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Bielsa-Bub 3-3-3-1 - The Reckonist

A faithful to a point recreation of Marcelo Bielsa's famous 3-3-3-1 System. Developed live on stream over hundreds of hours and supported by my wonderful Patrons. Follow my Links to get involved!

Welcome folks. Welcome to what I expect to be my final tactical upload of FM18.

The development of the upload is supported by my wonderful supporters on patreon. People such as Adam Freitag, Zaajn, Dnuzum and BuzzClarets and my Supporters on Twitch.

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The character limit on the Steam Workshop stops me going into full detail here but you can read the bits I had to cut out on my Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/20877714

Leeds United appointed Marcelo Bielsa in June 2018 to a lot of surprise and excitement from football fans across England. Why? I will not go into too much detail here save to say that Marcelo Bielsa is a true footballing innovator and one of the most interesting characters in world football today. There are many great resources on Bielsa as many people have written their own interpretation of his systems but for a great background, i would recommend you watch this video by the awesome Tifo Football. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDRVk4qvDX0

My role was to follow these guidelines and create a system matching Bielsa's which works in FM18 and i would rather have spend time developing each one of the 3 or 4 tactics Marcelo is known to use, I devoted approximately 100 hours on my Twitch stream developing this one system! I dont think I could handle another 300 hours for the full set!

Bielsa in Summary

Prefers to play a 3-3-3-1 formation
Changes system depending on opponents formations. Making sure his team has 1 extra defender than the opponents have striker. (vs Two striker systems plays Three CB’s.Vs One striker systems, plays two CB’s)
High Pressing
Tight, Zonal Marking
Keep hold of possession
Conversely, wants fast ‘Vertical’ football
Builds from the Back
High Defensive Line
Use ‘Engache’
Use Inverted Wingbacks

You can see why the Bielsa System is seen as the ‘Holy Grail’ of Football Manager Tactical Systems.

So, I had my work cut out for me. To combine all of these points into one working system up to my standards and producing the right results. We went through 8 variations on the Watford: Sir Alex Ferguson Challenge streams and tested all sorts of different theories and observed how they related to each other and what changed from the last system.

So here is what we came up with that works best in Football Manager 2018

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Mentality:

Control Taken directly from the tactics screen ‘This mentality is best employed for matches in which you believe you are the stronger team but are wary of you opponent’s counter-attacking threat.’ We are going to have lots of the ball by design so a mentality of being patient and picking the times when we take risks is the idea here. This actually came about very late in the tactical development as we never had a very strong team at Watford compared to the rest of the Premier League. If you do not have very high quality players compared to the opposition you are going to be playing, I recommend playing with a Standard mentality.

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Team Shape:

Very Fluid. The one thing I was determined to have in the set up. Playing Very Fluid gives a freedom to your players to work within the overall mentality. It frees up Defenders to make more attacking choices and Attackers to make more Defensive choices. So you will see things like more One-Twos and Dribbles from players in Defensive roles and more Pressing and Marking from players with Attacking roles. This feeds into Bielsa’s reputation for encouraging his defenders to make almost suicidal One-Twos and dribbles just outside of their own area to keep the ball as much as possible.(There are plenty of examples of this in all of Bielsa’s teams and I encourage you to watch them on YouTube. They are hilarious) Ultimately, it means the team plays better as a ’unit’. (if you have not figured out, this part of the game is extremely complicated, full of contradicting examples and difficult for me to condense into a single paragraph. It may form some future guide)

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Team Instructions

Play Out of Defence[/b]. Ball retention is the priority. Almost to a detriment.

Work Ball into the Box. With plenty of possession this makes sense.

Exploit Left and Right Flanks. Stretching the play as much as possible making space for A passes through the middle and B Exciting attacking wing play.

Push Higher Up and Offside Trap.] A high line is required. If playing a High Line prevention of Through Ball attacks is mitigated with an Offside Trap. (Moving this back from a ‘Much Higher’ Defensive line reduced goals from Through Balls by around 60%)

Close Down More + Tight Marking. Harassment is very important. Never letting the opponents take a breath. We did not max it out although that is possible to use should your match require it.

Prevent Short Goalkeeper Distribution. With 4 players in and around the opponents defence this is a no brainer. Feeds into the Harrasement policy and forcing a Keeper into a long kick when you have 3 Centre Backs is a great feeling.

Retain Possession is not clicked and Mixed passing is the choice. Why? As stated earlier as well as possession football Bielsa likes, when the time is right, to play ‘Vertical’ football. Quickly getting the ball up the pitch. To find a balance of both of these contradictory concepts, we went with mixed and letting the team decide what to do with the ball. In retrospect it was a great choice.

No instructions of Overlap or Underlap. With both Wingers and Inverted Wing Backs both options are available. Clicking on one of these would decrease the chances of one or the other being used by either Winger or IWB. Having no instructions here allows the players to choice from both freely.

Tempo. Normal. I look at tempo like this. Possession = Slow. Direct = Fast. So in a system which wants both short Possession based play and fast ‘Vertical’ play options, meeting both in the middle and going to Normal makes sense.

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So, we reached the character limit! As mentioned earlier for even more info about the system and type of players needed you can see the full post on my Patreon page.

Extra special thanks for reading this far down! If you enjoyed the read and want to show your appriciation, feel free to rate, share and subscribe to my links! I had a ball with this one and you can expect to see more of this type of thing going into FM19. See you there!

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