If you’re better with the skill stick than you are with neat build up play, consider playing a wide game and using the team's pacey wingers. Not how you think the sport should be played, mind you, but rather, what facets of the game you excel at. Having said that, you still have to take into account your style to some extent. Surely you don’t expect Cattermole and Gardner to be playing nifty one-twos all game long, do you? Simply put, set up your tactics to suit your team, and not necessarily your own personal preferences. If the players you inherit aren’t suited to playing your preferred style, you’ll just be courting trouble if you force the issue anyway. The point is, unless you’re playing as Barcelona, chances are pragmatism will almost always trump philosophical purity when building your team in FIFA 13.

If you’re one for attractive football and take on a team full of grafters (say, Sunderland) as a challenge, leave your visions of tiki-taka at the door, at least for the first few seasons.

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