The FIFA Thread

Lol who has won the most out of each other in FIFA in general, and you only have a better GD because we have played two games, one which I won and one which I lost.

Thoughts on Difeo just getting us relegated by going full retard in the last minute

You should've realised I was joking when I called you Blackman.

Anyway you're right that at times these lot are ****e. Personally think the fault lies with the man who's ANY (admittedly it's a difficult job) but when you dominate matches and concede from set-pieces you're gonna go down. Also yeah our striker isn't good enough. Luke in all honesty is a good pro clubs player, pretty unselfish and has good movement but he's not a natural number 9, he should either play AM or on the wing (or as a target man SS).


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"fault lies with the man who's ANY"
"dominate matches"

wot

I meant in terms of defending and conceding from set pieces pal


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Anyway you're right that at times these lot are ****e. Personally think the fault lies with the man who's ANY (admittedly it's a difficult job) but when you dominate matches and concede from set-pieces you're gonna go down. Also yeah our striker isn't good enough. Luke in all honesty is a good pro clubs player, pretty unselfish and has good movement but he's not a natural number 9, he should either play AM or on the wing (or as a target man SS).


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brb held button all the way down
brb decides to dink it straight to the striker

Yeah course mate.

Fact is you concede in the 90th minute of the final game and now we're in poverty division 5

maybe if you stopped missing 1 on 1s we wouldn't be in the situation where this could potentially happen!!!!

Nice deflection m8, wanna blame any more on the lag too?

Scored 3 in the last 3 - don't put our problems solely down to the strikers.
Yeah we don't score enough but I'm not usually the only striker. Zeddy doesn't score nearly enough (no offence man).

A goal a game is absolute minimum expected as the focal point of a team in clubs - look at the leaderboards, the best players have a 3 per game ratio.

Fact is we drew that game 1-1. 1 goal conceded = below average number of goals conceded = not the problem. 1 goal scored = below average number of goals scored = the problem

Pretty sure we do provide the chances, they just aren't scored and in the higher leagues you can't expect 3-4 chances to score, you have to take them.

I provide plenty of chances so don't you dare sit there and try to make out I'm just some idiot who stands up front and need 4 chances to score.

I'm an excellent team player and let's be honest, we all suffer from being unable to finish, especially you.

Not when the player in question is as creatively inclined as I am.

In any case, strikers only scoring 1 per game isn't down to him alone. It's down to the creative players around him and unfortunately we just do not cut it in that department. Not since dirtybit left.

We have too many players who don't understand what a CAM role is. Too much selfishness and way too many "safe passes".
One thing I've noticed is how easily other teams get through our defence. The reason why is because they play long passes. Long, lofted through balls with their stackers making wide runs. We NEVER do any of that and as a result, we have to pass out way through a packed defence on the ground.

We always complain at how easily other teams get in on us. That's why they do and that's why we don't.

Did you see me single you out?

You just said we lack the creative ability and that we don't understand what CAM is.

Yes we do provide the opportunities but we fail to take them collectively.

You need to fix up on that attitude. You constantly have a me vs them stance and prefer to focus on how 'good' you are when we should be playing as a team. When someone highlights a weakness in the team, you instantly go full defensive as if we're all picking on you.

Don't really see where you're coming from with that. The first thought of whoever's CAM is always to look for a potential through ball to the striker.
The problem from there is our striker a) isn't particularly fast (and when you're 6'1 is actually slow) and b) by his own admission, can't take players on. So the build up play + through ball has to be so good that all you have left to do is the finish, which is clearly unrealistic to expect often.

I'm not useless on the ball. It's clear that i can see a pass and link up very well - my inability to go 1 on 1 is just a weakness to my play; we all have them so don't act like i'm the only one.

What I mean is exactly what I outlined below. Our passes are extremely safe, rarely do we play long balls, especially not in the air. Now obviously we've already discussed how we need a bigger aerial presence but even so, we're so often cut open by players making wide runs.

I think a problem of ours is that we often cluster around the ball instead of making runs in behind.
Our wide players should give us a long through ball option and the striker should be available for a give and go.
I feel like when we're playing we don't really have a gameplan, but it's clear watching other teams that they do.
As soon as their keeper gets the ball, there's a player stood out wide for a quick counter - just simple things like that which we all need to improve on as a team if we have any hope in the higher divisions

Not saying you're useless on the ball - just that taking players on isn't your strength, and not acting like you're the only one with a weakness.

You have a point with the bold. Our wingers come inside looking for the ball, and our strikers come deep looking for it, which makes everything congested. We just need to stretch the pitch with you being right on the last man and the wingers being near the touchline. That'll make the CAM's job so much easier.