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help on offense
- Thread starter soccfif
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Well try not running around too much instead just move with out
holding down the run button
thats it.....
holding down the run button
thats it.....
Hey, I was right where you were, so I can emphatize with you. In the semi-pro mode, I took Newcastle United and my first time through the Premiership I was almost relegated, averaging less than a goal a match. My second time through I finished fifth, won the FA Cup, and averaged over 2 goals a game.
Visit some old posts, there are lots of ideas, but here's what's worked for me (and more importantly, what hasn't).
As everyone knows, heading is worthless. You're going to lose your 50-50s, and 90% of your lobs are going to be intercepted. There are lots of posters who claim they score off of heads frequently, but they have no girlfriends, and they look like vampires, so avoid going to the extremes that they have taken.
Almost all your passes should be preceded by pressing the "Run" button, so the recipient is already on the move, AND . . .
before HE receives the ball, press "Run + Pass" for the next player! You don't want to hold onto the ball very long, it'll be stripped from your player.
What I try to do is zig-zag the ball up the field until I get a striker angling towards the goal, INSIDE of his marker. It doesn't work every time, but enough that I get a lot of shots.
I use a 4-3-3 only so that I have a striker on each wing (I don't use the "radar") in case I pass in the "wrong" direction.
I used "Tower" in FIFA 2002 but weaned myself of it with FIFA 2003 in favor of a different overhead angle that showed me more players (I don't remember which it is, but it's "5" on the keyboard).
The power-up is going to screw you all the time. I miss loads of shots going over the cross-bar. My players can't seem to keep their toe pointed down when they shoot. You're not going to score very often outside the penalty area and you're hardly ever going to get as far in as the goal area (unless the ball's bouncing around crazily), so here's how I've scored 75% of my goals . . .
. . . if you're inside of , or past, your marker while still outside of the penalty box, "sprint" towards the box, but as you approach the 18 yard line (it's a finesse thing, I can't tell you exactly where), stop sprinting (but keep running) and and hold down "shoot." Try not to power it all the way up, but don't just roll the damn thing to the keeper.
If you sprint too long you'll never get a shot off. If you don't sprint, the defender will take the ball. If you try to get close, the keeper will capture the ball.
There's nothing fancy about it, no bending the ball, no lobs over the keepers head, but until you master crosses from the wing, it's the best you're going to get.
A couple of other things:
Keep the ball out of your end as much as possible. My goal kicks are always intercepted, so I just pass to a defender who dribbles up almost to the half circle before he passes. The AIs strikers don't go after him (apparently having received orders NOT to leave their assigned positions).
A lot (all?) of the AI teams have a "catch up" mode, so after about the 60th minute, the AI becomes extremely aggressive (which should result in a few break-aways for you, but I've only been able to score once on that. Not only is the AI aggressive, it also become very swift).
The AI's keeper will roll the ball out to his inside defenders about 25% of the time. Place a striker there and try to slide tackle the ball away for a quick shot (one poster positions his striker IN FRONT of a defender. I haven't tried that yet).
Forget about positioning your players according to their real-life positions unless you're going to change their ratings with Creation Centre (don't get me started). Highly rated tacklers on defense; shooting, speed, tackling (in that order) as strikers. Gary Speed is my main striker, not that he's better than Bellamy, Lua-Lua or Shearer, but EA Sports gives him high shooting, speed and tackling abilities.
Fatigue doesn't mean ****.
When I became really frustrated, I started an MLS league in the amateur mode. I'd build up a big lead, then switch to semi-pro to finish the game. The entire MLS is weaker than the Premiership (at least THAT'S accurate), so even in semi-pro the MLS game seemed slower than the Premiership game. It helped me get comfortable with how the game plays.
Sorry I wrote so long. I'm probably going to get flamed. But for all its problems (and boy, there are quite a few), I have enjoyed playing it and wouldn't want to see you get frustrated over the scoring problem.
Finally, you heard it here first: Ali Wagner is god (or, goddess).
Visit some old posts, there are lots of ideas, but here's what's worked for me (and more importantly, what hasn't).
As everyone knows, heading is worthless. You're going to lose your 50-50s, and 90% of your lobs are going to be intercepted. There are lots of posters who claim they score off of heads frequently, but they have no girlfriends, and they look like vampires, so avoid going to the extremes that they have taken.
Almost all your passes should be preceded by pressing the "Run" button, so the recipient is already on the move, AND . . .
before HE receives the ball, press "Run + Pass" for the next player! You don't want to hold onto the ball very long, it'll be stripped from your player.
What I try to do is zig-zag the ball up the field until I get a striker angling towards the goal, INSIDE of his marker. It doesn't work every time, but enough that I get a lot of shots.
I use a 4-3-3 only so that I have a striker on each wing (I don't use the "radar") in case I pass in the "wrong" direction.
I used "Tower" in FIFA 2002 but weaned myself of it with FIFA 2003 in favor of a different overhead angle that showed me more players (I don't remember which it is, but it's "5" on the keyboard).
The power-up is going to screw you all the time. I miss loads of shots going over the cross-bar. My players can't seem to keep their toe pointed down when they shoot. You're not going to score very often outside the penalty area and you're hardly ever going to get as far in as the goal area (unless the ball's bouncing around crazily), so here's how I've scored 75% of my goals . . .
. . . if you're inside of , or past, your marker while still outside of the penalty box, "sprint" towards the box, but as you approach the 18 yard line (it's a finesse thing, I can't tell you exactly where), stop sprinting (but keep running) and and hold down "shoot." Try not to power it all the way up, but don't just roll the damn thing to the keeper.
If you sprint too long you'll never get a shot off. If you don't sprint, the defender will take the ball. If you try to get close, the keeper will capture the ball.
There's nothing fancy about it, no bending the ball, no lobs over the keepers head, but until you master crosses from the wing, it's the best you're going to get.
A couple of other things:
Keep the ball out of your end as much as possible. My goal kicks are always intercepted, so I just pass to a defender who dribbles up almost to the half circle before he passes. The AIs strikers don't go after him (apparently having received orders NOT to leave their assigned positions).
A lot (all?) of the AI teams have a "catch up" mode, so after about the 60th minute, the AI becomes extremely aggressive (which should result in a few break-aways for you, but I've only been able to score once on that. Not only is the AI aggressive, it also become very swift).
The AI's keeper will roll the ball out to his inside defenders about 25% of the time. Place a striker there and try to slide tackle the ball away for a quick shot (one poster positions his striker IN FRONT of a defender. I haven't tried that yet).
Forget about positioning your players according to their real-life positions unless you're going to change their ratings with Creation Centre (don't get me started). Highly rated tacklers on defense; shooting, speed, tackling (in that order) as strikers. Gary Speed is my main striker, not that he's better than Bellamy, Lua-Lua or Shearer, but EA Sports gives him high shooting, speed and tackling abilities.
Fatigue doesn't mean ****.
When I became really frustrated, I started an MLS league in the amateur mode. I'd build up a big lead, then switch to semi-pro to finish the game. The entire MLS is weaker than the Premiership (at least THAT'S accurate), so even in semi-pro the MLS game seemed slower than the Premiership game. It helped me get comfortable with how the game plays.
Sorry I wrote so long. I'm probably going to get flamed. But for all its problems (and boy, there are quite a few), I have enjoyed playing it and wouldn't want to see you get frustrated over the scoring problem.
Finally, you heard it here first: Ali Wagner is god (or, goddess).