Season 43

[Morgan O'Bree]

I'm not saying that players without SA are useless but training them up gives them an edge

Do you believe that your best players would be even better if they had a SA?

I do believe so, yes. SA are just little icons added as to move people to spend more on a player, and fact is that in the TL all the SA ones have over 5-6 people since scratch onto them, even not being that great.

Papaleo 6 seasons without missing a penalty, Hogan always heading the corners away and Ramirez always blocking the crosses and free-kicks. Mensah scoring free kicks like crazy and Novotny/Michu with many assists from corners were my notable experiences of SA, but I did have Seaman as Penalty Kick stopper and all 7 penalties in the CL Final shootout loss was a notable SA fail. But it's all down to personal experience and most of the time my first team is filled with players all with SA, I did have Patricio Lopez who scored 21 goals from ML a long time ago and he had no SA so sometimes No SA works too.

And yet, last seasons you were trying to understand, alongside with me, Dvr and many others, why you were taking goals from corners, or why your aerial defenders and defensive walls weren't working as they should. Free kick specialists seems to realize them, but if you make a raw % statistic you'll notice that it ain't different from a non-fk taker ones. Expecially if you tend to face opponents a lot weaker than your team. S6 i had hutton on the right FKs and he scored as many as Altun on the left side, not having the SA to do so. Cross attempts are more likely to be blocked if the kicker is way lower on Q than the defenders. I got those too in matches, but out of 3 defenders, all of them blocks the crosses, not only the DW.

EDIT: friendlies now seems to have 1 injury factured into them. So far, every match i attended, one playe got injured in the first 15 mins. But might be due to no fitness, i guess. Ljep tho didn't have many injuries last season.