im just curious as to how people play this game. i mean, do they just dribble, shoot, miss or score and thats it?

what i do is
1) pass on the first touch most of the time, (unless i have an open flank)
2) im constantly hitting spacebar to change the igm to suit my situation
3) i always try to position my players in a way that i can create some funky assed goal
(i mean, ill take one player,dribble till i get to a certain point, pass it, and then that player will hopefully stay there till im ready to give the ball back)

6) i always chip the ball over the keepers head -=D
7) i ALWAYS do special moves, never ever go in to a game without the tricks.

by the way, certain tricks beat certain tackles....
slide tackles = shift+ 's' (this does the sidestep)
the 'd' button tackle= shift+ 'd' (dunno the name, but he does a turn, almost like a fake)

all the others are for fun, like the rainbow kick, i do that when i want to not only chip the ball over the keeper, but humiliate him while im doing it........anyway, yeah.

I use Q alot, not to tackle them, at least I don't intend to, but to elude tackles, if you use the Q button well, you can just run through the whole defence in a straight direction and then blast it past the keeper.

One strange moment happened yesterday when I was playing the EFA Cup Quater-Final Lyon vs Marseille. I was Lyon, and when I got into the box I pushed Ctrl+Q, you know, a fake dive, and guess what, I got a penalty for it too. Unfortunately that stupid Alain Caveglia missed by hitting the post.