Emulating Tony Pulis

Well boys, I present to you an idea of a tactic. If you want to get MAXIMUM points if you are a mid-table/relegation team, you should take a look at this. As I understand, Tony Pulis likes to play a RIGID type of play. While he does love his DEFENSIVE game, I think it is much more safer to use COUNTER.


I would think that Pulis loves to play with 2 different kinds of CBs. One that hoofs the ball to the box, and the other who picks up the ball and that is that.

The FULL BACKS are on support. I have never seen a Maicon-esque FB playing for Pulis' team(s).
BOTH midfielders are BOX-TO-BOX as they both need to support the attack and get back on defense for this tactic to work.
A SHADOW STRIKER is a helping hand for the Target Man. The Target Man flicks the ball back to him, and simple...GOAL. He also gets back on defense.
A TARGET MAN on attack just stands there and chest down the ball for his teammates to take a shot at goal.
The THROW-INS in the SET PIECES menu should be to set to long. If you have a player with at least 13 Long Throws, set his PPM training to "long flat bullet throws". If you have a player with less than 13 Long Throws, TRAIN THE ONE THAT HAS THE HIGHEST LONG THROWS his long throws.

So, try it out. If you made any adjustments, please reply and share :)

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