{"id":5883,"date":"2016-12-31T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2017-02-08T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T15:22:33","slug":"fm17-one-hit-wonder-athens-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehighertempopress.com\/2016\/12\/fm17-one-hit-wonder-athens-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"#FM17 : One Hit Wonder in Athens : Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello everybody and welcome to my guest piece on The Higher Tempo Press. Maybe some of you know me and my blog so you know my main save in FM17 is the save with Reading FC. During recent three weeks I played this save less and I decided to try something new.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATED 3\/1\/17 with the tactic download!<\/p>\n

I wanted to try new tactic which I had in my head for some time and I decided to try it in FM Touch as this version of FM is faster. If you want to read some pros of FM Touch I recommend you this article from Thomas Paine.<\/p>\n

Team selection was not important but I remembered that one of my friend in real life football plays for AEK Athens so I went there. The player is Tom\u00e1\u0161 Pekhart by the way.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately Tom\u00e1\u0161 was injured a couple of weeks after the save started. But I don\u2019t want bore you with many details of results as I want to write about tactics and the storyline will be short.<\/p>\n

Tactics<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The idea was clear from the beginning. Despite early end of his career as AC Sparta Prague coach I wanted to try formation with three central defenders like Zden\u011bk \u0160\u010dasn\u00fd tried with Sparta or Panathinaikos in the past. \u0160\u010dasn\u00fd was only partially successful with this tactic due to some reasons but that\u2019s not so important.<\/p>\n

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I recently asked on Twitter what player role would FM players combine with Advanced Playmaker and Shadow Striker. There were tips for False 9, Advanced Forward, Complete Forward\u2026I decided to try it with Deep Lying Forward with Support duty.<\/p>\n

Both of Complete Wing Backs have Support duty as well same as Central Midfielder. There i salso defensive midfielder with Deep Lying Plamaker role and defensive duty. Very important player there.<\/p>\n

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I really like Defensive Centre Back role and I use it also in my Reading save despite I play with 4 defenders there. You can take a look at the most important attributes for this role in Kolovetsios profile and the heat map and aerial challenges from single game.<\/p>\n

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I really like the Deep Lying Playmaker<\/strong> role for defensive midfielder and I found great player ther for this role \u2013 Jakob Johansson. I use this role during FM16 time in 4-1-4-1 formation and it was great decision. It was my first choice when I thought about roles.<\/p>\n

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Just one of the best example of his movement. One of our central defenders got a ball and after two or three passes DLP has the ball in the middle of the pitch. Wing Backs go up, CM and AP want the ball from DLP. The defensive trio have a width at the start of this play.
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Thanks to a good offer from AP and CM there was a space for left wing back who received the ball and after his cross our DLF scored perfect goal. Just take a look at the second screen only one second before the finish how and when players moved from the original at the beginning of this action.<\/p>\n

Defensive trio shorten the width, DLP continued to forward but not too much as he has to be able to defend. And he is still able to stop the bounce ball. Perfect.<\/p>\n

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And this is how it looks if you as show linked events\u2026<\/p>\n

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