Firing Blanks

I can't score! The worry for me is I can't score. It's getting beyond a joke. My strikers are both very good, one is a skill point or two away from 6 stars while the other is just below 5 stars. I'm dominating games by as much as 75-25% possession but can't score.

During my last 5 games in all competitions I've scored just 3 goals. All of those games I've dominated and the most frustrating thing for me is I've had 3/4 'must score' chances in all of those games and I don't even hit the target. It's followed with 'whistles past the post' or similar. I'm thankfully not conceding many, but I have lost one game 1-0 and drawn two of them 1-1.

I've been lurking on these forums for some time in search of tips but I feel now I should actually post the question myself. My team is considerably better than any other in my division and any other I've played both by star rating and individual ability.

I've tried renewing contracts, rotation and different formations. My players are always nearly at full condition and full morale. I'm at a loss to what I need to do. I'm seemingly creating plenty of chances but not scoring.

I will NEVER buy tokens though and I fear this is a deliberate attempt by the game to get me to think about buying tokens by making life difficult for me.

I watch EVERY game and probably spend an hour or so every day training my players and fine tuning tactics. Its annoying because most games I play, my opponent doesn't have 'support' by their manager Yet that also makes little difference. I also appreciate that the best team by rating doesn't guarantee success but when I do everything I beleive I can do to get results - I fire blanks.

Please help :o

I have faced this problem a few times in past when there are 6-10 matches in a stretch where i can't score no matter what. And then whatever u do, new signings, transfers, etc, nothing works. It becomes fine on its own. If ur defence is reliable, I will advice u to set urself to defensive formation for a few matches and play defensive with pressing own half... Its an advice, it will help u concede less, so even if u don't score many, u won't lose...:) And this period should end by the end of the season. It is a way of the NGE to make u shell out real money on Tokens, when u don't(u r not going to i believe), they give up and stop:mad::p That is cheap play by Nord... u have to live with it:(

This happened to me too!
When my 6* striker was injured, my other 4* star striker couldnt score for some reason.
I decided to revert to my old settings of Attacking instead of Hard Attacking.
Or maybe your strikers are just having a bad time of form. Blaise was back to his
Scoring aways after 4 or 5 matches.

Thanks for the replies guys.

It's frustrating, the form of my strikers (and the whole squad in actual fact) is pretty good! All above 7! Even in the games where I'm not scoring my strikers are scoring 7's and 8's.

I hope it doesn't last all season, as it stands I'm currently third and there's only two points separating top from 5th! I'd hate to miss out on Champions League or possibly even promotion because Nordeus want to rob me blind. I was five points clear before this problem and what's more, I'd just beat a title rival 3-0.

It's a joke.

the way i see it there are 'challenge' scripts
sometimes youll have a good day/s streak, sometimes youll have a drop like flies streak, sometimes youll have a why cant i score streak
tis a sad truth theyre still missing streakers

thats the pattern i see every season, im now making my way through the i cant score streak, and im hoping own goals were a part of the game. its annoying how im only winning by just a goal against terrible bottom ranked unmanaged teams when i won by around 5-9 goals against mid tables

Try this: Assign Defensive mentality, Own Half, Normal tackle and don't watch few coming matches. That is what I did when I was getting 1-1 or 0-0 draws with too many clear chances wasted, last 3 results are all wins that reads 7-0, 3-0 and 2-0 against league leader.
Maybe when you are watching, Nordeus wants to show you the proof that you need to invest when you watch.

There is some good thoughts here... I do not understand how you could think that they could possibly "make it harder" if you don't buy tokens. I have SIX teams... I seriously buy tokens on ONE the others are farmed, and one is 35T league.. and they all have similar results.

I would say try changing from attacking to normal (or basically back down a notch from where you have it)
and up the physical stats on your STs to where the creativity is near the same as his shooting attribute. :D

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Originally Posted by Bikram Shrestha

Try this: Assign Defensive mentality, Own Half, Normal tackle and don't watch few coming matches. That is what I did when I was getting 1-1 or 0-0 draws with too many clear chances wasted, last 3 results are all wins that reads 7-0, 3-0 and 2-0 against league leader.
Maybe when you are watching, Nordeus wants to show you the proof that you need to invest when you watch.

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I pretty much have those tactics already. I play 3N-2W-2N-1-2 with wing backs pushing forward and AMC pushing forward too. That's served me so we'll so far, I've 2 out of 3 league titles, a champions league win and a cup win. I've scored 66 goals in 18 games and conceded just 10 BUT the last four league games have brought about only 3 goals. So that higlights how much of a difference it has been.

Will try the not watching idea as that's all I have left at my disposal I guess. Although it'll be hard because I enjoy supporting my team because of the benefits you receive from it. I've tried all other suggested methods. Perhaps I'll let it play a few minutes and then log on to watch. Hopefully I'll be 4-0 up by the time I log on :D

i bought some tokens and still have those no-win periods
and i already lost the 1st place in league, hoping to stay in top 4
i will drop out from CL in the next match, cup is yet to be played
no matter what, DONT buy tokens, you wont do any better with them but instead youll get even more frustrated

See... if u don't buy tokens, this all happens to make u buy them.... and if u buy tokens, this all happens to make u buy more:p
So it is all related to tokens, no matter if u buy it already or not.. Nord wants more:(

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Originally Posted by Ian Myers

I can't score! The worry for me is I can't score. It's getting beyond a joke. My strikers are both very good, one is a skill point or two away from 6 stars while the other is just below 5 stars. I'm dominating games by as much as 75-25% possession but can't score.

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try to set difensive mood.
I saw that I score much more in this way than in offensive set (of course same formation)

Right guys, bit of an update. Won 7-0 in the league just now but played a few reserves as I've got a vital CL game coming up in ten minutes. The team I beat were managed by Bot Robot and were second bottom with only 10 points from 18 games - SO, I should be beating them in fairness.

That said, most of my goals - 5 out of the 7 - came from long range efforts. What's more worrying is that I had 3 'must score' chances and ALL went wide of the post...... That's worrying because I honestly can't remember the last time i scored a MUST SCORE chance :o. Could it be a bug? Is anyone else experiencing similar with the 'must score' chances that usually would go in aren't.

I'm not getting excited that the poor form is over - one swallow doesn't make a summer ;).

We'll see though. I'll keep you all posted!

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Originally Posted by Ian Myers

What's more worrying is that I had 3 'must score' chances and ALL went wide of the post...... That's worrying because I honestly can't remember the last time i scored a MUST SCORE chance :o. Could it be a bug? Is anyone else experiencing similar with the 'must score' chances that usually would go in aren't.

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I think that is the NGE program for this season. I m also seeing alot of commentary texts like these:
it narrowly goes wide,
it hits past the post,
it whistle past the post,
but he puts it over,
just skimmed across the bar,
...

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it of course but to me MUST SCORE means that it's more or less an open goal and surely he should score ATLEAST 7/10 of those? That's being pessimistic too!

Lost the CL game 2-1 but went through on away goals so happy with that. Didn't create much but the other guy had a much better quality team so I'm not worried about that.

The big test for me is tomorrow. Playing a team 3rd in the table (I'm 2nd), I'm the better quality by a few points too so it should be a win. Hopefully the drought will be over.

pffft, poppy cock. torres, need i say more?
/sarcastic

havent seen any of my previous matches, but i have lost to much weaker teams on both accounts. ima say both are in the 'why cant i score' phase. how were your CL matches? lost at home but won away?

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Originally Posted by littledude072

pffft, poppy cock. torres, need i say more?
/sarcastic

havent seen any of my previous matches, but i have lost to much weaker teams on both accounts. ima say both are in the 'why cant i score' phase. how were your CL matches? lost at home but won away?

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Won 1-0 at home.

o, congrats on winning at home then. T11 usually rolls with a loss at home and a win away
youll get out of the slump sooner or later, my threads got slumps everywhere from both teams and we made it out just fine