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This is a most important attribute to consider. There are three variations in the game

• Defensive: This will set your team to a defensive position. Your attackers and midfielders will not be moving forward to the same extent as before, and the whole team will be kept behind, to block the other team from scoring a goal. Unfortunately championship manager is not a real game, which means that it has its disadvantages and unrealistic features, which in turn means that defensive football may well work for all those Italian clubs playing catenazzio, but there is no real way you can succeed in CM playing a defensive style. The purpose is to put more goals, than the opposite team will score, not to keep the opposite team to nil! The conclusion? Do not use the defensive mentality, except probably for the last minutes of a game, when you are at least a couple of goals ahead, and you are trying to preserve your win.
• Normal: This is the most common mentality, and it is used by many CM addicts. Your team will have a reasonable attacking rate, and the defenders will not be marching too much forward, so as that your goalie won;t get overexposed. It is recommended for all those who have a minor or mid-edge team, especially if you are in the first year and still have not purchased quality defenders and DMCs.
• Attacking: Guess what? as it has been already mentioned, Championship Manager is based in attacking formations. It is football and it works well when scoring more goals that your opponent does. And this is best performed with full-attacking mentality. I have been using this formation with great success with most of the clubs i have played. Maybe you should not deploy it only in case you are playing some petty 4-4-2 with not very good defenders.

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: It must have become quite clear that, in my opinion, the attacking formation is the one that you should choose in most of the cases. You will score maybe even twice as many goals, while facing only a minor extra defensive problem. On the other hand in case your defense is really poor, you could give the normal formation a try. The defensive formation is of course out of the mind, except for some minor periods of time at the end of a match, especially if combined with a men behind ball strategy.