![]() Something like that… my philosophy is dodgy at best, don’t judge.Īrteta joined Arsenal as a player in 2011 as part of the panic buys post 8-2. The evolution of football tactics has always been a dialectic process, a sort of Kuhn’s paradigm cycle were the principles of the existing set of ideas can be pushed and challenged and then the paradigm shifts. Even Pep Guardiola, the genius that revolutionized football barely 10 years ago has been questioned to be any longer at the forefront of the tactical battle. As The Athletic’s Michael Cox pointed out in his recent analysis of the match between Atlético de Madrid and RB Leipzig, it can sometimes feel like teams playing more conventional formations and tactics are playing a style of game from a by-gone era. With ever increasing speed, a new breed of young managers have been taking the possibilities within the game to new-found heights. Personally I feel we’re living in a tactics golden age, or are close to one. However, doesn’t it make sense that the ME for a football simulator mimics reality? Whilst hardly with that level of consistency, how likely is it to find that any side playing a sort of modern and attractive football is using some sort of 4-3-3 with a focus on pressing and possession based football? To change the focus of the matter, should we ever get FM(19)30s, would we be shocked to find the most succesful style was the WM? When earlier this month SI released the player’s statistics for this iteration of the game, there was little surprise when it was found that the most popular tactic and formation was the 4-2-3-1 Gegenpress. A random FM player traying to resist pressing that “Counter-press” button on the tactics screen…
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