I just finished editing Southampton and used @Chenghis.Khan 4-3-3 formation with 2 SS and 1 CF.
I tested them by playing as Man City (with Chenghis formation) against them. On Top Player with 15 mins game on full span wide camera and it was excellent.
Southampton won 0-1 (maybe unrealistic scoreline) but it was so tough.
Stats were...
Man City first.
Shots 9 (3 on target) - 10 (6)
Free Kicks 1 -2
Corners 2 - 5
Possession 43 - 57
What was the most impressive thing is that Southampton did not do the ‘middle dribble’ once through out the game. They mixed it up a lot.
One thing that i make sure i do is always use my team’s default formation. I know for me i can easily use 4-3-3 with wide wingers and try to exploit the opposite side. But i would leave that for ML when controlling my own team. But using Man City with their default formation made it such a challenge and more realistc in my opinion.
Sorry @fmicablues7, i know you have mentioned it from the start, but i am really not getting these high scoring games or those keeper flaps. Some games are exciting and some are really boring just like PES (footy) should be. It must be the way that we play differently along with @Topaz too as i find it difficult to break down the opposite teams and i dont find the game easy. But it could be that, as i said, i use the team’s default formation to experiment a bit.
I hold down X and only ever get short passes to the nearest player. It's going to get better when I get used to the game, but I don't know if I can play without this.
And you can't perform long ground passes WTF?!
I played a few games with PES3 and, I don't know man..
Everything is clunky, but also kinda smooth if that makes sense.
It runs much better than 2008 on emulator and it's harder to keep the ball away from defenders, which is good.
Difficulty is really high right now for me. I guess a lot of that comes from team tactics being set up horribly so far. In PES5 and on they went overboard on attacking arrows and everybody had them but in PES3 they haven't given any in the teams I've tried and there's hardly any good movement off the ball. Teammates also seem a bit stupid in terms of recognizing when I've drawn their defender to me and they should make a run into the thus opened space, especially SBs.
The one thing that might be game breaking for me is passing. Passing aim is horrible, as it quite often goes to the wrong player. Players also play wrong passes and refuse to play some passes that are easy to execute in later titles. And you can't perform long ground passes WTF?!
Defenders are also interception gods, I can't handle passing at all. Will try some more games.
Yeah I know, that would be bordering on perfection. It's probably best in 2 player mode. It's a shame because the defensive aspect is brilliant in those games. It's one of the toughest games to score in and I love the challenge of breaking them down, but they seem to run out of ideas when they get into the final third. Funnily enough I got hammered 4-0 in the cup yesterday after keeping 5 clean sheets in the league. They can play offensive sometimes, just not enough, even on 6 stars. Still love the realistic flow and mechanics of those games though.
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