FM18 - Tactics guide part 3 - match day | Football Manager 2018

[@alexandrvolodin3657]

thank you very much for guide can you advice if i training player as advanced playmeker but he play as inside on same position? what about progress or he must play also as advanced playmayker?

[@AterGaming]

From my experience it's an advantage if the player is playing at the role you are training him for, but is not a must. This is extra important if you are retraining a player to learn a new role that he is not used to from the beginning, then he learn the role much quicker. So I think you are ok doing what you are doing, but if your player is not used to play as advanced playmaker he might learn that role quicker if he actually plays in that role.

[@monafam]

Thanks for this series. If your DLP is passing poorly or you would like to have him shoot more often, will you change his player role? If so, do you change other player roles in turn?

[@AterGaming]

When it comes to his passing first off it's down to his passing ability. But there is also a lot of other things that can have an effect, for example if your team is one of the weaker sides in the league you opponents often going to dominate the games and it doesn't matter if you are the worst best passer if you don't have anyone to pass to since the opponent is marking everyone and putting a lot of pressure on you. You can try to experiment with formations since the amount of players around him can booth make it easier or harder for him to find someone to pass the ball too. You can also try to experiment with shorter and longer passes. Try to look at more highlights and try to find out why he is missing the passes, is he missing easy passes? Is he missing because of the opponent intercepts it, is he missing because he doesn't get any backup and are under pressure so he is forced to chance and so on, maybe you will be able to find out what's going wrong from the highlights and change your formation or instruction to try to help with that problem. When it comes to shooting DPLs (as you might have seen) has shot less often as a default individual instruction so you cant change it. If you want a playmaker that shoots often you'll have to change him to a Advanced or Roaming playmaker, then you can pick the shoot more often instruction. If you want to stick with a DPL you could try to get him a player trait to shoot from distant, I haven't experiment with that trait combined with DPL to see how it works, but you could try. You get players to learn new traits by going to that players screen and then Development -> Training -> New player trait and then pick the Finishing training from the drop down menu, in the talk with the coach you should be able to pick that you want the player to try long shots whenever possible. I don't know how that trait will work combined with shoot less often but it might be worth a try.

[@monafam]

AterGaming Thanks for your detailed response! You gave me some good information to consider. My initial question was based on the video when you were showing examples an you first had a DLP and then went to a better example that fit. I appreciate it though!

[@AterGaming]

Oh I though you meant trouble you where having rather than the video. =)

[@monafam]

AterGaming I should have clarified,but the info was still great!

[@MarinosPapGreekGamer]

Hey man! Would you prefer having 2 IF, 2 Wingers or 1 IF and 1 Winger? Thanks in advance.

[@AterGaming]

It depends on the team, formation and so on. With my current formation and tactic that I use in this video and the way I play in my current save that I used when I created this guide I would prefer to have 2 IF since I'm dominating a lot of the games focusing attack and I only have one lonely striker up on top so I want my IFs to help with the goal scoring. But say that I was playing with two strikers I would probably had preferred wingers since they would focus more on setting my strikers up to score goals than scoring them self. It's also up to the players you have available, even if I think IFs would be best for my formation I would still rather use 2 world class wingers over two crappy IFs if that is what I currently have in my team.

[@MarinosPapGreekGamer]

Thank you for the quick response.

[@christopherjackson5275]

great advice . too much going on for me tho , don't like the game

[@AterGaming]

Yeah FM is really that game witch a billion different things to keep track of. Some people love it and some people hate it and a lot of people find them self somewhere in between.