It’s Saturday so we have another analysis of a FM 2013 tactic! This time we’ll be looking at a tactic that was submitted for review by one of our readers, Eoin Cowen. But before going into the actual tactic review, let’s remember the testing procedure:
We install the tactic and use it through pre-season plus six league matches with Spurs. Then we watch each match closely, see what happens and come up with the best review we’re capable of. We will also keep track of various statistics in order to be able to compare the essential numbers between this and other tactics that have been or will be analysed. It is more or less like a benchmarking tool for FM 2013 tactics.
Now let’s see what Eoin’s FM 2013 tactic is all about.
Formation
Eoin has been using this tactic with Arsenal, so the formation pretty much replicates the Gunners’ set up. We have a flat back four, an anchor man in front of them, two central midfielders with different roles (a deep lying playmaker and an advanced playmaker), two wingers and an advanced forward.
Team Instructions
The tactic uses fluid style with an attacking strategy, short passing and lots of creative freedom, just the way I like FM 13 tactics :) The right side central midfielder is set as playmaker, no designated target man set.
Average Positions
The shape of the team looks fairly compact, the defensive line pushes pretty high up while the two wingers are pretty close to the striker. The front trio get lots of support from the MCR who often pushes forward and sometimes acts like a secondary striker. The DM is key to defensive balance, always plugging the holes that might appear in front of the back four.
Defending
The four defenders form a perfect line in front of the penalty area, quite often trying to leave the opponents offside. The two wingers will track back most times when the opposition full backs advance while the two midfielders press the opponents but not as much as the DM who is some sort of a pitbull chasing just about everything that moves in front of the defence (see screen shot above).
Attacking
The tactic creates pretty enjoyable football when going forward, mostly thanks to the right side central midfielder. The screen shot above shows the MCR, Dembele in this case, moving forward with the ball in a central area while the striker creates room for that run by dragging the centre backs into a wider position. The two wingers keep the full backs pinned to the corners of the area, while trying to move into good positions. In the case illustrated above the MCR entered the penalty area and took the shot himself, but there were plenty of other options available as well.
A good example is a goal scored by Adebayor against Aston Villa at the end of a fine team move:
Results
The results were good overall, just three goals conceded and a solid 1-1 against Manchester United. The defeat at Swansea was more of an accident to be honest, the goal came as a result of a terrible mistake in defence, the right back passing the ball straight to the opposition striker. However, that match saw the weakest display in attack from Spurs out of all the six games.
Statistics
Goals scored: 11 (1.83 per game)
Goals conceded: 3 (0.5 per game)
Shots on target for: 7 per game
Shots on target against: 2.5 per game
Clear cut chances for: 1.33 per game
Clear cut chances against: 0.5 per game
Half chances for: 1.16 per game
Half chances against: 1.16 per game
Ball possession average: 53.83%
The numbers show that this tactic creates good ball possession and a good number of shots on target and chances. The number of goals scored was pretty good too but the opposition had a bit more chances than I would have liked them to. If you are interested in comparing the various tactics we have tested you can do that in the new FM 13 Tactics Index page, there’s a sortable table in there that I’m sure you will enjoy.
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Good possession.
Solid results, except the accident at Swansea.
Quite a few moments of flowing football created, thanks to the four man upfront. The screen shot below shows the left winger cutting inside and having quite a few options to continue, and such moments were present in most of the games.
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Quite a few chances against, most of those from set pieces.
Can be exposed to counter attacks on the flanks.
Striker is instructed to shoot from distance often, which leads to wasted attacks. In the screen shot below Adebayor shoots even though passing short to Dembele would have been a far better option.
Suggested Tweaks
Defending set pieces, especially corners, need sorting. The two centre backs are set to mark tall players and I would set a couple more players to man mark instead of the generic «go back».
I would restrict the shooting from distance to rarely for the striker and even for the wingers.
I would change the cross ball instruction for the wingers from often to sometimes.
FM 2013 Tactic Download
Download this FM 2013 tactic by clicking on the image below:
After downloading the tactic follow these simple steps to install it in FM 2013:
1. Put the downloaded file into this folder: Documents>Sports Interactive>Football Manager 2013>tactics
2. Start your game and go to your team’s tactics screen.
3. Click on the little arrow located to the right of your starting tactic name, move your mouse cursor over “archived tactics” and select this tactic from the menu.
I hope you enjoyed this review and I’m looking forward to your comments. We won’t be taking any more entries from you at this point because the waiting list has gotten a bit long. Here’s how it looks at the moment:
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Darren Smith
16 марта, 2013 at 20:09
Wow, didn’t realize the waiting list had grown so quick :) Good review though Johnny, I love all formation roughly featured around the 4-5-1, I personally found moving the DMC to MC for a flat three was always much more solid (surprisingly seen as you’d assume to lose something during the defensive phase of play.) But I can imagine this tactic working well with a few tweaks, namely the ones you’ve mentioned and also the right players of course.
Johnny Karp
17 марта, 2013 at 08:15
Thanks, I guess we have work to do for the next few months :)
Nick Sundin
16 марта, 2013 at 20:44
How do you view the average positions in-game?
Johnny Karp
17 марта, 2013 at 08:14
You can see that in the match analysis tab.
Nick Sundin
17 марта, 2013 at 14:06
Thanks, really enjoying these tactic reviews btw
Johnny Karp
18 марта, 2013 at 15:18
Thanks, I enjoy making them quite a bit to be honest :)
Gaurav Chaddah
17 марта, 2013 at 07:55
That looks a very solid tactic, also a good review mate :)
Oh and I very much like that table, great addition ;)
Johnny Karp
17 марта, 2013 at 08:13
Thanks mate, the tactics index is one of my favourite pages too :)
Sekou Aarne Salou
26 марта, 2013 at 23:34
Really enjoying this tactic, works really well for me! :)
Johnny Karp
27 марта, 2013 at 08:30
That’s good to hear, it’s a solid tactic.