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Month: November 2020

The Beauty of Focus Play: Creating Overloads in FM21

The Beauty of Focus Play: Creating Overloads in FM21

The following article is Part 1 in a multi-part series of guides on developing Possession-focused tactic in FM21. It is inspired by Pep Guardiola’s style but is not meant to be an accurate recreation of Pep’s tactics. Instead the tactic in this guide is largely inspired by Total Football and continues my quest to bring this style in all of its beauty to Football Manager games. Read on if you love Total Football and would love to see how it…

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Last Chance: Loïc Pelley | FM21

Last Chance: Loïc Pelley | FM21

Last Chance: Loïc Pelley is a fictional story through the Football Manager world. You may remember our series Mega Project, where we followed Mason Bradshaw around the globe at various clubs. This Loïc Pelley FM21 story will be incorporating a narrative, guides and tips on how Loïc manages his life and club. This is a Football Manager 2021 journey not to be missed, and don’t forget, it’s access all areas so you will see what it’s really like to manage…

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Manchester United Club Guide

Manchester United Club Guide

Are you ready for a real “Sleeping giant” challenge? If the answer is yes, you’ve certainly come to the right place. A club with a great legacy, perhaps to the extent of it becoming a burden. Struggling to find a new identity to get back to winning ways, but equipped both with finances and facilities to turn things around. Welcome to this Manchester United club guide.

Non-League Legends: Magpies Take Flight

Non-League Legends: Magpies Take Flight

As you might remember last season, I extensively covered Total Football. Naturally, writing about highly technical, possession-focused system, inspired some complicated tactics. And the teams I tested with, while not world-beaters, were mostly in the higher end of the league pyramid. Leading an elite club has its challenges of course and winning any trophy is never a sure thing. Not even when you’re the top club in the country. With Lower League Management (LLM) the challenge becomes rather different in…

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Transfer Window Winners: FM21 Wonderkids

Transfer Window Winners: FM21 Wonderkids

The transfer window is, for any football fan, the most exciting time of year. Multi-million pound deals. Sometimes, it is superstars swapping cities in the hunt for glory and trophies. Sometimes, it is the next generation of talent making waves. These are the Wonderkids. The players that every Football Manager player wants to track down and develop. We spend hours every year developing the finest young talent, before PSG swoop in and pinch them: usually to sit on the bench….

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Setting up a save in FM21

Setting up a save in FM21

So you decided the time is right to give Football Manager 2021 a try. Welcome aboard! When it comes to setting up a save in FM21, new players want to know the basics for setting up to play smoothly. That’s what this article is about, aiming to show you around setting up the game so it is suited to how you enjoy the game.

No One Likes Us | Part 2 | Defensive 4-4-2

No One Likes Us | Part 2 | Defensive 4-4-2

Welcome back to “No One Likes Us”, if you haven’t read Part 1 you can find it here. We’ve had a decent start to our Championship season, and we’ve almost reached the January window. In this post I’ll outline the tactic I’ve settled on, a defensive 4-4-2, and explain the instructions and roles I’ve selected.

A guide to xG in FM21

A guide to xG in FM21

xG in FM21 was the feature many of us nerds were waiting for. Here at DTG we’ve been messing around with manually adding stats like xG, xG against, xA and even received pass position since FM19. You can imagine our joy when we realised that with xG in FM21 we wouldn’t have to do this by hand anymore. After all it is an increasingly important statistic used by football clubs across the globe to improve their tactics and inform their…

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