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Tactics just stopped working

Started on 20 December 2013 by GloriousRuse
Latest Reply on 21 December 2013 by mike14991499
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So, I am in season 4 with York City. We have won back to back promotions from sky bet 2 and 1 to the championship. The first ten games or so of the championship were productive. Despite our supposedly relegation-certain team, we were in the playoff spots.

Then games ten to fifteen were mediocre results and we dropped to mid table.

Game 16-20 have been a disaster, with the other side dominating possession, running up the scoreline, and generally making a mockery of us.

It seems like all of a sudden our short passing play is getting annihilated by interceptions, and the runner/dribblers get battered down by the defense. If I try to go long ball, we lose out in the air..not surprising given the team has been oriented towards along the deck passing. We just cannot get anything together for movement, be it passing or running.

So, what is going wrong? Do championship coaches just adapt quicker and the AI has found the weaknesse sin my tactics, or is this something else?
AI adapts to your tactics, you get some bad luck, morale drops and then you find yourself in games 16-20. I'm no FM guru, but I managed to end such losing streak with playing ultra defensively, drawing some matches with 0-0 and keeping clean sheet, then tried to switch the attacking tactics around. It's a good idea if you have some tough opponents ahead.

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