Gaming FIFA 18 Ultimate Team

3-3 at the minute. Some of the teams I'm facing are unreal. Yaya Toure against prime Gullit is never going to end well.
 
Why did you sell???
I'm in a process of changing my style of play completely, from playing super aggressive fast paced gung-ho to playing a patient 41212 style. Ronaldo worked brilliantly well for me when playing 4-3-2-1 because my right back would overlap and cross to him and he'd score lots of goals just by that. Now that I'm playing 41212 I don't get to exploit his heading very much, and I figured I'd be better off selling him. I'm looking at buying a team with some sick players like 86 Gullit and 85 Ferdinand.
 
New team
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I switch it to 41212 narrow in game. Mahrez at CAM and Kante at CDM

Thoughts?
 
Looks tasty @Macern, every time I've come up against Gullit this WL he's stuck his willy in my bum.

In form Obiang is sweaty as feck at cdm. Displaced Gueye as my first choice next to Bakayoko.
 
Was 4-0 and everything was rosy, then came that team with 5 icons, his goal keeper saves everything, predict and anticipate most of his moves but for some reason struggle to contain, my player auto lunges in the box giving away a penalty.

Think I'ma chill for a bit. A lot of is probably psychological, when it feels like 'one of them games' I just end up crumbling. And it's not neccessarily when I concede cos I've had games where I'm 2-3 down but come back. feck knows.
 
Was 4-0 and everything was rosy, then came that team with 5 icons, his goal keeper saves everything, predict and anticipate most of his moves but for some reason struggle to contain, my player auto lunges in the box giving away a penalty.

Think I'ma chill for a bit. A lot of is probably psychological, when it feels like 'one of them games' I just end up crumbling. And it's not neccessarily when I concede cos I've had games where I'm 2-3 down but come back. feck knows.
A lot comes down to mindset I think. I always make sure to play only when I'm not hungry, when I know I won't be distracted, when I'm not feeling down or angry or anything and when I feel like I want to play it rather than playing it for the sake of getting rewards. My performance on a bad day can be so much different from a good day so I'll always try to play only when I'm in the right mood for it.

Btw your location :lol:
 
A lot comes down to mindset I think. I always make sure to play only when I'm not hungry, when I know I won't be distracted, when I'm not feeling down or angry or anything and when I feel like I want to play it rather than playing it for the sake of getting rewards. My performance on a bad day can be so much different from a good day so I'll always try to play only when I'm in the right mood for it.

Btw your location :lol:

Think I need to set myself some of these rules cos you're right the difference it makes to your level of focus (and thus expansive Ness of your game) is huge!! I get stuck in that cycle of being angry at the game, so I start the next to try address it. Of course we know it never frigging works, it's literally insanity :lol:

And cheers mate thought it went well with caf-culture ha :D
 
Currently 14-14 in WL, hopefully I'll be able to pick up 4 more wins tomorrow so I can auto qualify for next weekend. I was struggling with the amount of games last weekend but this weekend has been a lot easier after I planned my games a little. I have had some laggy games but for the most part the gameplay has been fine.

This is the team I have been playing with this weekend.
I change it to the 4-2-3-1 narrow in game since I've found that I can't defend unless I have two CDM's but the wingers get to isolated in the 4-3-3 formation. If I'm behind and struggling to create anything I usually change to the 4-1-2-1-2 narrow and bring on SIF Lozano as one of the strikers.

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I started Ultimate Team quite late, but slowly getting there. I’m using IF Schmeichel in my prem team and he’s pretty solid. Front 3 of Lukaku Sanchez and Jesus (CAM) but i struggle defending against anything above 80+ world class teams. Just can’t get near them sometimes :lol: Started playing online seasons til the new daily knockout tournament.
 
New team
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I switch it to 41212 narrow in game. Mahrez at CAM and Kante at CDM

Thoughts?
How's mahrez? Right wing is always like a weak position for me. Messi is class but also 7-800k, same with dybala if. Bale I don't like. Mbappe in forms are a possibility but expensive too. Miki, dembele and alessandrini seem to be the usuals for right wing but its boring. Left wing I feel like there's so much more to choose from.
 
How's mahrez? Right wing is always like a weak position for me. Messi is class but also 7-800k, same with dybala if. Bale I don't like. Mbappe in forms are a possibility but expensive too. Miki, dembele and alessandrini seem to be the usuals for right wing but its boring. Left wing I feel like there's so much more to choose from.

Mahrez sif dribbling, passing and shooting are excellent, really really good. He really is a Cam though... Just doesn't seem to have the pace or physicality for RW.
 
How's mahrez? Right wing is always like a weak position for me. Messi is class but also 7-800k, same with dybala if. Bale I don't like. Mbappe in forms are a possibility but expensive too. Miki, dembele and alessandrini seem to be the usuals for right wing but its boring. Left wing I feel like there's so much more to choose from.
He’s really good. He’s basically a slightly slower Dembele but with Messi’s left foot. His shooting is phenomenal.

Not sure I’d play him on the wing though
 
New team
J7gzqxz.jpg
I switch it to 41212 narrow in game. Mahrez at CAM and Kante at CDM

Thoughts?

Gullit is class to play with. Had him with hunter also, sold him at the time to switch to La Liga. I’d struggle to score consistently with that front line myself. I have Ronnie, Suarez and Messi in that in-game formation - find it had to change to anything else, if with Messi being underwhelming
 
Currently 14-14 in WL, hopefully I'll be able to pick up 4 more wins tomorrow so I can auto qualify for next weekend. I was struggling with the amount of games last weekend but this weekend has been a lot easier after I planned my games a little. I have had some laggy games but for the most part the gameplay has been fine.

This is the team I have been playing with this weekend.
I change it to the 4-2-3-1 narrow in game since I've found that I can't defend unless I have two CDM's but the wingers get to isolated in the 4-3-3 formation. If I'm behind and struggling to create anything I usually change to the 4-1-2-1-2 narrow and bring on SIF Lozano as one of the strikers.

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Have they not lowered the number of wins to qualify for next weekend WL to 11?
 
11 shots on target to 3, leading 3-2, he equalises in injury time doesn't he. Lose on pens. feck this game.

How the feck does anyone take penalties anyway? It's either down the middle or wide.
 
Just a question here: I am seeing all my players have 3 green upward arrows for all 6 attributes, irrespective of the chemistry card. How is that possible? Is it due to the number of coaches I have or is it some glitch?
 
Might give it a go with 11 wins, doesn’t sound as much of a chore.
 
Think I'm going to get Elite 1 for the first time which is nice. It's the second time I've ever had the chance to play every game throughout the week and I'm on 74,300 with 6 games to play, I'm not sure how many points it generally takes to get Elite 1 but I feel like I'll get there.

I don't know how you guys have such good teams! Like I haven't gotten Elite 1 before but it isn't even that rewarding, 39,500 coins and two mega packs is far from enough to be buying a top player isn't it?

My best player is Sanchez who is surprisingly cheap at about 80k. But the likes of Pogba, Kante, KDB, Hazard etc cost so much money that you'd need a few Elite 1's just to buy them!

I've spent real money on FUT twice, €80 in total and the returns were abysmal, I probably got a total of like 80k coins it was madness.
 
So I'm on course for top 100, maybe even top 50, in Squad Battles when the servers just boot me off AFTER I'm done with a 5-1 win on Legendary. Don't you think the game recorded it as a 0-3 loss?

fecking livid.
 
I would moooder! for TOTY Harry Kane.

His 91 POTM card is fecking broken. Give him and inch of space and YOU WILL SCORE FROM ANYWHERE. It's amazing.
 
Think I'm going to get Elite 1 for the first time which is nice. It's the second time I've ever had the chance to play every game throughout the week and I'm on 74,300 with 6 games to play, I'm not sure how many points it generally takes to get Elite 1 but I feel like I'll get there.

I don't know how you guys have such good teams! Like I haven't gotten Elite 1 before but it isn't even that rewarding, 39,500 coins and two mega packs is far from enough to be buying a top player isn't it?

My best player is Sanchez who is surprisingly cheap at about 80k. But the likes of Pogba, Kante, KDB, Hazard etc cost so much money that you'd need a few Elite 1's just to buy them!

I've spent real money on FUT twice, €80 in total and the returns were abysmal, I probably got a total of like 80k coins it was madness.

Have you used futbin’s import tool? You may well be sitting on more funds than you think.
 
Connect your EA account to a Twitch account and you'll be in with a chance of winning some big players/packs due to the FUT champs reigonals. Giving out 99 Ronaldo and 94 Ronaldinho I believe. Just got an untradeable rare players pack myself.
 
Ended up with 116,238 points in Squad Battles this week. In other words, robbed of a top 100 spot because of the fecking servers. I'm officially done. FIFA just got uninstalled. What a piece of trash.
 
Connect your EA account to a Twitch account and you'll be in with a chance of winning some big players/packs due to the FUT champs reigonals. Giving out 99 Ronaldo and 94 Ronaldinho I believe. Just got an untradeable rare players pack myself.
How do you do it? Can’t for the life of me work it out.
 
Ended up with 116,238 points in Squad Battles this week. In other words, robbed of a top 100 spot because of the fecking servers. I'm officially done. FIFA just got uninstalled. What a piece of trash.

Yeh ok.
 
Honestly don't know what that is but I'll check it out. Thanks!
What's this then?


If you make an account at futbin, log in and click on the import tool and follow the instructions, it’ll basically tell you how much you have of what’s needed for SBC solutions submitted by the community, and more importantly it tells you which players in your club that are currently profitable for you.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve used it and found that I’m holding bronze or silver players that are worth a lot more than most of my gold cards. It could be because they are out of packs, or because SBCs have made them popular, or what have you.

Mind you, when you’re asked to log in to FIFA FUT and access your players, you have to flip through all the pages to get all players evaluated.

Soooo useful.
 
If you make an account at futbin, log in and click on the import tool and follow the instructions, it’ll basically tell you how much you have of what’s needed for SBC solutions submitted by the community, and more importantly it tells you which players in your club that are currently profitable for you.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve used it and found that I’m holding bronze or silver players that are worth a lot more than most of my gold cards. It could be because they are out of packs, or because SBCs have made them popular, or what have you.

Mind you, when you’re asked to log in to FIFA FUT and access your players, you have to flip through all the pages to get all players evaluated.

Soooo useful.

Cheers. Will take a look.
 
I'm leaving it there. 3 penalty shoot outs this WL, 3 losses. My luck has been dogshit this round.