i was reading a lot of defending tutorials this morning. watched some videos too. nothing i did not know...
do you guys have any usefull "elite"
advices!?
i should go more into the dynamic tactics in FIFA19. any tips on that especially regarding Newcastle? i created one offensive formation where i only put the SB's much higher but nothing else. any formation Newcastle is going to when defending or attacking more? the regular formation set in FIFA is the original one they play for real (5,3,2)?
tonight i want to dive in deeper into tactics and what i can do on the fly! i miss that from the other game a lot (for now).
tactics and manual defending (while still trying to score!
) thats my focus now!
Here's a thing - in most football games where I can have (at least) three tactics (i.e. PES), I set up an all-out defence, an all-out attack and a "standard" tactic.
In FIFA 19, I do that for formation banks 1, 3 and 5 (i.e. all-out defence, normal, all-out attack), BUT for banks 2 and 4, I concentrate on different things.
Example - I played FIFA 19 yesterday, as Newcastle against Leicester. They beat me 2-0, and I was absolutely furious given recent results - but (and I love this about 19), I was told before the game that they had the best defence in the league statistically,
and it was true (i.e. it was reflected in the match - usually in football games those stats mean nothing in reality).
Anyway. I realised at half-time what was going wrong... My players were quite far away from each-other, which works against most teams when you've got solid passers of the ball (which I have) - but against Leicester, their defensive positioning was really solid and I could barely make an attacking pass.
So I switched to setting 2 (between "defence" and "normal") - the way I have this set up is that the players are closer together, and play possession football. Suddenly, I could make passes, keep possession and I had a chance of getting back into the game.
Unfortunately, Leicester's defence was absolutely unbreakable and I couldn't claw a goal back - but it felt right. I didn't have fast enough, or tricky enough players.
I bought Guðmundsson from Burnley for his crossing ability, and Benteke for his target-man role - hoping I could link them up often. Against more open teams, they're working pretty well (except for Benteke being generally terrible with actual shots). But against a tighter defence, like Leicester's, they don't possess the speed or the skill to unlock gaps.
That - for me - is a measure of the level of depth in the game (which - for most people, understandably - is ruined by how fast the game is and how jelly-legged the game is). If only it was more "solid"-feeling, I'd rate it as the best FIFA ever (actually, I think it probably is anyway).
and its true!
