My World Cup 2018 Tournament with Argentina (FIFA 16 MW+mods)

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To honor the greatest football game ever made and the greatest mod ever made (ModdingWay FIFA 16) I decided to make a Internet tournament report of a World Cup 2018 tournament with my favorite team, Argentina.

I will make a report of each match and post videos and statistics of them.

Ciais has managed to improve the vanilla FIFA 16 gameplay tremendously with 1.01 EXE version and new Gameplayzer mod + sliders. This changes the whole game to more "simulation-like" and you actually see a lot of fouls and free kicks (that you don't usually see in football games that are mainly designed to be arcade fun for online players).

Skill Level: Legendary
Halfs: 15 minutes

These are the slider and cl.ini settings I'm going to use (after excessive testing I found them to be the most realistic).

https://www.evo-web.co.uk/threads/fi...5#post-3369869



Other teams in Group D are Iceland, Croatia and Nigeria. Argentina will play these teams in that particular order.



Next:

Argentina-Iceland

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Lineups





Eduardo Salvio's shot has just gone past Iceland goalkeeper Hannes Halldorsson.



Messi feeling reliefed after the game.



Final score:



Match facts:




Highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVu8f18Un5E

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Salvio's injury turned out to be less serious as previously thought. He will probably be healthy for the final group stage match against Nigeria.

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Argentina had made some changes to the lineup. Pavon replaced injured Salvio and Marcos Rojo replaced colossal Federico Fazio in order to bring some speed to the defense.





It's crowded in Willy Caballero's goal during Croatia's corner kick.










Highlights:

Argentina 1-0 goal (Messi '59)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeNMdOkyIoc

Croatia 1-1 goal (Perisic '83)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2hLB1zGqyk

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I started this World Cup tournament a few days ago at EVOWeb. Just wanted to share it here as well. I'm a longtime football gaming enthusiast and I've played and modded them all. Trust me, FIFA 16 with proper mods is closest to genuine football of them all.

We have managed to make it play very simulation-like. Just look at the amount of FOULS these games have. They also have very genuine pace and stats.

Why FIFA 16? There's more here. A LOT more, actually.

https://www.evo-web.co.uk/threads/fi...75194/page-185

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Argentina had changed goalkeeper Caballero to Franco Armani. They played with 4-4-2 diamond formation, with Gonzalo Higuain making his World Cup debut.









Federico Fazio is late as Nigerian forward Odion Ighalo puts a header behind Argentine goalkeeper Franco Armani at '75.

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Rest of the games



Final standings (Group A and B were already decided)



Top scorers after the group stage



Second round