FOOTBALL Football Manager Discussion

[JBlues08]

Top opposition playing at their home starting the match well? Sounds like a bug...

It can't be a coincidence that it happens nearly every time I face them. The most annoying one IMO is facing United at Old Trafford! It's bombardment of corners, free kicks or throw-ins and it happens at a regular interval during the game too.

 

[Themer]

It can't be a coincidence that it happens nearly every time I face them.

What are you expecting? To thrash United?

 

[hedger_14]

tbh, I find your second comment about the hard to get a goal when you need one comment true. I can hardly ever pull back when down at half-time even though I've done it on many occassions with Blackpool but when I'm up, the opposition seems to always score.

 

[JBlues08]

What are you expecting? To thrash United?

Of course not but the match engine certainly needs to balance things out because it's just really idiotic to see your opponents getting chance after chance continuously when you hardly get one sometimes! And it does not just happen against United at Old Trafford. Face the same situation whenever I play away at a big team.

Just to add, I can understand that if you are managing a smaller team but not when you're managing a big team. It's just seem unrealistic.

 

[hedger_14]

And anyway, here is Stephen Wotton's attributes.

 

[Bevab]

Of course not but the match engine certainly needs to balance things out because it's just really idiotic to see your opponents getting chance after chance continuously when you hardly get one sometimes! And it does not just happen against United at Old Trafford. Face the same situation whenever I play away at a big team.

Got thrashed by Chelsea recently.

My chances of come-backs are twice as less as the other teams in FM11. They need to sort it out obviously. And Arsenal goalkeepers are too good, Fabianski and Almunia are making great saves, where as in the reality they are horrible.

 

[JBlues08]

@ Hedger: Thanks. Looks pretty decent. Good luck with him.

Got thrashed by Chelsea recently.

My chances of come-backs are twice as less as the other teams in FM11. They need to sort it out obviously. And Arsenal goalkeepers are too good, Fabianski and Almunia are making great saves, where as in the reality they are horrible.

Almunia and Fabianski got shipped out pretty fast IIRC in my Chelsea save.

 

[hedger_14]

lol, whenever I think of Fabianski, I remember how I signed him on FIFA (09 or 10, can't remember which) for Crystal Palace and he was an awesome goalie

And yeah, unfortunately doesn't have the flair or creativity to fit into Petrucci's role of advanced playmaker but oh well.

And I signed some newgen from Chelsea for a record fee (450k over 48 months, I think it was). Striker with 4 star CA and 4.5 star PA (Leading Championship striker or Good Premier Division striker, can't remember which)

 

[JBlues08]

I feel like the game has put a German curse over me or something because in my 8 seasons so far(in the eighth at the moment) with Chelsea, I've been paired up against German oppositions in 7 of the 8 season in the Champions League!

2010/11: Werder Bremen (GS); Bayern Munich (L16)
2011/12: Schalke (L16); Bayern Munich (SF)
2012/13: Bayer Leverkusen (GS)
2013/14: None
2014/15: Hoffeinhem (L16)
2015/16: Bayern Munich (Final)
2016/17: Bayer Leverkusen (GS); Bayern Munich (SF)
2017/18: Hamburg (L16); Bayern Munich (QF)

 

[hedger_14]

Ok, here we go. Starting a new save with Man Utd. Just loaded English leagues (Down to npower League 2), Brazil (Top division), Portugal (Top division), Russia (Top Division) and Spain (Liga Adelante).

Probably going to make a few transfers. Will try and get in Phil Jones and probably de Gea (or Akinfeev) and maybe even Young and then try and bring in a central midfielder or two and get rid of a few uneeded players.

 

[iridescentt]

Can't wait till' I pick up my new PC in a couple of days.

Will be loading all leagues simultaneously

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It can't be a coincidence that it happens nearly every time I face them. The most annoying one IMO is facing United at Old Trafford! It's bombardment of corners, free kicks or throw-ins and it happens at a regular interval during the game too.

Pretty realistic for a match against them at Old Trafford. Can't fault SI at that implementation.

Was a considerable amount of injury time added as well?

 

[hedger_14]

fearsome tweak Luka Modric. He bloody makes me wait 2 odd weeks before finally rejecting me :/ Then Hamsik does the same tweaking thing

And de Rossi finally becomes my second transfer after David De Gea. I did do a lot of selling in the transfer window so now I'm a bit short on depth but I've put Smalling and Bebe in my senior team for the time being. Anyway, just lost the Community Shield on penalties to Chelsea after Ryan Giggs missed the 6th penalty.

And Phil Jones doesn't seem to want to join me unfortunately Trying to sign Gareth Bale though. Currently considering a contract offer so hopefully will sign him by the 2nd match.

But Transfers:

In:

David De Gea - ?17M
Daniele De Rossi - ?30M

Out:

John O'Shea - ?13.5M (Newcastle)
Matt James - Ln Fee ?130K (Derby)
Michael Owen - ?2M (Tottenham)
Wes Brown - Ln Fee ?500K (Lyon)
Darron Gibson - Ln Fee ?775K (Aston Villa)
Park Ji-Sung - ?9M (Sunderland) - Had 10.75M up front by Newcastle but they bloody didn't have enough funds after signing O'Shea, so I had to settle for 9M over 48 months.
Scott Wootton - Loan (Bury)
Oliver Norwood - Loan (Yeovil)

 

[iridescentt]

Do O'Shea and Park really fetch that much? Whoah.

 

[hedger_14]

Yeah, you offer them to clubs for 20M and then they pay you some ridiculous amount which seems fine in context with the amount I offered them for

And I beat Man City 2-0 in my opening game, with Vidic and Evans scoring my goals

Then I hammered Newcastle 5-0 with a double for Nani, with goals for Valencia, Evans (again) and Rafael as well, so my strikers seem to be the only ones who can't score (Playing Rooney + Hernandez atm)

David De Gea is awesome, MOTM performance in the first game, rating of 8.5 and then rating of 8.6 against Newcastle but Nani had a match rating of 9.2, Valencia 9.2 (1 assist as well), De Rossi 9.1 (2 assists) and Rafael 8.7.

 

[JBlues08]

Pretty realistic for a match against them at Old Trafford. Can't fault SI at that implementation.

Please, Old Trafford is overrated!

Was a considerable amount of injury time added as well?

Nope. All I know is they will show the entire injury time highlights if the opposition needs a goal to equalize or win the game.