yeh CB, from what i understood and what i see in the game its like 80% about positioning and only 20% about mentalily(im just inlustrating with this %)
thats the main reason i said mentality is the trickest slider of them all...
befor taht i would never ever set a striker to 9 mentality, now sometimes i find my self setting strikers downt to 6 or 7, cause i really need them to get back and help improve the midfield-attack connection, which is the hardest part of this sport imo.
so , ure right imo when u said: "(i.e. all midfielders on the same mentality keeps them in a straight line)"
mentality helps u tweak players position, i think thats a fair thing to state, specially with the ball, when ure without the ball, like ive mentioned many times, close down is what counts more.
but u gotta keep in mind every player in this game has its individualitis, some will obey u more, some wont, than from those who wont, some have more atacking tendecies(off the ball>positioning) and others are the oposite, so all in all, to keep it simple, lower the creativity cause than at least u can know for sure that what u asked is beeing applied in the picth, than u can judge if its working or not.
when u leave up to players(high creativity) will never know if a terrible tatic colaps is down to your fault or down to the players fault.
i like giving a bit of creativity for my key players, but imo they must have a high work rate and composure stat, otherwise they will become "sleepy" players like fenerbahce's alex for instance, which is a player that plays 1 outof 10 games well, but offcourse when he does, he will destroy the game, i rather have him in a 6 out of 10 macth 7.5 rating form than 2 out of 10 9.0 rating... i like regularity. like i said i dont want/need my team to play well, i just like winning
so, i celebrate 1x0s wins all the time, 3 points is what counts.
( i guess im wacthing too many everton macthes

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