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Previously on accordingtoFM: The baseball cap made a surge to the top of my nigh used emoji listing equally I took a await at the Vitesse squad using the 'Tony Pulis Baseball Cap Metric'

Now that we know which players we want to use, it is time to see how they fit into the system we desire to use. As with my method of picking players, my anti-voetbal tactic will be loosely based on Tony Pulis' Stoke side from around 2010/eleven. In information technology, each player will accept a specific office to play.

The base of operations of our tactic will, of course, be 442 and the main features of it volition be as follows:

-Solid and defensive back four – Full backs to defend above all other duties
-Hard working central midfield
-Stride and attacking from the wide men
-Defensive forward to work hard and apply pressure to the opposition
-Potent advanced forrard who is able to distill
-Defensive mentality – narrow, deep and cautious every bit a by-product
-Structured shape meaning that players primarily set out to do their function
-Unproblematic – no extra instructions

With the above in mind, we outset the kickoff game in the post-obit set up, and so change later some analysis.

Every bit previously mentioned I am taking over Vitesse in March 2018, the bulk of the mode through the first season. This is due to the fact that I got up to a similar time in my América save, I am using the winter update, and I only want to kickoff here. Because of this, nosotros will get straight into some competitive games in order to truly test the tactic. I take over with the side in 11th, clear from any relegation but with an outside shot at European qualification. Before the season, Vitesse were predicted to stop 6th then the side had been operating lower than they should at the time of taking over, having lost three of their terminal four games. The coming fixtures are every bit follows, get-go upwardly is a habitation game confronting Ajax, to truly test our tactic.

Nosotros ready upwards in the formation shown above, while Ajax are in a four-i-2-3, as is typical of Dutch football. The game goes as expected, nosotros concede a lot of possession and Ajax take a number of shots, however, they are mainly from altitude and practise not trouble us greatly. We do not create much, many of our chances are from gear up pieces and counter-attacks. A lot of this play is something I recognised from watching Stoke, we frustrated the opposition well. We were undone past 1 fault late on and went on to lose 1-0. A deserved win for Ajax given the stats, but I saw a lot of what I wanted to from our side.

Total-time stats from the home game v Ajax. Many of the shots off target were from distance

Shots taken by Ajax during the 1-0 defeat – 11 of their shots coming from the border of the box or further

Equally I say, it was a deserved win for Ajax, but we had chances to take the atomic number 82 before a (very FM) defensive fault toll us at least a point. With this in heed, I go into the game away to Utrecht with the same ready up. I thought we could have acquired more problems to Ajax with some changes, only I desire to get the defence sorted first and I do not believe our build-up play confronting Ajax will exist a fair assessment. Again, Utrecht set every bit a 4-ane-two-three and we concede a lot of chances, 21 shots in full, only honestly did not feel under serious threat more than once. Of their 21 shots at our goal, 16 were off target and many of them taking place in front of our back four. The game ends 0-0, the perfect anti-football job on them.

Full-time stats 5 Utrecht tells a like story to the Ajax game

Again, I run across the defense force working every bit well as it could be, one goal conceded in two difficult games is exactly what I wanted, however, now may be the time to await at our build-upwardly play, to see if nosotros can problem the opposition.

The next four games though practise not go well. They were against opposition further downwardly the table and peradventure our very negative way of playing is not constructive when we should be on the front foot. I had made a few tweaks to better the build-up play, case of moving my right full-back to a support part as I believe he has the ability to perform there. Over these four games, nosotros win just once, against bottom of the table Roda, who will go down and did non crusade us an issue. The poor results came against Heracles (13th when I took over), NAC (15th) and Sparta (16th). the first two defeats were narrow and in particular, the 3-ii loss to NAC, all the goals came within six minutes and I could non change tactics quick enough before conceding the final goal.

First vi results since taking over

The 2-0 home defeat to relegation threatened Sparta was the last straw. We were atrocious, conceding a lot of possession in midfield and offering nothing up forepart. This was the final game of a long Saturday dark FM session and I was babysitting my son, cue rage quit and bed. The assay came with a fresh heed in the morn.

Vitesse 0-2 Sparta Rotterdam

Atrocious – Again Sparta set upward in a 4-1-two-3 and I realise that success in this save volition come up in finding an effective counter to that arrangement. The four principal weaknesses I spot from looking dorsum at this, and the other, games played are as follows:

Outcome -We lack support in the attacking phase and concede possession far too hands

31 – The advanced frontwards for Vitesse receives the ball but has five opposing players betwixt himself and any other options

As you can meet from the above, our avant-garde frontward (Buitink) has received the ball from number ten, our playmaker, but is quickly swamped and had little selection merely to endeavor a risky pass or exist tackled. In the terminate, he is tackled and nosotros concede possession. I need to get the advanced players more passing options or brand sure they receive the ball in better positions.

Tactical Tweek – Modify the DLP support to a standard central midfield office then he is more inclined to play safer passes and build up slowly. This should give more passing options to him and more support to the forward players.

Event – We are constantly outnumbered in central midfield

Average positions for Vitesse (yellow) v Sparta (white)

From watching the match activity it is clear that nosotros are being overrun in the central midfield areas, it is always 3 vs two and in this game it was too like shooting fish in a barrel for the opposition to bypass our central pairing.

Tactical Tweaks – change one of the wingers to a broad midfielder who will sit narrower and help to give passing options and to provide comprehend in the primal areas. Likewise, the defensive forward will be instructed to marking the opposition defensive midfielder. This will put him under pressure level and mean that if we turn the brawl over quicker he can support the play more from a deeper position.

Issue -Also many long balls from the back conceding possession

Forgive the spamming of images simply in the post-obit, you can see our major consequence:
i) Long passes lost by the back 4
2) Goalkeeper distribution – the bulk of his long passes through the middle of the pitch were misplaced. When played wider the possession was retained.
3) Full passes fabricated by the side – The majority of misplaces ones coming from the back v, and the DLP just his task is to play riskier, which I have at present amended.

1) Passes lost past the back four

2) Goalkeeper distribution – Green for completed, orange for lost

3) Passes played by the team

Notation: the carmine carte du jour came late in the game so did not touch on the result or stats too much.

Tactical Tweaks – Change the fullback roles to FB defend. The defensive full back role has 'more direct passing' equally a hard instruction. With the FB def I can edit them to play shorter while maintaining the defense get-go mental attitude. I also fabricated the central defensive pair both CD Def and asked them to play it shorter. The last tweak was to shorten the goalkeeper distribution and to play it to the full backs. This should limit the long assurance lumped forward for the opposition to articulate easily.

Issue – The central midfielders are oftentimes in the same position of the field

Our DLP (x) and CM (three) both close the same human making it fifty-fifty easier to bypass them both

With the two support roles in the central midfield area, they would often both close the same human or non offer support to those around them.

Tactical Tweek – Every bit mentioned in the first result, the DLP will now be a standard CM role, but I will also make him a defensive role. This will provide cover to the defence and let others liberty to move frontward in one case if the play dictates. The CM support will stay the same just I can be more flexible in-game with the instructions I give. Also, I volition add be more disciplined and stick to positions to the team instructions. This should help to create a low block and stop players beingness in the same position as i another equally much as possible.

Then, later taking all that into consideration, this is what we have at the end.

Concluding tactic including all tweaks

The next three games were against the sides just to a higher place usa in the league and ones which nosotros should be competing with. Subsequently the tweeks I saw the aforementioned properties which made our defence solid but, in one case we played the ball out of the back and progressed upwards the pitch, we able to score.

The players on average were in better positions. The wide midfielder was able to sit down narrow and helped to foreclose the central two from being outnumbered. The defensive forward was tracking back more and putting pressure on the AZ defensive midfield. Finally, the key midfield two were spread apart over the pitch more and did non get in the same positions equally each other.

Average positions five AZ show a more balanced side. Note: The two CD were switched a niggling into the game causing their osition to become confsed,

Final three results from the season

Final league table

The season ended much as it was when I took over, 3 wins from my ix games is boilerplate for how Vitesse's flavour went. Nosotros are unbeaten since the tactical tweaks though, then I caput into preseason looking to better the playing squad and bring in more 5 🧢 ability players.

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