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The defensive line dictates the starting position of your defence. Some teams will play with high lines looking for the defence join the attack or get the ball high up the pitch. Others will play with a deep line looking to act as a wall between the goal and giving the attack less room behind them to beat them. I […]

Recent discussions on the forums about training have got me thinking. There seem to be, broadly speaking, two camps. One that likes to sort their training by position alone, creating schedules based on roles, duties and the types of players they want to mould. The other looks at a more fluid system, tailored to individual need at different stages of […]

No sooner had I written this article than I saw Fantastic’s post on his experiments with a libero in Football Manager 2010. Great minds think alike, as they say. So I would urge all of you to join in the debate on Fantastic’s thread. This week’s download is about the libero, or “free” defender. This article comes at the problem […]

The new tactical interface, the tactics creator and the in-game shouts have converted tactics design from a secret science into something almost as simple as watching a football game. Unless you don’t know that the vast majority of football tactics use four defenders and have at least one holding player in midfield, there will not be too many obstacles in […]

This article shows you just how to use the analysis screen to help hone your tactics. The information here is taken from Tactical Theorems ’10, available now for free at FM-Britain.co.uk. New to Football Manager 2010 is the analysis page, found in the stats tab of the classic match view. It is a brilliant tool for dissecting your side’s performances […]

One of the most interesting and powerful new features of the new tactical interface is the ability to make changes on the fly using the touchline instructions or “shouts”. But what exactly do they do? Here is a summary of each of the instructions and the basic changes they make to your team’s instructions. The information here is taken from […]

Duties are an important new concept in the tactics creator in FML and FM10, and this article explores the best way to deploy them. The information here is taken from Tactical Theorems ’10, available now for free at FM-Britain.co.uk. Duties affect what the primary attacking a defensive duty of the player is on the team. They come in three types: […]