I'm doing a network game with a friend, i'm Athletico Madrid and he's Barcelona, we're in march 2016, and I find myself top by 2 points, although barca with a game in hand, and on a fantastic 50 game unbeaten streak in all competitions (34 in the league). My next game is against Sporting at home, was fairly confident going into the match and played near my strongest team. I dominated them, was all over them from the kick off and stayed like that for the full 90. I'm sure you can all see where this is going -
full time: Athletico Madrid 0 Sporting 1
Now i see a lot of people on here complaining about the number of missed chances, that is obviously an issue, and it has cost me in the past, but what happened here is another issue which i'd like to talk about - Goalkeepers.
Not only did I dominate the game, 2 of my shots were complete screamers from the edge of the box that i wouldn't expect any keeper in the world to save. Guess what? yuppp, this keeper saved them both. Their goalkeeper is at best an average keeper at this level. additionally, i had 3 other fantastic chances and they were all saved, these are the kind of saves you only expect world class goalkeepers to make.
Now onto Sportings goal, guess how many shots they had? 3. How many on target? just the 1. a decent hit from just inside the box that you would expect the majority of keepers to beat away. David De Gea, 26 years old (on my game) and pretty much at his peak, A world class goalkeeper, got a hand to it, but it slipped into the side netting, goal.
Now, before you accuse me of moaning because I lost my precious streak, let me get to my point. I know that players have off days, and i know that a player may have an outstanding game, even if they are just an average player, even a bad player. I accept that what happened here is may just extremely unlucky, but the amount of times it happens is shocking. Okay I was on a 50 match unbeaten streak, but before that streak started, it happened countless times to me, also on my Liverpool game with a world class Reina. (some of them were also just my players missing sitters all the time, what most people complain about. some have been a combination of missing sitters and their average/bad keeper dominating).
So as i said, i accept that players have on and off form games and I was probably just very unlucky, but what are the chances of this scenario happening about once every 10 games (probably happened to me that much if i average it out).
Ironically their keeper was Rui Patrico (plays for Sporting CP in real life), on this network game my friend (barcelona) got him as back up keeper then sold him to sporting a few years later. And i'm now 4 points behind barca (they won game in hand). Pretty ****** haha.