That is nasty.
That is nasty.
You know you are feeling good when you even think about taking that on
Beast of a strike
I finished up Giroud and Pastore and used a bunch of fodder I got from the packs along the way to do the RB Bender, who looks a lovely card. RIP the Irish shitters who only survived in the club for about four days before moving on to a better place.
Not sure I actually want/need the second Bender bro, but it feels a bit like going to the pet shop and there's only two puppies left, so you don't want to leave one behind
So true.
Wright, Zambrotta and Makelele SBCs out
All prime moments
The price of the latter two seems to be around 1m. Of those Zambrotta looks the best option to be done, but Wright is cheap as chips for you Arsenal or England team users.
I think I might do Wright for my England team.
I do have a loan Owen and Rooney though.
Claude is getting done.
Just had my biggest ever WL win, 9-2 against a dickhead with Nick Pope.
So good.
I've also discovered that near post shots need to be used more, Pope seems to have a weakness for them.
Bollocks. Was going to sell Wright tomorrow in case he came up on SBCs on Thursday. As it is, I’ve lost 250k on him. I’ll do the SBC easily with what’s in the club, though so it’s not a massive issue.
Just played one of the most annoying people I've ever played in WL.
He was playing an extremely up tempo game with lots of pressure, he was extremely good with skills and he was basically playing his keeper as a CB.
Was 3-3 AET (I was 2-0) and he ended up winning 5-4 with the last kick of the game.
I've never played someone so aggressive with a keeper and it really threw me off. I should have scored at least 8 but I kept second guessing myself as to where his fucking Lloris would be.
I was drawing 2-2 in a match and my opponent makes it 3-2 in the 85th minute so I go ultra attacking and Bruno almost instantly finds an equaliser. From there I decide to stay on ultra as I want this win and he was struggling when I made the change.
In the 90th minute Van Basten misses a chance but I get the corner:
Yuri rising like a salmon
11-7 which is my best record on this IIRC. Also my red was useless as per usual.
I'm kinda tempted to switch to a full BuLi defence. UCL Davies + Alaba could be options but I'd be putting all my eggs in Bayern's basket
Same here. Selling Wright to replace with his SBC version means I’ve got 2m, and Davies/Alaba RTTFs have been on my list a while. If I can get Mbappe done I can keep Camavinga without needing the Ligue 1 defence, so it’s all dependent on that really. Also a question of whether I want Bender at RB - Klaiber does look a better bet and Robben is still pulling up trees, so maybe I’ll stick with just GK-LB-CB-CB moving to Bundesliga.
And I'm done. 17-5 in the end which was okay. Should have lost 2 fewer matches than I did but the team is slightly in flux as it is. It became obvious quickly that Pope was not for me. So out he went and in came De Gea who was much more consistent. He still did leave a bit to be desired though.
My one last hope for red Jota ended as I was handed three sub-80 players and 86 Werghorst. It is however good to be finished at a reasonable time for once. The team is a bit imbalanced right now. I'll see what the end of this season brings then I'll work on it.
A special shout out to this man though who made large parts of this weekend incredible fun:
So far I've landed that Wieghorst three times- once as a red and twice as untraceable IFs, the second one came after submitting the first for the 5 x 85+, so it was a relief I opted to use him in it.
22/55 is fucking obscene, GF.
Decided I'd try and push to 14 and in my first "Champs" game the guy messaged me asking if he could score a hattrick with his Deulofeu and he'd give me the win.
He moved first and let me score so I said sure. I ended up winning 8-5 (he played the full match but did move for at least 6 of the goals).
Match ended and I realise it's actually Rivals...
I seem to accidentally play a game of Rivals each WL
Did the draft token SBC so decided to pick the draft. They seem a bit juiced.
UCL Ederson
TOTT Trent
TOTY VVD
Prime Campbell
TOTY Davies
MOTM McSauce
UCL Wijanldum
Prime Pirlo
Prime Garrincha
TOTY Mbappe
UCL Neymar
Bench highlights are:
95 Messi
Prime Puskas
91 Salah
Well first proper Champs game in my road to 14 was a 7-4 win. It was 3-3 at half time and I missed 3 sitters but kept hitting him on the counter to win in the second half.
Second game the guy rage quit at 1-0 down after 2 minutes and the third was a guy who rage quit at 4-0 down after 40 minutes
14-7.
Last time I pushed to 14 I lost 8 so improvement.
4-2-3-1 seems to suit me a lot more than 3-5-2 or one of the 5 back formations.
Ugh. Just played a guy with a full gold BPL team, all of his front 4 (the usual Rashford/Martial/Salah + 1 I can't recall) lined up with Shadows, and he scored 5 on me from pressing. I scored 5 myself despite getting a 12th minute red card but lost to a late penalty, even then going on to miss several one on ones to super aggressive keeping. These aggro teams are bloody horrible to play vs with going long out of defence being so bad.
It’s normally fine as playing 41212 wide, I’ve almost always got a supporting runner to knock onto if they do, but in that I was a man down and so had to take one off the front 3.
I’ve been edged out of 3 games in a row vs folks I’m getting 70%+ possession and c 15 shots, all inside the area vs their 2-3 and so this is not the night for me. I’d rather not, frankly...
Ended up falling asleep left stranded on 8-4 in WL last night. Means I'm going to have to play a bit of Rivals this week, along with the 39 MM wins and 10 One League Ligue 1 games I need to play. Going to be a busy one if I want all these objective players.
Edit: Having just checked, I ended 9-4. I must have played that last win in a complete trance.
Last edited by thommo; 22-03-2021 at 08:14 AM.
Neves done and XP up to 98k so the week should be a good one.
Back on to get Giroud and Pastore.
https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust
81+ double and an 83+ upgrade.
I'll cycle through as many as I can.
Excellent. I’m up to the eyeballs in players and don’t fancy grinding the leagues further.
They have thrown in some retro kits objectives (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, Spurs and Leeds) and a rivals/SB objective for some packs.
No board from 4 of the double 81's. I then got 86 Weghorst from the first 83+ pack.
Opened up a couple of packs and somehow got Alisson twice in a row Luckily I had a tradeable one in the club already so now just have one spare to go into the next SBC that takes my fancy.
After EAs Icon fiasco last week someone on Twitter made a thread explaining just how impossible it is to gain the "Ultimate team." Well EA have responded to that in true EA fashion...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...-cost-23754508
£80,000 to get that Ultimate Team.
The requirements for that Benedetto are annoying. No way I’m scoring 4 from outside the box.... everything else and I’m there, no problem.
On the EA front, I really don’t get the issue. It’s a grindy game, with loot boxes to speed things up. Did The Mirror go after WoW and the likes for the same stuff? No, cos it wasn’t mirror reading scrotes making up 50% of the player base.
Switched onto Pastore last night and am 5-0 with a Serie A team I’m really enjoying. WiF Pereyra at striker is great, IF Luiz Alberto is surprisingly useful at CAM despite the pace and a red IF Sanchez is really fun.
Finished up 19/20 of the Prem today. Just West Brom to go. Will spend some time hammering the Silver packs and see if I can get any luck, otherwise I'll be spending a shitload to finish it up. I hope they get relegated this season, the wankers
Flashback Chicharito and MLS foundations deux.
That Hernandez is worth it just as fodder. 83 + 80 including one of my throwaway untradeable IFs is great value.
De Sciglio is done, and now 4 wins from Pastore so I’m mounting up the high rateds for Mbappe (87,89 and 86 left to do). Also packed the new 90 Navas from a 2 rare player pack along the way.
Ill be doing Hernandez but I dont think Ill be able to use him as fodder. They hyper link to Dos Santos is nice too.
I didn't even check the Chicharito requirements.
68.5k on PS4 which makes him one of the cheapest 89's in the game and you get two packs back.
If there's a promo on Friday then hopefully fodder will come down in price. Assume lots of people are sitting on packs. I'm tempted to put all my coins into high rated IFs if they come down to a sensible level again.
Finished up Giroud and Neves today. I was hoping to get more games in but my internet decided to have a right paddy during the middle of the day which put a stop to that.
30 more MM wins for Pastore and Benedetto to go, plus the 3 Silver Star wins for McGeady. I SHOULD be able to do it...