Marking Systems Man vs zonal, tight vs loose Deciding which marking system to use can be very difficult. In our tests we could see defensive errors occurring with both systems, especially concerning the fullbacks who are often disposed to double-team a striker whilst giving too much free space to the opposition wingers. Most of these errors occurred when using zonal […]
Read more ›Building from the back About the ‘back ten’ and the ‘attacking 7’ The unusual sub-title points out at a problem that many players seem to ignore when building a tactic. It is not the often stressed ‘back four’ that makes up the defence: in fact, an effective defence has to begin with the settings of your attacking players alongside the […]
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An introduction to defensive key settings, based on wwfan’s Tactical Theorems and Frameworks for FM 07 with a few additions from the tactical bible team. If you are struggling with defensive overall success, this article may help you with finding some good points to start with. Defensive Line The defensive line is heavily linked to whatever mentality framework you have […]
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Tutoring is one of the new and maybe best features in FM 07. It allows you to educate your youngsters in a completely new and different way, ensuring that you have a youth squad that will continue playing your preferred style of football as well as fitting into the mentality of your squad perfectly. Since the players have a set […]
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Introduction By the end of FM06’s playing life, I was able to chop and change my tactics as I pleased, showboating between 4-4-2 diamonds, Rafaesque 4-2-3-1s and versions of the Chelsea 4-3-3. It had become so easy to read the AI systems and employ a counter-system to defeat them that the game was losing all challenge. The AI couldn’t cope […]
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written by Asmodeus This thread is intended as an aid to common tactical ailments in Football Manager 2007. We’ll endeavour to address those recurring issues that many have with the game, and hopefully assist in ironing out those pesky problems. Obviously we cannot guarantee that we can cure all problems as the FM2007 game engine is a complex and diverse […]
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LLM stands for Lower League Management. The idea behind LLM is that players of the FM (and CM) series of games attempt to play in the most realistic way possible within the confines of the game. What this means is that the player starts out with a team from the lowest playable league in a given country. Countries with just […]
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