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.

FM - Old Man Phil - FM 24 - How To Create an Unstoppable Tactic Every Save - Reverse Engineer It!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpkfJ82JQNM

Summary

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.

Takeaways

⚽ 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.

Timeline

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.

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Video Q&A

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