Olimpo redux, season 1
Settings: superstar, full manual (L2), 20 minutes, speed 0
Played a brilliant match today - about 10 times.
Away against CA Tigre. First try. What a fight. We play defensive, trying to counter. They have a number of chances. We have a few. Then @ 75' I have a defender blocking their path. A Tigre CF makes a run, and their AMF passes a through ball to him - nutmegging my defender. I hate it when that happens. Restart.
Second try. The same happens around 70-80': a through ball to box, maybe no nutmegging this time. Third match: same thing. Seems to be a pattern.
I stop to think. All this time I have had the opposition CF who scores tightly marked. I now notice that my other CB is tired when the CF scores. Not exhausted but still a bit tired. So in the upcoming matches I sub my CB at around 65'.
No more through ball goals after this change in approach.
Heck,
maybe it wasn't just scripting. Maybe there was a point here.
I continue to see whether I could play the match without losing it. Couple of subsequent tries: I defend overly actively, and they break through my ranks because of that.
Finally I achieve a 0-0 draw by defending carefully and subbing smartly. It's still a close shave, but on the other hand I miss (again) a one vs. one with their keeper. A striking feature is that their CBs are as fast as my super speedy CF but hey, this is superstar.
I am happy I found a solution to the "scripting" issue. The matches were extremely exciting otherwise. Very, very exciting.