Early days but quite well so far. Scoring a lot, conceding a lot too. Posted my formation and team instructionsup in the
FM24 thread recently.
Only playing at a very low level too so it might not translate to the highest levels. I'm Merthyr Town in the 7th tier of England, currently sitting 2nd after 12 games or so in their division. Making it doubly hard on myself by only signing Welsh players as that's where they're based. I've no connection with Wales, just my strange idea of fun!
Always going to be difficult to not concede with no players in the defensive midfield strata, just the 2 central midfielders. I've gone a little bit Pulis-like with the approach rather than Sir Alex Ferguson. Got a big target man leading the line, a pressing forward playing slightly behind him in the spaces putting in a lot of work rate, passing as direct as possible, width as wide as possible which leaves me open to the counter but I want the wingers to do their thing! Concentrating play down the wings, very high tempo too. Even got no nonsense centre backs in there.
I'm pressing like mad with a high line without the ball, that seems to be the go to no matter what formation you set up with in FM rather than dropping deep and countering which would be true Pulis-ball.
I've seen tactics in a pseduo 4-4-2 with traditional wingers before that I know work very well. Quite often I downlaod tactics that other people have made but I'm a bit sick of that as it makes it too easy. It uses 2 defensive midfielders rather than central midfielders but they've kind of fudged it. It's with 2 Segundo Volantes which are the most attack-minded defensive midfielders there are so they are almost central midfielders. Like I said, staying away from all that now, but in case you wanted to take a look -
here.
Best keep FM talk to the FM thread from now on or I'll get in trouble!