they bomb forward and leave the defence open, or play attacking and have your forwards set set fall back. It just doesn't add up. Also, your line tactics could help determine how well certain players perform. For example: having your defenders line tactics set to upcoming backs and then putting a defender with high offensive ratings left or right back would increase his chances of performing well.
Defensive Tactics: Man to Man or Zonal marking? Zonal marking is most effective with defensive tactics, low pressure, and when your amount of defenders outnumber attackers. For Man to Man marking it is the other way around; most effective with attacking tactics, high pressure and equal amount of defenders to oppositions attackers.
Offside trap: Using the offside trap is recommended for formations with less defenders. A smaller amount of defenders would make it easier for the defenders to communicate, hold an even line, and play the offsider trap when needed.
Advanced Tactics: Mentality is pretty straight forward. You can adjust your mentality to five different levels; Contain, Defensive, Standard, Attacking, and Overload.
Tempo: Adjust the tempo to each opponent accordingly. The better your team is compared to your opponent, the higher u should adjust this slider
Pressure: This should adjusted to how defensive or attacking your tactics are. If you plan on parking the bus you should not want to apply a lot of pressure.
Offside trap: Using the offside trap is recommended for formations with less defenders. A smaller amount of defenders would make it easier for the defenders to communicate, hold an even line, and play the offsider trap when needed.
Advanced Tactics: Mentality is pretty straight forward. You can adjust your mentality to five different levels; Contain, Defensive, Standard, Attacking, and Overload.
Tempo: Adjust the tempo to each opponent accordingly. The better your team is compared to your opponent, the higher u should adjust this slider
Pressure: This should adjusted to how defensive or attacking your tactics are. If you plan on parking the bus you should not want to apply a lot of pressure.