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Men Behind the Ball is a tactical defensive option were your players will try to get as many men behind the ball as possible.
If you want your team to be very attacking with this you can set the mentality to V Attacking also. If you want to counter attack you can tick the box for this under the Play Style options.
If you want Messi to cut in you can set a run for him to come inside. On the pre-match instructions screen click on Messi and you can then click one of the circles that appear to set which way he should run.
Asked by tebthereb - 13 years ago