

I've used 3-3-1-3 to devastating effect with this sized pitch in the past. 3-5-2 works well here by flooding the midfield with your players and still being able to support your defence down the wings with your wide players who will expend less of their precious energy running up and down a small field. Lesser skilled teams are advised to play slow build up play in order to better control the ball.įormations best suited to a small pitch are tight and compact ones that control the key areas of the pitch. Tempo is up to you and the skill of your players, a good team will be able to play this style at a fast tempo with little danger of losing the ball in key areas of the pitch. Using shouts to encourage your players to play out from defence, pass their way into the opposition box, control the ball and otherwise frustrate the opposition by closing them down are key to making this work.

It also works well for lower league teams or young teams who suffer from exhaustion easily as there is less running room overall. Your players will require high levels of technique, first touch abilities, dribbling skills and passing accuracy. Small pitches are very useful for teams who like to control the ball with short passing play.
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However these are just my opinions and I've been wrong on at least four occasions in my life so please feel free to draw your own conclusions through experimentation or stubbornness. Using a variety of sources: t'internet, my own saves, common sense and outside of the box thinking I was able to draw some conclusions on how making the ground staff work for you can help your team to dominate at home. Why would they put it in as an option if there wasn't a benefit to it? So I thought some more and after a few days rest to get over the trauma I decided to look into the possibilities an option like this gives a club. It was one of those options each season that I simply clicked to get rid of figuring that if I leave it as it is then my virtual players will feel right at home with their virtual pitch being the same size as it always has been in their virtual memories.īut then I got to thinking (a rare if not miraculous occurrence for me). There is one thing I never really bothered with in previous releases of Football Manager Pitch size.
