Author: tacticof.

I breathe tactics. It started with the admiration for football. American football. :-) But first of all with passion for soccer. And then the questions began to appear themselves. Why the statistics of a playmaker are so modest and quaterback so abundant? Is it possible to measure the effectiveness of one action in football? How to distinguish an intention from a fortuity? What is the real impact of passing accuracy on the score? Why are the statistics not related to the player’s movement vectors? Can a football pitch be a topological space? How the stats of one team affect the other and whether this correlation can be computed? First came baseball, Billy James and SABR, then statistics, math and geometry, finally Football Manager, Excel and the MIT Sloan Sport Analytics conferences. Today brands such as StatsPerform, Match Analysis, StatsBOmb, Opta, Prozone or StatDNA are the future of modern football. Let my works be my humble contribution to these endeavors.

In this series of tactical previews for Qatar World Cup 2022 the time has now come for tacticof to look at Southgate England tactics. Last time he looked at the defending champions Didier Deschamps’ France tactics, but now the eternal question comes … can England take up the fight against Brazil, France or even Belgium to become world champions? This tactical preview will give you a better idea of England’s tactics and Southgate’s preferred playing style for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. For further information about Southgate’s Manager profile please head over to tacticof.com. It’s Coming Home?! England is…

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In the series of World Cup 2022 tactics, the time has come from tacticof to look at the Luis Enrique’s Spain tactics and how he prefers to set up his team ahead of the coming tournament held in Qatar. This tactical preview will give you a better idea of Spain’s tactics and Luis Enrique’s preferred playing style for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. For further information about Enrique’s manager profile, please check out Enriques Manager profile on tacticof.com. Earlier in this series, tacticof has given you an insight to the Brazil’s tactics and the manager profile of Tite. In…

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Last time, tacticof World Cup 2022 Tactical preview gave you a closer insight to Deschamps’ France tactics and how you can replicate their tactics in FM22. This time I’m ready to give you my World Cup 2022 tactical preview of Scaloni’s Argentina Tactics for Qatar World Cup 2022, and how you can emulate the Argentina tactics in FM22 – to possibly get the best out of Lionel Messi at the same time! By continue reading you’ll get a better idea of Lionel Scaloni’s Argentina 4-4-2 tactics and his preferred division of roles and responsibilities for the 2022 World Cup in…

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Last time, tacticof World Cup 2022 Tactical preview gave you a closer insight to Martinez’s Belgium tactics and how you can replicate their tactics in FM22. This time it’s a tactical preview of Didier Deschamps France Tactics for Football Manager 2022, and how you can emulate the France tactics in FM22. By continue reading you’ll get a better idea of the France’s 3-4-1-2 tactics and Deschamps’ preferred division of roles and responsibilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. For further information about Deschamps’s manager profile, please check out Deschamps’s Manager profile on tacticof.com. Quick Background to Deschamps’ France France…

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Over the next few months tacticof will give you a World Cup Qatar 2022 tactical preview by looking at the qualified teams’ tactics and manager’s profile, and how you could replicate their tactics in Football Manager! This time is a tactical preview of Roberto Martinez Belgium Tactics for Football Manager 2022. For further information about Martinez’s manager profile, please check out Martinez’s Manager profile on tacticof.com. Belgium, no 2 in the FIFA ranking, will be one of the favorites to progress from the World Cup 2022 Group F, especially since they ended up in a rather weak group with Croatia,…

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The FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar is only months away and for avid football fans the international tournament will be highly anticipated despite the tournament will be held between November 21th and December 18th, 2022. In this event, tacticof will over the next few months give you a World Cup 2022 tactical preview by looking at the qualified teams’ tactics and manager’s profile, and how you could replicate their tactics in Football Manager! First up, is a tactical preview of Tite’s Brazil Tactics for Football Manager 2022. For further information about Tite’s manager profile, please check out Tite’s Manager…

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