{"id":13518,"date":"2017-07-04T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=13518"},"modified":"2017-12-20T06:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T06:57:16","slug":"set-pieces-3-rules-make-hidden-weapon-football-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2017\/07\/set-pieces-3-rules-make-hidden-weapon-football-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"The Set Pieces: 3 rules to make the most of the hidden weapon of Football Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine, you became a manager of the small amateur club with limited financial options, you have only one coach and part-time physio and your players train after their shifts at work. You hope they will play with your own philosophy, with your favourite formation but there is not enough time to learn them everything.<\/p>\n

Imagine, your formation didn’t work in the pre-season. It didn’t work in the first three competitive matches either.<\/p>\n

“What should I do?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, you can help to yourselves with some set pieces.<\/p>\n

Everyone who knows me from around the Football Manager community knows I’m addicted to set pieces. I love them in real life as well and I try to create something new every time it’s possible.<\/p>\n

I love them from my childhood and I always love to remember times when I\u00a0was a schoolboy and my father was a member of the coaching staff of my youth team in our small town.<\/p>\n

We always tried to create new set pieces together with him and some of my teammates and we gave them names after our favourite girls from school.<\/p>\n

Same as with formation I try to create something I didn’t use before even we’re still limited by options in set piece creator in the game as all you who create set pieces, know. That was why I created Short Corner Kick Routine for FM17 or False Short Corner Kick Routine.<\/p>\n

I experimented with Short Free Kick Routine as well this year.<\/p>\n

Throw-In Routines<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If someone asks me which routine is underrated or underestimated\u00a0I would select Throw-In Routines.<\/p>\n

It was the first thing I created in FM16 and tried to edit it also for this year’s edition. My favourite one is ticked as Short Routine in the game but I think it’s very various because I always set 1-3 players to offer the short option.<\/p>\n

I know many FM players put the big players to the penalty area and player with the best attribute of Long Throws and they wait if it will work. Yes, it’s the one way you can go with it but how many times you have Rory Delap in the squad?!<\/p>\n

As I had not good enough players for Long Throw-In Routine in the Reading squad I had to analyse my players what would be better to use.<\/p>\n

I realised I have a couple of players with Decisions + Anticipation + Passing attributes. I also found some of my players have good attributes of Decisions + Passing + Finishing + Long Shots. What does this mean? I decided to place two players “Come Short” and one player “Lurk Outside Area”.<\/p>\n

Expect for\u00a0players who stay back, one player is around the near post and the rest in the penalty area. It resulted in many fine goals including strikes from outside the penalty area or clever pass to the box and well place finish by one of the players\u00a0before a goal.<\/p>\n