Barcelona and this formation
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Right firstly,
this tactic is very VERY good, playing as Barcelona, but I'm having a recurring theme in EVERY game. The teams been scoring 5-0 6-0 8-1 9-2 in some games against the average opposition... But as soon as it's used in the Champion's League, or a big team, they pack the midfield play 451 and I get munched. In the key games my teams strikers don't show up either, and we tend to miss ALOT.
Also, this tactic is Card crazy, I'm averaging 1 red card a game and 6-7 yellow cards, WHAT on earth is going on???? And I'm not joking either I'll show you 10 examples of this if I have to...
Originally, I was with England, did well with the tactic, got runners up twice at Euros and was a World Cup runner up, got signed by Stuttgart and took them to within a point of the title, and half way through last season I applied for the Barcelona job and was given it (Transfer budget of 310m :/) and took them from 8th to 2nd with 10 to go. That's fine.
But with all good super tactics, you always find the game evens it up by having teams go on runs they should'nt or freak things happening alot. At Madrid have won 14 straight games :/. Real Madrid have won 13 drawn 1, and I've won 13-0-1... but it's the same teams A.Madrid and R.Madrid had last season. I know this happens!
Example was at Stuttgart, prior to me leaving Stuttgart, I was chasing Bayern who just couldn't lose, and it was me and them 10 pts clear, when I left, Both Stuttgart and bayern couldn't win for life or money and both finished 6 pts off the pace, and bayern went from unbeatable to losing 6 on the trot and barely winning at all.
It's not as if I have a poor side either: (spent 200m of the 310m given to me :/ (managers prior never spent anything)):
1. De Gea GK (30m)
2. Serge Aubier D/WB R (talented regen, probably the best WB coming through the game, 17m steal)
3. Jack Robinson D/WB L (28m - was worth the money considering I had only Jonny Evans as the other LB :/)
4. Phil Jones D C (52m)
5. Gerard Pique D C
6. Javier Mascherano DM C
7. Werner Roth M C (41m well spent, a regen for Austria, 20 yrs of age, as much ability as any in DLP role)
8. Cesc Fabregas M/ AM C
9. Alexis Sanchez AM (RC) ST
10. Messi AM (RLC) S C
11. Neymar AM (LC) ST (40m - a pain in the *** to control, wish I never signed him)
Subs:
12. Victor Valdes GK
13. Cristian Zapata D RLC (Not my signing, handy utility player though
14. Stewart Higginbotham DM M LC (11m to Man Utd, Awesome kid for 20, 19 all physicals, Micah Richards of the DM position)
15. Thiago M/AM C
16. Bojan S C
17. Matteo Lucarini AM (LC) ST (66m spent on him, Rediculous talent, got 200 PA, machine)
18. Esteban Harce S C (24m - Javier Saviola regen part II)
Any ideas how to tone down the rediculous card amounts I'm getting?
Any ideas how to make (the 3 best real players in the game) my strikers score? MESSI/SANCHEZ/NEYMAR? Not so much against the average sides, but, the big sides, as they just don't deliver when it counts?
Sorry for the rant but it's frustrating to see my side play so well for large amounts, and then when it REALLY counts, and the reasons WHY I've bought these big players in to win the BIG games, they just NEVER show up, and it's quite disheartening
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Kind Regards,
Mark.