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  1. I remember SI telling us the AI was better at using promising young players this year! Hasn't happened. The AI seems to rate Van de Ven quite highly as a left-back which can make it tricky for Udogie to get games. Not sure why it prefers Skipp to Sarr, though.
  2. How are people finding the Passes Per Defensive Action stat? I've just run a season of Premier League football, and the PPDA ranges from 4.34 (Liverpool) to 4.88 (Brentford) - which is barely any difference at all. For reference, the range in real life is 9.3 (Spurs) to 19.9 (Forest). I don't know whether this is a bug, a necessary oddity of the match engine, or something else - let me know what you think?
  3. That would probably perform better, but I'm aiming to recreate Angeball, and Porro is definitely an IWB. Kulusevski as an IF or IW could work, but I'd worry about losing the width, as he does start wide most of the time. For this next test I changed the RPM to a DLP (S), to add a bit of solidity. Results were pretty good - 4th (+3), 66 scored (unchanged), 29 conceded (-12). Similar performance for possession, passes, chance creation, and so on. Bentancur was superb as the DLP (S). Some slight improvement on the right, but nothing noticable - though now the side is more solid, I may be able to give Porro an attack duty. Opposition PPDA remains a concern, down to 17th! Though the range within the league is tiny, 4.34 to 4.88, and nothing like real life - where the range is 9.3 to 19.9 - so I supect this may be a weakness of the match engine?
  4. Testing my Angeball recreation. Overall results: 7th, 65 points, 66 scored, 41 conceded. Some really impressive wins (6-1 West Ham, 4-0 Chelsea, 3-1 City) but plenty of dissapointing results too. Fortuntately didn't get thrashed at all, worst result being 3-0. Maddison shone (7.18 average rating, 20 goals, 10 assists) as the Mezalla. Richarlison bagged 17 goals and 6 assists as the striker. Son was decent on the left (7.07, 9g, 6a). Sarr and Udogie were both good (7.16 and 7.04). However I was dissapointed with Porro (6.71, 3a), Johnson (6.78, 4g, 3a), and Kulusevski (6.96, 4g, 6a) on the right - work to be done there. As for team stats, we were 6th for posession (56%), 5th for chances created (161), 5th for passes completed (19288), and 6th for pass completion (89%) - so all pretty decent. Opposition PPDA was a bit high though, 11th (4.54) for that, which needs work. Overall an okay start. The RPM needs tinkering with, I suspect - not getting enough touches to justify the free role through the middle. Sort that, figure out roles on the right, and I might be on to something.
  5. Dany Mota of Brianza is a good bargain. A very well-rounded attacking player who can play across the front line. Cost me just £2.7m, and he's got 16 G/A in 22 apperances for my Valencia team (playing almost entirely as an IF (A) on the left).
  6. Strange - doesn't perform anything like your tests for me. Spurs, same team you tested with. Overall results: 8th (-7), 58 points (-32), 54 scored (-26), 49 conceded (+19). Another test: 9th (-8), 55 points (-35), 60 scored (-20), 55 conceded (+25).
  7. The fact that a bug as fundamental as ‘the game doesn’t create good fullbacks’ has persisted for years is, frankly, pathetic.
  8. One thing I've noticed is that national teams are more willing to call up young players, to the point where they call up players who really don't merit it. In a save I ran as a test, I'm in July 2028. Excluding Rico Lewis, an already established player, there are 6 U23 players in the England squad. The most experienced of them, Ashley Phillips, has played five Premier League games. Of the others, Will Lankshear (23) has none, Ishe Samuels-Smith (22) has none, and three regens (all 20) have one, three, and one. They've all played a decent number of Championship games, however. This suggests that maybe reputation increases too fast now, while player development is still really poor?
  9. I’ve actually found the opposite. Unless I’m playing as deep as possible and camping out in my own box, I concede lots from passes in behind. In my experience pressing higher lets me stop at least some of the passes before they can be played. I’ve been experimenting with super-fast defenders using the editor, and I still concede those types of goals. I think it’s just inevitable in this match engine, which is annoying.
  10. My starting centre-backs have, in those attributes: 13, 14, 17, 14 and 14, 16, 15, 14. They're not ideal, but I don't think they're glaringly unsuited to a high line. My AP gets the ball an okay amount of the time, though probably not often enough. He should have options ahead of him with the IW (A) and AF (A), as well as a switch out to the FB (A). 16, 13, 16 in the attributes you asked about, and 17 in passing. As for work rate and stamina, my team is significantly above average in both, as well as other pressing-related stats like strength, jumping reach, and anticipation. Watching the goals I concede, I really can't spot a trend. There's a real mixture of long shots, set pieces, passes in behind, crosses from both flanks.
  11. This is my 4-2-3-1. It's fine, generally, most of the time. My AP(S) does nothing and my IW(A) is underwhelming, but I'm winning 2-0 and 2-1 in the majority of my games. The problem is in big games, especially away from home. This season I've lost 0-4, 0-3, 1-3, 1-5, and 0-3 in away games against Arsenal, United, Bayern, City, and Inter. Is there anything I could change to stop that from happening - there's no specific weakness I can spot when watching the goals, they're all pretty varied.
  12. I'm a year further into the save now - is there any point in still uploading? Didn't think to keep a save, sorry.
  13. I've been enjoying Blackburn so far. Some fantastic prospects (Ashley Phillips and Adam Wharton in particular), a squad full of hard-working and technically rounded players, and an interesting dilemma with Brereton-Diaz wanting out.
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