r/FifaCareers

I started off using high pressure as my tactic and ran a few different variations of 4-3-1-2 and 4-4-2 and I am getting absolutely crushed on the counter and my back line is toast. I know the AI defending is quite poor in FC26 but just looking for suggestions on tactics and formations frankly, and what you've found most helpful. I should add that I'm a pretty casual gamer but enjoy the mental and strategic side of sports games and team management, I'm just newer to the FC universe and would love any tips you all have picked up. Thanks!

I used to love the old “player manager” career but know that hasn’t been a thing for ages. I enjoy building a player from scratch and making them a world beater, but there are a few things that make player career almost unplayable.

Team Tactics I realise as a player I shouldn’t be able to choose or influence team tactics, but shouldn’t I at least know what they are?! There doesn’t seem to be any way to find out how my manager wants me to play! Is it wing play, should I be aiming for tiki taka or has the team been set up for counter attack?! There’s no way of knowing this in game and it makes it really hard to play well, even when controlling the whole team. Am I missing something?

Team transfers More of an annoyance than something which makes the game unplayable, but with all the stupid announcements and messages we get from managers, agents etc, why do we not get messages when your team signs a new player? Why are they not introduced with big fan fare? First I learnt of a new team signing was seeing them on the team sheet for the next game. Just seems bizarre thing to miss out when designing game play for player career.

Bro I played professional, every game was 5-0 and above. I switch to WC, I'm losing 2-0. I'm a Right Winger.

I play as the player not as team. The team basically does nothing. Presses weirdly, or doesn't even press at times just backs of doing Van Dick defending. Team doesn't score a goal unless I play like Messi or Hazard controlling the whole attackby directing it through me.

I find professional too easy but world class is too hard for me at the moment. How can I make the game harder on professional mode or easier on world class? Is there specific sliders i should use? Or specific settings? Would love the help.

I recently switched from PES to FC 26 Career Mode, since I used to enjoy Master League, so I'm new to FC.

I started it on 'Amateur' difficulty, but I noticed it was too easy, so I bumped it up to 'Semi-Pro' and it was still easy. I increased it again to 'Professional,' and that's where things got really complicated.

I simply can't jockey or tackle the opposition players. My players basically just watch the opponents pass the ball around and don't step up to try and win it back like they used to in PES. It got to the point where I conceded a goal where the striker just walked right between my three center-backs, and they just stood there watching instead of challenging him. This seemingly happens even when using double-teaming (second-man press) and containment/jockeying.

On the other hand, when I have possession, the opponents don't even need to intercept my pass, any contact they make with my players is enough to make me lose the ball and all the problem to regain it starts again. It's getting pretty frustrating.

Any tips to help me with this? I've already watched videos with pressing tips, game settings, etc. I'm using a 4-2-3-1 formation, the Competitive preset, and Authentic gameplay style.

I don't like that as a coach, you can only coach a national team if you also have a pro team to manage. This makes no sense, and there's far too much micro-management between the games that you'd have scheduled with your national team.

I really really want to see a career mode where you can be a national coach and ignore the club world for the most part. I think this would require having some new things in the game for club management, training programming, etc.

One thing that I do think would be really cool is if they took the drill system and applied it only to actual "camps" for the national teams. I know Team USA had a camp back in January at the start of their preparation for the World Cup this year. That was like a once a year deal that could be implemented in the game with less total drill opportunities but greater progression opportunity.