First handful of matches played, I like it! Miles ahead of PES 2018 for sure, it has its flaws but all in all when you are on the pitch it's a very good game in my opinion.
First match: Vitoria Guimaraes (me) vs. Portimonense, top player...
They played in an orange kit, and their keeper... Too.
Typical Konami, they did the same to Levante in PES 2015.
I almost dominated the match, missing a couple of sitters, and they scored on the counter with a long pass from a defender to find the striker all alone between my defenders, with none of them marking him.
Fair play.
Not a single low cross from the CPU in that match.
Then, Lugano (me) against a Belgian side of which I cannot remember the name: they completely dominated me, and they indeed played a couple of those low crosses, scoring once from them.
By the end of the second match I could hardly manage a shot on target, let alone a goal.
Thief match: Cunturipa (me) vs. Fontana City. The feast of low crosses. In an occasion, their striker was through on goal, could be one on one with my keeper. He stopped, turned his back to the goal and waited for a teammate to come down the flank to pass it wide. Completely no common sense.
Once he played the ball to the flank, he ran towards the middle of the box to collect... Yeah, you got it: a low cross.
But I managed to score my first goal ever and it was from a manual header, they're difficult but they can be made from time to time and they're rewarding.
Another match, another opponent: Al Ain (me) vs. Iquique... Berg was utterly ineffective for me, I had to rely on Abdulrahman to play as a sort of false 9 and to dish out assists to players coming from the flanks.
Success! I deeply appreciate the fact that I had to change my play style to get dangerous...
Ones thing or two that I can't understand:
sometimes the CPU freaks out, it tries to dribble out of the touch line or (as I said earlier) does stupid things when it could have a clear cut chance.
I've always selected random time/ conditions and hone stadium, yet I have not had a match in the day yet. Every match I've played had been at night.
And those kits FFS, they're driving me nuts. Orange player kit, orange GK kit. So amateurish.
But I like it, I really do.
Well done Konami!
