The Master League adventures thread

[Kopite1990]

Another few games last night and a mixed bag.

We lost the first two games. The first game against Consadole Sapporo was a real sucker punch. We were probably the better team but struggled to create any clear cut opportunities, then in the 91st minute they cut us wide open with a late counter attacking goal.

The second game we were really poor and fell to a 3-1 defeat, no complaints.

We followed that up with two back to back 1-0 wins, including a dramatic 90th minute winner against Ehime FC.

All in all, still going strong but promotion won’t be a guarantee this season given how hard we have to work to get a win at the moment.

 

[Kopite1990]

Okay, i kinda forgot how intense and rough the derbies are on PES 17, and this was no exception.
Me going in with a string of great games and a solid 3rd position in Serie A vs a Sampdoria second to last in the table.
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Gloves came off straight away with 4 yellow cards for Sampdoria in the first half, should have been a red too if the ref had the guts to call a second yellow for Ricky Martinez
Game was dictated by me, created a lot of good chances first half and was 2-1 up.

Second half was just a battle to not get scored on some nice Sampdoria piled up a lot of chances, Muriel and Quagliarella being a real threat constantly.
Kept a cool head defending and managed to get myself a third goal and that was the final result
Completely drained after this game
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My next game will be Vs Pescara, hope I don't get some derby backlash

Going well mate - Nothing better than a win against your rivals too! I have always found that PES captures the intensity of a Derby really well, you definitely see a change in gameplay and aggression from the CPU.

Ultimate Master League 2025 - Houston Dynamo: Year One - Episode 11 (Season Finale)


MLS 2024 Fall Champions: Miami
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MLS 2024 Fall Championship Award Winners:
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MLS 2024 Fall Championship Team of the Season:
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MLS 2024 Supporter Shield Champions: Miami (1st time)
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Relegated Clubs from MLS 2025:

• New York City
• Seattle
• Colorado

Promoted Clubs to MLS 2025:

• Dallas
• Nashville
• D.C.

MLS Cup 2024 Champion: New England (1st time)
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MLS Cup 2024 Award Winners:
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MLS Cup 2024 Team of the Tournament:
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Well Vince was able to navigate a rocky start to taking over Houston but managed to pull the club out of the relegation at the last match of the season. And will be staying for second season at Houston, but with the major turnover of the squad for this off-season. Can we rebuild the club and avoid relegation places next season. Stay tuned for my next livestream to find out.

Great job mate, a nail biting season but hopefully you can build on it now and push up the league next season!

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Here's something that I found quite interesting in my K-League campaign. When the award for Europe's best player was awarded, an 80-rated midfielder got first place in a runaway vote! Even though Evander has had a solid career from his Vasco da Gama days, it's still very interesting that an 80-rated player would win this award. Thought it was cool.

That is a bit unusual although something similar happened with Igor Jesus and my Santos save - He was only 76 OVR at the time but he ended up with a ridiculous amount of goals one season, I think it might have been over 50.

He won the South American player of the year even though there were a number of better players than him in terms of OVR.

 

[SP83]

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Here's something that I found quite interesting in my K-League campaign. When the award for Europe's best player was awarded, an 80-rated midfielder got first place in a runaway vote! Even though Evander has had a solid career from his Vasco da Gama days, it's still very interesting that an 80-rated player would win this award. Thought it was cool.

Believe it or not, the same player won the same award on my game when I last did a ML on it.

I remember cos' I signed him the season after cos he was really cheap.

 

[rockstrongo]

Believe it or not, the same player won the same award on my game when I last did a ML on it.

I remember cos' I signed him the season after cos he was really cheap.

1 from a danish side
3 from a Belgian side
some weird choices from the jury there, and to put in to perspective, they must have been outstanding vs players being really good in really good leagues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballon_d'Or#Wins_by_club
The Blackpool stands out a bit though

 

[rockstrongo]

Back on my console ML.
Since I'm already through to the last 32 on my Europa League campaign, I pretty much play the 2 remaining group stage games with a very reserve heavy team
Lost to Utrecht away 1-0

And a very tough, unexpectedly tough to be honest home game Vs Delfino Pescara.
Trailing 1-0 after the first half and had to really make changes in both tactics and personnel for my second half, with a lot of pressure on them I got both 1-1 and 2-1 mid 2nd half, though every push upfield had a lot of risk involved since their counter game was brilliant.
One of this seasons toughest games for sure.


Then down to the south for an away game Vs Napoli, extremely close and rough affair, could have gone either way but saw me winning it.


I will play Lazio at home next, should be a great but tough game

 

[subtra3t]

Back on my console ML.
Since I'm already through to the last 32 on my Europa League campaign, I pretty much play the 2 remaining group stage games with a very reserve heavy team
Lost to Utrecht away 1-0
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And a very tough, unexpectedly tough to be honest home game Vs Delfino Pescara.
Trailing 1-0 after the first half and had to really make changes in both tactics and personnel for my second half, with a lot of pressure on them I got both 1-1 and 2-1 mid 2nd half, though every push upfield had a lot of risk involved since their counter game was brilliant.
One of this seasons toughest games for sure.
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Then down to the south for an away game Vs Napoli, extremely close and rough affair, could have gone either way but saw me winning it.
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I will play Lazio at home next, should be a great but tough game

Is that PES 17? For some reason I always found the Europa league more challenging than the domestic league early in the master league, in my first season I got knocked out by Monaco in the round of 16 but won the premier league with 92 points.

 

[rockstrongo]

Is that PES 17? For some reason I always found the Europa league more challenging than the domestic league early in the master league, in my first season I got knocked out by Monaco in the round of 16 but won the premier league with 92 points.

Yes Sir, PES 17 on Xbox
I agree, its much tougher players ng international tournaments like the EL and CL vs league for sure

 

[Kopite1990]

Played a few more games of my mock Master League on eF25 last night - Unfortunately, it feels too forced trying to make this work and there are just too many features missing to feel any real sense of enjoyment after a while. Players do not age, there are no injuries, fatigue or transfers. I knew all of this before I started but it has become glaringly obvious as to why so many people have turned their back on eFootball.

It is such a shame because I do genuinely believe that there is a decent base there, but Konami clearly only want to cater for one community and offline play is irrelevant to them now.

The joys of Master League should be about building up your squad, transfers, starting with next to nothing, Continental campaigns, tough defeats and last minute winners. MyLeague certainly does not capture 90% of this.

However, my JEF United Chiba journey isn’t over yet. I am going to dive back into PES21 tonight and do some editing - I will look to start up a J League ML with them and update on progress soon 👍🏻

 

[rockstrongo]

Played a few more games of my mock Master League on eF25 last night - Unfortunately, it feels too forced trying to make this work and there are just too many features missing to feel any real sense of enjoyment after a while. Players do not age, there are no injuries, fatigue or transfers. I knew all of this before I started but it has become glaringly obvious as to why so many people have turned their back on eFootball.

It is such a shame because I do genuinely believe that there is a decent base there, but Konami clearly only want to cater for one community and offline play is irrelevant to them now.

The joys of Master League should be about building up your squad, transfers, starting with next to nothing, Continental campaigns, tough defeats and last minute winners. MyLeague certainly does not capture 90% of this.

However, my JEF United Chiba journey isn’t over yet. I am going to dive back into PES21 tonight and do some editing - I will look to start up a J League ML with them and update on progress soon 👍🏻

Ah nice, too bad it didn't work with eF25
But welcome back to PES again

 

[Kopite1990]

@Kopite1990 Cheers man!! That's great to hear!! Oh hey, BTW, I thought of our conversation recently
Remember what we talked about regarding the possibility of Neymar at Santos?

It has become a reality! LINK

I'm really enjoying his return to Brazil! It seems really fitting!

Anyway, that was short parenthesis heheh..Back to the ML's!

Sorry Milloss - I have been meaning to come back to you on this but you are right, what an amazing story and great to see Santos back in Serie A.

I have been following their progress a bit after my ML save and noticed they have done pretty well in their State League. They have the semi final against Corinthians tomorrow.

It will be interesting to see what Neymar can bring and how they do in Serie A. Like you say I was never really his biggest fan but he clearly has so much talent and it must be amazing for the fans to see him back home.

 

[Kopite1990]

Managed to get my PES21 J League ML going last night after my false start with JEF United on EF25.

The option file that I used is about 12-18 months out of date so I spent some time messing around with transfers and squad building then it was good to go.





JEF United are currently playing in J2 so they are not in the option file. I have created a randomised default squad made up of most of the lowest rated Japanese players in the game plus 3 Brazilian players (Edson, Victor Sallinas and Lucas Barcelos). J League rules will apply, meaning we can only have a maximum of 5 foreign players at any given time.

Overall, it is a pretty poor squad which will hopefully mean I can add some longevity to the save whilst we build up to a title challenge and possible Asian Champions League success. I have gone for a mix of youth and veteran players in order to balance the team and need for transfers. Our better players, Kida, Takahagi and Niwa are all 30+ so the time we have to get the best out of them is limited.

Wakatsuki and Bangnagande look the most exciting of the youth players. Hopefully they can stay with us right throughout the save.

I managed to play the first game, a tough opening day fixture against Gamba Osaka. We made the worst possible start, going 1-0 down after 5 minutes. A deep cross caught us off guard and a veteran Mario Balotelli swooped in with a powerful header.

We rallied around and responded well, growing into the game we managed to get the equaliser just before half time. Kida snuck into the box with a late run to tap home from a brilliant low cross by Konno.

The second half was a bit of a stalemate, but given the difference in quality right now a 1-1 draw felt like a good result.

Really interested to see how we do this season given the quality and size of the squad. Let’s go Chiba

 

[Kopite1990]

15 games into my JEF United ML now and the league is starting to take shape:



We have managed to find our feet and sit in a decent mid table position. Despite only losing 2 games so far we have been massively hampered by draws and a lack of goals. Unfortunately the quality of the squad just isn’t good enough to blow teams away but we are doing well to grind out results when we can.

A solid mid table or top half finish would definitely be a good return in our first season given the players we have at our disposal. The league is so tight with just 7 points between 1st place and 10th. A decent run could really see you jump up the table. There are no real runaway leaders yet.

We have had some great moments recently, a 1-0 win at home to table toppers Kawasaki Frontale has been a particular highlight.

We are also through to the Last 16 of The Emperors Cup after seeing off Consadole Sapporo on away goals. We meet Kawasaki Frontale in the next round with a two legged tie looking pretty interesting given our recent victory against them.



All in all, a solid start with room for improvement as we approach the midway point of season 1.

 

[rockstrongo]

15 games into my JEF United ML now and the league is starting to take shape:

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We have managed to find our feet and sit in a decent mid table position. Despite only losing 2 games so far we have been massively hampered by draws and a lack of goals. Unfortunately the quality of the squad just isn’t good enough to blow teams away but we are doing well to grind out results when we can.

A solid mid table or top half finish would definitely be a good return in our first season given the players we have at our disposal. The league is so tight with just 7 points between 1st place and 10th. A decent run could really see you jump up the table. There are no real runaway leaders yet.

We have had some great moments recently, a 1-0 win at home to table toppers Kawasaki Frontale has been a particular highlight:

We are also through to the Last 16 of The Emperors Cup after seeing off Consadole Sapporo on away goals. We meet Kawasaki Frontale in the next round with a two legged tie looking pretty interesting given our recent victory against them.

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All in all, a solid start with room for improvement as we approach the midway point of season 1.

Pretty damn good start mate, I'm sure it'll improve even more, the draws can set you back quite a lot, but the rest of the table seems to be suffering from draws as well.

 

[Kopite1990]

Pretty damn good start mate, I'm sure it'll improve even more, the draws can set you back quite a lot, but the rest of the table seems to be suffering from draws as well.

Nice one Rock, definitely happy with the start we have made. The mid-season transfer window opens in a few games, funds are tight but might look to add an attacking player if we can. As you say, the league is so tight that a couple of good/bad results can really make a difference.

Weirdly, it has been easier playing against the better/higher rated teams too. A lot of our struggles have come against the lower rated teams playing a low block.

 

[rockstrongo]

Nice one Rock, definitely happy with the start we have made. The mid-season transfer window opens in a few games, funds are tight but might look to add an attacking player if we can. As you say, the league is so tight that a couple of good/bad results can really make a difference.

Weirdly, it has been easier playing against the better/higher rated teams too. A lot of our struggles have come against the lower rated teams playing a low block.

That's always the thing with pes, shit teams are always a massive nut to crack
Which can be quite fun, but frustrating