PRESTO - 2nd with West Ham - no transfers

This tactic is loosely inspired by the French national team of the '80s with their midfield known as le carre magique (the magic square). That's why I named it Presto. France in the '80s played beautiful football. Not always effective, but always entertaining to watch. The midfield diamond I have tried to recreate have the Genghini/Fernandez role as regista, Tigana role as box-to-box, Giresse role as central midfielder on attack duty, and Platini role as Trequartista.



This tactic is far from perfect. As you can see in the attached screenshots below I had several losses, and I conceded lots of goals. But remember this is West Ham. I have tried several of the most successful tactics on FM-Base on earlier West Ham saves, but never made it to any better than 5th place before I started with this tactic. I believe it will be even better with better players/teams.

For training I used balanced average in season (after the tactic was fluid), with 30% attacking movement.

If you see better results from Mid-January onwards it's because I made some defensive tweaks at that time.

At times it is a joy to watch, as it will produce some very good passing moves. Hope somebody will try the tactic and have as much fun watching it as I did.




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