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I'm finding whatever my tactics are I get almost exclusively only 4 types of goals - goals from crosses, set pieces, lobbed through balls and long shots. Long shots in particular I'm finding really annoying, it seems players with the ball on the edge of the box ignore any possible through balls or intricate passes and just go for goal every time. Is there any way around this or is it just down to issues with the ME?

Yeah it has, by the devs on these forums. Such a shame that the ME has gone backwards so much that it still desperately needs patching at this stage of the game cycle

Anyone else scoring and conceding basically nothing but crosses and longshots?

Not sure I can remember a worse ME tbh, every game is just so dull. We've had imbalanced MEs before but nothing that's made me lose any desire to play like we have now. I'm really confused as to how it's regressed so much

Has striker movement been fixed yet?

How do I get my CBs to sit higher when we have the ball? CBs in top teams irl do not just stop on the half way line, leaving a massive gap between them and their teammates, when the ball is in the final third

Disappointing to see the issue of incredibly distracting ads in 2D still hasn't been addressed. I wouldn't even go on a website with such annoying, flashing ads. You were able to delete a few things to get rid of the ads last year but you really shouldn't have to in a game that costs more than 30 quid

Has anyone seen whether teams playing with 2 strikers have them sit any deeper than they have previously? It didn't seem realistic how they'd basically just sit on top of the opposition centre backs when their team didn't have the ball

Does the team width setting affect shape with the ball, without the ball or both?

That's worked now. I did try reinstalling the game before so it must have been the anti-virus screwing things up. Thank you for your help Neil.

I had it installed but just uninstalled it there as well as deleting everything in the graphics folder and the problem continues. I have AVG anti-virus but I've temporarily disabled it and again, the problem continues.

I've deleted all save games bar my current one and I've no tactics or set pieces saved at all.

I was using them but I've just tried doing what you said and still, the same problem continues.

Yeah I've tried that. Didn't seem to change anything sadly.

Yes I have. I followed all the steps on the 'The game is stuck on the loading screen' post but still no luck unfortunately.