Sweeney-G Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 ok heres the plead for advice, i have players with very high stats for free kick taking, however never score from free kicks? is this due to which foot there taking them from? does anyone know exactly whether a left footer should be taking them from the left side or right side and vice versa for right footers? Thanks in advance to anyone with knowledge on this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
malleria Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I had sheehan who was an 18 but never got one on target in a season. H always, no exageration, ALWAYS, dragged it wide Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeney-G Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 yes same with my free kick takers, there all right when floating them in, but aiming for target, one word?!?!?! sh*te Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DontCallItSoccer Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Their Technique rating is also important, as it determines how cleanly they strike a ball. It's the same for penalties, not only the Penalty rating is important but also the Composure rating. Have a look at your free takers and see what their Technique rating is. If that is low, it might explain why you score few free kicks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeney-G Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 ok not sure whether im allowed to name players so i wont, but his free kick taking is 18, with technique being 19? however he is left footed so would this mean only allowing him to take them from the left side? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylorsmen Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Had the same problem,however my free kick taker is now starting to hit the back of the net (from time to time) i think like someone else mentioned,technique plays an important part in free kicks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
50_kwache Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Does anyone else find that a lot of freekicks hit the bar in this game? I have a regen left winger with 17 FK taking and he either "grazes" or "rattles" the top of the crossbar. Usually about once a match but is yet to actually score despite playing around 70 matches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeney-G Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 i dnt have this problem as my free kick takers simply put the ball about 10 miles over or 10 miles wide,disgusting for premiership quality, even if it is only for bolton ha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grep Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Cold numbers do not mean straight values, the game takes into consideration dozens of variables and values. Same speech for strikers, often who has 11 on Finishing scores lot of more goals than who has 17 and scores like a traffic light. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I thought my free kick takers were just mince, because I play in the lower leagues. But seems im wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboyjohnmulhern Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 i have some intersting data that might be appealing to see. I am Bournemouth and play in the Championship who i have managed for almost 7 seasons... yet i can vaguely remember 1 goal scored from a freekick! http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=champijonshippl6.jpg http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=premiershipsq0.jpg http://img10.imageshack.us/my.php?image=league1jw1.jpg Why does league 1 score so much more than mine? I can only suggest something to do with detail levell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgreenio Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Decisions also plays a part, as well as maybe PPM's if they try to rifle it into the net Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboyjohnmulhern Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Has anyone seen the 3 pictures i uploaded, i find them fascinating and if people checked their own stats i suspect they will see very similar things. Look up the page a couple of comments and you will see!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgreenio Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 fatboy () can you stick them in an img, imagshack causes some people pop-up crap Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uppercut Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 patch v920 bug imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingZeroMkII Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 The only player I can count on to consistently score from free kicks is Riquelme and his godly technical stats. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uae4life Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 SI can u respond Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
muncherdave Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 patch v920 bug imo. Agreed. Elano and Petrov have been firing wide for me every single time on the highlights for half a season so far. I've had a few freekicks scored on other saves, but I think perhaps there's been a tweak a bit too far as it all happens far too rarely. Hell I'm not even asking for them to go in, I'd just like them to hit the target more often. Stats for me currently... FK (L) Elano - Free kicks = 17, Finishing = 14, Long Shots = 16, Technique = 18, Composure = 15, Creativity = 15, Decisions = 15, no PPMs. FK ® Petrov - Free kicks = 17, Finishing = 13, Long Shots = 15, Technique = 17, Composure = 12, Creativity = 12, Decisions = 8, Hits free kicks with power, Shoots with power. If they can't score the odd free kick every now and again who can? I've also read people in the Aberdeen topic in GPTG say Mulgrew has scored a lot of freekicks for them (prepatch or 9.0.1 at the latest judging by the post date), but again he's done nothing for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKL92 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 i have heard that the "hits freekicks with power" ppm is something you want to stay away from - does the op's freekick taker have this ppm? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elsgouro Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 If you assign your right-footed free kick taker to hit fouls from the left side (and the opposite for the lefty,of course), you'll see a huge difference. At least so I've seen,I discovered that by accident, tbh, though it's pretty obvious... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pires29 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 My regen has FK - 20, Technique - 17, long shots - 15, composure -16 and decisions - 15 and he's scored a grand total of 2 free kicks in 3 years. He does has the ppm "hits free kicks with power" but everytime I try and get him to stop learning it i get the news message "Player does not feel that learning this new skill would benefit his game." I'm not telling him to learn it i'm trying to get him to stop so whats going on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saevel Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Seems that games fully simulated (those in your own league) have much less Direct free kick goals than those not fully simulated. I guess the reason is that it's too hard to score off free kicks in the mach engine right now.. should be posted with those screenshots in the bug section (if it hasn't allready) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Why does league 1 score so much more than mine? I can only suggest something to do with detail levell I agree in leagues run on full detail the number of scored direct freekicks is much lower than on leagues with minimum detail. I am playing with Reutlingen in the German topflight(therefore full detail) and after 17 games only 3 teams out of 18 actually managed to score at least one direct freekick, one of which is me. That is ridiculous. While in the second division(no detail) 17 out of 18 teams have scored direct freekicks apparently. My top freekicktaker scores about 5 per season. He is a regen with 19 Free Kick Taking and Technique, 18 Long Shots, 17 Decisions and 16 Composure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindset Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Im on patch 9.0.1 and miguel veloso scores about 10 fks a season, some of them from quite a long distance or a strange angle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnompenhandy Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I'm sure there's a fault in the ME. I have Ronaldo taking my free kicks - he scores 2 DFK's per season for me. When I checked the final table just now I noted that in the whole EPL 21 DFKs were scored in the whole season! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMADDICT69 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 i've got full detail on EPL to CCL2, EPL - 21 DFK scored after 32 games per team. CCC - 163 DFK scored after 43 games each, CCL1 - 147 DFK scored after 43 games each, CCL2 - 139 DFK scored after 43 games each. now guess what league im in, yes you guessed it EPL. me thinks there is something wrong here. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reflection22 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I noticed that on Patch 9.1 I would score loads of free-kicks, while on the latest one 9.2 I hardly score any at all. Cardozo for example used to score a free-kick in nearly every game, then after the patch he just stopped. I think it was (rightly) tweaked after the first patch, but maybe a bit too much? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_da_best Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Brought Rivaldo (I know ) in first season for my pompey side, and he got quite i few. I remember them coming in big matches as well (1 vs Chelsea, 1 vs Man Utd) I cant remember his stats but he was left footed and didnt hit freekicks with power. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mezz Boms Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 it is a bug but will hopefuly be fixed in this patch coming Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davesearle1984 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Just a question. If a player has a high free kick rating, shouldnt they immediately be good at free kicks? Regardless of the other attributes? I mean if not then whats the point in having a free kick attribute? Same applies for Penalty taking and corners as well I guess I mean if I have a guy with penalty taking of 20 he should be scoring 90% of his penalties. Even if his composure is low, I mean if he misses all of his penalties because of low composure/finishing then why would he have a penalty taking stat of 20? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabregas18 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 patch v920 bug imo. Same here.. Players with 20 in free-kicks couldn't have hit the target to save their lives.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalimyr Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I mean if I have a guy with penalty taking of 20 he should be scoring 90% of his penalties. Even if his composure is low, I mean if he misses all of his penalties because of low composure/finishing then why would he have a penalty taking stat of 20?Someone could be absolutely immense at taking penalties on the training ground, but when they have to do it in front of 90,000 fans in a stadium plus X million watching on TV, they buckle under the pressure.As for the free kicks rating, you're not thinking of the bigger picture - although you've not specifically stated it, you seem to solely be thinking of direct free kicks and nothing more. All throughout my school and university life I was pretty damn good at free kicks, but I definitely preferred knocking the ball in the path of someone's head rather than going for glory myself. Not to say that I couldn't score from free kicks, but I'd generally look at free kicks initially as if they were all indirect because I felt there was more chance of me successfully getting an assist than a goal. As fun as it is, there's much more to free kicks than taking aim at the top corner of the goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davesearle1984 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Someone could be absolutely immense at taking penalties on the training ground, but when they have to do it in front of 90,000 fans in a stadium plus X million watching on TV, they buckle under the pressure.As for the free kicks rating, you're not thinking of the bigger picture - although you've not specifically stated it, you seem to solely be thinking of direct free kicks and nothing more. All throughout my school and university life I was pretty damn good at free kicks, but I definitely preferred knocking the ball in the path of someone's head rather than going for glory myself. Not to say that I couldn't score from free kicks, but I'd generally look at free kicks initially as if they were all indirect because I felt there was more chance of me successfully getting an assist than a goal. As fun as it is, there's much more to free kicks than taking aim at the top corner of the goal. Im not thinking of any particular type of free kick at all. I myself prefer crossing the ball in as I seem to be pretty good at a fast inswinging type of cross. But my point is if a player has a good free kick rating...they should be good at free kicks no? Im sure Marlon Harewood bangs in the goals in training, that doesnt give him a good finishing/long shots etc stat does it? I can understand a player with good free kick taking with low ability to handle pressure missing a fair few because he buckles under the pressure. Fair enough Im sure thats the case for lots of proffesional players. My point is if someone has low technique, and this technique means they are poor at taking free kicks or corners or penalties, then why would they have a high free kick/corner/penalty taking attribute? When researchers rate players in real life they dont say, "well he would be immense at taking free kicks if he knew how to kick the ball properly, so lets give him a free kick attribute of 20 but technique of 3", they watch the player play, see that he cant take a free kick very well and give him a low rating A rating of 20 for any attribute should mean they are as close to perfect at whatever the attribute means as you can get. If someone has a penalty taking stat of 20 they should be immense at taking penalties, even if the rest of their game is rubbish, and if they are not immense at taking penalties, then they shouldnt have a penalty taking stat of 20 If so many attributes are used to gauge whether a person is good at free kicks/penalties/corners then why do they have specific attributes in the first place? Surely the corners/free kicks/penalties attribute is completely useless? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAULHOLMES Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 "If so many attributes are used to gauge whether a person is good at free kicks/penalties/corners then why do they have specific attributes in the first place?" Because none of the other attributes speaks directly to how well someone hits FKs. In other words, a player could be great at all the other things -- technique, composure, etc. -- but still suck at FKs if his FK attribute is low. If there was no FK attribute, everyone with good technique, etc., would be able to take FKs equally well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivu Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 is this due to which foot there taking them from? does anyone know exactly whether a left footer should be taking them from the left side or right side and vice versa for right footers? I believe this makes a difference. I generally make deadball specialists take from opposite direction of their preferred foot (right corner/fk for left footed player and left cor/fk for left footed player).The FK conversion has become appalling since latest patch IMO. But I have noticed that they score some goals (7-8 a season) and are not drawing complete blanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grep Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 My players sometimes,rarely, score on freekicks ( Championship Division below Premier ), the problem is that roughly 90% of times the ball goes widely high over the bar and almost never everywhere else... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB-forever Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 My players sometimes,rarely, score on freekicks ( Championship Division below Premier ), the problem is that roughly 90% of times the ball goes widely high over the bar and almost never everywhere else... My free kick taker (Russian Premier Division) mostly hits the wall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grep Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 My players still confuse soccer with rugby about freekicks, I'll work on that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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