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Last time around I showed you the gaping holes in my tactical plan. Against smaller teams, my players were not imposing themselves enough on the game, nor were they able to break through more disciplined defences. What was the solution? Pressure – and lots of it. Tactical Plan v. 3.0 I wanted to stick to the “4-3-3” principal of my […]

After setting the tactics for our team in the previous post, we’ll look how they are going to play out in a game situation. Our first friendly will give us a chance to see how our players will handle the tactics. The First Friendly Firstly, In this video we can see our main attacking weakness, at least in terms of […]

Editors note: Cagiva once again has produced a work of great tactical analysis of his current game. This time he manages in his home country of Bulgaria where he takes on a team with huge expectations in their domestic competitions - but in Europe are seen as the underdogs. He will show how he balances these two expectations tactically. Here is […]

Having taken you through my first two games in detail (those against Barcelona and Almería), I will broaden my analysis to include a few games and discuss some general trends. In this article we will take a look at the first three matches of the Champions League campaign. The draw set us up with AC Milan, Bordeaux and Rubin Kazan. […]

The previous article looking into the Lazio system, we laid down the theory of the tactical setup, what each players role was to do in the team and how that would work for the tactics on a whole. We were looking for a good defensive standing with players that could attack quickly on the counter, moving the ball from each […]

People have often be obsessed with getting the best players in Football Manager and putting them into one team. Often signings great players and asking forums how best they should play those players. But what many may not consider is the rest of their squad, the way you want to play and if everyone else fits into your system. The […]

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen both Barcelona and Arsenal, arguably the best sides in Europe right now at “possession football”, have been beaten by two hard-working defensive sides. But they didn’t do it by kicking their more technical opponents off the park. Indeed, they did it without tackling very much at all. In both of the matches […]