Adding insult to injury time
Posted by: Greg Downs in Real Madrid, Treble, tags: Real Madrid, TrebleTo finish in the top six and qualify for Europe next season, I’ve worked out that I can probably only afford to lose about 5 games all season. So I’m disappointed to get off to a bad start in season 2013. I’ve played 3, lost 2, and drawn 1.
Real Madrid were my latest opponents and they all but broke my heart. I was 1-0 up until halfway through the second half. Then I conceded the equaliser. It was stupid. I’d been defending superbly, fully implementing my best principles of ‘defenceless defence’ and holding the Real galacticos at bay. I thought the game had 1-0 written all over it—maybe even 2-0, as I was threatening to get another almost every time I ventured forward.
Then Real broke through my back line seemingly without effort. My CBs were nowhere. I’m not complaining about scripting here (for once). It was my own fault. I’d allowed Maldini to go chasing a Real forward too far upfield. He didn’t catch him, and was out of position when they played an aerial pass over the top of Couto.
The CPU has always been great at aerial passing. I’m not talking about aerial through-balls. I mean the circle pass, which I rarely use, personally, except occasionally when spraying the ball from one full back to the other. In other circumstances I don’t trust it—or I don’t trust me—enough to use it. But the CPU can land the ball on a sixpence from any position when it wants to.
So they got their equaliser but there was still time for me to get the winner, as I have already done so often in PES2008. The game seems to be calibrated for 2-1 and 3-2 scorelines. Failing that I could at least hold on for the 1-1 draw. That wouldn’t be a bad result against one of my main rivals at the top of the table, and I could always turn them over in the return fixture later this season.
But I went too hard too quickly for the winning goal. I couldn’t help myself. I had my ATT level up to the max. Real broke quickly from one of my corners, and scored the winner in injury time. In injury time!
So it’s been a bad start to the new season. How often does this happen? I mean, really? It seems to happen every season. Thinking back over the PES years—including all of this one, i.e. the next-gen version—it strikes me that bad starts to seasons are the rule. For me they’re the rule, anyway.
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Unlucky loss there
But I’m seriously suprised about your lack of using circle.
With your formation (One I adopted and brought me great sucess) one of my favourite balls to play now is O+L1. I play balls like that as often as possible. The most effective time it works is when the opposition are chasing a game. Your SB’s should be able to float the ball over the midfield to one of your WF’s with ease.
Paww—I use through-balls for that move. Playing the ball from my SBs down the wings is one of the most common things I do, and I know and trust the L1+Triangle enough to be able to pull it off. The circle pass I’m not so confident with, but will try occasionally. It just seems to me that there’s nothing the through-ball can’t do that the circle pass can. (In attacking play at least; like I said, I love to spray the ball from one SB to the other using the circle pass.)
I never thought of using it for boucing between SB’s I normally do cross balls from a SB to the opposite SMF.
But when the play is streched slightly using L1+Circle works wonders for me. As a through ball isn’t the eaiest to the thread through some-times. It may be different on the PS2 version because I’m sure thats why I adopted this method because I wasn’t able to depend on through-balls as much. If you’ve got a big centeral CF its great at playing the long ball to them with it too.