Conceding penalties

After winning League 2 in my first season I'm struggling to stay up in League 1. I'm in 22nd place with 32 matches gone, but I havent been helped by the 10 (ten) penalties I have conceded in the League alone this season. Does anyone know why I am giving away so many penalties and how I can stop it because they are invariably late equalisers and winners and it's getting a bit annoying.

I'm Crewe by the way, not that that will really help...

Maybe in the first season your defenders were some of the best in the league and had tight marking so they won most of their "battles" with the strikers but now the strikers are better and they aren't winning those "battles" anymore? Maybe stop them tight marking or play Zonal instead of mixed or man?

PS i'm no tactical expert

I'll give zonal a try and see how that goes

You are defending to deep maybe? cb's on hard tackling?

What is your teams tackling set too?

Im on hard tackling but my defensive line is pretty high. I'll try standard tackling as well as zonal and see if I have any joy

OK, im now on zonal marking and standard tackling. The good news is I won my next two matches, 4-0 v Tranmere and 1-2 at Swindon. I also went 2-0 up early on at home to Bristol Rovers. But then My centre half gave a way penalty number 11 of the season. 2-1 at half time. This one was fair enough though, chopping down the striker as he ran in on goal. Most of the others seem to have been for clumsy off the ball incidents.

The Bristol Rovers match finished 2-2 and was quickly followed by a local derby, Stockport at home. 0-1 at half time I was in real trouble but the players praised my half time rollocking, which turned the game around as we strolled the second half for a final score of 4-1. All of a sudden the great escape looks on.

Well done sounds good

Do you people ever get penalties get called against you? In 4 seasons I've only had one. And I had like 20 penalties for me which my player only missed once. I've set my GK as the PK shooter now to see if he's gonna miss it or score it to experiment something I've been thinking.

A 2-2 draw at fellow strugglers Carlisle was a disappointing result having been 2-0 up, but it left the crucial 6-pointer v Hartlepool neatly poised. It was 3-0 after 40 minutes but then 3-2 after 50. We went 4-2 up before two goals from corners pegged it back to 4-4. Two late goals made it 6-4 however. a classic!

With 6 games to go, we now have 43 points from 40 games and are out of the relegation zone for the first time all season, and what's more, we're not conceding penalties. Still tight though, from 17th down to 22nd there is only 3 points difference and it could well take 52+ points for safety.

I've got MK Dons on the last day of the season, and they're in 18th. It could be crucial because before that I've got Norwich (a - 2nd), Millwall (h - 3rd), Leyton Orient (a -7th), Southend (h - 8th) and Wycombe (h - 9th). Think I'm going to need to pick up a surprise win or two somewhere...

Oh no! A return to the bad old days. Norwich 3 Crewe 2. No sooner have I scored a late and dramatic equaliser then my left back bundles their striker over in the box. 3-2.

Im on hard tackling but my defensive line is pretty high. I'll try standard tackling as well as zonal and see if I have any joy

I play zonal marking and rarely give pens away. No hard tackling from anybody unless its really called for during the match.

Oh no! A return to the bad old days. Norwich 3 Crewe 2. No sooner have I scored a late and dramatic equaliser then my left back bundles their striker over in the box. 3-2.

can you post a screen of the total penalties per team for your league?

cheers

After winning League 2 in my first season I'm struggling to stay up in League 1. I'm in 22nd place with 32 matches gone, but I havent been helped by the 10 (ten) penalties I have conceded in the League alone this season. Does anyone know why I am giving away so many penalties and how I can stop it because they are invariably late equalisers and winners and it's getting a bit annoying.

Can you check the number of penalties awarded in the league you are playing in, compared to leagues that has no matches played in full detail? (most likely all other leagues). You can check the leagues by F12 and Detail level.

In my current game, way down the leagues, there is a huge difference in number of penalties awarded in a full-detail league (my own) and others at the same level.

If the planets re-align correctly, SI will look into this

I conceded a lot of penalties when I played a high DL and kept getting caught out at the back, and with quite aggressive CBs, they always seemed to just foul the player rather than concede from open play.

Crewe 3 Millwall 2. It isnt half stressful being manager of Crewe. £-0 up and should have been finished at half time, but Millwall made it 3-2 and there were a few nervous moments, including a disallowed goal, before the final whistle went. Keeps Crewe 2 points above the drop zone, 4 games to go.

Pangaea, how do I look at the number of penalties per league and I will have a look and post a screen shot.

how do I paste my screenshot?

Who's the player that making all the fuzz with the penalties?

Btw, to take a screenshot in FM click on Print Screen - then go to a graphic editor, something simple like 'Paint' will do. Press CTRL+V (paste). Save the file - I recommend JPEG as a file type. Then upload it to image hosting service such as imageshack or paintbucket. They'll give you a URL which you can post between

[img][/img]

tags.

Or just "Alt+F9". They get stored in your user directory under 'screenshots'. Those I've taken so far even have good names

Or just "Alt+F9". They get stored in your user directory under 'screenshots'. Those I've taken so far even have good names

You're right.

But then, it's a PNG. file and they usually weight a lot more than a JPEG. Then he uploads his image and users with low-speed connection have to wait like 10-20 seconds for the page to load.

Sorry guys, Im not going to be doing all that. Thought it would be a bit easier.

Lost 4-1 to Leyton Orient as our defensive frailties were once again exposed.

It's hardly difficult to see if there are more penalties awarded in your league compared to others. Takes 10 seconds...

Yes there are more penalties scored in my league. The highest is 9 going down to 3, the average seems to be about 5/6. In all the other divisions the most any one team has got is 5 and some teams have had 0 penalties. Think my defence is boosting the average in League 1 however.

Crewe 1 Southend 5

the wheels have come off and relegation is looking more and more likely.

Wycombe 1 Crewe 0 oh dear

Sorry I have taken a screenshot and saved it as a jpg but cant upload it to imageshack or anywhere for some reason. Seems like a lot of work to post a screenshot.

Anyway just about to play the last game of the season. Crewe v MK Dons.

I'm 21st, they are 19th one point ahead. A win guarantees our safety. A draw means we are dependant on other results. Gillingham are one point ahead and in 20th. If they lose a draw will mean safety as they have a worse goal difference.

Here goes nothing.

Right, I went into this game without my right back, both wingers and my best striker after a spate of injuries in the last game and in training. Even worse, we go a goal down early on when my left winger turns round and passes it to my centre half, who at the time was receiving treatment behind the goal. So they score with their first attack.

Even worse, the news filters through that it Gillingham are 2-0 up early on in their match v Barnsley. So it's a straigght fight between us and MK Dons. Just when it looks like we're going down without a whimper, my reserve striker finally sticks one of a gazillion chances away, right on half time and it's 1-1.

We need to score, need to win in the second half or it's relegation. If we win they go down. Just about to start the second half.

50 minutes gone and they score from their second attack. 1-2. I bring my 70% fit winger on and go for overload in a bid to win this game and stay up.

What a comeback. A hat-trick from my second choice striker and a goal from my half dead winger and we win 4-2. I loved the commentary on the final whistle, "Crewe seal what could turn out to be an important win"

too right.

Well done definately makes me wanna play lol

back on the topic i have also had some problems with conceding pens. i think it was mostly down to my right back having not very good tackling but 'always dives in' preffered move

Sounds like your having a blast marychain!

Just started a new save with newcastle ,ill see if i give away more pens as my players wont be as good as my liverpool save where i gave away hardly any pens.