I played a match on beginner for fun and was expecting to score 100 goals but the inevitable happened. I had millions of one-on-ones with defenders 30m away from me and they still miss. I was playing with a mediocre team with decent shooters (Aston Villa) and the amont of shots I missed was unbelievable. They then score against me with their first bllody shot on target with this fast black man speed bursting all my defenders and burying it in the corner. Eventhough I drew 1-1 and got an open net, it surely shouldn't be ths hard just to roll it past the keeper in 20 attempts on goal, shouldn't it Sabatasso? Also Sabatasso, why is it easy for the CPU to blast superblasts when we can't even put away our chances?The keeper operates differently in training mode than in a match situation. I'm not sure if it's because of shots being partially covered by defenders, or if they simply use a different AI.
Besides, I don't really give a flying fart if you believe me or not. I never said that I scored most of my goals from that area, only that I scored almost every time I was unpressured in that position with a decent shooter. The lower shooting stats, the lesser goals scored, obviously. As I play mostly with Spurs, the shooters are mostly Modric, Parker and Van der Vaart. I notice a good deal difference between the three, obviously. Body positioning is more important than player abilities, though, and the worse the shooter, the more important positioning and balance are.
I kinda like this years shooting, as it works if you know how to do it, and you can't blast supergoals on a regular basis without having a clue about the game. It separates the good players from the not so good players, and team strength does not matter as much as it used to during two player or online. I wouldn't mind the shot power being a little bit harder, though.
I actually score most of my goals from clear cut chances inside the box. Hardly ever from headers, except the odd nod from Adebayor.
PS. Don't forget to lob the keeper, "change player" button + shoot is almost too good in this release. I use it whenever the keeper leave the line for some reason, and it works too good once you sort out how much power you need to put into it from different ranges.
P.S. I used all types of shooting - R2 (Finesse), short lob, high trajected lob, knuckleshots and I still manage to score only 1!