Just finished my first season with United, had a very good season. Won the title, champs league and league cup. I have a few major frustrations though...
The goals to shots on target ratio when dominating games really is absolutely ridiculous. It seems to vary between different strategies as well. When you're dominating possession with a control/attacking tactic, you need a LOT of chances to score. If you're being dominated or playing with a counter attacking strategy, you don't need as many chances. I'm not stating this as absolute fact, but this is the feeling I get. If your striker is through on goal when playing with control strategy, he will often shoot directly at the GK, or hit the woodwork or miss the goal altogether. If you're playing with counter, he will score more easily. And this seems to be true for both me and the opposition, so it leads me to think that the ME tweaks finishing according to a teams' strategy and the way the game is going to prevent dominating teams winning every game 15-0. Don't know if that really is the case though.
Apart from the above I have two things that frustrate me endlessly. First, the drill crosses instruction seems to have no effect whatsoever. I always have that instruction selected, yet my players put in floated crosses almost exclusively. I use three different strikers, whose jumping reaches are 14, 11 and 6. Now, with a jumping reach of 14 a striker might have a reasonable chance to win an aerial duel against a center back, but with 11 it's very unlikely and with 6 practically impossible. Which is why I use the instruction to drill crosses. Now, when my winger and full back constantly put floated crosses in, my tiny striker loses every single duel he gets into in the box. This leads to center backs becoming confident and playing even better, and my striker becoming nervous. And we all know that a nervous striker practically needs to be in front of an open net to be able to score. Incredibly annoying. I wouldn't mind this if the instruction actually worked and I'd just be too stupid to use it. But when I clearly understand that aerial duels are not my strikers' forte, and do what I can to avoid them ending up in those situations and it just doesn't work at all, it's frustrating to the extreme.
The other major frustration is decision making in runs along the byline straight at goal. My player has the ball at the byline, he starts running with the ball towards the goal, beats a defender and is a couple of yards from the near post. Without exception he will attempt to score (and almost always fail), even when I have one (or more) completely unmarked player(s) in front of the goal. I can understand this if the player in question is, say, Wilfried Zaha with his decisions 6, flair 17 and teamwork 11, but when it's, say, David Alaba with creativity 13, decisions 15, flair 12 and teamwork 16 it's ridiculous. It wouldn't be that ridiculous if it didn't happen every single time, but it does.
Also away games, especially against weaker teams, seem very difficult but for that I blame myself and my tactics. Well, for the most part anyway.
Oh yeah, how come no-one wants to buy Ashley Young even for 5m when he's valued at 16,75m and had a pretty good season? Seems like a proper bargain to me. In-game at least, not so sure in real life...
