I just had the best online football match I've had in years. Possibly ever.
Gutted it was during my lunch hour and I had to stop.
Dutch guy. His players were better than mine and his passing was immaculate. I was relying on interceptions and quick counter attacks to try and get anything.
It felt like such hard work, which is fantastic - it's killing FIFA for me a little bit more every time I play it (fantastic physics or not, it's so easy to play like Real Madrid and score goals like Ronaldo online on FIFA, but in this game it's a REAL slog to get the ball up the pitch and win, and it's so much more rewarding as a result).
My first goal was an interception, a lay-off and a shot within about 3 seconds. It deflected off his defender's shin and crept in at the far post, with the keeper stretching from the near post to try and get there before it was too late.
The second goal was laughable (in a good way)... The pass took a deflection and bobbled diagonally through the penalty area, past two of his defenders who desperately tried to toe-poke it away, and past his goalkeeper who stretched but couldn't get there. It was going out of play, but I JUST managed to get a guy onto the far post and SQUEEZE it past the post.
At this point, he changed his gameplan entirely and was dropping long-balls in. I managed to nick the ball in midfield with my star player, his defenders were backing off, and I hit a shot that rifled into the roof of the net from just inside the area.
It's all so slow, careful and tactical.
I'm in love.
(Please dear God don't let glitch-loving FIFA players ruin this game when they get hold of it across the world...)