Aye well it can't work every time! It does demand quite a lot from your ML, MR and CM/BWM.. if those 3 are not up for the job, you're gonna be struggling.

And no, it's not for possession play :D I hate possession football and always focus on a highly physical team, with only a DLP who has needs to excell in technique, dribling and first touch.

Sorry mate but this doesn't work well for my team playing 4-4-2, first game we won (however we had 11 shots[4 on target] to Palmeiros 30 shots[11 on target]), second game was against San Paulo we couldn't get the ball using these tactics and lost 2-1, but should have lost by a lot more only for clearances...Yes only two matches, both friendlies, but imo doesn't allow for enough possession nor shooting, only my opinion though sorry...

Awesome! That's quite an achievement with Hearts, considering how many really good teams actually play in that tournament.

good tactic . with Hearts i gone to final League Europe

^^

Glad you like it!

Great!

In the description, of course.

But;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ubb5sefodbu702o/4-4-2%20Vintage%201.2.fmf?dl=0

wheres the link

good

No worries :) It's a bit of a weird change, it's caught a lot of people out

That's spot on, i can see the tactic now from downloading the new link, thanks for the help

Seems you were right, Paul. Don't know how I missed that, thanks for notifying me.

Link has been updated to the fmf file.

That's odd, because I can import it just fine.. on my 2nd computer as well.
I'll look into this.

You're meant to save them as .fmf files. Probably why the guy below can't use your tac.

Well that's strange. All I can suggest is that you put the .tac file in a painfully obvious folder that can't be mistaken for anything else to make sure it's not just mis-navigation. In a folder like Iwantmytactictowork on your desktop..

I still cant find it, i placed the file in a tactics folder, and when i go to the manage tactics, import, tactics the .tac file doesnt show up? also when i suscribe to the tactic through steam it doesnt show up either?

Go to your tactics screen and click the dropdown menu on your current tactics, then "Manage Tactics" Click Import and navigate to where ever you stored the .tac file you downloaded :)

after i've downloaded this tactic from dropbox what do i do??

Either click Subscribe and have it done automaticly, then follow WorkTheSpace's instructions in his guide.
Or, download from the dropbox link, go into FM, to your tactical screen and choose to load a tactic and then navigate to said file.

HOW DO I DOWNLOAD

Yeah, you probably can have it work just fine without it.

The reason I use "Work ball into box" is because I often find my wingers crossing too early and poorly, which leads to shots off target from the strikers. But if you have quick strikers and/or poachers who just linger around in the box, there's no reason you can't play without it.

I use "Drop deeper" because the team mentality is set to Attacking.
Without using Drop deeper, i find that an Attacking team mentality often leaves my team a little too exposed, but this might not be an issue for you. It all depends on the quality of your defensive players.

If you're playing away against a quality team such as Man City or Real Madrid, it works very well if you set team mentality to Counter and remove "work ball into box".


All in all, finding that one tactic that fits your team perfectly is very unlikely to happen. Due to individual differences in players, there's bound to be some tweaking to get it just right.

Can you please explain why the defense is instructed to drop deeper? Can I play this with a higher-line? I'm trying to replicate old school Sir Alex United teams and I don't think they were discouraged from taking any chances. Do you think I can have success with this if I remove drop deeper and work ball into box?