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With Valencia running past Mata on the right wing, it also made more sense for Shaw to be a Full Back on Support just to remain more compact and less exposed.įellaini has kept it simple this season and has been tasked with winning the ball and laying it off to more creative players such as Mata and now Pogba. This season however, Shaw has played more of a ‘support’ role as Martial tends to run at his man and beat him without the help of a player bombing forward. Last season Shaw tended to bomb forward far more due to Memphis’s tendency to hold onto the ball and rely on the full back to created space for him to go into. The other players are fairly simple to explain. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – JANUARY 02 (Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images) For the sake of his movement however, he’ll remain a right footed left midfielder. It’s for this reason that the LM position will be as a ‘Winger- Attack’ as you can always teach the player a ‘preferred move’ of cutting inside from the left wing if need be. However, to play more like Mourinho’s Manchester United, it’s important to make sure you’re LM is a right footed winger as, just like Martial, he will be expected to be capable of finishing more often than a left footed LM would be.

This suites the formation perfectly as there’s no Inside Forward position on the LM. However, it appears this season that Mourinho’s asked Martial not to cut in as often as he did last season and to instead stay a little wider, take his man on to get to the byline and cross. On the left wing we’ve seen Martial also play deeper and defend more than he was last season it’s only when the team has the ball that he is allowed to push on. Kevin Trapp to Manchester United latest transfer updateĪnother example is the other flank.Manchester United still interested in Inter Milan star.Manchester United on verge of making £84 million signing.Manchester United target keen on Old Trafford move.Manchester United have agreed personal terms with player.Typically you’d play Mata as an Advanced Playmaker but due to Mourinho’s tactics and formation it makes more sense for his role to be as a Wide Playmaker in Football Manager terms, simply because the Wide Playmaker defends more than the Advanced Playmaker does. For example, Mourinho has asked Mata to be a playmaker on the right wing yet to also defend when the team hasn’t got the ball. Another reason for the formation is the actual player roles involved. The advantage of a 4-4-1-1 formation is that unlike the 4-2-3-1 formation it doesn’t get exposed as frequently and isn’t so easily counter-attacked against. It appears that the most suitable formation for this is the 4-4-1-1, not only because the players appear to suit their roles best in this formation but also because it’s compact when defending and changes into a more attacking formation when the team has the ball it becomes more of a 4-2-3-1. (Warning: This article is full of tactical/positional terms and references from the Football Manager 2016 game.)

For all the Football Manager players out there, let’s convert his methods into the terms of the most popular football management simulation. Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United team already looks far more capable of challenging for titles than Moyes and Van Gaal’s teams did. By Marwan Harraz 6 years ago Follow Tweet