urgent: I've Become a Pushover!!

[wowie]

Seriously, body balance and power is SO overrated in this game!

me and my friend like to play against each other and we've sort of raped all the other teams to make ours godly, and also to fit our style of play.

My friend stinks at playing defence and he made his team before I did, so he got the first call on almost all players: this is how he plays:

-------------------------buffon--------------------
----------------stam---cannavaro---r. ferdinand------
------metzelder------------------------------ayala---
-------------------heitinga--cambiasso--------------
------------------------ronaldihno-------------------
---------------owen-----------------adriano---------


all the arrows and defense levels are default for a 5-3-2


this is my team:
------------------------cech--------------------
------------toure--------thuram-------puyol------
-----------------------gerrard--------------------
-----kaka------------------------------srg. ramos--
----------rooney-------------------luque---------
---------------eusebio---------drogba-------------

what woudl be the best formation for my team? i tried torres but he's too weak and slow for that monstrous defense, trade ibrahimovic for drogba, etc. this is not my final team.


mostly i cannot penetrate his defense! i like to run along the flanks and cross, or sometimes dribble and shoot. however, rio ferdinand stops kaka cold and stam starts taking the role of gandalf in lotr: "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!" cambiasso keeps taking the ball off of rooney.

without any offense going my way, i cannot rely on my defense as my defense is only 3 men back. do i need two DMFs to get the ball more upfield?

I used to constantly win until my friend found this crazy formation of his. If i dont find a solution soon, i might quit the game because its no fun to take a spanking constantly when you're good enough to win.

so plz help! suggest player combos, formations, a/d arrows, anything.
i'm so tired I'M WILLING TO REVAMP MY ENTIRE TEAM!
thx, you guys are great

 

[requiem7]

What you need to do other than change you're team is to change you're playing styles. You are probably so used to each other that you are cancelling each other out. Instead of running down the flanks try a flighted through ball. Kaka and gerrard should be good at that. either straight down the wing or diagonally. Use you're good shooters to shoot from distance. And practice you're corner kicks.

 

[dicky_t]

i agree with the change of style its far too attacking ,opening yourself up for a counter attack from his tough defence

i would play a flat back 4 with backward arrows on the full backs to try and keep a solid back line 3 in the middle one as a DM and kaka and gerrard as CM then 3 up top but not too far apart say 4 or 5 spaces on the team edit sheet ,this will be enough to cover quickly all the areas of the box ,and occupy each defender

----------GK----------
--FB---CB----CB---FB--
----------DM-----------
----CM--------CM------
-----CF---SS---CF-----

when i use a similar formation ,i find working the ball across the back 4 from fullback to fullback then playing a long aerial through ball to someone with pace sometiemes opens them up ,even a bad defensive header can roll on to your player and you have the opening (usually back line depth A+B) as you will have a foreward on the shoulder of each central defender ,if you have enough time when your through wait till your other two forewards catch up then shoot across the goal if there keeper saves it ,it usually spills out into the path of an oncoming foreward who cant miss ,but when they play defensive line C its best to not to play this as the pass will be picked off with ease

when he defends deep instead of playing the aerial through ball play a long X pass from full back to foreward this will be to feet he will pull the defender with him ,and with your foreward you pass to one of your CM who will be close to range to shooting ,or one of your forewards will have run into the posistion vacated by your foreward enabling a through ball

with your foreward occupying the back 3 this should leave room for lots of long range shots by your two CM ,gerrard and kaka are fantastic long range shots ,double tap your R1 to push the ball in front of you then then walk on to it while aiming and holding the shoot button to give his keeper a thunderbolt shot even with out the double both kaka and gerrard are more than capable of scoring from long range

another way would be to dominate midfeild using a 4-5-1 formation and just looking for long range shots ,perhaps using adriano as an AM as his shot is abseloutley incredible

 

[Rkid005uk]

you are sad and pathetic for writing so much. Good god man, masterbate or something!

 

[wowie]

you are sad and pathetic for writing so much. Good god man, masterbate or something!

ladies and gentlemen, if you have EVER wondered what a troll looks like, Rkid is a perfect example.


dicky and requiem, thx for your replies. since my post, i changed to a 4-2-2-2 with the third 2 being wingers Martins and Kaka. My forwards are eto and eusebio.

so far, the only trouble i'm having is 1-on-1 scoring. any help?

 

[requiem7]

ladies and gentlemen, if you have EVER wondered what a troll looks like, Rkid is a perfect example.


dicky and requiem, thx for your replies. since my post, i changed to a 4-2-2-2 with the third 2 being wingers Martins and Kaka. My forwards are eto and eusebio.

so far, the only trouble i'm having is 1-on-1 scoring. any help?

try lobbing the keeper. or go round the keeper for added humiliation.

 

[dicky_t]

to be honest with you ,this is what i do when i`m not masturbating ,but thanks for the negativity makes me wonder why you even bother reading the boards

but back to the post 1-on-1 scoring playing with newcastle ,i put owen on to his stronger right foot without using R1 i use him to place the ball

but with martins outside the box i use left foot as this is more powerfull and accurate ,inside the box with martins i use his weaker right because his accuracy stats arent that good ,i use this because it opens the goal up for a higher percentage of scoring or a rebound on to the oncoming owen

 

[Moomymoo]

Rest assured Dicky that people appreciate the comments you make.

 

[Rkid005uk]

ladies and gentlemen, if you have EVER wondered what a troll looks like, Rkid is a perfect example.


A troll? I liked trolls, they were pretty cute. wait a minute..... are you coming onto me?

 

[Mourinhosdog]

every1 recons adrianos mint, but apart from shot power and balance he's naff, i'd say drogba though

 

[dicky_t]

i dont think adriano is naff but i do agree he is overated ,as on overall foreward on this game but he does however have a lethal shot if you can work the space for him espicially if you double tap R1 and move the ball for him to run onto and shoot ,but apart from that its how you play with him

personally if i wanted a player like that in my team i would take gerrard ,similar type of shot ,one of my first games online was against a guy who could play using this technique with gerrard he scored a screamer like that ,the second he hit the keeper so hard it knocked him clean out of the way ballooned up and went out over the bar ,and the third my keeper left it for the post to deal with simply because he didnt see it ,all these shots were way outside the box and ive never seen anyone do the power shots anywhere near as good as ever since

but it was one of my first games online ,and i probably gave him too much time and space ,he must have thought it was xmas all over and my real name is santa