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One of the best advices i've seen. I actually saw the striker take the ball of a defender and score a goal

Im on the verge of deleting my save. I understand 1 or 2 games it might happen , but 4 in a row it's next to impossible IRL. I ve scored 4 goals from a total xg of 9.08... ALWAYS in the Champions league, its like clockwork Not to mention that i hve hit the woodwork only 3 times in this game....

Also, tight matches always go to AI's favor. Their Goalkeepers are always performing. It's genuinely starting to drive me crazy. Cant remember any undeserved win i had... And always in the champions league..... Another game , another example...

Is there any method to stop Ultradefesiv AI team to stack up passes between defenders? I tried every combination possible, man marking defenders, DM's , ultra high pressing, defensive line. Nothing works. This is a bug of the current ME i assume

When AI uses 4-4-2 , the results tend to get out of line. It's an issue not present in previous FMs

Some of the things i dont like about the current ME. Not saying its bad, just that when you play a number of game , the pattern starts to form The play through the middle is underwhelming with strikers that either get caught too much in offside or the ball is passed too late to them. The number of corners tend to sky rocket if you play an attacking formation with AI defenders making silly clearences In corner or misplaced first touches that give a corner. Cant even remeber how many times i saw that. Set piece defending is too passive especially at throwins near the box with defenders just running along attackers or just standing still while the opposition gets into the area or takes a long shot. Too many goals and highlights begin with a throw in. At corners defenders often just dont head the ball away too much, they head it just 5-10 meters for an opposition player to pick it up. Its like the ball hits them in the head or something. AI 4-4-2 is laughable. If an Ai team uses that formation I know im winning the match. They just cant defend in 442... Also it seems the latest update has nerfed 3 at the back systems too much. Teams that play 5 3 2 just get battered by 4231 or 433. Also AI Managers are way too reliant on 4231, its 4231 manager...

I figured out how to make scouting actually work... I set up a recruitment focus with current ability 3 silver stars and potential 4 stars. I didnt touch the age , since that seems to block the discoveries completely. They have now actually started to scout players....

Glad to see there are games no matter what you do, you cant get a goal... Thats realism.

It's not working properly and should be reported as a bug IMO. There are several posts about this issue in the feedback thread

I bet if you and manually search for player you will find a lot of potentially good players. They dont even scout anyone!! it's exactly my experience... i have 1M euros scouting budget, and they find no players... Its like the focus doesnt start, its frozen.

Didnt Zidane win 3 UCL's in a row? Whats there to argue about? A great coach doesnt mean that he's all about the tactics, it also means how he handles the dressing room and how well he motivates his players.

I tried using a 5-3-2 DM and the players forgot how to defend throw-ins and indirect freekicks. Almost all the goals i receive start either from a throw in, a corner or indirect freekick that the defense is too slow to react....

Hmm... What?

So they won the title narrowly by goal difference and the Champions League by one goal. But if SI decide to include for future games a hardcore difficulty that will include micro-managing your games to the smallest details im all up for it. I want a difficulty that will break all the whiners that it's too easy.

Still getting too matches with 20 corners per game. Defenders are too eager to send the ball out for a corner. Im never seeing defenders trying to save a corner

The problem is im getting nothing from Croatia or Serbia...................

They appear in my save.

Also... Kane is a bit slow IMO... i don't think he's 12 acceleration slow IRL... maybe 13 or 14 would be better... Strikers without pace don't score lots of goals in FM.... I mean he has 14 pace.. He should also have 14 acc...

The problem with Germany as far as i could see is that too many managers are set up with tendency "works ball into box" which reduces the number of goals. I removed that from AI Tuchel and his team scored more than in a test without. Also many , i mean many managers have preffered formations like 5-3-2 and 5-2-2-1 which in this ME don't seem to score a lot of goals. I ended up switching 5-2-2-1 to 5-2-3 for Xabi Alonso and his team performed better

He looks the part

Just to draw your attention that only when a manager has 4-2-4 DM wide as pref formation, he will use sometime his second, for example this guy, has 4-2-4 first and 5-2-1-2 second. 5-3-2 is his defensive one Might just be a case of doing for the other formations what works in cojunction with 4-2-4 ?

The only top leagues that get over 3 GPG IRL constantly are the German and Dutch league. But i think that's due to the fact that the style of play is very attacking compared to other leagues.

Yes

Would like for future versions that 3 at the back tactics be called how they're call IRL. For example 5-2-2-1 should really be named 3-4-2-1 , same as 5-2-1-2 be named 3-4-1-2. I have yet to see anyone call these tactics 5-2-2-1 or 5-2-1-2 IRL...

Hi , Ok, i hope it will be improved for fm25 and forward. Thanks for the reply