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LSPlaysFM's Treble Winning 5-3-2 DM Tactic

Welcome guys to my Treble Winning 5-3-2 DM Tactic for FM21 which focuses on being defensively strong and counter attacking your opponents whenever possible in order to win games!

I used this tactic in three different simulated saves and have also began to use it in my YouTube save with Kaiserslautern. While the tactic focuses more on the defensive side, it does still score a lot of goals in most cases providing the team using it with the top goal scorer in their league. Overall though the strong defensive abilities are what often allow for its good results.

The tactic has been tested in FM21 across three simulated saves with Chelsea, Arsenal and Wolves! In every save each team performed very well, especially defensively, often having either the best or one of the best defences in the league. Often teams performed far above expectations and various competitions being won by them too.

To help explain the tactic and how it works as well as all the results, I created a tactics video over on my YouTube channel LSPLaysFM! You can find the video below:

https://youtu.be/3wKpDLxSycA

The tactic managed to secure a treble for Chelsea winning the Prem, Champions League and League Cup (as well as reaching the FA Cup Semis) with them scoring 67 league goals but more importantly conceding 24 in the Prem. With Chelsea Edouard Mendy managed 30 clean sheets across 60 games and Werner scored himself 49 goals in all comps. Plus the two Chelsea Strikers managed to score 70 goals between them.

Arsenal like Chelsea had a good time winning a Double and finishing 3rd in the Prem with 81 points, won the FA Cup and Europa League. Considering they were predicted 5th yet they managed to push on 3 fronts and safely secure themselves Champions League Football. Also Lacazette managed to win the golden boot with 25 goals in only 28 games. Finally Wolves had a very decent season too reaching the League Cup Semis and also finishing in 5th on 72 points, only 3 behind 4th place and also had the joint 2nd best defence in the league as well!

You can also see in more detail below how the tactic works and results below as well if you’d prefer.

The tactic is a 5-3-2 Tactic but with a Defensive Midfielder sitting in between the midfield and the Defence and also utilises overlapping wing backs and preferably a very pacey striker.

The tactic does rely upon its athletic wingbacks, an advanced forward who is either very pacey and/or good off the ball and then a good pair of offensive midfielders to sit in as the teams two central mids who can help both set up and score goals where possible.

The tactic works as follows (check out the screenshots below to see exactly how its set up):

#1 5-3-2 DM Tactic - https://gyazo.com/f3fe368566413dbd848025f983e44b14

#2 In Possession - https://gyazo.com/8f41011b47414e76bb98454ea56b18e0

#3 In Transition - https://gyazo.com/d65ffb4aba5a75bcabfce16f27ea9c18

#4 Out Of Possession - https://gyazo.com/f27488f98caee93dfc57485b810a0f72

#5 Corner Attack Far Post - https://gyazo.com/065ce97a0d1ba2e6187511722721f0f8

#6 Corner Attack Near Post - https://gyazo.com/5a97b0bb021f34bfa1c219e6e5946ac0

My training and opposition instructions are handled by the Assistant. In terms though of player instructions, these are all entirely left to the defaults for each position and I have not adapted these for any player in this tactic. It could well be this could be an area where should you choose to adapt this yourself using any of these instructions, it could help the tactic perform even stronger tbh.

Using this tactic firstly at Chelsea in the first of the 3 simulated saves the side managed to win a Treble including both the Champions League and Premier League! Truly astonishing really based on the players they had and they even had by far the best defensive record in the Prem as well conceding only 24 goals in 38 games. At the end of the season the side finished season 1 on 84 points, winning the Premier League scoring 67 goals and conceding only 24. Werner finished the season as top scorer in the Prem with 29 goals and both Werner and Abraham combined scored a total of 70 goals for Chelsea that season as the 2 main strikers. Also on top of that Mendy took the award of most clean sheets with 21 in 37 appearances.

#7 Chelsea Competition Wins - https://gyazo.com/37e5713619da2137ce302795c5853df9

#8 Chelsea Premier League Win - https://gyazo.com/3802ed4f82526aff9d2c3b35e8f90d7d

#9 Chelsea Striker Stats - https://gyazo.com/6560a52130cdfd26d0010b0178cbf4b1

#10 Mendy Stats - https://gyazo.com/8c6ac4fdc44d2e301cfad03d61e33376

Below your also find the stats for Chelsea from the simulation. They were one of the best offensively and were often extremely clinical but most impressive was the defensive attributes which saw them be far and above the best in the league with their defensive capabilities. It was also the case with Arsenal & Wolves (which I’ll come to shortly).

#11 – Chelsea Stats - https://gyazo.com/0ffdd1878a09f5b4a136b23c5473a

#12 Chelsea Attacking Efficiency - https://gyazo.com/abe3f272484174e2ed84b15ac5cc29b6

#13 Chelsea Defensive Efficiency - https://gyazo.com/d919371cf190a41f4f355fc20411886b

#14 Chelsea Formation Stats - https://gyazo.com/9c82df1c813a5849c881b1d0aa9ce47c

After Chelsea’s success we come to Arsenal who in my opinion were more surprising from this simulation then Chelsea. Considering Arsenal were predicted only to finish 5th and thinking of how poor their defence is in real life and even in game, they performed far better then I expected. The team were lined up as follows where possible during the simulation.

#15 Arsenal Tactic - https://gyazo.com/c52b86de5cb9d381589af06a85726b23

With this tactic, Arsenal had a fantastic season finishing in 3rd and earning 81 points. They were quite unlucky not to finish higher considering with Chelsea, 84 was enough to win the league. Regardless, the fact a team of Arsneal’s current ability performed as strongly as it did and easily secured Champions League is impressive, however it was their performances in both the Europa League and FA Cup where the tactic really shined. Despite competing on multiple fronts, the team managed to secure a double winning both competitions, even defeating PSG in the Final. On top of that as well, Lacazette was played mainly as an Advanced Forward finished the season as the Golden Boot winner in the Prem scoring 25 goals in only 28 games. With the performances of both Lacazette and Werner, it clearly highlights how a pacey advanced forward in this tactic works absolute wonders!

#16 Arsenal Competition Wins – https://gyazo.com/e685e57894304237cf143df8d596a7fd

#17 Arsenal In The Prem - https://gyazo.com/f78f6f1ee60c144bd4c228fb9e3b302f

#18 Lacazette Stats - https://gyazo.com/23908857f189917ae35e91b0b2dc4777

Finally, Wolves was the final save and they were predicted 8th. Despite being a weaker side compared to the others and a lack of an obvious AF, the side still performed well, finishing 5th in the Prem and gaining a huge 72 points finishing only 5 points behind the Champions League spots, reaching a League Cup Semi-Final and having the joint 2nd best defence in the league overall. You can see both Wolves results and also their lineup below:

#19 Wolves Lineup - https://gyazo.com/2f7c9f2d37437b74a44e1841b6fb3cfb

#20 Wolves Competition - https://gyazo.com/b8c6b8cabb8e3869267d7580271009d3

#21 Wolves League Table - https://gyazo.com/c3c4a1b7e1f71cbe06d8bf4ce5931896

Overall though that's how the tactic functions and across each team it was tested with it did very well allowing teams to either totally outperform expectations or to dominate the other teams around them and just have incredibly strong defensive showings whenever possible!

Please do download the tactic via the link and I hope you get a lot of good fun and enjoyment out of this tactic on FM!

Thanks,
LSPlaysFM