By Luke - The Football Manager Addicts and Luke's Stories of An FM Addict
Welcome to the second blog of 'What Does It Do?'! My blog series was set up because I had been getting a growing number of requests to talk about how tactics work on Football Manager and insights into what I'm thinking when I'm making my wacky formations!
Today I'm going to tell you all about how best to deploy the team instruction 'Retain Possiesion'.
It Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin...
This may sound blatantly obvious: when you deploy the 'Retain Possesion' instruction your team will look to keep possession of the ball. It doesn't mean they play nice football on the floor: two different things!
It's very important you understand that!
How Do You Use It?
I find that 'Retain Possesion' works best when you have several triangles in your formation.
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| I can see 8 triangles - What about you? |
Having triangles in your formation will enable your players more options when passing the ball, like Barcelona. It will give the player in possession two options: rather then one!
Having triangles in your formation will enable your players more options when passing the ball, like Barcelona. It will give the player in possession two options: rather then one!
I find that it is best to use the instruction in a tactic that is either set to 'control' or be 'balanced'; if your team is set to attack and keep the ball it will get confused!
The Pro's
Of course there are good points to using 'retain possesion', just look at the success's Barcelona have in real life and on your saves they are usually epic!
The best thing about the instruction is that your team will have a high share of the possession. Your midfielders will be confident on the ball and if set to 'hassle opponments' if they do lose the ball they should win it back quickly!
You will also be in control of a lot of matches.
The Con's
However there are issues with the instruction:
First of all you will get FM'ed (if you believe in that (I don't)). To put it simply you will have games where you'll have all of the ball, all of the shots and completely dominate but lose 1-0 to Stoke but if a game is heading that way you should change your strategy!
You may also have an issue scoring. I'm a fan of possession football, I use it a lot, but my teams tend to score very few goals but let even less in! Although I'm a real life 'keeper so it could just be me being defencive!
That's all for now I'll be back next Monday at five!
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