Recent content by SpartyOn

I can relate to that one. I once had my star striker suffer a long-term injury, and was really struggling to score without him. Finally got him back and was so excited... 16 seconds into his return, he elbows a dude in the face and gets sent off. So I was without him the remaining 89:44 of that...

In the FM12 show off your regen thread, I remember someone posting a 15-year-old white Liberian who was already a world-class player. I haven't had any near that cool. A really good center back from Cyprus is the best I got.

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In my 8th season of my long-term save as GKS Katowice, a small Polish club, I opened up CL group play at Paris Saint Germain. The game goes great - my defensive tactic shuts them down, and my right winger scores on an incredible dribbling run in the 30th minute. They have a man sent off in the...

I had both of them on my FM12 Ipswich save and alternated them. Even though ter Stegen looked a lot better in terms of attributes, I got slightly better performances from Courtois. As others have said, it depends a little on what you want from your GK. Courtois is an aerial monster, but if you...

Far post seems to be the way to go in this edition. I set my corners to mixed and have scored 3 in 6 games, all aimed toward the far post. Two of them actually went to my CB who was set to attack far post. On the other, my target man, who was set to attack near post, drifted towards the far...

I believe the holiday is for recovery from Euro 2012 and it's players who participated who are unavailable.

Ah, I see what happened in my 11-3 game... my reserves are set to use my tactics, so once they fell behind they switched to the 1-4-3-2 themselves. Feeling kinda dumb that I didn't pick up on that the first time. Tried playing some proper games with that formation and it doesn't work well.

That tactic and result were so silly I had to see for myself. So I copied it and used it for Red Star Belgrade in the first preseason friendly against my reserves. I won 11-3. CCCs were also 11-3. 23 shots, 15 on target compared to 8/6 for the opposition. The AI left half its team floating...

If your training is working well for almost everyone but Eriksen, it's probably not his schedule that's the problem. It's more likely his personality - he may have average or poor professionalism, which is the attribute that determines how hard a player works in training. If possible, get...

Spot on. Awesome showing for Wanyama tonight.

I think "pass to feet" may be part of your problem. That causes players to play fewer through balls, which might explain why they're not getting key passes and generating CCCs.

I'd play your wingers as advanced playmaker-attack. Set their passing to direct - it's direct scoring passes to strikers that you want them to make. I'd also set the team crossing to drill crosses, and have the wingers cross from byline and aim for the near post. With those settings, if they...

Just played my first match with the beta and this is the thing that stuck out the most. The ball moves like it's filled with helium.

Player name: Alan Dzagoev Nationality: Russian Club: CSKA Moscow Age: 22 Position: AMC/MC Estimated Cost: Free on a Bosman transfer (contract expires 31.12.12) Strengths: First touch, passing, creativity, flair, work rate. Weaknesses: None that matter for an AMC.