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This would be cool with Mourinho, but I don't think it conveys the main coolness of PES--the full control, including tricks, over players on the pitch.

Training focus points make only a small difference. Most player development comes through them playing in matches and through them maturing (regardless of training focus). Just going off my experience, I'd estimate that a typical young (17- or 18-year-old) player's development for 1 year would...

I have a lot of trouble scoring, but I'm good at defence, so I play (with slight variations) with 2 CBs, a LMF and RMF who double as right/left backs, 1 DMF, 2 CMFs, 1 AMF and 2 CF/SSs. Totally unrealistic, I know, but this has produced much better results for me than any formations with 4...

I've been carefully tracking my player progress to figure this out. What I've noticed is... - Focus points in general have very little effect on training. If you want to see a noticeable effect in one area (e.g. shooting), you really need to crank the focus points up to 9 or 10. Even then, the...

I use short corners. I'd say I score on about 1 out of every 10 or 15 corners--about the same as the AI taking his corners long. Plus you get to feel like Barcelona.

One way to make an investment is to promote and then release all youth players in August. It costs you a bit, but in January you get an all-new youth team, usually including some pretty solid prospects. Promote those prospects, then do it again come August.

I have a lot of trouble with AI comebacks as well, but I find that total defence just makes things worse--the best defence is to have possession, and on all-out-defence, the AI will usually get the ball off you sooner rather than later, and usually in your half. I'm experimenting now with...

Oh, and another thing I've discovered: focus on defence in thier half. On professional level, the AI defence is generally just too good to get anything past them when they're in position. The best time to catch them is when they're just starting a counter-attack. Nick the ball off them in their...

Actually, I could use some more advice with this. So far, I've had absolutely no luck with crosses--every one just gets headed away by the opposition defenders. How do you actually score with crosses??? Also, another attacking tip for newbs like me playing with a low-skill team: low...

OK, I'm starting to win more now. I'm in 7th place in the nPower Championship and in the semi-finals of the FA Cup (where I will face my first premiership side and probably take a serious beating. I'm just hoping I can lose by less than 3... :ohmy:). For anybody else who finds themselves in...

[Note: I’m currently playing with a young team (average rating for starters is maybe 66 or 67) in the nPower Championship.] I just switched from regular to professional difficulty, because regular was getting too easy to be fun. However, I find that on professional, my old strategy for...

And here they are... 1) If I put the same training item (e.g. mini-goal) in both of a player's pockets, does that mean he gets double the micro-boost? Or is the repeated item wasted? 2) If I want to improve a player's body balance, what training item should I put in his pocket? Balance...