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SC FaithVox v4 - FM 18.3 - 15-0 away in cup

SC TRIDENT - B2B.DIRECT
THE FINAL VERSION OF SÉRGIO CONCEIÇÃO TACTICS

After lots of saves, inumerous seasons, various teams and leagues, the real tactic aproach, without 3 strikers, without 3 central defenders, reaches a final defensive balance. Best suited for top teams, and skilled players, also can make some middle table teams arise to the top.

4-1-2-3 DM WIDE
SET PIECES INCLUDED | NO OI'S | PLUG N PLAY
TRAINING BY THE ASSISTANT MANAGER


IMPROVED DEFENSIVE SUPPORT
STABLE CONTINUOUS ATTACK AND CURATED COUNTER ATTACK EVENTS
FOCUS ON TEAMPLAY, FAST TRANSITIONS AND GOAL SCORING
THIS TACTIC FORCES THE OPPONENT DEFENSIVE LINE TO MAKE MISTAKES
(PENALTIES, FREE KICKS, CARDS, OWN GOALS, BAD PASSES)


THE PLAYERS ROLES

SWEEPER KEEPER (DEFEND)
THE LAST MAN STANDING
The Keeper should be reliable enough to perform important saves.


BALL PLAYING DEFENDERS (STOPPERS) + HALF BACK (DEFEND)
THE BOOMERANGS
The central defenders provide defensive support, actively stopping enemy attacks, recovering the ball and starting counter attacks. Better if they are fast.
The half back is a mixed role of DBI with DM, a link in the central defense line, and a water provided to the midfielders.


WING-BACKS (ATTACK)
THE SECRET AGENTS
Closing the sides on the defensive line, the wing backs provide extra protection, as the same time they will gently push the ball to the midfield. They will often change ball to the other flank if no routes open, or putting balls on attack wing players. On attacking team block moves they will also provide important crosses to the area.

BOX-TO-BOX MIDFIELDERS (ATTACK)
THE OPERATION BRAINS
After almost trying all roles to the midfield central players, Box-To-Box role seems to be the most effective to this tactic, as they will act as warriors, helping on defensive actions, on ball recovery, and, more important, to decide where to attack. With direct passing they will focus on providing fast long balls to the three forward mens, with focus on area, where the CF is waiting to score.
They will also score a lot of goals if having good finishing and long shots. Those 2 mans are the key roles in the tactic, so try to get all rounder midfields, with stable defensive and attacking attributes. You can use the common roles filters to get them. Arthur is a good one for this position.

THE TRIDENT (ATTACK)
2 INSIDE FORWARDS + 1 COMPLETE FORWARD
Those players should be fast and good finishers for improved goal scoring.
For CF, Aboubakar, Lautaro Martinez have good scoring count.
As IF, players like Brahimi, Mahrez, Corona, etc.

DOWNLOAD THE TACTIC
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Set Pieces Credits: Trowins from Knap, Corners and Freekicks from kungfu tactic.









GOAL MACHINE TACTIC SET
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Not suitable for underdogs, defensive risks

SC FaithVox 433 v4 (Goal Scoring Machine)

SC FaithVox 433 v4 Support (Less Risky)

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SC FAITH 4141

Sérgio Conceição Series @ FC Porto

Now at Football Manager 2018, a set of tactics I've been using on FM 17 with success.

The Main FM 2018 Tactic:

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DOWNLOAD TACTICS:
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The First Season Transfers:

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The League Results:
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The Fixtures:
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Player Stats:
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On January some key players forced to be transfered:*Alex Telles,*Brahimi and Corona. The replacements did very well the job: Ayala, Marega, Otávio.

OI'S

If you feel you're suffering too much goals, try do destroy enemy construction and finishing with those OI'S:

OPPOSITION INSTRUCTIONS:

WBR / WBL / MR / ML / AMR / AML / AMC / AMCL / AMCR / STC / STCL / STCR

TIGHT MARKING: ALWAYS
TACKLING: HARD

Training - Assistant Manager took care of everything is this test. If you train players to positions and choose a better training scheme things will improve for sure.

Sérgio Conceição Background:
information from outsideoftheboot.com tactical-philosophy-sergio-conceicao/
With the most successful Portuguese coaches being true scholars (the likes of José Mourinho, André Villas Boas, Leonardo Jardim or Rui Vitória never played football professionally or did with little success), Sérgio Conceição represents a new wave of coaches who were great football players and could not stay away from the pitch after the end of their careers (we could also talk about Nuno Espírito Santo, Pedro Martins, Paulo Sousa or Marco Silva, for example). Perhaps Conceição was the most successful of all. As a winger he enjoyed excellent spells at FC Porto, Parma, Lazio, Inter and Standard Liège while also being a regular in Portugal’s national team and could transport his aggressive and frontal nature as a player to his tactical philosophy, never hiding from disputing the result, even if training smaller sides and always promoting vertical and positive football. Starting as a director at PAOK and then as an assistant at Standard Liège, Conceição enjoyed his first senior coach experience at struggling Primeira Liga’s teams Olhanense and Académica, managing to attain honourable 8th place finishes with both teams while impressing for the offensive style he imposed in his teams.
Subsequently came two opportunities, coaching SC Braga and Vitória de Guimarães, two sides who desire to reach the level of Portuguese giants. His spell at Braga was a lot more successful, with a 4th place and Portuguese Cup final to prove it. After what seemed to be a pause in Sérgio’s career, a struggling Nantes, on the brink of relegation from Ligue 1 offer a mid-season job to the Portuguese coach, hoping he would make the impossible happen and save the French club. Not only did Conceição succeed in doing that, he conducted Nantes to a spectacular rise in the table, finishing in 7th place (when Sérgio arrived, the club was in 18th place), only a spot away from Europa League qualification. When all seemed bound to another Nantes season with Conceição in the lead, FC Porto appeared and signed their former player to try and win the Portuguese championship. Finally, Sérgio Conceição managed to train the club he supports in a dream job that Porto’s fans start to put high hopes in.

Tactical Philosophy

The first core principle of Conceição’s philosophy is undoubtedly his attempt to concentrate the match in the 20-30 metres in front of the opposing net, using a powerful and high-energy first line of pressure to compromise the adversary’s build-up. This high-pressure is done by the forwards and the wingers. This serves both a purpose of facilitating the creation of serious opportunities to score and to quickly start and restart the offensive process. This constitutes one of the most important defensive principles of Conceição’s philosophy.
Conceição likes to play with wingers that step into more central areas, allowing the full backs to explore more lateral areas.
It is important to highlight that Conceição’s philosophy puts more emphasis on the ball and its possession than in the pursuit of spaces. He desires to impose a build-up that goes through all sectors of the team with low passes. A common movement is the one where the no.6 drops between the centre backs to receive the ball and allow the defenders to occupy more advanced areas offering passing lines. The spotlight goes to the players that are encouraged to express themselves with the ball and thus create spaces, rather than mainly doing that with their movements without the ball. This is definitely a true reflection of the Portuguese coach’s career as a winger. This is a very risky option that can be rendered ineffective, for it depends on the players’ inspiration.

In what concerns the defence, and contrarily to what it may seem from Conceição’s offensive approach, the Portuguese manager induces in his team an almost absolute rigour in defending the net, also a reflection of his personality and training method. There is a great dependence on the success of the aforementioned line of pressure, for there a huge risk that, if this first barrier is surpassed, the antagonists gain a lot of space in the midfield to profit from almost effortlessly:
he solution to this potential problem rests in three core defensive movements that Conceição aims to sediment in his team’s mentality:
Task in defensive transitions is naturally given to the full back, who has to return to their position as quickly as they can.
Perhaps the most important aspect of Conceição’s defensive approach is the high positioning of the defensive line, near the midfield to be precise, which demands an enormous level of concentration in all the defenders and mainly the centre-backs, in order to catch the opposite attackers offside or to make sure they can’t receive the ball, due to anticipation movements; as well as the speed and intelligent positioning to compensate the full backs and each other when long balls are played behind the defensive line.


The defensive midfielder has to be designed to destroy plays and to help the centre-backs, being more of a wall rather than a playmaker. That’s why the system Conceição puts forth is more suitable to players like Danilo Pereira (Porto), Guillaume Gillet (Nantes) or Bouba Saré (Guimarães), all of them strong and tall players which impress mainly for their number of recovered balls. That is maybe why Conceição had no problems in giving up Rúben Neves to Wolverhampton, since he is a different kind of no.6 and could not offer the team the physical prowess and defensive efficiency that Danilo can.

Conceição’s philosophy is a passionate and idealistic one, as it assumes a priori an offensive, inventive, aggressive model that his team is going to present. The opposing side knows in advance what they will be facing and how to theoretically stop it and the fans already know what to expect and the ticket they pay will be worth it from their perspective. But this might not constitute, as would logically follow, a strategic disadvantage, as there is a factor that compensates this and often balances the plate in favour of Sérgio Conceição’s football proposition: the fantasy and space to individual expression that a system like his necessarily has. The Portuguese coach then cleverly complements this by instilling in his players the aggressiveness and absolute compromise towards the goals of the team: everybody attacks, everybody defends without any absence of effort. In fact, a big part of the game is now psychological and Conceição has the ability to motivate and unite the players in a way that few can, showing that no one is more important than the others and that everyone has a role to play in the team.

I'll improve information here as seasons keep going, and also the two other tactic versions for special days, when the team is not responding well.​
 
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downloaded and going to test with koln, how do you use and change the tactics?
 
downloaded and going to test with koln, how do you use and change the tactics?

Hi. The main tactic 451 is the more stable and will perform well against most of teams. I'll recomend it against most of times and against stronger teams this is the tactic.

Sometimes when we need to score more goals and things wont happen against smaller teams I'll use the 442. The 433 I use it when we need to get a result at 2nd half, against strong teams. Those tactics are a bit more risky, but can perform good results.
 
Great OP;) always like the idea of more than one tactic
 
ooh, I like the look of this one! currently on a very good 1,5 season run with TheWibe's tactic but it's getting a bit stale, might give these ones a go

quick question: i see the WM's are set up as both crossers but they also cut inside. which preferred foot on which side/does it matter at all in your experience?
 
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ooh, I like the look of this one! currently on a very good 1,5 season run with TheWibe's tactic but it's getting a bit stale, might give these ones a go

quick question: i see the WM's are set up as both crossers but they also cut inside. which preferred foot on which side/does it matter at all in your experience?

The most important is how they perform crosses, but analyzing used players, Corona and Marega as WM R use right foot as preference, and Brahimi and Otávio as WM L user left foot, so think I'll check in future if it really makes any difference.
 
The most important is how they perform crosses, but analyzing used players, Corona and Marega as WM R use right foot as preference, and Brahimi and Otávio as WM L user left foot, so think I'll check in future if it really makes any difference.

gotcha. thought so considering how they're pushed forward as wingers in the 4-3-3 version so it makes sense. i guess it's best if they're at least adept using their weaker foot as well. okay, we'll see how it goes. just won the League Cup against Spurs with Liverpool in my 2nd season as the first match using the tactic. I'll update once the season's done.
 
gotcha. thought so considering how they're pushed forward as wingers in the 4-3-3 version so it makes sense. i guess it's best if they're at least adept using their weaker foot as well. okay, we'll see how it goes. just won the League Cup against Spurs with Liverpool in my 2nd season as the first match using the tactic. I'll update once the season's done.

Hope to see your results. xD
This set of tactics was improved in FM 2017 until this set of final player roles and instructions, but surely I'm open to tweaked versions that could perform even better in FM 2018.
 
Hope to see your results. xD
This set of tactics was improved in FM 2017 until this set of final player roles and instructions, but surely I'm open to tweaked versions that could perform even better in FM 2018.

going really well so far and I like the overall approach to it, might have a new favorite in this one, hopefully i won't jinx it :p who do you take off if you get a red? one of the CM's i guess?
 
going really well so far and I like the overall approach to it, might have a new favorite in this one, hopefully i won't jinx it :p who do you take off if you get a red? one of the CM's i guess?

Yes, when getting a red card, one of the CM's is the better option to go out of game, since that way the team still have some chances on getting a reasonable/good result.
 
so, season finished.

before i get into it i have to state that i have a pretty decent squad available at Liverpool despite not being too active in the transfer market and preferring to give chances to youth, and i have built up quite a good rapport with them due to the past results with other tactics, so there's that to consider. anyhow, can't really complain. i plugged the trio in after the Spurs match underlined and went on to a satisfying run.

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bombing out against Bayern in the CL was ridiculous, we came back into the match after a 1-3 away defeat only to lose due to a ridiculous error on Karius' part (which finally convinced me I really should shell out on a beast keeper.) so it was a spectacle but we got unlucky in the end, but at least there's somewhere to improve next season. PL was pretty much in the bag before the switch and the late season results (i.e. home loss vs Bournemouth) probably show that I was playing a heavily rotated side and the players didn't really care anyway. both domestic cup finals were played and won with this tactic.

interestingly enough, Salah and Mané, two of my greatest star players, especially Salah had the best ratings of their careers so far despite not being familiar at all with the WM positions and usually not contributing anything outstanding to the match, at least what was shown in the highlights. I hope they make the positions their own soon and I'll see some amazing performances from them.
I'm considering adding shorter passing to the tactic setup among some other potential tweaks, but I'll probably stay with the 4-1-4-1 base for the forthcoming season unless something goes really wrong because this is my favorite setup I've tried in FM18. I don't really like the ME and game breaking 3-4-3's and although the 4-2-3-1 I was playing before seems somewhat more consistent from what I've seen so far, the idea of WM's who cross but also cut inside instead of pure Wingers appeals to me a lot more, and I also love having a half-back.

I'm probably going to cave in and finally go on a shopping spree and also unload deadwood I've kept around for sentimental reasons (lol) and rotate less so hopefully we can get more consistency.

Getting a bit long-winded here so I'm gonna shut up now. I like this tactic setup and I'm probably going to use solely the 4-1-4-1 and occasionally the 4-1-3-2 but avoiding the winger version because aforementioned reasons, and hopefully I'll manage to improve whatever requires improvement. thumbs up.
 
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This plays some downright sexy football for me, very very good so far
 
Nice to see you are willing to give a try to the tactic. I'm testing an alternative version of 4-1-4-1 with Look for Underlap on Team Instructions and passing set to short on player instructions of Wide Midfielders/ Midfielders and Forward. Until seems to create more chances and more goals. A slight different approach but mid/attack seems more efficient. I'll give info soon.
 
You got to be willing to give a tactic time to bed in. Too many people bin a tactic as no good after 5 or 6 games is ridiculous.

I have come away from the tactic for now to try and save me season as I really don't want to get relegated. My team is just so out of it's depth in the prem.
 
I'm running season 3 with a somewhat modified version of the 4-1-4-1, I tried to add some bits and pieces I found useful from the previous tactic I used without compromising this one's approach as described in the OP. going really well so far, if it keeps going and anyone is interested I'll post what changes I made.

EDIT: actually it went haywire right after I posted this so nah, no good. the original is still the best.
 
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I'm running season 3 with a somewhat modified version of the 4-1-4-1, I tried to add some bits and pieces I found useful from the previous tactic I used without compromising this one's approach as described in the OP. going really well so far, if it keeps going and anyone is interested I'll post what changes I made.
Yes it would be good if you could post the changes you made
 
This tactic deserves more credit, I am Burnely (Baring in mind I am 4 seasons in), but I am currently sitting first in the Prem. Last season I finished 3rd as well.

The first two seasons I finished 7th and then 5th. For those seasons I was using the Wibe's 4231.

But this is playing very good football for me. Only negative is that sometimes it does concede a few.

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At the beginning of the season, I almsot changed tactics due to conceding 10 goals in the first 3 games, and then drawing 4-4 with Southampton and getting knocked out of the cup on Penalties. But I am glad I have stuck with it because in the league I haven't lost a game in 18 games, and for some of those I've had my first choice striker out injured.
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