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Your ideal starting XI and formation


One for the budding "Football Manager" players out there... If everyone in the current squad was available, what would be your ideal starting XI and formation? Of course, it depends to some extent on opposition and home/away fixture, so feel free to give more than one suggestion.

Current squad below (as far as I can remember). The groupings into "defenders", midfielders" etc. are for guidance only, you can put any player in any position.

GK:
Ryan Boot
Niall Clayton

Defenders:
Callum Howe
Alex Gudger
Tyrone Williams
Cameron Coxe
Jordan Piggot
Lewis Miccio
Reiss McNally
Melis Bushaj
Jordan Cranston
Joshveer Shergill
Darren Carter
Mitch Hancox
Nathan Cameron
Kyle Howkins (loan)

Midfielders:
Kyle Storer
Jamey Osborne
James Ball
Joe Sbara
Callum Maycock
Ben Usher-Shipway
Stephen Gleeson

Forwards:
Adam Rooney
Cameron Archer (loan)
Jamie Ward
Kyle Hudlin
Justin Donawa
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At Home, I'd play 3-5-2:

-------------------------Boot-------------------------

-----------Williams----Howe----Gudger------------

Usher-Shipway------Maycock--------Cranston----

---------------Ward--------Sbarra---------------

--------------Hudlin----------Rooney------------

Bench: Clayton (GK), Piggot, Storer, Donowa, Archer

Away I'd be tempted to switch to 4-1-3-2:

-----------------Boot-----------------

Coxe-------Howe----Gudger------Cranston

---------------Maycock---------------

----Ward------Osborne-------Sbarra----

------------Hudlin----Rooney-------------

Bench: Clayton (GK), Piggot, Storer, Donowa, Archer
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i dont like the thing of going for it at home and keeping it safe away, i think with the quality we have we can beat anyone.
i would play a 4231
GK-Boot
LB-Cranston
CB-howe
CB-Gudger
RB-Coxe
CDM-Maycock
CDM-Ozzy
CAM-Ball
LM-Sbarra
RM-Donawa
ST-Archer
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4-4-2 plays to our strengths more than anything else IMO.

Solid back 4, Usher-Shipway on the wing not having to worry about much defensive duty, attacking fullbacks on the overlap, creativity in the middle with Sbarra/Ozzy and an enforcer like Gleeson to cover the back 2, and Rooney/Archer feeding off Hudlin up top.

Call me old-school but being hard to break down with pacey wingers and a big man up top with a poacher playing off them is the way out of this division.

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I've made some graphics to make it easier to see what people mean.

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I think if I was going to put myself in the position of the impatient supporter watching Bolda's Moors away from home, my criticism would be that Bolda (A) would struggle to win possession in midfield and might face the same issue as Jimmy Shan of attacking play being too narrow.

My personal opinion is that our squad suits a high-pressing, possession-hungry 4-2-3-1 best. I've added in alternative names for each position to show the squad depths and potential options for bringing in players who do something a little different if it needs tweaking.

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I think we also have the players to really target sides who don't like being attacked at pace into the channels and are vulnerable to an overlap.

Here I prefer Hudlin as a more awkward forward to give the centre backs a hard time, and Ward has the role of getting alongside him from wide and deep. Ozzy is encouraged to break forward from midfield where possible and look to get on the ball around the box. Sbarra is played wide left to cut in and give the full back the conundrum of whether to follow or not, leaving them vulnerable to Cranston's ability to overlap.

Coxe is asked to support attacks by plugging the gap vacated by Ward and Osborne when they go, which might otherwise leave us vulnerable to a break down the left. Gleeson is preferred to Storer as the anchor for a similar reason, in that I think he'd have more pace to deal with having to cover off the counter down whichever flank we've pivoted to. Maycock or Ball would play a box-to-box role with license to support attacking play but a clear defensive responsibility in transition.

The downside is there's nobody waiting in the wings to fill the Osborne role without shifting players around. Sbarra could play as the more attacking of the midfield three and allow Archer or Donawa to come in on the left, or even a Hancox or Usher-Shipway asked to play slightly differently from their usual game.

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In possession 3-2-1-1-3 – attacking – direct – move ball wide – crosses (early and or/low)
Out of possession 5-2-2-1-pressing from front-counter-distribute wide
          
          Boot/Clayton
     Williams Howe(Captain) Gudger
Usher-Shipway/Coxe Cranston
           Hancox(ball winning)
     Maycock(box to box)

Donowa/Ward/Usher Shipway Sbarra
           Hudlin

Subs Boot/Clayton, Coxe / Usher-Shipway / McNally, Piggot, Osborne, Rooney

Released immediately – Cameron, Howkins, Ball, Gleeson,

Move to coaching Team – Carter and Storer

Scouting for central defender, central and attacking midfielder, forward with pace


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quote:

bolda wrote:

One for the budding "Football Manager" players out there... If everyone in the current squad was available, what would be your ideal starting XI and formation? Of course, it depends to some extent on opposition and home/away fixture, so feel free to give more than one suggestion.

Current squad below (as far as I can remember). The groupings into "defenders", midfielders" etc. are for guidance only, you can put any player in any position.

GK:
Ryan Boot
Niall Clayton

Defenders:
Callum Howe
Alex Gudger
Tyrone Williams
Cameron Coxe
Jordan Piggot
Lewis Miccio
Reiss McNally
Melis Bushaj
Jordan Cranston
Joshveer Shergill
Darren Carter
Mitch Hancox
Nathan Cameron
Kyle Howkins (loan)

Midfielders:
Kyle Storer
Jamey Osborne
James Ball
Joe Sbara
Callum Maycock
Ben Usher-Shipway
Stephen Gleeson

Forwards:
Adam Rooney
Cameron Archer (loan)
Jamie Ward
Kyle Hudlin
Justin Donawa



My god, look how many defenders we’ve got, that tells you everything

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.... and a lot of the midfielders are defenders ....

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Get van dijk in the team. Get neymar mbappe and messi in the team put the likes of icardi on the bench calvert lewin and richarlison

Jobs a goodun
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Ooh, buildlineup.com... interesting!

To add some explanation to my suggestions, I'd start by saying that I would normally favour a traditional 4-4-2, wingers crossing from the by-line when in possession, 2 disciplined banks of 4 when out of possession. However, one look at the current squad shows that it has a glut of defenders and is light on natural attacking wide players. In particular, there are plenty of players who can play in a back 3: Gudger, Howe, Williams would be my first choice, but Piggot, Carter, Hancox, Cameron, Howkins, McNally and Bushaj could all play there too (10 players who could play in a back 3!)

In contrast, we are very light on "classic" wingers. Usher-shipway and Ward could do this on the right but I'm at a loss to find a left-winger in the squad. I haven't seen enough of Donowa to know which is his strongest side and what his crossing is like. Hancox could do a job there but seems more effective in his role at the back. Sbarra, Osborne and Ball are all more suited to playing up the middle. So the squad lends itself to a formation that has width at the back and is narrow up top - Christmas tree. If we rely on Cranston and Coxe/Usher-Shipway for width and getting forward to put crosses in, then a back 3 provides the security of cover if a wing-back gets stranded up field. I think of a back 3/5 as a constantly adapting back 4, that shifts across the pitch depending on which flank the focus of attack is - Coxe attacks on the right, Williams shifts across to fill in at right back, Cranston attacks on the left, Gudger/Hancox shifts across to fill in at left back.

If I had a blank sheet of paper, I'd put together a squad that didn't have so many defenders and had a couple of out-and-out wingers on each side.
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