FM - Old Man Phil - FM 24 - How To Create an Unstoppable Tactic Every Save - Reverse Engineer It!
Resumen
TLDRThe video tutorial by Phil focuses on building an effective and simple football tactic through reverse engineering. The host emphasizes simplicity and understanding player capabilities to guide tactic formation, rather than following common, complex methods. Through examples with teams like Notts County and Arsenal, Phil demonstrates success by matching tactics to team strengths and adjusting dynamics according to player attributes. He outlines isolated tips such as avoiding complex formations unless the team is capable, and tailoring instructions based on players' positional strengths, highlighting the importance of adaptability in ongoing matches. Finally, Phil discusses preparing for various scenarios, emphasizing examining opponent strengths and weaknesses to make informed tactical decisions, while encouraging viewers to engage with the content by subscribing and expressing interest in further topics.
Para llevar
- ⚽ Reverse engineering can simplify tactic building.
- 🔍 Understanding player attributes is crucial for effective tactics.
- 📈 Success with teams like Notts County shows tactic efficacy.
- 🛠️ Use squad planners to tailor strategies.
- 🔄 Adapt tactics based on match performances.
- 🚫 Avoid complex formations for simple tactic building.
- 📊 Compare opposition strengths and weaknesses to fine-tune strategies.
- 👥 Team capability is vital in defining tactics.
- 💡 Learning from past successful examples can guide current strategies.
- 📣 Viewer engagement helps in deciding future content topics.
Cronología
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
The video introduces the concept of building a simple yet effective defensive team tactic in a game, discussing its success with various teams such as Notts County and Arsenal. The focus is on reverse engineering a tactic for success by understanding team attributes and capabilities.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
The host decides to create a tactic for Watford, a team in the Championship predicted to finish sixth. He emphasizes evaluating the team's strengths, noting strong defense and attack but a weak midfield, and setting up a tactic that leverages these strengths.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
A fluid counterattack strategy is chosen, focusing on positive play. Key roles are assigned based on team strengths, such as wing-backs and central defenders. Adjustments are made to suit the championship level without trying to overcomplicate the system.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
Emphasis is placed on understanding player roles individually and using team attributes to guide tactical decisions. Adjustments in player roles include wing-backs and midfield setups based on strengths and current team formation familiarity.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
Discussion on in-game transitions and opposition engagement strategies. The importance of understanding team's ability with counter pressing and defending is highlighted, emphasizing the need to adapt tactics based on player abilities and opponent analysis.
- 00:25:00 - 00:30:40
Concluding with the outcomes of implementing this tactic with Watford, the team achieves early success. The video hints at an upcoming discussion on tailoring strategies against specific opponents using comparison screens and team reports.
Mapa mental
Preguntas frecuentes
How successful were the tactics in previous examples?
The host mentions past success with Notts County and Arsenal, where teams are leading the league and have significant defensive and attacking stats.
What is the approach of building the new tactic?
The host intends to build a very simple tactic using reverse engineering, focusing on maintaining simplicity for effectiveness.
What are the key player attributes to consider when building a tactic?
Key attributes include position-specific skills, understanding team strengths like attacking or defending, and matching tactics to player capabilities.
What is the philosophy behind the tactic development?
The tactic development focuses on team attributes, keeping things simple, and avoiding complex formations unless the team is advanced enough to handle them.
What tools and strategies are used to develop the tactics?
Tools like squad planners to assess player skills and making in-game adjustments based on the attributes and performance are part of the process.
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- 00:00:00over the last couple of episodes we've
- 00:00:02looked at how you can become the best
- 00:00:04defensive team in your league and we're
- 00:00:06going to take that one step further now
- 00:00:07and we're going to build a complete
- 00:00:09tactic but we're going to do it a little
- 00:00:11bit differently we're going to build a
- 00:00:13very very simple tactic which will be
- 00:00:15very very successful we're going to
- 00:00:17reverse engineer it let's go and kick
- 00:00:20some
- 00:00:23balls hello and welcome back to FM with
- 00:00:26old man Phil and if you are a brand new
- 00:00:28visitor I'm Phil and well welcome to the
- 00:00:30channel and over the last couple of
- 00:00:32episodes in this series of four we've
- 00:00:34been looking at how to set up your team
- 00:00:36to become the best defensive team in
- 00:00:38your league and we've been very
- 00:00:39successful applying a a system across a
- 00:00:42number of saves and we always turn out
- 00:00:44to be the best defensive team in the
- 00:00:47league and as you can see here from our
- 00:00:49live stream with notot County a team
- 00:00:51that's way overperforming we are the
- 00:00:54best team in terms of goals conceded we
- 00:00:56are the best team in the league and in
- 00:00:59our hero sa similar to nots County we
- 00:01:02are top of the league we are the best
- 00:01:04team in terms of attacking and the best
- 00:01:06team in terms of Defending and we set up
- 00:01:09the tactic in exactly the same way as we
- 00:01:11set up the tactic for NZ County and
- 00:01:14finally we did a test with Arsenal and
- 00:01:17as you can see once again with Arsenal
- 00:01:19very very similar story we are top of
- 00:01:21the league we are the best in terms of
- 00:01:22attacking and we are the best in terms
- 00:01:25of Defending and so we have set this
- 00:01:27tactic up to in a very similar way to
- 00:01:30what we did with the other two and today
- 00:01:33we're going to take a look at how to
- 00:01:34build a very very simple tactic which
- 00:01:37will be very very successful often
- 00:01:40people who are just setting out on the
- 00:01:41game will have a problem understanding
- 00:01:43how to put a tactic together and it's
- 00:01:44one of the hardest parts of the game
- 00:01:46when you first start to play this game
- 00:01:48but it's a very very simple way that you
- 00:01:50can do it and today we're going to build
- 00:01:52a tactic based on what we've been doing
- 00:01:54already so far if you can't do it don't
- 00:01:57do it and once you got the concept of
- 00:01:59this and you understand how the
- 00:02:02attributes play a huge part in setting
- 00:02:04up your tactic and tell you exactly what
- 00:02:06your team can do and can't do what
- 00:02:08they're good at and what they're not
- 00:02:09good at then putting together a tactic a
- 00:02:11formation a shape whatever call it what
- 00:02:13you like will be one of the simplest
- 00:02:15things that you have to do in this game
- 00:02:18it's just a case of understanding how to
- 00:02:20do it and in order to do it we're going
- 00:02:22to do it backwards we're going to
- 00:02:24reverse engineer a tactic and I'm going
- 00:02:26to select the team at random some the
- 00:02:28team I know no nothing about and we're
- 00:02:30going to show you how we set up that
- 00:02:32tactic and then I'm going to play Eight
- 00:02:34Games or so and see how that tactic gets
- 00:02:36on will we be the best in terms of
- 00:02:39attacking and will we be the best in
- 00:02:40terms of Defending in the league but
- 00:02:43just before we get into it if you are
- 00:02:45brand new to the channel you love FN
- 00:02:47content give us a like and hit that
- 00:02:49subscribe button and also click that
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- 00:02:53we upload brand new videos so I think
- 00:02:56it's time to get on with it now let's go
- 00:02:57and find out what team we're going to
- 00:02:59sell setup and reverse engineer this
- 00:03:02tactic with let's go and kick some balls
- 00:03:05and so the team that we have and we are
- 00:03:07going to set up a tactic with and play
- 00:03:09the first eight or so games is going to
- 00:03:12be Watford and I have absolutely no idea
- 00:03:15what the prediction is for Watford what
- 00:03:17I do know is that we are about to begin
- 00:03:20our first game of the new Championship
- 00:03:23season so the preseason is done and uh
- 00:03:26the first championship game is about to
- 00:03:28begin so this team is not going to have
- 00:03:30a lot of time to get used to the tactic
- 00:03:32that we're going to prepare for them and
- 00:03:34let's have a look at basically where
- 00:03:36they are predicted to finish in the
- 00:03:39season preview they are predicted to
- 00:03:41finish in sixth it's probably therefore
- 00:03:44going to be a fairly decent side they
- 00:03:45don't have many players in the dream 11
- 00:03:47they don't have any in the dream 11 but
- 00:03:50in terms of a championship team there
- 00:03:52are some very very good teams sitting
- 00:03:54above them they are in sixth place and
- 00:03:56they should be looking at a playoff
- 00:03:58place the in terms of of the Club Vision
- 00:04:00that is exactly what the club wants they
- 00:04:02want them to reach the skyb championship
- 00:04:05playoffs and I would say I would feel
- 00:04:06very optimistic about reaching the
- 00:04:09playoffs if not looking for a automatic
- 00:04:12promotion place so we have to first of
- 00:04:15all now get them ready to play in the
- 00:04:17season remembering that our first game
- 00:04:19is just a few days to go and uh you can
- 00:04:22or cannot do this I don't always do this
- 00:04:24but you can go to your squad and just
- 00:04:26have a look this might help you in terms
- 00:04:28of what the squad is capable of doing it
- 00:04:31is it a good defensive team is it a good
- 00:04:33attacking team uh is it great in
- 00:04:35Midfield what are the what is their
- 00:04:37strength a lot of people use this to
- 00:04:39find their best players and to work
- 00:04:41their team around their best players I
- 00:04:43don't do that I just want to know are we
- 00:04:45good defensively are we good in attack
- 00:04:47are we good in Midfield and if we put
- 00:04:49these in terms of the their ability we
- 00:04:51can clearly see that a lot of their
- 00:04:54players are either Central Defenders
- 00:04:56their top players are either attackers
- 00:04:59or Central Defenders so we have three of
- 00:05:01our top players are Defenders and the
- 00:05:03rest of six or seven are going to be
- 00:05:06attackers Midfield we are a bit light
- 00:05:09and therefore we have to build our
- 00:05:10Midfield based on the fact that at the
- 00:05:12moment we are a little bit light going
- 00:05:14into our first game in the championship
- 00:05:17we also don't have any money and so just
- 00:05:19buying players is not going to be an
- 00:05:21option for us we do have a spr who is
- 00:05:23one of our best players if not our best
- 00:05:25player he's wanted could bring in 10 or
- 00:05:2712 million we don't know what's going to
- 00:05:29happen and there until that happens we
- 00:05:31really just have to focus on building a
- 00:05:33team with what we've got so that's what
- 00:05:35we're going to do and as th we've just
- 00:05:37found out we are pretty good in attack
- 00:05:39and that's probably where we need to
- 00:05:42focus when we start building our tactic
- 00:05:45and as we said before we're going to
- 00:05:47build a very very simple tactic and
- 00:05:49therefore we're going to go with what
- 00:05:50the game recommends in terms of how this
- 00:05:52team should play and it's given us three
- 00:05:53options I don't really like Wing play I
- 00:05:56definitely don't want to be playing
- 00:05:57route one so we're going to go with a
- 00:05:59flu fluid Counterattack this don't worry
- 00:06:01about this this is just a setting up how
- 00:06:04we want to play we are going to alter
- 00:06:06this and change it it's not going to be
- 00:06:08the finished product we're not going to
- 00:06:10be playing in a cautious mentality so
- 00:06:13we're going to choose that and now we'll
- 00:06:14go to a formation bearing in mind that
- 00:06:16we are good up front and that we are
- 00:06:18good in defense the problem that I have
- 00:06:21with a 4-33 is that we may not be good
- 00:06:23enough in central Midfield so I'm going
- 00:06:25to go with a 4231 this is a much more
- 00:06:27attacking option and because most of our
- 00:06:29players are better up front than they
- 00:06:31are anywhere else on the pitch we're
- 00:06:33going to go with that and we're going to
- 00:06:35click confirm and we are going to set up
- 00:06:37our team very very Loosely because I
- 00:06:40don't know the team I'm just going to
- 00:06:42ask my assistant to pick the without
- 00:06:45restriction to pick the entire team and
- 00:06:48to just put in what he thinks is
- 00:06:50probably going to be our best team now
- 00:06:53I'm going to go through this and I'm
- 00:06:54going to change some things because I'm
- 00:06:55probably not going to agree with him and
- 00:06:58so I don't want wing backs to be on
- 00:07:00automatic I do like the idea of playing
- 00:07:03with wing backs because we are going to
- 00:07:05be playing a little bit more positive
- 00:07:07rather than cautious bearing in mind
- 00:07:09that we are an attacking team we have a
- 00:07:11good attacking setup let's be positive
- 00:07:14and so we're going to go through these
- 00:07:15roles one by one and we're going to
- 00:07:17change this team just slightly I'm going
- 00:07:19to have a wing back on Support over on
- 00:07:22this side and I'll probably have a wing
- 00:07:24back on attack over on this side
- 00:07:27basically what we're going to do is BAS
- 00:07:28set up a very simple very very simple
- 00:07:31tactic and we're not going to play with
- 00:07:33a ball playing Defender we're a
- 00:07:35championship team we're going to play
- 00:07:36with two Central Defenders on defend and
- 00:07:39that should hopefully be enough for us
- 00:07:41in terms of that looking at these two in
- 00:07:44Midfield we could I think the ball
- 00:07:46winner probably not a good idea for a
- 00:07:49championship team I'm going to play a
- 00:07:52defensive midfielder on this side and
- 00:07:54I'm going to play a deep line playmaker
- 00:07:56on this side I actually know that the um
- 00:07:59best player in that position is going to
- 00:08:01be lucer who is a very good deep line
- 00:08:04playmaker for Championship level so
- 00:08:06that's going to be our Midfield sorted
- 00:08:08on this side I'm going to keep this as
- 00:08:09an inverted Winger on support and we're
- 00:08:11going to play a Winger on Attack on this
- 00:08:14side and then we are going to have keep
- 00:08:16that as an attacking Midfield on support
- 00:08:18nothing wrong with that as a role and
- 00:08:21Healey can stay as the advance forward
- 00:08:24on attack I think that the you can
- 00:08:27clearly now see that up front we are
- 00:08:29much stronger than we are at the back
- 00:08:31and so this is probably the best way to
- 00:08:33set up the tactic and so as you can see
- 00:08:36this is a very very basic tactic that we
- 00:08:39have set up we have given each of these
- 00:08:42players some additional instructions to
- 00:08:44what the role says that they should do
- 00:08:47and that is based purely on what they
- 00:08:49can and cannot do as individuals and so
- 00:08:52for example this Wing back is asked to
- 00:08:54Mark tighter that is because he is
- 00:08:56capable of doing a little bit of marking
- 00:08:58I also want want him to sit narrower and
- 00:09:00to dribble less and to shoot less often
- 00:09:03just purely based on what he can and
- 00:09:05cannot do and the DLP another example
- 00:09:08here he's asked to close down more he
- 00:09:10can close down very nicely and he is
- 00:09:13capable of marking cannot tackle so he's
- 00:09:15not asked to tackle harder and neither
- 00:09:18is the DM who's marking and tackling
- 00:09:20isn't very good so he just has the job
- 00:09:23of just holding his position but he can
- 00:09:26pass and he does have very good Vision
- 00:09:28so I might ask him to take more risks
- 00:09:31when he is on the ball and so as you can
- 00:09:34see I've given them some very very
- 00:09:36simple instructions because I am playing
- 00:09:38a Winger on attack in this on this side
- 00:09:42then what I might do is play an inverted
- 00:09:44Wing back on this side this means that
- 00:09:47he will come into Midfield he will also
- 00:09:49be perhaps depending on high up the
- 00:09:51pitch we are playing be a nuisance in
- 00:09:53this area up here and because he is now
- 00:09:56playing as an inverted Wing back on
- 00:09:58support and playing in this area here
- 00:10:00what I might do is I will adjust the
- 00:10:03tactic and I'll put an underlap on the
- 00:10:05right what this will mean is that the
- 00:10:07Winger will then stop look for support
- 00:10:10inside and this might cause problems
- 00:10:12with the DM with the advanced midfielder
- 00:10:15and the inverted Wing back in this area
- 00:10:17creating huge overloads so it's
- 00:10:20something that we can try at the
- 00:10:21beginning and if it doesn't work we can
- 00:10:23try something else and that's the
- 00:10:25essence of building a tactic we're going
- 00:10:26to look at how this works at the
- 00:10:28beginning and then we will see how it
- 00:10:31pans out now we want to put the team
- 00:10:33instructions together because this is
- 00:10:34really really important and this is how
- 00:10:36we want the team to play and we're going
- 00:10:38to apply the principle of if you can't
- 00:10:40do it don't do it because we're going to
- 00:10:42base it on the attributes of the team
- 00:10:46and as you know every team has a bunch
- 00:10:48of attributes there are physicals there
- 00:10:51are mentals and there are technicals and
- 00:10:53we're going to base what the team can do
- 00:10:55on the team averages and how good they
- 00:10:58are as a team at performing that
- 00:11:00function and each one of these things is
- 00:11:03about whether the team is good whether
- 00:11:05the team is bad whether the team can do
- 00:11:07it whether the team can't do it and each
- 00:11:10one of these will have to be adjusted
- 00:11:13according to what the team can do so
- 00:11:15let's make a start and let's go first of
- 00:11:18all to the ones that we've done already
- 00:11:20and we'll start with the reverse
- 00:11:22engineering it now with the out of
- 00:11:24possession
- 00:11:25screen and so we have already looked at
- 00:11:28this screen before and we're just going
- 00:11:30to reset this because we want it to be
- 00:11:32from a blank screen and we don't want to
- 00:11:34be have anything clicked at this point
- 00:11:36in time and so looking at this this is
- 00:11:38all wrong for me remember that the line
- 00:11:41of Engagement is really about how good
- 00:11:43your team is at being an absolute
- 00:11:45nuisance and getting the opposition to
- 00:11:48make mistakes in and where you would
- 00:11:50like the opposition to make mistakes so
- 00:11:52if they're very very good at getting the
- 00:11:54opposition to make mistakes then we want
- 00:11:57to have a higher line we want to put our
- 00:11:59line of Engagement as high as possible
- 00:12:01so that they make mistakes here and not
- 00:12:04down in our half of the pitch this will
- 00:12:06make us far more dangerous the defensive
- 00:12:08line is about how good or bad are
- 00:12:10defenses and How likely they are to make
- 00:12:13a lot of mistakes if we have a very very
- 00:12:15good def defense then we'll push the
- 00:12:17line up higher if we are not so good
- 00:12:19then we're going to have to bring the
- 00:12:20lines back a little bit because by
- 00:12:22bringing the line back a little bit it
- 00:12:24will serve two purposes firstly if they
- 00:12:26are pacy and can dribble it means that
- 00:12:28they will not find it so easy to get
- 00:12:31balls over the top and to skip past us
- 00:12:34we will be backing off a little bit in
- 00:12:36order to allow them space in front of us
- 00:12:39but also if we're not very good as
- 00:12:41Defenders then by reducing the line a
- 00:12:44little bit it will give us more time
- 00:12:46when we receive the ball and we can be a
- 00:12:49little bit more composed we can be have
- 00:12:51a little bit better control of the ball
- 00:12:53and distribute the the ball a lot more
- 00:12:56efficiently if we are too high up the
- 00:12:58pitch then what could happen is that we
- 00:13:00don't when receiving the ball our
- 00:13:02Defenders don't have a lot of time make
- 00:13:04mistakes and then suddenly we are giving
- 00:13:07the ball away and are very vulnerable at
- 00:13:09the back and so where we position this
- 00:13:12is also very very important trigger
- 00:13:15press is linked to how good we are at
- 00:13:17being a nuisance and How likely it is
- 00:13:20that we are going to get the opposition
- 00:13:22to make mistakes this now will be all
- 00:13:24over the pitch whereas this line of
- 00:13:26Engagement is just where we are going to
- 00:13:28engage them when we haven't got the ball
- 00:13:31and so this is going to be How likely
- 00:13:33are the opposition to make mistakes and
- 00:13:36how good are we at making them make
- 00:13:38mistakes as for these this is about
- 00:13:41whether or not we can tackle and this is
- 00:13:44really about compressing the Midfield do
- 00:13:47we need to compress the Midfield I
- 00:13:49always would like to stop the crosses
- 00:13:51unless I have all Defenders over 6'6
- 00:13:54that I'm going to want to stop crosses
- 00:13:57um particularly but full back are very
- 00:13:59vulnerable at the far posts and so I
- 00:14:01don't want crosses coming into my box
- 00:14:03even if I have got very tall Central
- 00:14:05Defenders let's just stop them and uh
- 00:14:08they don't always stop the crosses but
- 00:14:10we might as well try and if I do have a
- 00:14:12lower defensive line then I generally
- 00:14:14will step up more especially if I only
- 00:14:15have two in Midfield because we are
- 00:14:18light there then and it will need to
- 00:14:20push up to compress the space and to
- 00:14:22make sure their Midfield are not getting
- 00:14:24the opportunity to dominate the game and
- 00:14:26put balls in over the top through
- 00:14:29through balls through the middle and so
- 00:14:31I need to just check where these lines
- 00:14:33should be and as we as we saw before
- 00:14:36this is about how good we are at being a
- 00:14:39nuisance and so we have to know about
- 00:14:41how aggressive we are do we have good
- 00:14:43acceleration do we anticipate situations
- 00:14:46well and do we have good decisions and
- 00:14:48so we will go to our Squad planner and
- 00:14:50we'll check that out and we'll go to the
- 00:14:52comparison screen and we are looking at
- 00:14:55the acceleration we do have decent
- 00:14:58acceleration it's not brilliant um and
- 00:15:00we do have um decent pace but it's not
- 00:15:03brilliant either we are quite strong and
- 00:15:06we are quite fit but and our work rate
- 00:15:08although for this league it's quite low
- 00:15:10our work rate is decent it's not too bad
- 00:15:12it just looks bad because of this graph
- 00:15:15but 12.15 for a championship team is
- 00:15:17actually decent work great it's not
- 00:15:19brilliant but it is decent a Premier
- 00:15:22League team a very good Premier League
- 00:15:24team will have 14 between 14 and 15 12
- 00:15:27is not bad it does mean that they do
- 00:15:30have a little bit of work in them
- 00:15:31teamwork is a little bit of a concern
- 00:15:33that is not very good and their
- 00:15:35anticipation is not very good but they
- 00:15:37are very aggressive and this is quite
- 00:15:39important for a championship team if
- 00:15:41they're aggressive then probably they
- 00:15:43will worry the team quite quite a lot
- 00:15:46and so I would say of this team that yes
- 00:15:49they are probably very capable of
- 00:15:51causing teams to make mistakes at the
- 00:15:53back and so a high line of Engagement is
- 00:15:56probably a good idea especially as we we
- 00:15:58are going to be playing in a very
- 00:16:00positive way because we want to attack
- 00:16:02rather than to defend our attack is
- 00:16:04better than our defense and um so we've
- 00:16:07sorted out we'll play with a high press
- 00:16:10and probably we will trigger press more
- 00:16:12often and depending on whether the
- 00:16:14goalkeeper is good or bad in terms of
- 00:16:17his passing and composure we will switch
- 00:16:20that on or off it will depend on the
- 00:16:22opposition goalkeeper and our defensive
- 00:16:24line will be dependent on how good our
- 00:16:27defense is and how capable they are of
- 00:16:30not making mistakes and so we're going
- 00:16:32to be looking at composure
- 00:16:34decisions positioning
- 00:16:38anticipation passing and dribbling and
- 00:16:40looking at the numbers for those
- 00:16:43particular attributes and that will
- 00:16:44determine just where that line should be
- 00:16:48and so we will go to our Squad planner
- 00:16:50and we'll have a look at those
- 00:16:51attributes but this time we're only
- 00:16:53going to be looking at our Defenders
- 00:16:55it's our defensive line that we want to
- 00:16:57make sure
- 00:16:59that have the attributes and so we're
- 00:17:01not going to include the goalkeepers or
- 00:17:03the midfielders and the strikers for
- 00:17:05this we're just going to measure it in
- 00:17:07terms of how good our Defenders are and
- 00:17:09we can clearly see that we have good
- 00:17:11balance our agility is decent but it's
- 00:17:13not great but our balance is very good
- 00:17:15which means that we might be able to
- 00:17:16turn quite quickly and couple that with
- 00:17:19decent acceleration for Defenders and
- 00:17:22decent pace for Defenders we're not
- 00:17:24super quick but we might be okay in
- 00:17:27terms of playing a higher defensive line
- 00:17:29and particularly impressive is our
- 00:17:31balance our natural Fitness at the back
- 00:17:34is good and we are quite strong so bear
- 00:17:36that in mind as we're thinking about
- 00:17:38where our line should be placed and in
- 00:17:40terms of our mentals abilities we are
- 00:17:43quite aggressive again uh our decisions
- 00:17:45are okay but we are not brave and our
- 00:17:49composure is pretty poor and our
- 00:17:51concentration is pretty poor decision-
- 00:17:54making is pretty poor as well and we are
- 00:17:57in terms of mentals not looking that
- 00:17:59great our positioning is decent but it's
- 00:18:02not great and work great at the back is
- 00:18:05very good bearing in mind that 14 14 and
- 00:18:07a half would be very good for a Premier
- 00:18:09League team work great is quite good and
- 00:18:11a teamwork at the B is quite good which
- 00:18:13would mean that the offside would work
- 00:18:16but the rest of the mentals are telling
- 00:18:19me that perhaps we shouldn't be playing
- 00:18:21too high up the pitch and so in terms of
- 00:18:24our Pace our jumping reach our heading
- 00:18:27and in our general ability
- 00:18:29and the how often we are likely to make
- 00:18:31mistakes what I'm going to do with this
- 00:18:33team is I'm going to have a standard
- 00:18:35line and I'm going to step up more and
- 00:18:37we're going to have space in the middle
- 00:18:39but by stepping up more we're asking our
- 00:18:41midfielders and the Defenders to just
- 00:18:44step up when the opposition have won the
- 00:18:46ball and try to close them down and we
- 00:18:48hopefully have players in Midfield who
- 00:18:51can close them down and therefore
- 00:18:52eliminate a problem but the whole point
- 00:18:54of this is that we're not going to be
- 00:18:57vulnerable to both balls over the top
- 00:18:59and we're going to give ourselves a
- 00:19:00little bit more time when we receive the
- 00:19:03ball in order to control it and
- 00:19:05distribute it efficiently and not make
- 00:19:07mistakes and give the ball away in very
- 00:19:09dangerous areas and so that part of the
- 00:19:12tactic this screen of the tactic the out
- 00:19:14of possession is done that's all we need
- 00:19:16to do and now we'll move on to the next
- 00:19:19one the in transition screen and in this
- 00:19:22screen we are pretty much looking at
- 00:19:24just a few things and we're looking at
- 00:19:25our ability to counter press to counter
- 00:19:27and how we want our goalkeeper to deal
- 00:19:29with the ball when he has it and we
- 00:19:31already know that our goalkeeper is poor
- 00:19:33at passing he has a poor throw he's not
- 00:19:35very good at kicking so I don't want him
- 00:19:37taking any risks at all so he can just
- 00:19:39roll it out to anyone who happens to be
- 00:19:42near him and that way we'll stop him
- 00:19:44from making mistakes at least he still
- 00:19:46probably will make them but at least
- 00:19:48we're going to attempt to stop him
- 00:19:51making mistakes in terms of our ability
- 00:19:53to counter we have to consider a few
- 00:19:55things firstly do we have enough pace
- 00:19:57and acceleration ation to mount
- 00:19:59counterattacks are we good at off the
- 00:20:01ball and are we good with our passing
- 00:20:03and distribution is our vision good we
- 00:20:05are working off the principle of if you
- 00:20:08can't do it don't do it so we're going
- 00:20:10to go to our Squad planner again and
- 00:20:11we're going to have a look at our
- 00:20:13ability to counter attack and so if we
- 00:20:16think about the four things that we were
- 00:20:17thinking about the first one was well
- 00:20:20let's look at dribbling as well we're
- 00:20:21not very good at dribbling and our
- 00:20:23technique is not brilliant and if we
- 00:20:25look at our mentals um although we're
- 00:20:27quite aggressive and that does help when
- 00:20:29you are counterattacking we are not very
- 00:20:32composed we're not very determined and
- 00:20:34um our work great is poor our teamwork
- 00:20:36is poor and so it's not really looking
- 00:20:39that great off the ball is poor we are
- 00:20:41not the fastest of teams and our passing
- 00:20:45and our vision they're not great so it's
- 00:20:49probably not a good idea for us to be
- 00:20:53counterattacking and so we're going to
- 00:20:55leave that off we are not really that
- 00:20:57bad bearing in mind that we are
- 00:20:58predicted to finish in seventh we're not
- 00:21:00that bad that we need to hold our shape
- 00:21:03in case we get ourselves into trouble
- 00:21:05our defense are not that bad so we're
- 00:21:07going to keep that off but we are not
- 00:21:09going to Counterattack we will sometimes
- 00:21:12but we're not going to click
- 00:21:13Counterattack and have players just
- 00:21:15going up the field willy-nilly and
- 00:21:17leaving ourselves a little bit
- 00:21:19vulnerable at the back the counter press
- 00:21:21we already know we've already seen that
- 00:21:24we are not very good at counter counter
- 00:21:27pressing the position we're not very
- 00:21:29good at putting them under pressure and
- 00:21:31so we are going to leave the counter
- 00:21:33press off for now we're not going to
- 00:21:35regroup either but we're just going to
- 00:21:37leave it off now by leaving these two
- 00:21:39things off as we said in the last video
- 00:21:41it does not mean that we are not going
- 00:21:43to counter press and it does not mean
- 00:21:44that we are not going to Counterattack
- 00:21:46what it means is that we are going to be
- 00:21:48a little less frequent over it and
- 00:21:51hopefully make decisions around whether
- 00:21:53or not it's a good idea to do it at the
- 00:21:55time and so we're not going to be
- 00:21:58as aggressive as we would be if those
- 00:22:00two things were on we're going to take
- 00:22:02our time and it does mean that probably
- 00:22:04create less chances but we're going to
- 00:22:06be safer at the back while doing it and
- 00:22:09then finally it brings us and so having
- 00:22:12established that we're going to do very
- 00:22:13little here that brings us to our first
- 00:22:16screen and how we are going to attack
- 00:22:18and this is something that we haven't
- 00:22:19seen before and just like every one of
- 00:22:23the boxes that we've looked at in the
- 00:22:25previous two screens this one is is no
- 00:22:28different and we're going to start with
- 00:22:30our passing style and we've already
- 00:22:32found out that we're not the greatest
- 00:22:33passing team in the world we're not the
- 00:22:35worst passing team in the world but
- 00:22:37we're not good we're just an average
- 00:22:39passing team and so in order to make the
- 00:22:42most of our ability to pass then we have
- 00:22:44to play at a lower Tempo so we're going
- 00:22:46to set that to slightly lower because we
- 00:22:49cannot pass and if we try to start
- 00:22:52flashing the ball around the pitch at
- 00:22:54speed we're going to be turning the ball
- 00:22:56over quite often so by by lowering the
- 00:22:58tempo we're going to be able to hold on
- 00:23:01to the ball now we could play with a
- 00:23:02slightly shorter or a little bit more
- 00:23:05direct but probably if we are going to
- 00:23:07play with a slightly lower Tempo I would
- 00:23:09like to play with a slightly shorter
- 00:23:11pass and to enable that to work a lot
- 00:23:13better I'm going to reduce the width of
- 00:23:16the pitch as well and so we're going to
- 00:23:18play a little bit shorter with a
- 00:23:20slightly lower Tempo and fairly narrow
- 00:23:22so that our passes are going to connect
- 00:23:24with each other and hopefully that's not
- 00:23:27going to put too much pressure on the
- 00:23:29boys we are going to time waste
- 00:23:31sometimes when we have Thro inss and
- 00:23:33corners and allow the team to settle and
- 00:23:36hopefully that will buy us a little bit
- 00:23:38more time as well I just don't want us
- 00:23:40rushing things and I want us to be able
- 00:23:42to keep the ball quite comfortably and
- 00:23:44so this if would effectively enable us
- 00:23:48because our passing is not the greatest
- 00:23:50this system would enable us to do that
- 00:23:53quite effectively if we are not good at
- 00:23:56passing then we are not going to be
- 00:23:58passing into space as well this will
- 00:24:00require good off the ball and it will
- 00:24:02require good Vision we have neither of
- 00:24:05those two things and so we are not going
- 00:24:07to pass it into space we're going to
- 00:24:09pass defeat and try and control
- 00:24:11possession we believe that would be the
- 00:24:13best way of playing with this and
- 00:24:17playing out of Defense would that be a
- 00:24:18good idea for Watford where we can go to
- 00:24:21the squad planner and have a look again
- 00:24:23at our comparison this time we're only
- 00:24:25going to pick the Defenders and we are
- 00:24:27going going to look at the defender's
- 00:24:29ability to pass the ball out and to
- 00:24:32maintain possession and so in order to
- 00:24:34be able to do that a composure is going
- 00:24:36to need to be good and so our Defender
- 00:24:38composure it's not bad it's not
- 00:24:40brilliant they will make mistakes their
- 00:24:42decisions is exactly the same and again
- 00:24:45they will probably end up making
- 00:24:47mistakes in terms of their technical
- 00:24:49ability to pass the ball is not very
- 00:24:51good and their vision is not very good
- 00:24:53as well so we don't really want to be
- 00:24:55passing the ball out of Defense we're
- 00:24:57going to make more mistakes than the
- 00:24:58worth of it if we attempt to do that if
- 00:25:01we look at our dribbling as and as an
- 00:25:04option to bring it out of Defense our
- 00:25:06Defenders have only got 9.7 dribbling
- 00:25:08it's not very good it's not a good idea
- 00:25:11to be playing the ball out of Defense in
- 00:25:14terms of our aerial ability and if we
- 00:25:16look at the strikers in terms of our
- 00:25:19aerial ability our jumping reach our
- 00:25:22heading ability is 12 which is decent
- 00:25:24but it's not good and our jumping reach
- 00:25:27for the strikers is 10.67 it's not very
- 00:25:30good and so probably not a good idea to
- 00:25:33be floating crosses into the box and so
- 00:25:36with that information in mind we're not
- 00:25:38going to be playing out of defense and
- 00:25:40we're not going to be floating crosses I
- 00:25:42want them putting low crosses into the
- 00:25:45box to feat whether or not to play Work
- 00:25:48the ball into the box well that is going
- 00:25:49to be about our ability to finish and
- 00:25:52let's go and have a look at our ability
- 00:25:53to finish and um that will be in our
- 00:25:56technical abilities .67 we are not the
- 00:25:59best finishers in the world neither do
- 00:26:02we have a great long shot and neither is
- 00:26:04our
- 00:26:05composure exceptionally good either so
- 00:26:09it's probably not a good idea to be
- 00:26:11taking long pings from outside the box
- 00:26:14so I want them to work the ball into the
- 00:26:16box do I want them to run at the defense
- 00:26:19no I've already seen that their
- 00:26:20dribbling is very poor I would like them
- 00:26:23to dribble less and this one I will
- 00:26:25leave uh as it is at the moment because
- 00:26:27I don't know whether we need to be more
- 00:26:29disciplined or whether I need them to be
- 00:26:31more expressive so at the moment I will
- 00:26:34leave that one blank playing for set
- 00:26:36pieces will depend on a number of issues
- 00:26:38I don't have great set piece takers what
- 00:26:41is the point of playing for set pieces
- 00:26:43and that basically is how we are going
- 00:26:45to set up our tactic it's very very
- 00:26:47simple it's not very intensive and uh
- 00:26:50looking at it though it is a problem
- 00:26:52that they are not familiar with the way
- 00:26:54that we've set them up and that probably
- 00:26:56means that we're going going to have a
- 00:26:58bad start to the season or it won't be
- 00:27:00an extremely good start to the season
- 00:27:02but it is a way that they can play and
- 00:27:05we've based it all on what they can and
- 00:27:08cannot do and so out of possession this
- 00:27:11is about how able they are to play at
- 00:27:14the back and whether or not they will
- 00:27:15make lots of mistakes we've set it at
- 00:27:17standard we also are going to worry them
- 00:27:20and press them up here a little bit in
- 00:27:22order to try and make them to make
- 00:27:24mistakes but we don't want to be
- 00:27:25constantly counter pressing because
- 00:27:27we're not capable in terms of our work
- 00:27:29rate especially to do that we don't want
- 00:27:31to be counterattacking and getting out
- 00:27:33of shape all the time but we don't want
- 00:27:35to be just holding our shape we are
- 00:27:37going to play positive we're going to
- 00:27:38play narrow and try to hold on to the
- 00:27:41ball our passing is good enough to hold
- 00:27:43on to the ball but only probably at a
- 00:27:45lower Tempo and we will play the work
- 00:27:48the ball into the box we'll do low
- 00:27:50crosses and dribble less and that is a
- 00:27:52very very simple tactic that we have set
- 00:27:54up now I think we should go and have a
- 00:27:56look at how we have got on and so this
- 00:28:01is where we came in the first game of
- 00:28:03the championship season and as you can
- 00:28:05see we have played eight games now in
- 00:28:08all competitions we have won seven of
- 00:28:11them and we have drawn one we were very
- 00:28:13unlucky in that Birmingham game we were
- 00:28:15had an international break here for two
- 00:28:17weeks and unfortunately all our
- 00:28:19midfielders came back extremely tired so
- 00:28:22when we lined up for the game against
- 00:28:23Birmingham on Midfield was out on its
- 00:28:26feet still got a very creditable one-1
- 00:28:28draw though Birmingham are a good team
- 00:28:30and we got a one-1 draw and we are doing
- 00:28:32particularly well we are top of the
- 00:28:34league we've played six one5 in the
- 00:28:36league drawn one and lost none we've not
- 00:28:38lost all season in terms of the tactic
- 00:28:41these Squad are now a lot more familiar
- 00:28:43having played eight games or so they've
- 00:28:45got themselves knowing exactly how we
- 00:28:47want them to play and what is extremely
- 00:28:50exciting is that we are the best team in
- 00:28:52the league in terms of attacking
- 00:28:54potential and we are the best team once
- 00:28:56again in in the league in terms of goals
- 00:28:58conceded everything's on track for a
- 00:29:00very very good season here at Watford
- 00:29:03but in order to become the very very
- 00:29:06best team and we doing this consistently
- 00:29:08with this methodology whether it be with
- 00:29:11knots County Arsenal whether it be with
- 00:29:14hoshima or in now Watford we are
- 00:29:16consistently doing it but there is one
- 00:29:18more thing that we need to do and we are
- 00:29:20preparing on a game to game basis and
- 00:29:23what we need to be able to do is to
- 00:29:25interpret the information that we get in
- 00:29:28this screen here which is a comparison
- 00:29:31between ourselves and the opposition and
- 00:29:34I will assess use this to assess the
- 00:29:35strengths and weaknesses of the
- 00:29:37opposition it's rather like pitting them
- 00:29:39attack versus defense so I'm going to do
- 00:29:41one more video on that screen and how I
- 00:29:43use that in conjunction with the team
- 00:29:45report and so that's it for this episode
- 00:29:48we will be looking at that screen in the
- 00:29:51next one and if you do want to have an
- 00:29:54explanation of how you set in individual
- 00:29:58player instructions based on how you
- 00:30:00want to play and what they're capable of
- 00:30:02doing then I'll do a video on that if
- 00:30:04you want a video on setting up
- 00:30:07individual instructions let me know in
- 00:30:09the comments and I'll put one together
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- 00:30:32games and all that remains to be said
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