I just had an absolute barnstormer of a game on Fifa and its changed my mind set totally about how to play it. I cant play online atm so i am just playing Friendlies. Anyway i played Marseille v Celtic at the Millenium Stadium which is now definetly my favourite stadium out of the 50 or so. The pitch is beautiful, You can see the fans during play and it looks outstanding on goal kicks etc. Bit of back story, basically ive been Liverpool in my Manager mode for 3 seasons and now have a rediculous squad with players like, Ronaldo, Villa, Dan Alves, Evera, Essien, Abonglahor, Ash young littered throughout my team. Playing with a team like that absolutely frikin kills games dead. I thought having a squad like that would be amazing and open doors but all it does is lead you down a one way street. You basically never conceed, can achieve anything at your say so and all it does having a team like that is encourage you to run, run, run and just simply play 1 dimensional football. You dont need to use skill and because your team are so quick and agile there is no space on the pitch anymore. You move forward one step and you've covered 5m and takes away space and time on the ball and all situations become to feel the same. It sucks badly and is dredfully boring. If you havnt gone down the route of picking a big club dont.
Anyway so i was playing a friendly. The stadium was almost as superb as the stlye of football i was playing. With Marseille i was getting the ball down and kncoking it about for the first time ever and i loved it. I found there to be a massive pitch for once for me to move around in and it actually took time to reach the other end of the pitch which was great. With all the space and time and lack of speed my players were just passing it around biding our time, looking for openings and looking great on the ball . Even if i wanted to play like that with Liverpool i couldnt. Other things were factors aswell. Playing with a small team like Marseille i dont feel like i am capable of winning 5-0 every game. Infact i only just won 2-0 against Celtic on Professional which is geat because i feel like i can actually loose a game whereas with Liverpool i knew every game i was gonna thrash them and win every cup and each win and cup felt as empty as the one befor it. With Marseille though i feel like the underdog and wins feel hard earned and grafted for along with the goals.
I love playing with the underdog feeling and sence of potencial my team has to grow . Im actually going to start a French league with Marseille. This coming from som1 who has never played a season in a football game without Liverpool etc. I cant wait. Its gonna be so good not having everything handed to me on a plate and actually having to work my way up to the top and earn my success. The satisfaction will be great. I would love finninshing 3rd or something just to remind me that i cant just boss the league and then winnig the league will be so good.