Some of the variety still beggars belief at times. Just played out what can only be described as a shitty 0-0, but it was beautiful.
Me Bordeaux vs Metz (Top player / Manual) using the League option and Ligue 1. Our pass completion rate was 52% and 55% respectively, so that goes to show how scrappy it was. From the off Metz went direct, im talking diagonals, knocking down the flank, anything they could test my back 4 with, it came.
Im not the fanciest of players, I like mixing it and playing that way myself to an extent... but as Metz kept it up, I got sucked in to playing them at their own game. It turned into an absolute mess of a game, heavy challenges, aerial battles (I mean we played head tennis in and out of the box at one point).. .the Metz players were mis controlling it, balls going awry everywhere.
As I say it fizzled out into a 0-0 draw with neither side really creating anything really noteworthy, but if I compare that to the game before where Montpellier basically stifled me with possession football and sat back on a 1-0 lead with 2 banks of 4. Its like chalk and cheese and I love it, you just dont know what you are going to get and this is where (hopefully) the longevity of the game comes into it for me as an offline player. Having variety in the AI, having to mix things up .. right now and I apologise for swearing, but I fucking love it, I really do.