Tailor made for Aston Villa

This recent thing i am working on. I start a game with a team, and try to make a tactic which suites the players already in the team.

Aston Villa is my first team, what i did with Aston Villa was try to make a tactics which resembles the real life tactic used by Martin. Also i did try to make a tactic which is defensively solid. The result is a 433 or a 451 or a 4321 formation.

The team is set to play a normal paced, short passing attacking game.

The defensive unit is flat back four, plus a defensively minded center Midfielder, with a barrow. The fullbacks have forward runs and their mentality set to Normal. This unit work pretty well against team with lower and same quality of players as Villa. Against teams with very good winger or wide midfielders, the tactic does has defensive problems. Mostly due to the crosses and through passes from the opposition players in the wide areas. I did try to solve this problem with farrows for the fullbacks, but this made the problem even worse. So i created another version of this tactics, to be used against teams with quality wide players.

The midfield three of this tactic play a very important role in both defense and attack. As i mentioned above, the middle center midfielder has defensive instructions. He will try to breakup the opposition attacks through the middle and will fit into make a back 5, when the opposition has the ball in your wide area. The other two center midfielders have attacking instructions, with forward runs set to often. They will support the 'three strikers' through the middle.

The two wide wingers/strikers have very attacking instructions and are key to the attacking play. The center striker has normal striker instructions.

The away tactic has borrows for the two wingers/strikers. As well as changes to the team mentality, passing and pace of the game. The team is set to play a much faster, direct passing game.

The use of barrows for the two wingers/striker means the team is more solid defensively. Also to make the tactic more solid, i changed the instruction of one of the center midfielder to a bit more defensive.

I changed the corner and free kick instruction to suite the players in the Villa team. And generally works well.

Download the Villa tactic and the Villa away tactic.