I've never played online, but I have watched it before with keen interest. There's a lot of people out there who just have the knack of scoring, and they often do very, very well online. But saying that, they are rarely creative and they're types who would take the uninspiring, quickest route to goal as opposed to having a crack from 30 yards. I'm sure this is how/why they beat people, by taking advantage of the more 'dynamic' player. They just know how to win, which is obviously great, but even so I've definitely seen far better players lose. The reason I'm saying all of this is that if you are not winning, like you say you aren't, it may not be because you're crap and maybe because you are actually trying to do the game justice and be adventurous. There are no doubt genius' who get twatted on a regular basis, with mediocre/awful stats, but who play it for PLEASURE and with brilliant CREATIVITY...they lose when the other guy playing watered-down pass n shoot, one dimensional football trounces him. Just my opinion like, but I think most of the successful onliners are very, very boring to watch. I really think they play like robots.
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