Step 4 - Strategy

Good strategy is the key which distinguishes a good manager from the rest. Proper formation and playing style, combined with aggression control, team mentality and rapport tuning plays a good role in winning a game.

In the formation page you can choose the formation of your team. You will get a big list of formations, and you can choose one from that. e.g.: if you decide to play aggressively you can go for 3-4-3, and to play too defensively you can choose 6-3-1.

Playing style let you choose your teams playing style, which consists of wing play, short pass and long pass. While choosing amongst different styles give considerable attention to your current formation. i.e., it's better to choose a wing play for 3-5-2 and long ball for 6-3-1. To be more specific; if you have good midfield strength its better to go for short pass, else make it long; and for a rather spread-out formation go for wing play.

Team mentality decides the mentality for the players. You can choose from normal, attacking, and defensive. While keeping attacking mentality your team's attacking strength will increase but defenses diminish. Like that for defensive mentality it's the other way. Choose wisely according to situations.

Aggression will let you set team's aggression level. The more the aggression the better will be the chances to get the ball into the other post. It will help to boost the overall strength of the team. Proportionally, chances of getting cards and injury increases drastically. It's better to avoid more aggression unless it's a critical situation. Otherwise make sure you have enough credits to sell the ticketed/injured player and buy another one. On the other hand, it's also not good to be over-defensive like keeping your aggression levels to the minimum.

This section is optional, as you already get default settings, as formation 4-4-2, aggression set to least, playing style set to short pass and mentality -- normal.