FIFA 19

[CharlieAdamno1Fan]

It’s fucking me off tonight either winning by 1-0 or 2-1 or getting smashed by under 80 rated teams

 

[Robert Molenaar]

Only had chance to play about 12 games on the WL, won 7 I think.

 

[G.B]

Got gold 2 with my 20k + red Depay squad. Could carry on and go for gold 1 but I can't be arsed to play anymore FIFA for a while. A fair few rage quits this evening from people with icons/multi million coin squads and a 6-2 spanking from a Bundesliga squad with the SBC players and SIF Werner. Seems you can just shoot first time from anywhere and score with those lot.

What are you getting with the swap cards? Think I'm going for the pack, though Guilavogui is tempting. Planning on buying Mbappe when I get a new squad so I'm not really interested in Pedro. He does look boss though.

 

[epic73]

Any of you done any Career Mode? I'm doing 3 with Man Utd, Preston, and Frankfurt at the moment.

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

20-4, now 20-6. Lost to two guys who've hit the top 100 before, played in consecutive games which was annoying. One of them was previously a Feyenoord pro. Both very tight games that could have gone either way, but Icardi is sadly looking dated for me now.

Icardi
Mertens - Dybala - Gomez
Matuidi - Saul
Alaba - Boateng - UCL Nacho - SBC Juanfran
Neuer​

Subs: Red Lala, Red Bailly, Allan, Scream Koke, Red B.Silva, Red Mahrez, Red Cavani

Will definitely have Ramos and Nainggolan in for next week, for my first team change in about six weeks.

Also been going to plan B quite a bit, flat 442 with Dybala pushing up alongside Icardi. Big reason I want to bring in Nainggolan, need a proper two way cm in that formation.

I'm probably going for Pedro, need a right footed CAM for my bench. Depends what Sancho drops to.

 

[HarvSFC]

Crossing is OP again.

 

[G.B]

Any of you done any Career Mode? I'm doing 3 with Man Utd, Preston, and Frankfurt at the moment.

Nah, the AI annoys me too much. This is my first FIFA since FIFA 16 and I don't remember it being anywhere near as tedious playing the AI.

Pulled IF Rondon from silver 2 squad battles rewards. Worth.

 

[epic73]

Meanwhile I got Gold 2 and a total of 2 rare gold players.

 

[Stevencc]

Any of you done any Career Mode? I'm doing 3 with Man Utd, Preston, and Frankfurt at the moment.

I've started one with Spurs.

The board expect me to win the League, FA Cup and to reach the final of the Champion's League in my first season.

Lloris
Trippier Alderweireld Vertonghen Davies
Dier Dembele
Moura Eriksen Son
Kane


Vorm
Aurier Sanchez Foyth Rose
Wanyama Sissoko
Lamela Alli Nkoudou
Llorente
​

I've set it up so that transfers aren't possible until January where I've got £90m to spend without factoring in sales.

 

[Relentless]

Futswap player from the SB rewards again this week, need silver

Also I have no idea who the guy in the featured squas battles match is but he looks an absolute twat.

 

[epic73]

The board expect me to win the League, FA Cup and to reach the final of the Champion's League in my first season.

My Europa League board goal with Frankfurt was to reach the final but the board only wanted me to finish top 6 in the league. Ended up getting smashed 7-2 on aggregate by Rangers in the RO32. Simmed the 1st leg and lost 1-0, went 3-0 down on aggregate in the 2nd and went ultra attacking (2-2-6), down 5-0 on aggregate by halftime.

 

[Relentless]

I went for the futswap Guilavogi. While I'd have loved Pedro and the pack was tempting, I've got enough players similar to Pedro and my pack luck is just genuinely garbage. There's basically no worthwhile Bundesliga CDMs (either shit or wrong WRs) and he's got a good nation too and he's really solid.

 

[epic73]

Are there no more swap players coming out?

 

[G.B]

4 more to come out including NUFC legend Daniel Barlaser.

https://www.fifauteam.com/fifa-19-swap-deals-guide/#Nov

 

[Soup Ladle]

I went with that hybrid Chinese league side. It's basically Brazil keeper and defence and Chinese league midfield and attack. Cost me around 16k for 6 of the players.

I've got

Gomes (77)
Baiano (77) Maicon (81) Gabriel Paulista (82) Telles (84) (loan)
Renato Augusto (81) Gauvin (76) Anderson Talisca (82)
Hulk (81) Bakambu (82) Carrasco (83)

Good cheap side, shame I'm such a crap player. On the brink of relegation from Div 5 in rivals. I can't cross to save my life on FIFA 19, it's really hard, I always find the defender even if my man is in space and looks in a good position so have zero goal threat if the through ball or long shot isn't on.

Also, getting sod all in the packs so far. I'm rank one in rivals so sure as hell taking the coins and crack on with improving my sides.

 

[epic73]

Guilavogui as a replacement for Paulinho (or Stark/Vogt) or Niang as a super sub?

If I get Guilavogui it would be:

Gvog (7)
Stark Vogt
Sommer

OR

Paulinho
Gvog (6) Vogt (7)
Sommer

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Soup Ladle - why are you crossing?

Finished on 21 again this week. Was 20-4, lost two games in a row in extra time. Of the four I lost after twenty, two were players who’ve finished in the top 100, one was representing “Wolves eSport”.

Apparently that’s a thing. Even more tragic than the Braga eSporter that I played last month - he at least had about 30 followers on Twitter...

Fucking annoying though.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Soup Ladle - why are you crossing?

I just can't get better at it, every time I do the training I smash it then fuck it up in rivals so gave up and changed to a 433 narrow so I don't have to rely on crosses much

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

I can count on one hand the goals I’ve scored from crosses!

 

[Robert Molenaar]

I use the low driven cross quite a lot to the winger on the back post. Get a little bit of joy out of that but largely agree, no goals from crosses at all this year.

Crosses from corners on the other hand....

 

[Relentless]

Dunno, a bit looping L1 cross to the far post when there's a winger like Perisic or someone there does treats. As does a late one to someone making a run into the box to volley it. epic73 I'd say Guilavogi. The futswap Niang doesn't look anything special and for a sub you can just pickup like Promes or someone like that for a few K

 

[Relentless]

New patch nerfs AI defending

 

[Soup Ladle]

Dunno, a bit looping L1 cross to the far post when there's a winger like Perisic or someone there does treats. As does a late one to someone making a run into the box to volley it. epic73 I'd say Guilavogi. The futswap Niang doesn't look anything special and for a sub you can just pickup like Promes or someone like that for a few K

The crossing is a complete mystery to me. I've got it set on semi-assisted so whenever I play the AI I get some joy from all manner of crosses. Whenever I play online, I take up the same positions to put the ball in but always gets cleared. Just wondering if the crossing goes to manual when playing online, something changes.

 

[G.B]

New patch nerfs AI defending

About time. 90% of the player base is about to become a lot worse at the game if the nerf is actually any good.

 

[Relentless]

About time. 90% of the player base is about to become a lot worse at the game if the nerf is actually any good.

PC players (patch is out on there) seem to like it.

Playing with high pressure also kills stamina more with the patch. Thankfully as high pressure also needed a Nerf.

Hopefully less of tackling them and they keep the ball too as when tackles like that happen the ball goes further away.

Now just to fix the servers, finesse shots being OP and players randomly swapping positions if you swap formations with your tactics and we'll have a decent game.

 

[Relentless]

The crossing is a complete mystery to me. I've got it set on semi-assisted so whenever I play the AI I get some joy from all manner of crosses. Whenever I play online, I take up the same positions to put the ball in but always gets cleared. Just wondering if the crossing goes to manual when playing online, something changes.

Depending on the AI level your sliders change. So on easier AI the game will fix your mistakes more. I dunno what the sliders used for online are but I'd assume closer to neutral so doesn't fix it much.

Also try out different cross types, L1 is a high looping one, r1 is a low ground cross and l2 is usually a rabona which can do wonders or fuck up massively.

 

[HarvSFC]

I scored a load of goals over the weekend with crosses after getting no luck with them beforehand and rarely ever attempting them.

 

[CharlieAdamno1Fan]

Look at this for a bag of shit

https://twitter.com/x/status/1064988932998422529

Camera fucked, I have to log in to the app to apply fitness cards, can’t do sbc as it not registering the a button but does in game.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Lads stop whatever you are doing and read this..

I’ve just scored off a cross on division rivals.

 

[Relentless]

Just got promoted to division 3 in division rivals. This'll be fun.


Also ignore people who say players are bad because they aren't meta. Everyone online says that icons like Zola are shit

He's got 31 assists and 73 goals in 52 games. All in DR and WL.
I do a lot better if I have a star player and force myself to not keep forcing it to them. It makes it too obvious if you do that. He is amazing at wriggling away and then scoring pretty much any chance you get.