Your greatest "wtf just happened" moment

[Footix]

So my CB has the ball halfway between our box and midfield. There's no immediate danger, so he turns around and passes (shoots!) the ball towards our GK. GK clearly did not expect that strike, a spectacular own goal. Magnificent. 

Wtf just happened?! 

Looking forward to hearing your stories! 

[FrazT]

Comfortably winning a game and with about 10 mins to go, a long ball from the opposition defence was hit over the head of my DL, who rushed back to cover.  Now, not only did my DL rush back, but also my 2 DCs rushed over to cover! A bit OTT I thought, but having closed down the space, they then all stopped about 1 meter away from the opposition player, allowed him to cross to the penalty spot where their ST was waiting in splendid isolation.  Now you would have thought that with the 2 DCs inexplicably getting out of position, the DR would have pulled into the middle to cover?  Nope, he was tightly marking the touchline and consequently the ST has about 50 metres of room to dispatch the ball past the stationery GK.  Oh, dear!  I don't often shout at the screen, but boy, did I shout this time

[wkdsoul]

70th min, 1-0 up,  3rd injury of the game, captain at centre back subbed off my last substitution. 

Ball over the top, Keeper comes out collides with the forward and the centre back... ball rolls in.. 1-1

keeper and new sub both injured.  play the last 10 with 9 men, and centre forward in net.  lost 3-1.

[Sussex Hammer]

Just literally happened to me and saw this thread.  1-0 up at Old Trafford, defending brilliantly and my keeper makes a couple of world class saves.  Anderson hits two screamers that hit the bar and post so I could have been 3-0 up.  Attacking with three minutes to go and Declan Rice inexplicably passes backwards to no one apart from Anthony Martial on the edge of their area.  Breel Embolo keeps up with him, shepherds him wider and then bizarrely makes a rash challenge to give them a penalty.  1-1.  Then we hit the post again, the ball bounces clear 30 yards and they attack, we get back and a pea roller of a 30 yard shots squeezes in at the near post after my keeper who has had a fabulous 91 minutes palms it into the net!!  Lose 2-1.  To be honest it happens too much when you are ahead against a better team.  They always equalise and go on to win it seems with either a penalty, free kick screamer, set piece, error from your keeper or a thirty yard effort.  Flipping annoying!!!

[Footix]

Oh, I had another one last night. 

2-0 up and we're in overtime. 4 minutes added. Opposition hits a long ball over the top and their striker latches on to make it 2-1 in the 92nd minute. Annoying, but whatever. They've been toothless all game. 

We kick off, lose the ball on the flank and their winger gets to it. 

You know what happens when someone actually manages to deliver a back post cross, yeah? 

Final score 2-2. They scored in 90+2 and 90+3.

Wtf just happened!! 

[bigmattb28]

Most recent game, opening fixture of the new Singapore league, straight from kick off ball out wide on their left wing. Cross comes in, not a threatening one but lands my center halves feet, he takes a touch then puts his foot through the ball, hits a midfielder who's edge of the box, and bounces right back into the net. Terrific start. Went on to lose 3-0.

[herne79]

Not mine but watch Loki Doki's recent season ending match of Fort William vs Rangers SPL title decider .

[Follon]

3 hours ago, Footix said:

Oh, I had another one last night. 

2-0 up and we're in overtime. 4 minutes added. Opposition hits a long ball over the top and their striker latches on to make it 2-1 in the 92nd minute. Annoying, but whatever. They've been toothless all game. 

We kick off, lose the ball on the flank and their winger gets to it. 

You know what happens when someone actually manages to deliver a back post cross, yeah? 

Final score 2-2. They scored in 90+2 and 90+3.

Wtf just happened!! 

I already post it on the funny screenshot topic, it remembers me this game : 

Hopefully, you did not have 6 minutes extra time ! 

Edited September 9, 2019 by Follon

[ExeChris]

One of these I remember recently in my favour in a PSF against a poor side.  Striker shoots, their keeper makes a decent save onto the post and it dribbles back on the line.  Keeper on the deck, none of my players anticipate, so their CD rushes back and lashes the stationary ball into the top corner!  Made me chuckle.

[anitamui]

B R U H

 

(in 18/19 season!)

[Spike55455]

This one is based on a full couple of seasons. I have never seen it before.

 

Crystal Palace got demoted to the championship in 22/23. In the season of 23/24 Crystal Palace go onto win the Carabao Cup and qualify for the EC the next season despite being still stuck in the championship.

Season 24/25 rolls around with Crystal Palace qualifying for the EC group stage still after being in the championship. Crystal Palace almost get demoted that season to League One but somehow WIN the EC. This qualifies them for the Champions Cup the next season and are still in the Championship.

Season 25/26 and Crystal Palace are in the group stages of the Champions Cup. Crystal Palace make the final four before finally being eliminated by Paris SG. In the Championship, Crystal Palace qualify for the playoffs for a promotion spot but lose in the first round keeping them in the Championship.

[Sussex Hammer]

I had one that was an absolute WTF!  played another one of the big boys.  Think I was 3-0 up first half then the usual second half stopped what we were doing and other team wakes up scenario occurred and in the last minute they made it 3-2.  I paused the game just after they scored and made defensive changes just to try and hold on.  Restarted the game and they kicked off immediately.  I could only watch in horror at the little message in the corner saying "changes will take place in next break in play" as they ran through my defence which stood like statues and scored again without any of my players moving.  Then "confirm tactical changes?"  appeared.  Wish I had a widget that replied "Don't bother!!"

[Halofon]

I already posted it somewhere but once I accidentally subbed my CB as left winger. I was down 1 goal. He scored two screamers with his head obviously, his heading was better than anyone else's on the pitch... what a coincidence

[Johnny Ace]

Had a beaut last night, in my favour, had a corner, the ball gets headed clear to my DM who hits a weak shot against the inside of the post, the 'keeper just stands there, the ball taps his legs & rolls along the line. He still just stands there looking gormless & no one in the box reacts, so my striker comes along & taps it in 

[BuryBlade]

I’ve had a few over the years but the two that come to mind are:

FM12 I had my greatest ever save. Sheff Utd, 10 Premiership titles in row with an average age under 21. Anyway, in the middle of my domination we played at home against Norwich. 4-0 up and cruising when Norwich swing a cross in. My keeper claims it comfortably. I’m thinking let’s counter attack. Keeper has other ideas and starts walking backwards... into the goal! 4-1. 

Just yesterday on my current save in Argentina, I was involved in a right topsy turvy game. I took the lead, they took the lead kind of game. I’m 3-1 down I the 88th minute. I’ve gone all out attack and we make it 3-2. 5 minutes added on and we equalise in the 95th minute! Crazy! I switch to ultra defensive shut up shop thinking there’s no time left anyway. Wrong! They kick off and score 4-3 in the 96th minute. I was fuming! 

[Svenc]

Was browsing through some old Picture Folders and found some (random) stuff.

Tackling the Dream (Team). That's a lot of yellow.

The day the dutch just wouldn'T give up. Fired up, confident and determined even at 1-4 down, and well overy injury time. 

Trying to talk him out of it. Area of his game, eh?  

The good ol' days when you considered a barely 100 Million Price tag for Neymar to be far too much. Wot happened?

Coming back from a 0-1 with the mighty Luxembourg. One of the first, perhaps the first ever time I had FM'd lowblock'd FM's AI way back then. (Useful exercise which obviously too few ever have considering the Steam Reviews even nowadays), btw.

The Moment I decided to Play Tikinaccio from the kick-off (and ticket Sales took a nose dive).

[Rien102]

This just happened last Saturday.  It's my striker.... sigh...

[Footix]

1 hour ago, Rien102 said:

This just happened last Saturday.  It's my striker.... sigh...

 

That's brilliant! 

[SergeiG]

Managing MAN UTD playing against Liverpool.

Leading 3-0 for like 80 minutes. Loosing 3-4 at the end.

Should have been sacked for this.

[theonets]

I was 5-1 up in the 82nd minute and went to get some water.

 

I returned to find that we'd lost the cup final on penalties.

[Vali184]

 

LETS SEE IF SOMEONE CAN BEAT ME AT THIS!

[DementedHammer]

Haha, I actually did that in a Sunday league game back in the day. It nearly caused a fight!

[FrazT]

9 hours ago, Rien102 said:

This just happened last Saturday.  It's my striker.... sigh...

 

Brilliant!

[oblongata21]

15 hours ago, SergeiG said:

Managing MAN UTD playing against Liverpool.

Leading 3-0 for like 80 minutes. Loosing 3-4 at the end.

Should have been sacked for this.

Same thing happened to me, managing Newcastle up 3-0  over West Ham at about 78 minutes, lost 3-4

Conceded twice in injury time

Edited September 10, 2019 by oblongata21

[Nobby_McDonald]

On a much older version I was managing Leigh RMI and we had a home game against Chester, who at the time were my bogey team.
We were 0-3 down after 11 minutes.
We won 8-3.

More recently, in my current Bishop's Stortford save, I beat Dunstable Town 7-6 in the first season in the Southern League Premier Division. The following season we lost the same fixture 1-3 which kept them up and stopped us winning the title. To top it off, my 49 goal striker got injured and missed the playoff semi final and wasn't fully fit for the final.

[streety]

Played a cup match that ended 0-0 i don't know how the amout of chances both teams had 

 

Went to a penalty Shootout - Final score 22-23..last few penalties i was begging for someone to miss so i could end the game

[bigmattb28]

On 09/09/2019 at 20:19, theonets said:

I was 5-1 up in the 82nd minute and went to get some water.

 

I returned to find that we'd lost the cup final on penalties.

How tho? When the game ends you have the team talk and then have to press continue to extra time

[forameuss]

tl;dr version edited in: followed career of a youngster from prospect to the greatest Scottish striker of all time, handed him one last tournament (his 8th) as a broken down 36 year old, watched him blooter us to a semi-final from a standing position, then have glory snatched from him in the final.

 

I was on a lengthy save managing Scotland, and had gotten them to be a force in the latter stages of tournaments.  The save would go on to basically encompass three "eras" as players aged up and retired, but the first era was very much defined by one Peter Dailly.  Scotland often produce very, very good newgens, and he was no exception.  Here he was at 19.  Made his debut in March 2021, and had a fairly unremarkable career - just the 133 goals in 166 appearances.  Standard.

But it was 2038 when the man finally started to crumble.  In recent years he'd gone from Premier League stalwart to journeyman, going to China and then Saudi Arabia to seek football.  We had to announce our squad for the World Cup that year knowing that it was almost certainly his last.  If selected, of course.  He was released from his club and announced his retirement, so I just had to bring him along for one last go around.  

He was...well, he was utter guff for most of the tournament.  All physical strength and pace had left him, with just his instincts and aching bones left behind.  I couldn't afford to start him, but I couldn't resist bringing him on from the bench.  He didn't score in any of our pre-tournament friendlies (North Korea in Pyongyang, then Arizona United and the Tulsa Roughnecks in the US), and same again in the Groups against Ivory Coast, Australia and Brazil (as a subplot, we'd reached the World Cup Final 4 years previously, and Brazil absolutely pummeled us 6-1 to ruin what I thought would be Dailly's last tournament appearance).  We squeaked past Spain in the second round, then drew Germany in the quarters.  Once again, I threw Dailly on with the scores locked at 1-1.  He did nothing until the 81st minute, when he did this.  I assume he only shot because he couldn't physically run towards goal, but it didn't matter.  We won 2-1, and then managed to beat Sweden in the semis to set up a final with France.

Dailly was a wreck by the final, severely lacking fitness, but facing a Zidane-style final test of his mettle before retirement.  I couldn't risk starting him, and as the game wore on I didn't feel like I could risk him coming on at all.  Goalless at 90, we went into extra-time, and I pulled the trigger.  On came Dailly for the final 30 minutes of his career.  110th minute, he worked some space like the olden days and crashed a shot off the bar.  He didn't get another chance, and we went to penalties.  I went baws out, handed him the 5th penalty Ronaldo style, hoping that he'd score the penalty to win us the World Cup.  Unfortunately, France took first, and didn't miss.  He JUST scored his to take it to sudden death, where we suddenly died.  Missing our first attempt to hand France the trophy.

Sometimes, it's written in the stars.  Other times it's just swear words up there.

EDIT: And I know this is a long, and probably boring post.  I just like reliving what ended up being probably peak enjoyment in FM16.  I've never reached that level again unfortunately.

EDIT2: For those that have read and upvoted, thank you for humouring me!  Just to add a close to the story, the manager had another two years, culminating in getting beat at Hampden in the Euros final.  He was retired, and I began a career with his "son".  He was sacked by pretty much every Scottish club side he took control of, before, 28 years later at the 2062 World Cup, he finally exorcised his father's demons and won the World Cup, retaining it in 2066 for good measure with the help of Peter Dailly's natural successor.  God I loved that save.

Edited October 18, 2019 by forameuss

[Zardoz]

I am in the 6th league in England.

My team is  deemed to struggle and fight against relegation but we  are actually number 8. Great achievement but could be better with a more consistent defense. The defense is the problem, especially the 2 young cds who have a tendency to make grieve individual mistakes.

Home match against one of the big teams of that legaue. I am the underdog. However,  my team achieved a 2:0 lead in the mid of the second half. Shortly after the 2:0 I got the 2:1. Ok ... even a draw would be a great result. "Boys, no problem... keep fighting against the onslaught!."

82th minute: Long range shot of the opponent, My central CD of the 3 CD chain (an old experienced battle - hog i. e. "Kampfschwein")  in my 532 set up is hit and the ball scatters into the goal. 2:2 ... as mentioned above ... even a draw would be fine. "Boys .. all is well ... Keep fighting!"

91st minute: Low Cross into my box, my battle-hog stops the ball with a leg ...  not exactly .... he tries to stop the ball ...  and I will never see a better placed poacher attempt than that. 2:3

Final whistle ....

From 2:1 to 2:3 within 8 minutes by two own goals of my best CD
 

Edited October 17, 2019 by Zardoz

[Deisler26]

 

[Baodan]

23 minutes ago, Deisler26 said:

 

That's very infuriating to watch...

[99]

5 horas atrás, Deisler26 disse:

 

Jesus Christ.

[north_london_fan]

I used Instant Result in the 2023 Europa League Semis with APOEL against OM because I thought we had no chance. This was the outcome, 6-0 up on aggregate after 26 minutes then they scored six goals, but we had the lead on away goals. But we lost to an injury time own goal!

[enigmatic]

This is a no contest

The Peruvian League is decided over a two legged final, and thanks to my first leg win I'm cruising to victory as Alianza just can't get the ball off me in the second leg. Bit weird that I've played both games at home, but still.

The we get the animation at the end of the match and the players jumping up and down....

...and I realise they're in the other side's colours, and the game has somehow contrived to screw up and award my first leg victory to the opposition, giving them the aggregate victory. Worst bug ever!

[Sussex Hammer]

I'm seeing plenty of WTF moments when leading in FM19.  Ahead and cruising many a time and the opposition hasn't had a sniff.  So when all else fails for the AI FM's gods smile on them with either a penalty, free kick or other set piece gifting them a goal.  Failing that my keeper will either fall over, kick it against an opponent or turn his back on a back pass from the half way line!  If that doesn't work for them a cheeky sending off always helps despite their number 8 hacking my players to bits for 90 minutes without even a warning and if that doesn't happen a 35 yard screamer into the top corner is always a worthy out of the blue equalizer.  But the pièce de résistance I just saw in an away game against Everton when they hadn't had a shot on goal was a 94th minute long kick by their keeper where my defender could have either left it to go to my keeper, chested it down and passed short or put it into Row Z - but no - he just heads it straight to their striker who then runs through my defence who suddenly forget it's ok to tackle and shoots past my keeper who seems to be picking his water bottle up from the back of the net.  If Carling did equalizing goals and late winners in FM!!!!

[Sheriff7]

After 30+ league games plus 6-8 more in play offs we lost promotion from Spanish 3rd division to 2nd one in play off final second game from this own goal in 95th minute.P.S 1 Referee shown 3 miniutes extra time and they scored in 94:20... P.S 2 I didn't broke ANYTHING in my house,i just keep watching my lap top screen for some minutes-hours P.S 3 We won promotion next year...Did you say anything???

Edited October 25, 2019 by Sheriff7

[SMV90]

I forget if it was FM17 or FM18.

I had spent many years moulding Shrewsbury Town into a footballing power-house.

There came a period of around 4/5 years in which I’d always get Ajax in the KO rounds of the CL. And, I’m not ashamed to admit it, we were always on the losing end.

Another season rolls around and before I know it, I’m against Ajax in the Q/F on the CL.

I draw the home leg 0-0 and with that result, my confidence is knocked. The away leg arrives and around 70 minutes in, I’m 3-0 down. I sigh, in defeat, and just beg for the referee to end the game.

Fast forward to full-time and it’s 3-4 to me. I don’t know how it happened, but I was simultaneously lost for words yet asking every question known to man looking for answers. 

[fmonit]

First African nation to win a World Cup! You'd probably expect Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon or any of the stronger nations in Africa to win a first World Cup for Africa.... but Mali... and in 2022??

 

 

Edited October 27, 2019 by fmonit

[Sheriff7]

What??!!

[fmonit]

https://youtu.be/PQxhH21uqyg

My South Korean player scoring 4 amazing long range goals in 1 game, all from a similar spot and all without controlling the ball first.

Goal 4 is the nicest!

And the interesting part is that his technique is average.

[jbutton]

Champions League Semi Final;

 

Shaktar 6-0 Manchester United

Manchester United 6-0 Shaktar 

United go on to lose on pens.

[MNUFC84]

Winning promotion to the Premier League on the last day of the season the year immediately following my promotion to the Championship. I was poor and didn't really do a whole lot to improve the team and were predicted and prepared to come in last. I effectually ended up with a League One team in the Premier League. 

[Norfair]

Had a foul happen to one of my players in the penalty area the other day and the ref consulted VAR on whether it was in or outside the box. I was like u wot, that was nowhere near the line. I rewinded and checked again just to make sure and yep, absolutely nowhere near outside the box, at least 3 metres clear. Just one of those cases where the graphical representation of what's going on in the ME isn't in sync at all I guess.

[Sharkn20]

Ball cleared away by opposite CB to the space occupied by my LB eith an opposite winger 5 meters or more away. My LB fails the header and the opposite winger gets the ball. Advances towards the byline and makes a cross, you think that should be easy to clear with 2 CBs vs 1 ST, but no. One of my CB misses the header and ball falls to the ST who easily scores... Thanks to both headers missed one by my LB one by my CB I lose the game. Well done guys. Show off that CON attribute!

[xray1324]

Normal attempt at goal situation, except the opposition's goalie catches the ball - and then drops it into the net (like he solidly catched it and all), own goal, then goes on to try to kick out