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All you lot are on about defenders catching up with strikers, however this is realistic - man u vs barcelona, how much timess did messi with 98 dribble speed be caught up with park ji sung. Or what about when rosicky caught up with C.ronaldo with 97 dribble speed. remember when you have the ball you run slower so it is easier for defenders to catch up with you. And the fact a defender has balance to push you off the ball so it is realistic
Is it realistic that Argentina are better than Barcelona simply because Argentina has faster players?
That's not realistic at all mate. PES11 is an arcade game, it's not realistic in any way, shape, or form. The substance of the game is clearly missing, which is why teams like Argentina, with loads of fast and skillful players, are unrealistically good, because there's no substance underneath all the passes and all the animations.
That's probably the main reason for why we have the ridiculous "defender catch up" problem, because it's the only way Konami could balance the game a little bit. The fact that teams with fast players (Real Madrid, Argentina, etc) are unrealistically good regardless of the "defender catch up" balancing act, makes me wonder how awesome such teams would be without the mentioned balancing trick.
At the end of the day. PES11 is utter shit in terms of movement without the ball, you cannot describe a footy video game as "realistic" when the movement without the ball is extremely unrealistic.