You can see the results below. Hoozah, a tick in the tourney win column for me!
Although I won the tournament though, it wasn't a great performance by any measure. The toughest team I faced was Mexico (not exactly world class) and they almost took me out. In fact, in the end, I only won via penalties.
What was most disappointing was that my team didn't play particularly well. Its one thing to lose to a drug induced GK but its altogether more annoying when your own team doesn't do well.
This ain't an isolated incident either. In some of the friendlies, I've struggled against strong opposition. In fact, I lost the following friendly against Spain (so far, my Brazil team is nil for two against world class opposition in friendlies).
Anyway, my current Brazil squad below:
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Some of the earlier versions of CM had a problem with international mgmt in that if you are not running the league (e.g. Brazilian league in your case), then the players don't have properly simulated games and thus their fitness sucks.
On another note entirely, quick question for you: do you use your club tactics for your international team, or do you tailor a new set of tactics that may be better suited?
That is a great question and one which I've been thinking about recently.
Currently, I use my club tactics for my international squad. The tactics I'm using are a very English 4-4-2 system which relies on having good midfielders to support the defenders and also to create opportunities for the strikers.
To an extent, this works for my Brazil squad as they do have some very good midfielders (3 valued over 10m). However, I have considered switching my Brazil tactics as, surprisingly for Brazil, I don't have many world class strikers (only 2 strikers valued over 10m - and lets be honest, 10m ain't exactly that high for a world class striker). As a result, I've been considering ditching a striker in favour of playing an additional midfielder.
I'm a firm believer in a flat back four though so any changes will all be in midfield or attack. In any event, I don't have many good defenders or attacking full backs so I can't rely on 3 defenders being up to the task.
Sounds like Brazil.
Reason I raised this was that in previous attempts at international mgmt, the team would never seem to play as well as I expected them to. I also used a standard 4-4-2. The only team which seemed to match expectations was, unsurprisingly, England!
I also noted that the team had a different formation as standard before I switched them over to my 4-4-2.
As a result, I've been wondering if different nations have a "favoured" formation that best suits their style of play...
e.g. I'd imagine the brazil team to play a 4-1-3-2 or a 4-2-3-1, as I'm sure they have a surplus of good attacking midfield players?
The formation which Brazil had when I took over was 4-2-2-2 (4 defenders, 2 DMC, 2 MC and 2 ST).
I was a bit surprised at this at the time as I expected them to have a more attacking formation. The reason that I changed to a 4-4-2 was because they had some good midfielders who could play on the wing. In fact, of the 3 midfielders valued over 10m, 2 of them could play on the wing.
In addition to the 4-1-3-2 that you mentioned, I'm also thinking about are 4-4-1-1 or preferably 4-3-2-1. I think the Xmas tree formation may work well as it can incorporate all my best midfielders (if you look at my squad, my lowest valued midfielders are the ones that can only play on the wing).
I'm a little hesitant about the 4-2-3-1 because my defenders aren't particularly good and I'm concerned about the lack of midfield cover if I only play 2 MCs.
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