Fair enough i agree defenders are suppose to push up the field In real life situation
But its most definately a flaw in the game because people know this is an easy tactic to use and are taking advantage of it , its sometimes undefendable
You leave yourself vulernable and theres is not much you can do which i unrealistic
Ask yourself this, would a premiership football team get away with trying this everytime they are on the counter or do you see teams regularly do this at every counter attack? No they dont, because in real life it is not that easy.
I see what you're saying, but I think some people are getting the issue confused (or making it more complicated than it really is). Let me put it this way, it's actually quite similar to the way in which the crossing was too effective in PES 2012. Far, far, far too many goals were carbon copies where the ball was crossed into the middle and the striker headed the ball right into the middle of the net with little or no effort. It was too repeatable, too effective, and too easy to pull off and yet there was little or nothing the opposing team could do about it. So, what did Konami do? Well, first they patched the game (PES 2012) and the headers became slightly less effective. Then, in PES 2013 they made headers almost impossible to score with, but then updated it so that headers are at least possible, but not nearly as effective as in PES 2012. So, with headed goals they now have a pretty good balance...
Likewise, the through ball in PES 2013 is simply way too effective and easy to pull off. The OP (and others, like me) aren't saying that the through ball isn't part of the game (of course it is!), we're just saying it is out of balance in PES 2013.
As for the "high line" perhaps part of the confusion is the fact that it's not really the high line itself that's the problem. It's also the fact that defenders seem to have trouble being in the right position (often regardless of how well you control them), and, simply put, the strikers seem to win these battles far too often and too easily. The facts speak for themselves, because so many players online continually hoof the ball up the middle of the pitch and have not a lick of anything else to their gameplan (zero build up, zero possession, and seemingly zero skill) and yet they can be very effective with this sort of unrealistic and ugly tactic.
I disagree wholeheartedly with the contention that "this is football" because all you have to do is watch a handful of online matches and you will see that the PES 2013 is being played nothing like what you see on TV or play yourself in real life. Yes, some teams, like Arsenal for example, play a very high defensive line, but does this mean they concede bucketfuls of goals from through balls that are always the same over and over and over again? No, it's actually an effective tactic, partially because the defenders are able to catch those "cherry-picking" strikers offside more often than not, but also because when a team has a lot of possession in real life and they push up the pitch, it is actually more effective than in PES 2013, and the passing is also not so
deadly accurate all the time.
In fact, the way I think it should be is that if you were to play that way (long through balls all the time), then only occasionally would your 50 yard hail-Mary pass cause any sort of trouble for the defence. Keep in mind that these passes are often coming from defenders, not the likes of Pirlo, and that simply put the longer and more desperate a pass you make, the less effective it should be! Yes, it should be in the game, and yes, defenders should hug the half-way line when their team has possession, but the team under pressure kicking the ball up the field should result in a clear chance on goal only a very small fraction of the time compared to the way it works in PES 2013. As an opposing team if you hoof the ball all the way up the field to a single striker I should be happy, and thinking "oh, good, I'm going to get the ball back right away" not "crap, here comes another goal." That one player should not constantly win out over the entire defence, he should be isolated and well covered, and the defenders should sort their bloody legs out!
So, perhaps the OP simply needs to re-state the question (not to say that it is simply a matter of how high the backline is that is the problem) so that we can address the question more directly. How do you stop teams from being so effective with continual repeated through balls with little or no possession (a well timed through ball with a proper build up is another story and arguably should be very difficult to defend against, especially if the player with possession is patient and makes intelligent movements, waiting for space to open up in the defence).
