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4-3-3 Role Guide: Attack and Midfield

4-3-3 Role Guide: Attack and Midfield

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Only a few years ago, under Arsene Wenger, Arsenal was playing some of the most attractive football in Premiership. Over the course of his long stay, the visionary Frenchman changed the club DNA significantly. The Gunners went from playing boring park-the-bus to fast-paced short passing possession game. Before Pep’s Manchester City, there was Arsenal’s elegant Tiki-Taka-style that was making waves in England. Wenger turned English football on its head with his brand of attractive football that focused on technical ability…

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Inter the Game – Loading…. Football Manager 20.

Inter the Game – Loading…. Football Manager 20.

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Inter the Game is a brand new Football Manager 20 save and a new story from FM Brooklyn. This new FM20 story will see my alter ego Gianni Rosabosa take charge of Italian Serie A side Inter Milan. The Football Manager is revealed We join Gianni in his opening press conference. **Click click, click click** Camera shutters are making a the clicking noise. Gianni Rosabosa is sat in the middle chair behind the conference table at the Suning Training Centre,…

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Young Devils – Samba United and The Magic Box

Young Devils – Samba United and The Magic Box

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There are two ways to creating tactics in Football Manager 2020. One that most FM players, myself included, use is to start with an idea of what kind of tactical style you want to achieve. Then look at your team and try to mold your players into the roles that fit such a style. Sometimes this can work very well, especially when starting with a squad that worked under such a system before. For example it will be easier to…

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Making Pulis Proud – The No-Nonsense Full-back in FM20

Making Pulis Proud – The No-Nonsense Full-back in FM20

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The no-nonsense full-back might not be the player role in FM20 that get’s many plaudits but it is one that can be a complete gamechanger. I find it often will be overlooked for more attractive roles like the Anchorman or even Targetman. Here at Dictate the Game there are a few of us that worship at the altar of hoofball. You can hear us wax lyrical about it on the podcast quite often. Some of us are more inspired by…

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Taking on the World | FM20 Story | #1

Taking on the World | FM20 Story | #1

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Welcome to a brand new Football Manager 2020 story called ‘Taking on the World’. This FM20 story is a classic journeyman save as we attempt to travel around the world and ticking off as many countries as we can. The aim of this FM20 story is not to stay at the same club for more than one full season. I am not allowed to accept a job offer from another club in the same country if I am already managing…

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David Moyes as West Ham Manager| FM20 Experiment

David Moyes as West Ham Manager| FM20 Experiment

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After just a season and half, Manuel Pellergini was fired as the West Ham United manager in December 2019, due to poor form and The Hammers slipping down the league table. On the 29th December 2019, the manager that Pellergini succeeded then replaced him as David Moyes returned to Stratford on an 18 month contract. Moyes is best known for his spell at Everton where he spent thirteen seasons and led them to European football. He was unable to win…

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Red Star Alliance: The Revolution Begins

Red Star Alliance: The Revolution Begins

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COUNTER-ATTACKING CORPORATE FOOTBALLFootball is no stranger to commercialism but corporate interests have slowly taken over the game, and in some cases, taken over our clubs. We now find ourselves in an era of ridiculous transfer fees, wage bills, and other escalating costs that are ultimately passed onto the fans.  In some cases, the fans have taken it upon themselves and established community-owned clubs run by supporters trusts as an alternative to the City Groups, PSG, Man United, and Red Bulls of…

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FM20 Tactical Planning
Three in One Tactical Planning – Colours of the Flag

Three in One Tactical Planning – Colours of the Flag

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Welcome to Three in One Tactical Planning, part of the Colours of the Flag series which will be running on Dictate the Game, in this post we will be looking at how in Football Manager 2020 you can create three tactics, all to aid and work together to get you the points needed in this virtual world of FM20. Don’t forget to head over to other posts on the website after you have enjoyed this Three in One Tactical Planning…

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Young Devils – Total Football DNA and Two Johans

Young Devils – Total Football DNA and Two Johans

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Or how to use Club DNA to keep your FM20 save interesting The influence of Total Football has been far-reaching in both time and place. Since its dramatic entry into the world in 1974 it changed the face of the sport as we know it. Marcelo Bielsa, Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola were all influenced by Johan Cruyff and Rinus Michels in 1970s Netherlands. If not for them, Spanish Tiki-Taka would not have existed. In this followup to my last…

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Recreating Total Football in FM20

Recreating Total Football in FM20

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Is it Possible in a Football Manager Game? 1974. To some football enthusiasts (and Ajax fans), this was the year when football reached its apotheosis as a sport. The highest point in the development of the beautiful game, when it was the closest it would ever be to an art-form. Some would even argue that the game has been on the downturn ever since, as the sport gets more and more violent and mechanical and VAR discussions dominate the media….

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