What is Team Mentality?
Team Mentality is a style of play for your squad to play passive or aggressive during the match. There are 5 types of Team Mentality:
- Hard Defending: If you adopt this mentality, your team will start from a very deep position. Initially, while attacking, all of your players will be in your own half, passing the ball and moving up the field. Then while you are defending against an opponent, all your players will be in your own half and they will try to intercept the ball and hit the opponent on the counter-attack.
- Defending: If you play this mentality, your team will be slightly high on the pitch. While defending, your Forwards will try to win the ball from the opponent’s midfield and will try to hit the opponent on a counter.
- Normal: In normal mentality, our forward will stay higher up on the opposition half but our defenders will hold on to our own half of the pitch. Midfielders will play on both halves of the field.
- Attacking: In this mentality, while we have the ball possession our back-line will be slightly high and our Defensive fullback will cross the own half line to support the attack.
- Hard Attacking: In this mentality, if we have possession of the ball we will start passing from the opponent’s half and the defensive player will support in attack.
What is focus passing?
Focus passing is the situation when we have ball possession, we will play that ball on that part of the field. We have 5 options for focus passing:
- Mixed: If we adopt this tactic, we will play the ball on every part of the pitch.
- Down both flanks: In down both the flanks, you will play the ball on both the left and right sides of the field to create chances.
- Right flank: It means you will play the ball on the right flank to create chances.
- Left Flank: It means you will play the ball on the left flank to create chances.
- Through the middle: If you apply this tactic, you will play and pass the ball through the center of the field.
Why and when to use Force Counterattacks?
Force Counterattack is a tactic that allows you to counter your opponent while they are attacking your defense.
Turn ON if your opponent is having more possession on the stat.
Turn OFF if you have more possession.
What is Pressing Style?
A tactic to press the opponent high up the pitch or lower the pitch. If we press the opponent high up, your player will try to win the ball on the opponent’s half and press the opponent’s whole pitch. The high press will make your player tired fast by spending the energy of the players. The low press will press the opponent and try to win the ball when the ball is on your own half, it is not as tiring as high press.
Define Tackling Style?
This means how much you can be aggressive during defense while in the match. Easy tackle will produce less tackle and will have less number of fouls during the match. Normal tackle means slightly aggressive and will produce more tackles and fouls during the match. Hard tackle means full aggressive defense which will produce more tackle and fouls. Fouls will give the opponent the chance to score goals from free-kicks and penalties.
Difference between zonal marking and man-on-man marking.
Zonal marking means the player will have to stay in the same position of the formation you choose for your squad.
Man-on-man marking means your player will mark the opponent’s attackers and the formation will be fluid according to the opponent’s attackers. Man-on-man marking will make our defenders fatigue soon.
How to play offside trap?
Offside trap will try to make offside for the opponent’s attackers. Turn this ON if the opponent is playing more long balls to their attackers and turn this off if the opponent is playing short passes.
