Have been talking about Franz Beckenbauer (Der Kaiser) in World Cup 2018 thread and it is bringing me back to my Master League campaigns in PES 2 and PES 3 where I played the German maestro all over the pitch, anyone else use this great real life and PES legend much in the games ?
Back in my first ML ever, PES5 on PS2 I had him on my team and yes, you could hardly get anyone better than him. Invincible. Also had Bolmik (Boniek), Poland's only legend in PES games. Good times
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It's been rough, for some reason. Season 4 comes to an end. I was doing okay, but something took a turn for the worse in the last third of the season. Idk, maybe I played too much today? I am suspicious, because for a few games my team seemed to lose any semblance of quality. We barely held on. Our massive 13 points advantage in the league melted to 8 and instead of grabbing the title in 21st, we have to wait until 24th Fixture, when after barely squeezing 1-0 against Ruhr we were crowned champions for a third time in a row. Third star that is! It was a revenge of sorts, since somehow a week earlier we've lost D1 Cup Final against, yeah, Ruhr. It was a terrible game. Everything went wrong. Kiraly disappointed me once again, but we were terrible up front too. We've lost it 1-2. And I wanted a treble this year goddamit!
This time around at least we have managed to win European competition #1, WEFA Championships. Our first rivals were Milan and hoo boy there were terrible and useless! And we were still in form back then, easy 2-0 at home and 3-0 in away game. On to the semifinal where, surprisingly, our eternal enemies for life The Longobardies themselves were waiting for us, having surprisingly eliminated Rekordmeister. It's weird since they were in the relegation zone at that time...first game, we somehow won 2-0 and then crisis started setting in...
Second leg was a nightmare, Longobardi got it to 1-2 in 75th minute and they were speeding up. Considering it was home game, one more goal would send me out of the tourney! Somehow, I defended myself for life and Radzinski (updated some player names so he ain't Ramski anymore) forced Sereni to capitulate once again and with 4-2 aggregate we went into a final. I was expecting my group rivals, Galicia Sur with Figo and Shevchenko but nope. Both them and title defenders Pelopponisos in quarterfinals got eliminated by Puerto. When final match came I was slowly crawling out of the mud but it was still rough. And they have Santa Cruz up front oh for fucks sake...
It was a terrible final! We were playing badly (so many players in awful form) and Puerto was even worse! My hero of the match was backup CBT Ignashevich, he's completely shut down Santa Cruz, the only noteworthy figure on Puerto's side in this final. Rest of them were inconsequential, they might've as well not been there, especially that we had problems with scoring into even empty net. Finally, in a mad charge inside a box Izmailov gets knocked down and we get a PK. I give it to Oli since he needs one more goal to become top scorer of the competition. Baia stops initial shot, but Oli gets to the ball quickly and just bangs it while Baia lays on the ground and screams in agony. We have gotten the lead! As usual in PES 3, Puerto wants to equalise and gets punished right away, with Radzinski finishing our super quick counter-attack. We went through hell and this final game was an absolute peak of mediocrity and powerlessness; but at last, most important trophy in the game was ours!
What next? I want to keep going! I have points and my midfield needs some serious fixing. Bermar is getting better but he's just not a winger. I consider turning my wingers into AMFs, I wonder how this would turn out since I usually attack through the middle anyway...maybe 3-4-3 formation? We need changes. I won't rest until we win everything in one go, in a style so far superior and dominating other teams literally give up and go home crying.
And now, I offer you a look at Europe. West is one huge ass mess, in the south title goes from Greece to Turkey - Pelopponisos loses its tite of Master League's Best Team (which Commonwealth happily inherits) and my WEFA Champs Group Stage rivals, West Midlands Village destroy opposition in Northern League. I will see them all in the next season of Championship, this time as Reigning Champion of the Master League.
And we get third star next season that's what I can't wait to see the most!