Formation and Goals

[Mitja fc]

Last match I played versus worse team...cuz my DMC had red card I decided to play 4d-2m-2amw-2s with long pases thru flanks and I was loosing 0:1 at half time so I changed to 4d-3m-2amw-1s with short pases and I ended up winning 5:1...also my possesion went from around 50% to 80%...
So I guess formation does matter...

[pcmacdaniel]

Last match I played versus worse team...cuz my DMC had red card I decided to play 4d-2m-2amw-2s with long pases thru flanks and I was loosing 0:1 at half time so I changed to 4d-3m-2amw-1s with short pases and I ended up winning 5:1...also my possesion went from around 50% to 80%...
So I guess formation does matter...

A change from long passes to short passes has a huge impact on the simulation as well from what I've experienced.

[Reece p FC]

The more I play this game the more I begin to think formation doesn’t mean squat, a lot of times during highlights I see my players completely out of position. When in a defensive highlight, I can see my players position and it’s a complete mess, literally they are just all over the place, like 8 players towards the midfield area and my wingers on defence , plus maybe one CD. Same happens when attacking, my wingers on wrong sides, striker in midfield, defenders as striker etc. My favourite though is sometimes during set pieces when defending we have one big line which doesn’t move. Or maybe during attacking set pieces when there’s like one person in the box.. so this comes to my next point of goals, which have become so predictable since the highlights for them are the same every time. My favourite is when somebody shoots from like half way, the keeper saves and the ball bounces back to the same player, then he shoots again and scores Surely formations matter ? Unless you lineup to lose, but otherwise, it just feels that formations don’t matter as much , takes the strategy bit out of the equation as for the goals, I just want to see a bit more... unpredictability ?

I don't agree, coz couple of seasons ago I couldn't beat easy teams til I went more defensive then I was suddenly beating better teams, but it is inconsistent, and what seems to work 1 season doesn't another, and sometimes what works in league games doesn't seem to in champions league, but I don't think it means nothing.


you can tell when a goal is coming a lot of the time, like if you steal possession that doesn't end up in the ball being kicked away, often that is a goal, or when the team suddenly starts passing it around quickly like they are Barcelona on speed. often if you've scored a free kick you will miss every other the rest of the game too. but I guess they can only have so many simulations to show what the computer has decided will happen