"Who uses underlaps?" *Me looking around laughing nervously*

Can we do a video on looking at an opponents scouting report and how to use it when tweaking our tactic?

You know for 11:20 you can click the white arrow above that menu next to "Distribute to area/player" and it will put down a box of all your players and you can choose who you want it distributed to.

6:15 if your coach started to limit his number of touches to 2/3 max in training, he would naturally start to develop his ability to pass and retain possession as a team. It’s a common trait for young players to have and this simple tactic works wonders.

These are all my tactics in a nutshell😂

This man is literally FM Jesus saving us from our mistakes and sins. He may not even realize 😭

About the ball distribution: not everyone actually know about that the keeper can distribute the ball to a CERTAIN player. Just click the arrow near the sign and choose any player you want

Alternative title: Zealand takes the time to read tactic instructions because you're too impatient.

Hey Zealand you should do a rate my save series for people who feel like they’ve overachieved, you could give them a letter rating and tell them what they could be doing better

Thanks man. I started playing this game again after 5 years and found out this game is more complicated than before. This explanation helps 👍🏼

The intros get better and better. When is Zealand winning his Oscar?

it's amazing how your videos are extremely funny, engaging and informative at the same time!!! Best FM channel without any doubt!

Literally just figured out that turning off overlap makes my newly promoted Premier League side better, when it was so good in the Championship with that selected, but hadn't worked out why. This makes a lot of sense now!

Watching these videos is like doing a coaching badge course😂 love the videos man the intros are just getting better and better @Zealand

For those who plays with a single striker in the front (4x3x3, 4x2x3x1, etc) the right/left overlaps are very useful to maximize crosses through the flanks, especially if you play with wingers... if you have a striker with good heading ability, he will score lots of goals.

Watching this a few weeks ago and seeing that I was making an error with 'look for overlaps' may well have helped me win my first Premier League and first Champions League titles with York City, in the same year, after an insane second half of the season. You. Hero.

This is VERY helpful, especially the last part about “GK distribution short”, I like to play pressing and only use very fast DCs (only 15+ pace, to cover on counters) and most often they are not “heading monsters”, so I am lacking heading in defence. I played my local club for 15 years, in the year 2035 both my DCs are pace: 19, but a bit shorter for defenders (1.80m~). I had that crap always turned on... I will try to turn off “prevent short distribution” now to increase the chance to break up opponents early, it could really make a difference, if not I will continue to “pray to the FM gods” to finally bring a Champions league trophy to Bosnia (lost the final in 2034/35).

Just brought my first pc in 10 years with football manager the game in mind, your video's have helped me out so much

Hey mate! As always amazing balance of quality of information and funny dumb stuff. This channel deserves much more subs, I will at least share with all my FM playing friends. Thanks for all the info!

Love the start of the video hahah I really like having 2 attacking fullbacks and then I always set instructions to overlap even though I don't fully know what that means

In my Rennes save, i was playing a gegenpress tactic, but towards the end of the first year my team started losing a decent amount. I switched to a control possesion tactic and it worked, so that's what I've been running the whole second season, and my team is doing better. We even beat PSG in a game! I mean, my players are also better, but still.

Football Manager 2020 is my first one and some of these blew my mind. Great video 👌🏻

The intros get me every time. Great Job keep it up

dude you just saved my ass so hard this season might be where i finally win the league instead of being second with 1 point difference to first

This was really helpful, I’ve just switched to distribute to playmaker and the next match he he had the best pass stats and pass received stats in the game, also came out with a few key passes and an assist!

Very useful video as always...i have realised i was actually making all those mistakes. Thanks a lot. Will you please make another video elaborating the other team instructions like 'passing directness', how does 'expressive' and 'disciplined' buttons do and so on? I will be looking forward to more FM20 videos from you.

I feel the game really has a few things you need to ask yourself and the rest is luxury -Work Ball off/on (good for single striker systems where the striker is average or less, as well as offensive players with decent composure, this would be 12 in top divisions) -Play out off/on (good for DM systems as well as defensive players with good composure, 12 in top divisions) -Shorter passing or Direct (How quickly ball travels from Sector to sector DEF -> MID -> ATT, if your midfield have bad mentals, long passing is preferable, if your midfield is smart, short passing is preferable, this factor is dependent on the size of your midfield, Bare in mind certain roles count towards midfield such as F9 or IWB, less midfielders mean less importance on this) -Higher Tempo or Lower (How quickly ball travels between players, Higher tempo tends to (key word *tends*) aid offensive play, but leads to more mistakes, lower tempo allows for better control at the cost of greater quality chances, this really depends on a lot of factors really (team quality, the passing distances, the formation, the opposing formation) and is one of the instructions which needs to be changed game by game, good rule of thumb is use the tempo that suits players strengths. Pace, Anticipation and Decisions suit quicker tempo. Composure, Technical attributes, i.e passing and Balance suit lower tempo) Be more disciplined or Expressive or leave be (stronger defence weaker attack, Be more disciplined vice versa for expressive) Counter Press off/on (requires the attributes disciplined in the pressing section of training, and intelligent quick defenders help) Counter Attack off/on (needs multiple players actively making runs forward to be successful, offensive formations or multiple attack duties will suffice, or a huge amount of support duties if coupled with higher tempo can also be effective) the othere like hold position and regroup are for when you want to protect a lead otherwise long term they are not very useful instructions -Offside trap off/on (how smart are your CBs, works best against direct teams) -Higher line of engagement (this should be standard or higher, only lower for protecting leads, good for pinning teams back, but if a team is parking, try and lower it to create space, aids pressing systems) higher defensive line or lower (how fast are your CBs or how intelligent, Off trap is for when you have slow intelligent CBs but want a higher line, otherwise lower it, if your CBs are fast yet dumb, then increase the line but turnoff OFF trap) -High Pressing intensity or Lower (Pressing intensity is like tempo, depends on many factors, usually though, Direct teams, you should lower the pressing, but theres also the concept of if your team works hard enough and the opponest has bad composure, then press might be favourable, other things to consider are that if you press, the forced long passes might be going straight to the opponents strikers and not pressing might be allowing a free buildup, all in all this is the hardest decision next to tempo) -Get stuck off/on, stay on feet is also really conditional, its good for when the opponent is athletically superior but never thought it was good long term unless you have a bunch of 38year olds

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Exact same, I used to use, "work the ball" into the box for every previous FM I've played. It seemed to prevent them blasting from range, and instead made the players get the ball into the box before shooting, (used to switch to pump ball into box if was running out of time or playing with a target man) however I quickly realised in this one, they were literally just passing the ball around the edge of the penalty area, so frustrating, lol. Since taking it off, in this game, ave since scored sum amazing long range shots, even with my 2 star youngest when trying to get them game time, they've wowed me wiv sum stunners.

I'm a simple man I see Zealand uploaded a new video I immediately stop studying and go watch it.

That intro just summed up all my fm 20 tactics.

Man, I wish I had a channel like this to fall back on when I was starting out on Champ Manager!

So glad I found your channel, informative and hilarious 😂

u are a god of football manager content. keep them coming mate. love them. 😁

"Work the ball into the box" was basically mandatory in earlier FMs. The match engine handles it much better now, but if you took it off the last couple of FMs, then your midfielders would just smash the ball at goal from 40 yards out, whether you had selected "shoot less" or not, they just smashed away.

never been too early 😂😂 "I'll be damned"

As always great examples very incitefull information given can't wait to try this later in my Bournemouth save thanks Zealand

This is super helpful, thank you.

Hey Zealand, love your uploads. You're one of only two FM content creators that I actually enjoy watching (you can guess the other). Would you be able to make a similar video for player instructions? I am finding that certain instructions that worked really well on previous installments aren't working well on FM20.

Good vid, didnt really think about prevent gk distribution in that way so that was helpful. Also to answer your question, I did an arsenal save and I had an advanced playmaker in the midfield and would sometimes put for the playmaker to receive and it would go to him...

Work the ball into box is "Play patiently" in the German translation which fits way better imo

Thanks for this, works for FM 2019 as well. I had underlaps and overlaps switched on and tempo to max, form was a bit patchy and my team would lose games that they should be winning, so I dropped the tempo to low, turned all the overlaps and underlaps off and switched to pass to play maker and went on a 10 game unbeaten run, even managed to hold out in a game against a massively O.P. Man City side to take it to penalties in the league cup final (we lost sadly), where as before I'm convinced we'd have been absolutely destroyed!

This really helped me. Thank's bro.

OMG work the ball in the box and look for overlaps have been stifling me .....thanks a million

This is a good video. Very useful!

Great video, do more of these were you explain what certain tactical chances mean or do

Thank you! Some good info there.

Thanks Zealand, these are great tips.

The Legend !!! Saving us all haha

Great video !

In my York City save my AP in CM on Attack drops back to receive the ball from the goal keeper and defence. He ended up putting up a 7.3 in all competitions with very few goals and assists. His passing and dribbling numbers were very good.

hi, i live in brazil and i am learning a lot with you, both with english and with fm

Top video man love them all but this one life saver 😂😂😂😂😂

This is probably your best video

that intro was a thing of beauty

That intro is perfect!

Zealand you absolute beautiful bastard. Couldn’t work out all season why my Ipswich team was struggling to break weaker teams down at home. Worked out from this that it was because overlaps on and my two pacy direct wingers were constantly waiting to bring my less than dangerous wing backs into the game. 5 clear cut chances (most all season) and a 3 nil win against Wigan at home. Hoping it’s not a one off.

Great great great video, explained so much

Another recommendation that I have that is that if you’re a weaker team with fast enough centerbacks defend compactly Meaning pull the striker back while the defenders play high It’ll help a lot with long shots and not letting the other team getting balls trough your defensive line

Make more videos, you're videos really making me enjoy the game alot more

I actually didn't know about the overlap thing but luckily my tactic was helped by them

Great vid. Thx

Always amazing!

Good video. I think another good idea would be to go over the tactics screen and give a quick thought on how you would play with each option

his intros always amazing

Thank you for giving me good tips

Amazing. You are not dumb. What a video.

Best intros on youtube!

Class video. Respect Zealand. :)

good lad might start enjoying the game now cheers

Very useful video.

i was stoped playing Managering ?! games for a while, returned back with fm19, 20 soon to be 21 (go steam go :P) Your video enlightned me realy, and help me alot for now. I was always sensing something off with my team, even while i am at the wining side. Thanks again, now i can start over :D

I almost always play with two playmakers next to each other, one defensive one advanced with ball winning midfielder behind them, and it worked for me most of the teams i played. Maybe sometimes a box to box midfieldier instead of advanced playmaker, depends on the team.

Most entertaining Fm youtuber in the world!!!!

In the end, it's all dependent on the team you're managing. For example, prevent short GK distribution is working wonders for me, due to the fact that the enemy GK is forced to either kick it long, or kick it out of play, and when kicking it long, the stats show that my team has won a large majority of the headers in midfield. Also, use tighter marking is something I liked before, but now I prefer to just add it as an individual instruction to players, instead of a team instruction.

11:37 I did have an AP(A) in CM with distribute to playmaker on and he actually came short for the ball but then he had to dribble around 7 guys so I turned it off

In regards to the overlap instruction, older FM's used to say "look for overlap" on it. Don't know why that was changed.

Always a like just after his great intros :)

i love your videos bro xx

Great work as usual, although it really does not speak well of SI that so many of these misconceptions exist.

You should make a video on things we don’t _have_ to do in FM. For new people to the game, like me, although there are many tutorials on how to do things, it still is overwhelming. It would be helpful to have a video on some things we can set aside and delegate without it having a big impact on the team so that it is easier to get into the game at first

I generally only have look for overlap on if my full backs have a higher cross stat than my wingers.

I love this channel

If you're not preventing short gk distribution in team instructions, it's also worth selecting to never close down the keeper in the opposition instructions section. This seems to reduce the number of times that a striker will go pointlessly chasing after the ball by himself to pull the whole team out of shape. However, if you're chasing a game and the opposition is time wasting you probably want to switch it back on.

14:11 u know, I've just realized recently that there's that "Ask Assistant" button, i used to go to each one "Chat" logo, sees what they say, put them on, lmao I'm glad I've found the button to automatically do it

I swear halfway through my first season, Maximan and Zaracho have gained sentience and chosen to ignore look for my look for overlap instructions because they realised my fullbacks are crap, thank god they did, mid table hype!

This Work the ball matches so much with how barca used to play under valverde and setien

11:18 i believe there is a trait for "comes deep to get the ball" or sth to make CM's to get the ball from deep?

Look for Overlap/Underlap is extremely useful to overload the flank (overlap) or midfield (underlap). keep using it if your winger is a playmaker or you expect your winger to be heavily involved in the build-up.

A+ video.

thanks for the nice info

We need more like this

Zealand throws a crazy party after that beat started, woke up with a headache after it.

To be fair, I’ve been using look for overlaps on the right side, as my AMR is an attacking playmaker and doesn’t go to the touchline, but my DR makes those runs as a complete wing back. My DR also has the highest average rating in the league with about 6 games to go so something’s working there 😂

I've actually never known precisely what passing directness means. Like does shorter passing mean it will lower the range of passing for anyone who hasn't got "take more risks" as a hard coded PI or will it mean that players will primary pass it within their own lines, meaning defenders looking to pass it to a defender (CB to another CB or FB/WB) and midfielder to another midfielder and so on (I heard Rashidi say this once, "passing directness is how quickly the ball will go from different tiers of your team, Def -> Midfield -> Attack). Any help would be great!

Three things ,Mentality is more important than tempo ,as attacking mentality speeds up the tempo ,its something you have to watch ,similarly if your mentality is defensive it automatically slows tempo down ,so when you change mentality you also have to adjust tempo and passing directness is your fine tune for tempo ,but the correct way is : Mentality > Tempo > Passing Directness Second thing is your individual mentality ,if your on a team mentality of positive and your winger is on attack duty his individual mentality will be very attacking if you then put the overlap instruction on the winger on attack duty drops to Attacking which is why the player holds the ball up ,similarly its worth noting that when you do this .it also changes the full back individual mentality for eg a full back on defend duty on a positive team mentality is cautious but when you put on the over lap it will go balanced ,which will mean he will still look to play less risky balls because of his duty but his individual mentality through the overlap is telling him to get forward Third thing If you have a team mentality of positive and a defensive central midfielder on a defensive duty and you click on play through the center his individual mentality will change from cautious to balanced on support it will jump to attacking

I’m feeling so smug that’s I’ve always interpreted Tempo exactly how Zealand described it.

Lol I liked the video at the I'll be damned part 😂😂😂

Omg i’ve been using overlap wrong. Maybe thats why my inside forward never receive a pass when they are making inside run to the box

I'm a huge tiki-taka fan. It would be interesting to know on a relative scale how much influence on decision making each of the following have: choosing the tiki-taka tactic in the first place; selecting balanced or positive mentality; selecting CWB on support or WB on attack; selecting much lower tempo; selecting look for overlaps; selecting work ball into box; selecting a mezzala on support or attack to go with the roaming playmaker or selecting an advanced playmaker on support or attack to go with the roaming playmaker. This would enable better tweaks of tactics during games depending on opponents, venue and match situation. I'm doing OK, currently with Cambridge Utd: promoted in season 1 as champs, second season in the play-off spots. Who said you can't play tiki-taka in Leagues 1 and 2? Maris is a monster midfielder for me. Problem will come when I go up to the Championship. Both previous saves with other clubs have seen me get butchered at that level with my tactics. All constructive comments welcome. Thank you.