Ultimate Team

[tenrou]

I bring koke on as a midfield sub.  I found him okay as a left mid but any further forward I found his finishing awful.

[Steely]

I play him as my number 10, I was probably getting a bit excited, he hasn't set the world alight but he has been very good for me.

[AlfromSleep]

Ended up one win short of gold 3, gutted. 

 

Going to make sure I get rivals rank 1 rewards this week then gonna have some time off fifa to see if a break from it does me any good like in previous years. 

[Bennette98]

Was looking at investing in a Felipe Anderson OTW last week expecting him to get another IF at some point. Was being tight over the price and didn't want to spend the 110k and was trying to get him for as cheap as possible so was bidding up to 105k, gave up in the end.

 

Course he scores two at the weekend and is now worth 200k+ 

 

EDIT: Being tight over 5k as I could see his price was coming down throughout the week.

[Pants McSkill]

10 hours ago, hannay said:

I hope you pack opening had been better than mine @Pants McSkill. 6 packs for my weekly rewards and the 20 from Serie A and all very average.

 

 

It went much better this time round. None of the big TotW players, but I did pack a cheeky French Juve midfielder.

 

 

 

Cast your eyes boys, cos it's the only time you'll ever see World-Cup winner Blaise Matuidi in a Millwall shirt.

 

 

Other pulls of note:

Kepa – Jumbo premium gold pack

Keita – prime players pack

Benzema – mega pack

Ederson & Weghorst IF – Mega Pack

Weghorst IF – Mega pack

Falcao – Prime Electrum Players Pack

 

 

 

[hannay]

I packed Cavani over the weekend. He is incredible. Can't remember what pack from though... him and buffon inspired me to see what I could build from my players in FRA1..

 

 

[Steely]

There is a great solid half team in there for a hyrbid. (The right side obviously.)

 

I have been doing WL with my untradeable team.

 

Switching to a 4-2-3-1 after kick off. James Milner at LB and Alba LM.

 

James Milner at left back exemplifies everything wrong with Pace on this game, I'm not exaggerating when I say this, he has come up again Salah and Aubamayang in the past few games. Not only has be been able to keep pace with them, he has been able to catch them up and take the ball off them.  (He is only on basic chem as well.)

 

I really need to capture some videos of his LB performances, 'tis truelly baffling.

 

I think I'm 9 for 12 at the minute. I'm definitely finding Weekend League easier that Rivals!

[Timmo]

This game is exhausting! I'm up to 14 wins but each game is such a slog.

 

I think Elite 3 will be out of reach for now, especially since I'm facing super team after super team.

[Jerec]

I need some tips from you guys.

 

I really dont think I'm great at this game, but I'm not shit either, Gold 3 should be in reach for me, but I just can't seem to grasp it.

 

What the F am I doing wrong???

[Timmo]

7 minutes ago, Jerec said:

I need some tips from you guys.

 

I really dont think I'm great at this game, but I'm not shit either, Gold 3 should be in reach for me, but I just can't seem to grasp it.

 

What the F am I doing wrong???

 

My biggest tip would be to defend wth your midfielders and learn to switch players with the right stick.

 

Don't touch your defenders unless you have to, just make sure they're in position and then control your mids. Concentrate on covering dangerous runs and stopping opportunities to shoot from just outside the area. That area central and just outside the box needs to always be your priority, get your mids there and clog it up.

[Pants McSkill]

13 minutes ago, Jerec said:

I need some tips from you guys.

 

I really dont think I'm great at this game, but I'm not shit either, Gold 3 should be in reach for me, but I just can't seem to grasp it.

 

What the F am I doing wrong???

 

 

For the record, Gold 3 is a absolute belting achievement. 

 

The thing that really improved my game was concentrating on mastering one thing at a time. I started with what Timmo is describing.

Controlling 'Zone 14', the area centrally outside the box.

https://www.globallcoach.com/blog/2018/3/23/zone-14-explaining-the-trends-and-buzzwords

 

I made sure that I'm controlling my CDM here, never sprinting and holding Jockey as often as possible to block passes and shots.

Then, once I had that down, I really focused on my positioning - protecting the finesse shot, and then being able to read dangerous passes.

 

If they play it backwards, fine. If they go wide, fine.

I'm just concentrating on improving my control of this area.

 

 

 

[Jerec]

22 minutes ago, Timmo said:

 

My biggest tip would be to defend wth your midfielders and learn to switch players with the right stick - I do that, but not sure if its me but it doesnt seem to work as well as it did in FIFA18? For example an attacker is coming down the middle towards the box as theres a space, I want to pick the lower CB so flick the RS towards him but instead it will always pick the other one, and as I'm probably holding up on the LS the CB then makes the space wider! It just doesnt seem to be as precise as the previous game was.

 

Don't touch your defenders unless you have to, just make sure they're in position and then control your mids. Concentrate on covering dangerous runs and stopping opportunities to shoot from just outside the area. That area central and just outside the box needs to always be your priority, get your mids there and clog it up.

 

Yeah I need to put more faith in the AI perhaps.

[Steely]

Never heard of zone 14, but thats what I've been trying to defend my entire Fifa life.

 

Its an area I am never able to breach myself but If I do get in there, this fifa more than ever I just shimmy and shoot on site.

 

I'm constantly just trying to work the ball across the pitch myself, I've finding I'm less useful an counter attacks in this version but sweeping move across the pitch from LB to RW is where I find a lot of joy.

[Jerec]

20 minutes ago, Pants McSkill said:

 

 

For the record, Gold 3 is a absolute belting achievement. 

 

The thing that really improved my game was concentrating on mastering one thing at a time. I started with what Timmo is describing.

Controlling 'Zone 14', the area centrally outside the box.

https://www.globallcoach.com/blog/2018/3/23/zone-14-explaining-the-trends-and-buzzwords

 

I made sure that I'm controlling my CDM here, never sprinting and holding Jockey as often as possible to block passes and shots.

Then, once I had that down, I really focused on my positioning - protecting the finesse shot, and then being able to read dangerous passes.

 

If they play it backwards, fine. If they go wide, fine.

I'm just concentrating on improving my control of this area.

 

 

Thats a cool little blog.

 

[Jerec]

7 minutes ago, Steely said:

Never heard of zone 14, but thats what I've been trying to defend my entire Fifa life.

 

Its an area I am never able to breach myself but If I do get in there, this fifa more than ever I just shimmy and shoot on site.

 

I'm constantly just trying to work the ball across the pitch myself, I've finding I'm less useful an counter attacks in this version but sweeping move across the pitch from LB to RW is where I find a lot of joy.

 

What I find used against me a lot of the time is the long balls across the whole pitch to their Wingers and Forwards.

 

How are those done?

 

Is it the long ball tactics in the custom area?

[Steely]

I dont use them that often, I usually just pass it along the ground.

 

The way to do them though, is over the top through ball, just hold it for longer to get it across the pitch.

[nakamura]

Drive those balls!

[tenrou]

I'm not brilliant and I have played far better players than me  but for me I find I play best when I slow down, take my finger of the sprint trigger and use some timed finessing   

 

I hated kroos when I played how I used to play but as I've slowed the play down and started to timed finess from the edge hes grown on me.

 

I'm about 1500 skill points btw so not brilliant.  Take my advice with a handful of salt.

 

[Jerec]

This is my squad, deffo not terrible!

 

I should be winning more games!

[Jerec]

22 minutes ago, tenrou said:

I'm not brilliant and I have played far better players than me  but for me I find I play best when I slow down, take my finger of the sprint trigger and use some timed finessing   

 

I hated kroos when I played how I used to play but as I've slowed the play down and started to timed finess from the edge hes grown on me.

 

I'm about 1500 skill points btw so not brilliant.  Take my advice with a handful of salt.

 

 

I dropped to 690 SPs so don’t worry. Trying to get that Scream card. Scoring with Dost was a joke.

[hannay]

1500? I'm in 3 digits 

[Mitchell]

3 hours ago, Jerec said:

What I find used against me a lot of the time is the long balls across the whole pitch to their Wingers and Forwards.

 

How are those done?

 

Yeah, like Steely said, just an over the top through ball out wide, but I use two fast left and right mids (Cuadrado & COsta) and sometimes they don't catch up with them.  You need a really good long passer to get them accurate, and you need a pacey player to catch it.  I find them very iuseful though.  SOmetimes it can create a goalscoring opportunity if the first touch is good and you can knock it on 2/3 times, bnut more often that not, it creates a chance for an assist.  

 

2 hours ago, tenrou said:

I'm not brilliant and I have played far better players than me  but for me I find I play best when I slow down, take my finger of the sprint trigger and use some timed finessing   

 

I hated kroos when I played how I used to play but as I've slowed the play down and started to timed finess from the edge hes grown on me.

 

Same...the control is much better, it's harder for the oppo to get the ball off you and if you have trop drawer long shot player, you can score a fuckload from outside the box.  

 

3 hours ago, Jerec said:

 

Yeah I need to put more faith in the AI perhaps.

 

Aye, I use it a lot. Sometimes I just track runners with my player, nowhere near the ball.  And jockey aaalllllll the time.  I feel that if I am using one of my defenders to get the ball off a striker, I've failed!  

[Jerec]

I have seen players literally pushed off the ball, I though that was the L2 button, but I can't seem to make that happened either?! 

[AlfromSleep]

I got really frustrated with FIFA today, nothing was working at all, a couple of matches excepted. The frustration led to me trying to force things even more which is a recipe for defeat. 

[Timmo]

I completely fell apart and finishing Gold 2, ugh.

 

The last team I faced was worth over 10m coins!

[Pants McSkill]

Having only started my WL last night, I'm trying to cram in as many as possible.

Currently 9-5, but just got utterly battered 3-0, one of those games where your players have treacle for legs when trying to run, but extra elasticated pinball bumpers for legs when trying to take a first touch.

So a break for a couple of hours is needed.

 

I can hit another two wins this evening for Silver one and maybe get 4 or 4, but as WL runs to 7am, I'm half tempted to get up early and try and hit gold 3.

 

 

[gooner4life]

I got gold 3 but stopped, could comfortably get gold 2 possibly gold 1 or elite 3 but I don’t want the frustration, the servers have been shit every game has been treacle like, can’t even do a la croqueta it takes ages, inputs don’t register, it’s been like this since the servers went down. 

 

Gonna take a couple of weeks off the weekend league I think, not feeling fifa at the moment.

[AlfromSleep]

I’m the same @gooner4life, no weekend league for a while for me. Just need 150k to hit the million coin mark so hopefully the rewards this week pay out. 

 

Will keep up rivals to get those rewards but picking up Red Dead 2 later on so that’ll be my main focus for a while. 

[Mitchell]

Hugs for everyone!  

 

It is a grind, isn't it?  I was actually relieved hitting Gold 3 and only having 2 games left so I could have a night off. It feels like something hanging over you on the weekend, doesn't it?  I made some stupid mistakes too @AlfromSleep, pushing for 'one last win' before bed, fucking stupid thing to do.  Diving in when frustrated and giving away stupid fouls/reds.  I'm think I'm going to do week on/week off @gooner4life, to try to give myself a bit of a WL break.  

 

Might be a good idea to do it in the AM @Pants McSkill, as a lot of people will have finished, so you'll just be playing against desperate dregs that will quit after 2 goals go in.  

 

Anyway, I just want to say well done everyone.  You're all amazing.  This is tough, but if we stick together, we can accomplish anything.  

 

[Pants McSkill]

New League SBCs, Liga NOS and MLS.

 

I was about halfway to prepping MLS... I have 10 teams ready, and I need no more than 4 players for any of the others... except for Sporting KC who for some reason I have none.

That;'s gonna be pricey too. 

 

OK, the net league I'm getting fucking sorted.