FM 2012 TACTICS & TRAINING

Football Manager 2012 Tactics & Training - Dear readers, assuredly you can analysis my FM 2012 approach acclimated FC Barcelona story. Pay absorption that account of appropriate approaches and the download articulation are amid in the end of the post.

The Formation

The formation that I chose is not really identical to the real-life Barcelona, the main difference is that I don’t use a defensive midfielder like Guardiola does and that the wide strikers have a more central position in my tactic. You can see the roles and mentalities for each player in the screen shot below so I guess going into details is not necessary. Well, maybe just a quick run-down: sweeper keeper, full backs, central defenders, 2 box to box midfielders, one deep lying playmaker, 2 defensive forwards and one trequartista.

The Team Instructions

As you can notice from the image below the team has a fluid philosophy and an attacking starting strategy, it plays the offside trap along with a high defensive line and the players have to use short passing, press their opponents and use their imagination The central deep-lying midfielder is designed as the team playmaker.

Tactical Analysis

The average positions screen shows a bit more about the players movement during a game, the most important aspect for me is that the team stays compact both on and off the ball.

And that takes me to my favourite shape in football: triangles! When I watch a game I always look for triangles and that is because if three of your players are forming a triangle with reasonably-sized sides then they will have a much easier task in taking out an opponent through short passing.

Here are the download links:

- Attacking Version -

- Counter Version -

Football Manager 2012 Training Schedules Maestro Ugo’s

Senior schedules:

MU – GK: for keepers

MU – FB: for fullbacks

MU – WB: for wingbacks

MU – DC: for central defenders

MU – DM: for defensive midfielders and defence oriented MCs

MU – AM: for attacking midfielders and attack oriented MCs

MU – WG: for wingers

MU – ST(fast): for fast, poaching type strikers

MU – ST(strng): for strong, target man type strikers

Youth schedules:

MU – Y (gk) – for young keepers

MU – Y (def) – for young defensively oriented players (DC, FB, DM)

MU – Y (wng) – for young wingers and wingbacks (AMRL, WB)

MU – Y (att) – for young attacking oriented players (ST, AMC)

You can find more information and download Maestro Ugo’s training schedule by clicking here.

After downloading the files you have to place them in the Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2012 > tactics folder and then you will be able to find them in the game tactics screen under “archived tactics”.