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Originally Posted by pflynhi |
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I know there are probably some that will laugh at this, but I have stated this theory before... I still think team chemistry plays a part in how your team plays on the pitch. Whether it be switching to a new formation, or replacing familiar players with new player in the starting eleven, a key player suffers a injury or how much declining players have a negative impact on your team. Now I'm not completely excusing EA from a less than perfect product either, because they too have some blame for poor game play as well.
This next part may be some length and as much as I don't like turning a slider thread into a personal career mode thread, I think this may help with sharing my game play experience.
So here's how my 2nd season with Burnley has gone so far, I got rid of some declining players, especially in the midfield. Switched to a new formation and first game out it was perfect to plan beating a newly promoted Middlesbrough but then it all started to unravel and after 20 games found myself sitting 17th in the table fighting to stay out of the relegation zone and my job as manager was in jeopardy as well with a approval rating of 50 and riding a 5 game losing streak, I don't think the board was to happy when I also took on the Polish national team duties as it had an immediate negative impact on rating.
So fearing that my job was very much at play here, switched back to the 4-4-2 and January moves were needed so I decided to deal Chris Wood to Berlin for Joelinton +$18 million as well as add Che Adams to give some much needed speed and youth up top as both Barnes and Wood were both showing decline in progression and Woods despite winning the golden boot last season with 16 goals only had 2 through 21 games this season and his play was all over the place, out of position, in the way of others and never seemed to find his groove. Also recalled Nick Pope from his loan about 2 games early and sold Tom Heaton who did nothing but struggle all year.
Now the 5 game losing streak was followed by 5 straight draws, but now we've won 7 straight and have climbed to 8th in the table, however Joelinton and Adams both got injured the first game they started together with Joelinton being lost 3 weeks with a sprained knee Thank goodness I still had Barnes. Also I may have to drop the Poland job just to get my approval rating back up, it's sitting at 66 right now. And funny thing, again I have beaten Tottenham who was top of the table and just as soon as I did was offered the job at Manchester City.
Talk about drama and I must admit... I love it lol
now I know this game does have it's flaws but I also know there are a lot of times I make mistakes and miss some key opportunities that just like a real life game does have an impact on game results. I do feel some people just expect to always win every game and if they suffer a good old beat down the first thing they do is scream this game sucks, again let me reiterate EA does not get a free pass here either I've had my share of wth was that moments as well.
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Great post and I get what you are saying. I lost 4 players from my Portsmouth team who were on loan and have added 4 new younger players with potential. I’m also looking at changing formation. Now I’m in a higher league playing a 4-3-3 attack formation with my current squad is probably not the way to go. I did play it in the first game of the season but that was at home to Sunderland who came up with me. I won 4-0 and it was as easy as the score suggests. Next game though is at Villa so that will be my first game I will look to change it up. I think like you say, better to just keep at it and adapt when things don’t go your way. Overall, as time has gone on I think this fifa has been ok for the most part. Even the community set hasn’t had any slider changes for months now which says a lot to me. I’ll let you know how season 2 progresses.[emoji106]
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