Did you set up to el-torando cross for the Ronaldo's with Neymar? I could probably set up a poor mans version of that formation for myself.
Amazing performance dude. Lemmansky's trading skills and your playing could trun you into a Fifa 20 monster
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Did you set up to el-torando cross for the Ronaldo's with Neymar? I could probably set up a poor mans version of that formation for myself.
Amazing performance dude. Lemmansky's trading skills and your playing could trun you into a Fifa 20 monster
Very tasty.
I’ve previously enjoyed the 4411 formation, not sure why I went away from it. Tend to pick it in drafts which have brought me some wins.
May try and practice it again. Finding the 4231 not working very well for me at the moment and end up switching it up to 352 quiet often during matches.
Custom tactics? I actually drew with you in one of our games (you hammered me in the other one admittedly) in the redcafe league. You've gone on to hit 29-1 whereas I'm scraping 14 wins
Mental.Custom tactics? I actually drew with you in one of our games (you hammered me in the other one admittedly) in the redcafe league. You've gone on to hit 29-1 whereas I'm scraping 14 wins
Do you ever get implausible bad luck on weekend league?
While I won't pretend I'm on @Macern level I'm in a similar position to you and usually scrape 14 wins but always have about seven games that go against me every week for reasons that defy science like VDV running away from his marker or Pele (got him on a ten match loan) having a Lukaku esque touch which led to a counter against me or a freshly subbed on in extra time Adama getting caught up by Alderwierld (who started the match) despite having a head start.
I'm not actually an unreasonable player, if there's no scripted crap and I'm beaten fairly by a better player i can accept it all day long and see out the game knowing I did what I could and move on, but bullshit like those examples above and the computer passing to a different direction to what I programmed it too just really does my head in.
There's a lot of bullshit. One example this weekend I was going to upload but I ended up rage quitting so couldn't
His winger scuffed it right across the goal, my PIM Schmeichel was out of position, ending up diving for it and pushed it into the net. I genuinely couldn't believe it.The unresponsiveness/delay doesn't help either. Usually I will get to 10/11 fairly comfortably then lose loads in a row. I honestly think if I went 16-0 I'd still not finish higher than gold 3.
Thanks a lot
I’ll do my very best with trading to get a team like that in FIFA 20. Hopefully I can then reach top 100 consistently-ish. I actually didn’t use el tornado cross once. I think it’s a very overrated cross. The cross itself isn’t so bad, but it takes too much time to execute. The cross I use 90% of the time is turning my player towards the target and then holding L1 while crossing. The trajectory of the ball is at least as good and takes a lot less time to execute.Yeah, I improved massively after switching to my current 4411 setup. The majority of the games I played in the league was with another formation/tactic that didn’t work nearly as well as my current does. So I’ve improved drastically since then. Also, I couldn’t do 29-1 with my own team.Custom tactics? I actually drew with you in one of our games (you hammered me in the other one admittedly) in the redcafe league. You've gone on to hit 29-1 whereas I'm scraping 14 wins
This is how I play:
I’ve been playing 4-4-1-1 recently and after switching to it I’ve reached a new level. This weekend I didn’t finish due to server issues, but last weekend I made 25 wins with 1 game left (one or two wins away from Elite 1). Considering that my team is worth ‘just’ 3.5 million (a lot lower than the average Elite teams) I think it’s worth sharing my formation/tactics/style because it’s the reason why I’m doing well and I think if any of you decide to copy it you’ll likely improve a lot.
Custom tactics/instructions below. The idea behind this is to exploit one of the wings. You should line up with a striker who’s good in the air as one of the wide mids and someone who is great at dribbling and passing/crossing on the other side. You also need your striker and your CF to be good in the air as well.
When you’re in possession you should avoid playing the ball to the side where you’ve got the striker-type of player out wide.
I’m playing Prime Crespo on the left. His first touch and passing is woeful so I always avoid building up attacks on the left. On the other side of the pitch you’ll need someone with great pace, dribbling, agility, balance, short passing and crossing. I’m playing Carniball Gomez there, he’s perfect. One of the better Sterling-cards would be great as well. Or Scream Koke if you have him, absolutely perfect.
Once you have the ball, always try to get it to your ‘creator’ and either dribble or play one-twos or whatever until you have the ball with him out wide in or around the final third. It’s very easy to get high up in the pitch out on the wings, a lot easier than trying to force your way through the middle.
Now, this is when the magic happens. It’s so easy to create chance after chance when you get into this position with your ‘creator’.
Option 1: Assuming you have three great headers approaching the box, you can choose to cross. 99% of people don’t know how to cross properly so I’m going to tell you how to score on crosses (I average maybe one goal a game from crossing in the WL)
-Turn your player towards the box instead of whipping in a cross with a 90 degree angle. He should face more or less towards the direction you’re crossing.
-Hold L1 or LB and then cross.
Result: A very slow, high and accurate cross towards either your striker, CF or LM. I’ve got Flashback Zlatan, CR7 and Prime Crespo as these three players.
Option 2: Pass the ball inside. When you’re out wide, the opposition will be dragged out to your side which opens up space in the middle, specifically outside or around the edge of the box. A simple pass from your creator inside to either a midfielders or one of the central attackers. Now you should have the ball in a relatively dangerous area with quite a bit of space. Then, you have a few options:
-dribble and shoot
-pass and shoot
-pass a few times before shooting
It has to be quick. Basically just get the ball as fast as possible to whichever of your CF/ST/LM is in the best shooting position (or dribble with one of these three or a midfielder into a shooting position).
Now, when you receive the ball in a good position, shoot immediately and do not take a touch before shooting! First time normal shots is by far the most reliable shot in my opinion. Always aim for the side of the goal that your player is faced towards the most.
Below are a few illustrations from the passing option to give you the general idea:
Players you should use:
(You need to play with a high line so all defenders have to be very fast!)
Fullback on the same side as the creator:
Someone who’s good on the ball. (I’m using IF Semedo. He has med/high and is good on the ball)
Other fullback: someone who is as good defensively as possible. Base Maldini (I’m using him) is perfect, he has med/high workrates. You’re literally only going to pass the ball to a center back or a midfielder when you’re in possession with him so it doesn’t have to be a technical player.
CB: no need to have players who are good at passing/dribbling. I’m playing mid Campbell and UCL Moments Manolas. You should only use them to pass easy short passes towards the direction of your creator. Nothing fancy.
CM on the same side as your creator:
Up to you, but he’s playing in a two man midfield so he has to be an all rounder. Shooting isn’t very necessary though. I’m playing UCL Moments Florenzi. Agility/dribbling is quite important. He’s essential in getting the ball to your creator.
Other CM: same as above, only more defensive. I’m playing Flashback De Rossi
Creator (either LM or RM): arguably your most important player. He needs pace, dribbling, agility, balance, short passing and crossing. I’m using Carniball Gomez.
Other wide mid: Aerial ability and shooting is essential. Pace/dribbling is good to have too. I’m playing with Prime Crespo there.
ST: he’s on false 9 so he’s actually more like a CAM. I’m using Flashback Zlatan. Shooting, aerial ability, dribbling and passing is very important. Probably the hardest role to fill.
CF: Your striker. He’s the one that’s easiest to play into shooting position. He needs shooting and aerial ability. I’m using CR7.
Note: You can't play with a deep line with this formation. If you want to play with a deep line you should use 4231 which has 2 CDMs.
Press when the opponent takes a bad touch or whatever it’s called in english
5 width
7 or 8 depth (play with 8 if your defenders are crazy fast)
Balanced
6 width
3 players in box
Fullbacks on stay back and the opposite of aggressive interceptions which I don’t know what’s called in english. Conservative?
CM on the ‘creator’ side on balanced attack, cover middle, avoid getting into the box for crosses. (If he has above 95 stamina you could have him on aggressive interceptions)
Other CM: stay back, cover middle, avoid getting into the box for crosses.
Creator: get in behind, avoid getting into the box for crosses
Other wide mid: get in behind, cut inside, get into the box for crosses
CF: stay central, get in behind, stay in attack
ST: stay central, false 9
Sorry for typos/poor formatting, I was typing all this on my phone at work.
I uploaded a game playing like this if anyone wants to see how it works out.
I’ve now played like that since around that time. If I may add a little adjustment, the importance of a tall player who is good in the air for the CF position isn’t as important as I thought when making that post. Crosses usually end up at the LM on the back post if executed correctly. That’s where your CR7 should be playing if you have him.
Try to limit second man pressing as much as possible. It drags defenders out of position when you don't need them to.
I never use x. I do use R1, mostly in the middle third. As @P-Nut said it can be dangerous to use it especially with your defenders. Make sure to have the second player indicator enabled as you can see which player you’re using R1 to press with.
Messed up my team so much. Gone from 2150 skill points to 1860, can’t buy a win.
What's your team?
It’s a million miles away from the teams I’m facing. I’m definitely good enough for division 1 but handicapped by my team.
It’s a million miles away from the teams I’m facing. I’m definitely good enough for division 1 but handicapped by my team.
What do you change it to in game? It's not too bad of a side just needs slight tweaks to that right hand side which is really poor. If you save up a couple of weeks of rewards you could easily have Lala and Mbappe there instead
I did this, but i still had the web app. I sold everyone, had 800k in the bank and spent it all on rare player packs. Got nothing and was ready to delete it until i saw the mid-icon sbc. Thought feck it and did it, came out with Gullit
so since then ive been hammering it and enjoying it more than ever.have you been doing the different tots SBC’s to get some OP cards? Ive pulled some awesome cards doing Them. Lacazette in the guarenteed prem tots sbc and then Robertson 94 in the 81+ rare player pick SBC.
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Ignoring chemistry as this is how I change in game, how would you improve this team?
Fed up of getting 20-22 wins
want those sweet Elite rewards! Will probably have around 500k or so by end of next week.Can you save up for Ronaldo? Instead of Cutrone? 89 OTW Cancello is under 90k if you feel like you want to upgrade that small amount on your champions 88 version. And i would do the Blanc or Des moments SBC if you can to upgrade Manos??
Ignoring chemistry as this is how I change in game, how would you improve this team?
Fed up of getting 20-22 wins
I see quite a few are happy to have players on 7 or 8 chem. Does it not dip performance?
To be fair, he said ignoring the chem. I have a team full of 10 chem players but with Ibra on 8, as he’s near impossible to link with ligue 1, prem AND Serie A players in one team. But he’s pretty great still.
Yeah I've been doing them whilst on holiday. Pulled absolute dross so far.
Amrabat from Saudi, Doherty from prem, GK from No's
The league upgrades were a joke as well. Probably did 10-15 prem ones and not a player above 81 despite being 81+
Thanks a lot
Thanks buddy. Switched to your tactic. 7 games in rivals, 7 wins. Started in div 4 tbf, but they work a treat.
Dont even have the players to play the system, using rivaldo, tots eriksen and tots gomis for the headers and still scoring loads.
Really tempted to buy those 2 saudi league tanks to try them out now.
I did though find i had to play eriksen at st and gomis at cf so gomis gets in heading position. Striker tends to drift out of box a bit.
I had great luck with those upgrades. Ederson, TAA, Bernardo Silva and Maddison.
Awesome! You have the ST as a false 9 and the CF on get in behind right? The ST is functioning more like a CAM in my setup, and the CF is the actual striker. In that case Eriksen should be ST and Gomis CF yeah.
Lately I’ve been hitting almost all of my crosses at the LM on the back post. I’ve found out that I overestimated the importance of having a tall CF and ST since if you hold down square for long enough it should go towards the back post almost every time. However if you have three aerial threats at CF, ST and LM (or RM) and manage to find them with your crosses then you should be all good.
Yeah my luck has been terrible, hoping it changes around when Ligue 1 is released
Cheers, yeah, Gomis times those runs from CF very well while Eriksen tends to pull out CB's. The only minor issue I think is due to players, Rivaldo's medium/low workrate is costing me a bit in that sense. He just doesn't work hard enough to get into position for the header so its Gomis 90% of the time no matter how I power it up. I imagine Ronaldo's high/low was perfect for the method. It's a great formation in general no one seems set up to defend it and it overwhelms 4231.
Ironically I lost to an 82 rated squad in squad battles using it but more down to EAids than it not working.
Rivaldo is your «wide striker» at RM? Have you instructed him to get into the box for crosses? And get in behind and cut inside too.
Yeah the formation is brilliant in general imo. I prefer RM/LM to wide cams because they’re usually in better positions and more often unmarked. Also, having CMs instead of CDMs makes a massive difference when it comes to pressing high.
A mechanic that I «abuse» a lot is pressing R1/RB to call players towards me. You can do it with or even without the ball. For instance while the ball is being passed between players you can point the stick towards the player you want to run towards you and press R1/RB, then you recieve the ball and the player will be free to pass to.
I use it everywhere on the pitch. In defense when I’m getting pressured, in midfield when my players are marked and most importantly in attack when I have the ball let’s say centrally outside the box and the LM/RM is out wide. If I then use R1/RB to have them run towards me they’ll not only run away from any opponents marking them but also usually be in a position where they can shoot first time and score. It was my go-to move for scoring goals in the WL. Having the ball with R9 or someone, CR7 is out wide on the left, I press R1 at him to make him run towards me, give him the ball when he’s unmarked and then smash it into the far corner.
L1 is the same only you’ll send them away from you. Through balls are hard so I don’t use it as much, but it can still be very useful.
I use it everywhere on the pitch. In defense when I’m getting pressured, in midfield when my players are marked and most importantly in attack when I have the ball let’s say centrally outside the box and the LM/RM is out wide. If I then use R1/RB to have them run towards me they’ll not only run away from any opponents marking them but also usually be in a position where they can shoot first time and score. It was my go-to move for scoring goals in the WL. Having the ball with R9 or someone, CR7 is out wide on the left, I press R1 at him to make him run towards me, give him the ball when he’s unmarked and then smash it into the far corner.
L1 is the same only you’ll send them away from you. Through balls are hard so I don’t use it as much, but it can still be very useful.
My only problem when trying this is the amount of times my player with the ball starts doing dodgey R1 manoeuvres on the ball, like feinting left but turning right with the ball etc, or ill be spamming the the R1 button trying to get people to come towards me and they just stand still for too long and by then im pressed where the pass isn’t on anymore and now my players ahead of me are out of position. Im obviously not doing it properly most of the time.
I’ve sacked off Dumfries and Lozano for Cancelo and Cuadrado for the time being so everyone’s on full chem. Got relegated but I’ve won 5 in a row now.
I did have Mbappe and Lala but sold them to do some SBC’s. I’ve nearly got PIM Moore so he’ll be my CDM after this weeks rewards and I’ll try and grind to get Mbappe and Lala next week. Mbappe is ideal as I switch between 4231 and 41212(2) so he can either be right CAM or striker depending on which I’m using.
Strange, I haven’t had any issues with it. I just tap the button once. I think the feinting stuff occurs if you hold the button.
Anyone do the base icon? pulled sol Campbell.
I could’ve done a lot worse it has to be said but I don’t see how sol Campbell will replace VVD tots and Eder militao future stars.
I could’ve done a lot worse it has to be said but I don’t see how sol Campbell will replace VVD tots and Eder militao future stars.
Might be worth it if you can sell Militao and use the money to upgrade elsewhere
Yup I line up like this.. the two CM's instead of CDM's allow me to get Bernardo into my team as well and he feels like a dream compared to Rice. I put all those instruction on him, they work but he's just lazy. I swapped Gomis out there for a bit in a couple of games and he's much better at getting on the end of things.
-------TotS Bernardo----Moments Petit--------
Prime Best-----------------------Prime Rivaldo
------------------Tots Gomis--------------------
------------------Tots Eriksen-------------------
I’d swap Best and Rivaldo though. Having Rivaldo as an inside striker from the right allows him to cut inside and shoot.
In regards to shooting, there’s one crucial elements that I can’t stress enough. I’ve probably mentioned it on here a few times, but I think it’s very important.
Normal shots from distance with no timing and without taking a touch is by far the best and most reliable shot. It works closer to goal too, but it’s easier to get into shooting opportunities from outside the box.
Adding timing adds an unnecessary element of risk that will for sure cause more trouble than benefits. Taking a touch before you shoot makes it almost impossible to score from outside the box. It makes absolutely no sense, but the game is broken and we all just have to adapt. Finesse shots are useless and low drivens can work on rare occations. A normal shot is the best shot 95% of the time. In all the goals I scored in the weekend league, 0 of them came from finesses and perhaps one came from a low driven.
First time normal shots can be taken from almost any angle too. Here are a few videos to illustrate. Two random goals from my last game (although the second goal is quite spectacular), but the point is these angles are perfect for blasting it into the net and people don’t realize this. It’s so easy to execute too.
@Macern - Cheers buddy will do for the next few days. I'm an 85 and 84 squad away from Kluivert to replace him anyway so I'd be surprised if he's around for WL next week.
Massive well done to @Macern unbelievable pal
Don't think ill be going to PlayStation unfortunately, the missus gives me enough hassle for getting on to play weekend league But you never know, I thought I was done with fifa last year and here I am
Don't think ill be going to PlayStation unfortunately, the missus gives me enough hassle for getting on to play weekend league
But you never know, I thought I was done with fifa last year and here I am@Macern I think you should open the rewards on stream!
Thanks! And fingers crossed you’ll switch thenMassive well done to @Macern unbelievable pal
Don't think ill be going to PlayStation unfortunately, the missus gives me enough hassle for getting on to play weekend league
@Lemansky will be the one opening, but maybe he can post the rewards on here?
I contacted my local team and asked if they’re interested in having me as one of their FIFA representatives (they already have a team with two players, competing in the Norwegian league and tournanemts etc) and they replied saying they are and they’ll contact me within the next days unreal. I wonder if they will pay me. Earning money from playing FIFA is the dream!
unreal. I wonder if they will pay me. Earning money from playing FIFA is the dream!I contacted my local team and asked if they’re interested in having me as one of their FIFA representatives (they already have a team with two players, competing in the Norwegian league and tournanemts etc) and they replied saying they are and they’ll contact me within the next days
Haha unreal! Even if they didn't and you were giving some jerseys, training gear etc that would be class... but maybe they would be willing to help out financially a little as its a big business these days.
What is the name of your local team?