Player Condition
Written by ArvindPlayer Condition is something which must be cared for as best as possible. If a player becomes fatigued, he will not play as well as he would if he were match fit, and he becomes more susceptible to injury. You need to take good care of your players so this never happens, otherwise you will face some big problems.
Fixture congestion is one of the many tough challenges which a manager may face. If you find that your team ends up playing two or three games a week, your team’s physical condition will quickly deteriorate. You need to make sure that you rotate your team to keep your players as fresh as possible for each game, and less likely to pick up an injury.
Sometimes, your team will be leading a game by a comfortable margin and the game is effectively over. To save your players’ fitness levels, you should look to substitute your tired players out as soon as you think your team has the game wrapped up. At this point, you don't want your team trying to win the ball back aggressively or chase down the opposition players needlessly. In your Team Instructions, set Tackling to More Cautious so your players don't risk getting injured from tough tackles. Change the Closing Down setting to Stand Off More, and set Time Wasting to maximum. Also, use the shout "Take a Breather". This will make sure that your players don't waste their energy on a game that you have already won and instead save their strength for the upcoming fixtures.
If you find that one of your players has played a lot of football recently and is becoming jaded, it would be a good idea to allow that player to rest for a few weeks to avoid injury and to make sure that he is fresh when he is ready to play again. You will find that you will need to do this more often with older players than with younger players, as their Stamina and Natural Fitness levels have weakened considerably.
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Discussion: How to create a successful tactic on Football Manager
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Change Log 27/05/2017
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but anyway, I still confuse. about attack near post and near post flick on,what kindof player should be suite? I mean, if we have good header,then why we ask him to flick instead of attack directly to the goal?and if we have player at far post who great header,why we didnt give the ball to him,but flick from near post instead?
and what about stand on far post? I quite didnt understand. so this just distraction? not the goal scorer?
how about attack from deep?
Freekicks:
I'm afraid that you're unable to have two free kick takers for the time being ( at least, to my knowledge), so you would have to suffice with having one of Ronaldo / Bale taking both free kicks around the box, as well as further up field.
Aiming a free kick towards the best header is normally used when a shooting opportunity is not on - so, for example, if a free-kick is from a wider position, the free-kick will be aimed towards the player who has the best heading attributes.
Taking a long free-kick means that if you have the ball deep in your opponents half, the ball will be passed up field in a more direct manner, instead of passing the ball short, and keeping hold possession. Choosing a long freekick is best if you're playing a more direct tactic, where as a short free kick is best if you have players that can play with a fast tempo and small passes.
Corners:
A near post flick would require a player to essentially 'flick' the ball backwards towards either the center of the box, or towards the far post - a good example of this in real life could be seen with Manchester City. Often during matches Demichelis flicks the ball backwards for someone else to score. If you were to use this, then make sure to have players placed both centrally and attacking the back post.
Attacking near post is where the player attack the ball at the near post in an attempt to score. This differs to the near post flick on as the near post flick on does not try to score - simply move the ball on in order to allow someone else to score. If you're going to use this, then make sure the player who's attacking the near post has good attributes in the following areas: Heading, Jumping reach and strength. Other attributes that can be included are Balance and Bravery.
I hope this cleared things up for you! :-)
I don't think that there is a way of setting different players to take long and short range free kicks. Usually, the players that are good at free kicks tend to be
corner kicks too. Also, long will play a long ball into the box as far as they can, whereas best header will go higher, for the best header of the ball to jump up and head it as no one else can reach,
The difference between each of these is actually quite big. Attack near post will make your player run to the near post and attempt to head the ball in. On the other hand, near post flick on will make the player at the near post head the ball to the far post over the defenders instead of shooting himself. Attack far post is similar to attack near post, as the players will try to head the ball in at the far post, and I think Stand on far post will attempt to distract other team defenders and create space in the area.
Free Kick
my problem on this set piece ,is , FM is sometime unreasonable. for the free kick from very long distance,where player would pass it to another team mate instead of shot on goal, they put my free kick taker here,which is not effetive. I mean,if you see real madrid , they would put cristiano ronaldo or gareth bale as free kick taker ,from reasonable range to shot on goal. if the free kick place is too far to be shooted, then xabi would take instead ,so he could aim the ball better. but in fm, this doesnt happen. all free kick would taken by ronaldo ,except the free kick from touchline..
any souliton?
I also didnt understand,what is "long" option on free kick aim optin mean?
couldnt it become "long and to best header"?
corner kick
any explanation about the different between "near post flick on" and attach near post?
how about "atack from deep and lurk outside area'?
and "attack far post" with "stand on far post"?
I didnt know which is the right time to chose them.
Kudos!
@Bert: Thank you for contributing. We have some new guides in the works, I'll ask you for more contributions soon
Thanks for this fantastic guide.
Just one thing I would like to mention... earlier, according to my experience it is not the best option to mark tightly a pacey opponent as they will be able to lose your defender who is not that fast...
what do you think?
Good read for the other sectors, and really good help in the parts that I'm not as comfortable with.
Nice guide all round!