
Normally, by definition it is not a rule to show the big features. Fingers crossed.įirst of all, a teaser trailer is what the name indicated is to tease the audience to get excited. Hopefully FM22 will make this possible with Tuchel/AI also playing 3 at the back with Chelsea - this would presumably require a change to Tuchels preferred formation which is currently 433 DM wide.Hopefully "little" changes like this are not overlooked by SI. Current roles and ME made it impossible to create 3 at the back, possession based tactic like Tuchel deploys at Chelsea. Maybe we will be able to see Rudiger like surging runs from the back and Azpi getting forward to attack/cross etc from DC. A lot will depend on what "hard coding" there is under the hood. looking forward to seeing what you can do with the new wide central defender role. I can think of a few more like Atalanta's Gasperini, Leipzig, Dortmund under Favre, The German national team, Atletico Madrid have used over the last 6 months a 3-5-2/5-3-2 and surely there are others too.Īgreed. Many IRL teams have adopted the 3 at the back system some with more success than others, like Inter winning the Seria A with a 3-5-2/5-3-2 or Chelsea winning the UCL with 3-4-3 / 5-2-3 systems which were very hard to replicate due to DC's static movement at the back. So, a question for the 'underwhelmed' brigade: what new features would make you not feel underwhelmed?Ĭan't wait to try a 3-4-3 or 3-4-1-2 / 3-4-2-1 with the new DC role.

The series has come so far over three decades, and now covers football in so much detail, that there really aren't many seriously 'groundbreaking' features SI could add - apart from maybe women's football, which is coming soon anyway. I believe this is the 30th season that SI have released a CM/FM game in some form. Some of my favourite new features or QoL changes in recent FMs were not even mentioned by the developers before release. Brexit in FM17).īut they also leave plenty of stuff for us to discover ourselves.

Surely you guys know how SI roll by now? They put out a short video quickly going through some of the new/improved features, then they gradually reveal more over the next few weeks, and sometimes there's even a big reveal just before the beta drops (e.g. It seems like every year, we have people making wild assumptions about a new Football Manager game based on a few seconds' worth of footage, and even writing it off as a failure a month before the beta drops.
