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I’ve mentioned once or twice how much I look forward to seeing my team turn out in its black away kit. There’s nothing wrong with the sky blue kit, as such. It’s just that I’ve now seen it so often that I crave change. And black away kits look so… what’s the word… cool?
If next-gen PES2008 allowed pre-game kit selection in Master League (curse you Seabass) I’d choose to play in the black away kit in about a third of my games, as would happen in real life. But no, I only get to play in it when the game decides that I should. Huh.
Singers FC 1-0 Genoa
I was firmly in sky blue for this one. But it was back to winning ways in the league – at last – with a tidy victory over one of the division’s danger teams. Most of the teams are danger teams (that was the thinking behind setting up this Superleague).
My goal came from Gatti, my second-choice DMF who played instead of a tired Matuzalem. Gatti received the ball and ran with it down the middle in the classic DMF-in-a-4-3-3-formation kind of way (fellow 4-3-3ers will know what I mean) and unleashed a shot that flew in past the keeper. After watching the replay I was unhappy with the Genoa keeper. The ball passed a few inches above his right shoulder. He could have headed it away.
Villarreal 0-2 Singers FC
This is the game where I finally got to play in black after a long time of going without. I picked James in goal. Akinfeev was tired. James did very well, considering he’s only 17 and very much scraping the bottom in terms of his stats. He looks huge and impressive between the sticks.
My two goals were interesting…
That first one – a screamer from 25 yards – was scored with my young CB, Jackson. I knew it was a goal the moment it left his boot. Jackson is shaping up to be one of my players of the season. It’s not just because of this goal, and also the flicked goal he got a few games ago. He’s been brilliant in defence. I tend to concede most of my goals when he’s not playing.
At first, the second goal looks as if it’s an action replay of the first. But Camacho’s long-range shot hits the crossbar and rebounds to Morfeo. In many ways the forgotten man of my squad, Morfeo calmly places the bouncing ball past the Villarreal keeper. I usually launch those bouncing rebounds into the stands.
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On the subject of scripting in PES2008, here’s a clip from a few games ago that shows what I think of when I talk about scripting:
I successfully tackle the Celtic player, but my player runs a couple of yards away from the ball, and pauses for just long enough to allow the AI player to get up off the floor, dust himself down, and retrieve the ball.
It’s the kind of thing that happens so often in any match against the CPU that it’s become the accepted norm.