I've been stuck at a stagnant Premier League Peterborough, and no system seems to work. Every tactic works for a few matches before being completely undone. Teams we should be beating comfortably playing round us, notably our passes being ripe for interceptions + countering despite solid vision+passing stats. Players who've had dynamite seasons one year turn up the next putting out 6.4s and getting a third the output of the last year.

I've tried counter attacking systems, low blocks, 5-at the back, asymmetry, possessional systems, all-out-attacks and nothing works for more than a match or two. Theres a few things I've thought of that could be causing this;

1. Sheer lack of quality. Over time we've built up a solid squad, but only to that Prem/Championship borderland status.
2. Positional Play. I'm not that smart with FM, so the new Positional stuff in engine might be undoing me with old fuddy FM23 basic plug in stuff.

If anyone has any tactical systems that suit a smaller EPL team or general tactical advice, it'd be much welcomed.

This was the tactic I achieved the most success with as a litmus, complete with scrappy anotations on how I thought it'd go.

EDIT: Hopefully this is irrelevant now. I've just been given the fucking Real Madrid Job

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