The phases I want to concentrate on for this tactical post are primarily the build-up and attacking phase. For instance, asking him to stay wide if the ball is on his half of the pitch, but if it is on the opposite side, come narrow. A classic example is asking a player to behave differently depending on his proximity to the ball. You cannot say to a player to do one thing in scenario A, but if scenario B happens, do this instead. That is going to mean a lot of concessions have to be made tactically. The first thing that struck me when reading Mastering the Premier League was that there are a lot of limitations with Football Manager 2020 when it comes to creating certain tactical situations. We want to hound and harass the opposition when we lose the ball, and we want to be a pain in the ass for teams to break down when they have it. Our tactical foundation will be centred around a fluid 4-3-3 that dominates possession, but possession with a purpose, to offer both defensive protection, and efficient attacking play.
The principals are the same though, always having a wide player stretching play, ready to receive a pass in a favourable 1v1 situation. Somewhat the inverse of Pep Guardiola at City as he tends to prefer his wingers being the wide outlet players. My preference is to make use of attacking full-backs who stay high and wide with narrow attacking wingers in the half-spaces. Switching back to the 4-3-3, known as the 4-1-4-1 DM WIDE in Football Manager 2020 terms, seemed like the right thing to do. I prefer to have more of the ball, more chances, more control. The 4-4-2 at Stade Rennais was working well in the early years, but I never felt like I was controlling games as much as I like to. When building tactics, I usually try to have an idea in mind of what sort of style I want to implement, and this will often come from real-life examples, like the Mourinho 4-2-3-1 I used while managing Barcelona. So this will be a mix-and-match approach to tactic building with an existing framework as a reference to build from. Moreover, I want to add my ideas to the system, and I want to make sure we play to the strengths in my squad. I will take facets from his time at Barcelona and Bayern Munich, too. So a rough replication of his system sounded like a fun thing to try, with my ideas imparted on the tactical system, naturally.Īs alluded to, this won’t be an exact replication of the Pep Guardiola tactics used at Manchester City. I want to dominate the ball, create lots of chances and play attacking football.
Original, I know, but a lot of how Pep Guardiola sets up his teams to play ties in with how I like to build tactics in Football Manager. We were struggling to get close to the top sides in the league so decided to switch things up and take some inspiration from one of the most gifted managers on the planet. I was lucky enough to pick up a copy, and while reading it, I got the urge to try to replicate a Pep Guardiola tactical system in Football Manager 2020 for Stade Rennais. As I enter season 9, we have moved through a lot of different shapes and systems at Rennes, but we have now settled on the 4-3-3 over the last few years and have a relatively secure set of player roles and instructions I thought I would write about how I got here.ĭuring this period of isolation and solitude, Lee Scott (twitter: was kind enough to distribute a few copies of his book, Mastering the Premier League. Following back to back league titles in France with Stade Rennais it now feels like the right juncture to take a break and assess where we are. I have wanted to write about the tactics I use at Stade Rennais for a while now. I have added my thoughts and preferences to our style which fits the players that I have available to me, but ultimately, Pep Guardiola inspired this tactic. What I have done is take inspiration from his coaching style and tactical philosophy from his time Manchester City primarily, but also at his previous clubs, Bayern Munich and Barcelona. Plenty of people have attempted to replicate Pep Guardiola and have produced many styles and templates. The tactic I have created for Stade Rennais described in this post is not a direct translation of the Pep Guardiola tactics at Manchester City.
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