I only had time for one game today. One solitary game of PES2008. Time really is in short supply these days. At least it was an important game—possibly a title-winning game.
It’s game 27 of season 2018. I’m 9 points clear of the team in second place, Valencia. I came up against Recreativo de Huelva. I don’t remember mentioning them before. I don’t remember ever hearing about them before, out in the real world, despite them being the oldest football club in Spain. I think they must be the Spanish equivalent of Bolton Wanderers.
I beat them 6-0, easily. It felt great. At the final whistle my players started running around like maniacs and hugging each other. Naturally, I assumed that other results had gone my way and I’d won the league. However, I didn’t see any awards ceremony afterward, and the game went straight back to the ML menu.
Could I have pressed START too enthusiastically and skipped the awards ceremony by accident? I hate it when that happens. RPG games are the worst for that. There’s a big, pregnant pause during which the game appears frozen, and eventually you pluck up the courage to press START experimentally, only for that press to come a split-second after a lengthy (and probably important) cutscene has started, which of course you have now skipped by mistake. Whoops. I thought maybe I’d done the same thing here in PES2008 with my league championship awards ceremony.
Then I took a look at the league table. Valencia had won their game as well. I was still 9 points ahead, with three games left. So, it was mathematically possible—in theory—for them to overtake me if I lost all my remaining games and they won all theirs. Never mind the fact that my goal difference is so much larger than theirs that they’d have to win them all 12-0. That’s just not going to happen, not even in PES.
So the league is mine. I’ll just have to wait for another game or two to make it official. Before I play another league game, I have to play the European Cup final. It’ll be against Lazio. That’ll have to happen tomorrow now.
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Congrats on the league title. Two in a row!
How about Lazio, huh? European Cup finalists? That will be a first for them. I’ve met them before in my ML, and they were a joke.
Thank you, and as for Lazio—-well, tomorrow’s post reveals all. Suffice to say they weren’t no pushovers… I’m surprised to hear that they’re lightweights in your ML.
Everyone is light weight in my ML.:D
I should really start from scratch.
Donating players to make the oppostition stronger is just crazy! I am not good enough to beat the computer anywat let alone helping them!
Congrats not only on the league, but the fact that you won it at a stroll! Now for the ‘easy’ treble..
I am still playing PES 6 International League. I am mid-table and average, but finally stumbled upon a formation that is working for the team I have.
Casillas
Ramos Puyol Marchena Del Horno
Albelda
Joaquin Alonso Xavi Vicente
Morientes
This really is a great side. So solid defensively, and attack using the strengths of the team. The out and out wingers are great at going around full backs, getting crosses in and Morientes is the best header of the ball I have played with in PES. This is the team I am going to try and assemble in my Master League.
The team structure didn’t come out the way I expected! It’s a 4-5-1 formation. (or 4-1-4-1)
GK-Casillas
SB-Ramos
CB-Puyol
CB-Marchena
SB-Del Horno
DMF-Albelda
SMF-Joaquin
CMFAlonso
CMF-Xavi
SMF-Vicente
CF-Morientes
Not Given - your formation worked fine on the e-mail notification I got of your post. It looks pretty good, and I’d imagine that with certain configurations that’s an ultra-attacking 4-1-4-1, more like a 4-1-5!
Whisper it, but I’m considering changing my 4-3-3 formation in my current Master League, just for variation’s sake. If so, I was thinking of a 4-2-2-2 like the one I used successfully for a short time in PES4. But I might look at that 4-1-4-1 and see what I can make of it.