retired_rayrhi

Last 3 matches with Sunderland. Currently on a nine match unbeaten run and smashing teams to pieces.

H Sheff Wed—
Lost 2-1:
4 minutes: GOAL (Tudgay) Apparently this guy has been watching Maradonna. He picks the ball up on the half-way line and then proceeds to weave his way between my players like they are traffic cones and scores a goal second only to Maradonna's against England in 1986.
1 shot, 1 on target, 1 goal

42nd minute: GOAL (Anthony Gardner) I score from a corner after:
13 shots, 7 on target, 1 goal.

85th minute: PENALTY for Wednesday. Amazingly they miss and it's still 2-1. Shots update:
Me: 22 shots, 10 on target, 1 goal
Sheff Wed: 2 shots, 1 on target, 1 goal.

87th minute: GOAL (Tudgay) The ball is lumped over Anthony Gardner who clearly is sitting on the floor because he doesn't move. Tudgay simply runs clean through and slots home. 2-1 Sheff Wed. Shots update:
Me: 24 shots, 11 on target, 1 goal
Sheff Wed: 4 shots, 3 on target, 2 goals

A Ipswich
Won 2-1, but:
4 minutes (AGAIN) goal for Ipswich.
I come back and win, but check out the shots again.
Ipswich: 3 shots, 1 on target, 1 goal

H Wolves
D 1-1
I take the lead after 13 with a Freddy Eastwood goal.

46th minute, GOAL (Boothroyd)
Free kick, header, goal.

Full time shots tally:
Me: 23 shots, 14 on target, 1 goal
Wolves: 2 shots, 1 on target, 1 goal

Possession was an amazing 67% to 33% in my favour, yet I simply could not win. It is becoming more and more clear to me now that I have found a formation/system that the AI can not cope with, thus it is beginning to 'cheat' its way through games. Theorise as much as you like as to what I am doing wrong tactically, but the stats do not lie. I am absolutely destroying teams and this is happening. The taste in my mouth is becoming more and more sour daily. This is not acceptable, and it's dirty and cheap. Any thoughts?...

retired_alyalesch

heres a good one
Udinese(me) V Inter

4 minutes - I take the lead (beautiful passing move)
5 minutes - Inter draw level (Pelesque dribble by, wait for it... cambiaso)
7 minutes - Inter take the lead (patrick veira dribbling past my MC's and smashing one home)
73 minutes - I draw level (great piece of magic from Asamoah
77 minutes - Zanetti gets in on the action all 5'10" of him with his tremendous stats of 9 for heading and 9 for jumping, managers to jump like skippy himself over my 6'5" buten with his 19 for heading and 19 for jumping, to hammer home a header.
90 minutes - score 3-2 to iter.

stats:
possesion: inter 43% udinese 57%
shots: inter 6 udines 13
shots on target: inter 4 udinese 9
pass completion: inter 64% udinese 72%

now the stats speak for themselves, my tactic clearly worked yet the reward was fruitless. Btw my goalkeeper in better than decent (morgan de sanctis). This ends my 14 game unbeaten run, is this AI's way of conspiring against me so that i will never be able to dominate this game

kdunn

The computer is a lot more attacking in the last few minutes, I think from about 75 minutes to go you will get a lot of attacks.

My suggestion is to be more defensive and you may improve. If your tactic works for 80 minutes and then goes wrong its down to your defence.

retired_alyalesch

i play a defensive, counter attacking, plentyfull time waisting, short passing, slow tempo, rare closing down tactic. So i'm not going gung-ho in the last 15 minutes if that what your suggesting

retired_rayrhi

Sorry to be so abrupt, but you have NO idea whether the computer becomes more attacking in the last 15 minutes or so. Are you saying that I should shut up shop, at home, against a weaker side? sorry, but that's nonsense. This would mean that the odds are heavily stacked in the favour of the AI, meaning, the opposition's tactics have far more impact on a game than yours. If the balance is this out of whack, so to speak, then it's no wonder we are suffering unjustly. I feel that in an attempt to eliminate super-tactics, the game has been made almost impossible to decipher, thus ruining the enjoyment and the fun for everyone. If we are supposed to win, then just let us win for God's sake. There is a DEFINITE correlation (I have noticed), between strong tactic and the AI 'cheating'.

retired_alyalesch

Sorry to be so abrupt, but you have NO idea whether the computer becomes more attacking in the last 15 minutes or so. Are you saying that I should shut up shop, at home, against a weaker side? sorry, but that's nonsense. This would mean that the odds are heavily stacked in the favour of the AI, meaning, the opposition's tactics have far more impact on a game than yours. If the balance is this out of whack, so to speak, then it's no wonder we are suffering unjustly. I feel that in an attempt to eliminate super-tactics, the game has been made almost impossible to decipher, thus ruining the enjoyment and the fun for everyone. If we are supposed to win, then just let us win for God's sake. There is a DEFINITE correlation (I have noticed), between strong tactic and the AI 'cheating'. </BLOCKQUOTE>

i agree with "arteta is god" especially about the AI compensating for super tatics

Sky King

barcelona mate, it's not that uncommon that a team heavily dominated somehow pull out a win.
I remember Southampton scoring an early goal and went onto beat Man Utd after withstanding tremendous pressure throughout the match.

Your Udinese-Inter match was unfortunate, but it falls under the realm of reasonable, possible outcomes.

retired_cmt82000

I agree with everything that is being said in this thread; but think about what the alternative would be. It seems to me that the game is set up to handicap the human player in order to balance the long term league results.

As most people on these boards have found, it isn’t abnormal to dominate the vast majority of your games in a given year. My guess is that SI found this during the testing phase and put in a system to create results more in line with real life outcomes. The problem this causes is that now player input doesn’t come close to matching the game output, which is extremely frustrating to say the least.

So would the alternative, 35 wins in the EPL and a few cups each year, be any more fun then the current game? Certainly not for me, that kind of game means that I would have played two or three careers out to 2012 or so and then never opened it again. As it is now, I play until I get to frustrated, at which point I take a week or two off and then break down and start playing again.

kdunn

No. Youre taking comments personaly and thats not going to help your situation.

If you look at the way the computer plays, it will often change its approach to the game (thats why there are so many attacks in the later stages)

Your problem could be due to the fact you aren't changing your tactic at all or you approach. You seem to be aware there is a problem but unwilling to do anything about it, but we all have our different methods.

retired_alyalesch

yep but how often does that southampton - man utd match result re-occur over the course of a season, once or twice maybe. These results frequently effect most players so qouting small examples of one off matches just doesn't explaing this phenomena.