You might not like it and might even hate it, but watching Diego Simeone’s Atlético Madrid side time and time again expertly frustrate other teams in the latter stages of…
Category: Tactics
Complete Guide To Low And High Tempo In Football Manager
Whether you want to play an extremely fast and decisive brand of football that will have the ball cover the entire pitch in five seconds or so, an intricate slow…
Guide To Short And Direct Passing In Football Manager
Whether you want to play peak Pulisball that will have the ball cover the entire pitch in three or fewer touches, an intricate short passing style mirroring Pep’s Barcelona or…
Guide To Underlaps and Overlaps In Football Manager
The basic idea of overlapping and underlapping is easy to understand. An overlap involves a marauding player making a run on the outside of a winger, while an underlap involves…
Guide: Focus Play Down The Right, Left and Through The Middle in Football Manager
Football manager has a lot of things going on under the hood that are sometimes quite hard to decipher. For instance, you might want to focus play down the left,…
Explained: Pass Into Space In Football Manager
Football manager describes ‘Pass Into Space’ as a team instruction that asks your players to look to make passes into open spaces for teammates to run on to. This is…
Explained: Play Out of Defence In Football Manager
When coming up with a new tactic in FM, you might have had the idea of building play from the back rather than clearing it long, which can easily lead…
Complete Guide To Attacking Width In Football Manager
Attacking width in football manager dictates what areas of the pitch your team tries to focus their play on. Depending on what you choose, your team’s play will largely be…