Asunto: National Team

Will watch this later because the last few results seem to have been good (though haven’t watched them either as I hadn’t found the time) but anytime you give away 25 shots you’re going to struggle to win. Their team on paper looks pretty decent though.

It's not the score or the stats that bug me the most but the way that led to this.

Here are my observations:

1. 80% of balls landed behind the side line due to our defenders lack of thinking. I still can't figure out the issue, some of them are not that low on the secondaries to do such things. That created lots of chances for UAE to get on our half with the ball on their side.
2. A few actions on the left hand side with ball on us, Vasilevski standing free sticked to the side line on the opposite part of the park with a highway leading to the end line and a free cross in the penalty box and yet our mids decide to play between each other when covered by 3 opponents. Sick situation.
3. We won like 2 out of 20 headers in our penalty box. Don't understand how did it come to this, even with our defs being first in the target spot and having their strikers outnumbered. Haven't seen anything like this before in my life.
4. Our strikers running for a goal for 40 meters with the ball by their legs, almost from the centre and they decide to release the ball while having 3 meters to the gk. A 100% opportunity ending with a pass to UAE's goalie. We could have witnessed this a few times here as well.
5. Scored just 2 goals on 11 shots and almost all of them were either 1on1s or another try on an empty goal after their gk's save.

Can't stand how did they manage to win so many headers (I know that their striker is tall but it has been proven many times that height is just a figure in this game), so it looks like we couldn't win the lottery of the header. There go their 20 shots.

Feel free to prove me wrong.
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My brief observation from quite a number of games.....defending too deep & that only invites opportunity to shoot. Maybe try to push up a little....nothing to lose & you might find a better balance when in possession....as opposed to defending so close to goal??

My understanding is height does indeed make a difference when it comes to headers. Similarly, height makes a difference for acceleration so to speak. That’s the trade off. If this isn’t the case then the rules in English are once again wrongly translated.

Edit: Also the previous Match engine before this every header went to the striker almost. Was the era of 1 winger and 1 striker tactics. That’s when 5 defs were mandatory
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I went deeper in just 2 last games to check out the outcome. I made a tactic based on their last games, counting they would not change it. Unlucky, they did it this time.
I think it came out pretty nice as defs tackled the ball up front, dragged them deep into our half which created a counter opportunity as all the UAE players were engaged in the attack. Also it didn't create any long range shot opportunities, so it was well balanced.

Thanks for your opinion, I will surely take a closer look at this and think of setting them better.

From what I heard, height does matter only partially as it influences other EXISTING skills, like pace you mentioned. Taller players are indeed slower than the short ones. As it comes to header, we don't have such a skill here so we can't connect a heading skill with height here. For me, sound like a lottery, just like the old engine worked.

Yeah I think cometer is only going off what was written by devs in the english forums regarding height and headers.

I haven't paid a lot of attention to whether it truly does help or not in match play (ie whether the code was ever switched on or even written) as either I can only buy from a limited pool of strikers that don't sell in the middle of the night for my personal team, or the skills between tall and short are never close enough to really make a difference in U21 NT selection, neither have the pool of players to have the choice luxury.

I know how frustrating it is when you put a lot of time in to a tactic and it doesn't pay off how it should. Overall you should get more results go your way by doing so, but the trade off is the frustration that goes along with it which someone who just selects from a couple of default tactics, doesnt have to endure

Yeah our rules explicitly state higher chance of making a header the taller the player so if that’s not the case we’ve once again been had. Now I have no idea how much of a difference it makes but I’ve always stacked defenders based on height since the rules had mentioned it. In any case if it’s a lottery system then cut out the lottery system and avoid the chance of headers occurring where you can. Any time you can reduce rng through tactical means do so :)

I actually did that and secured the wing, so he had very few opportunities to deliver the ball to the strikers as he was totally cut off the passes and couldn't have made any runs. I'm talking all the high balls here, even from the centre or the defenders. Their striker did what he wanted to do without moving too much.

And to give you an example to back up my thesis, check out this monster. He's a former player of mine. Played only several games and didn't win a single header (or maybe did win max. one). I remember him that well as I was pretty shocked when he couldn't have overjumped players no taller than 1.7m.

Maybe his BMI of almost 26 means he floats like a brick. :D

Lol he can jump high, just has more force pushing him to the ground

Finally some decent game and score. Gonna try to keep it up in the next two weeks.

Good job. Big turnaround on last week. :D

Yep. Feels nice to turn it all around when that second chance was given :)

Good job. Last week, the score was a bit harsh for you, but this time you learned your lessons and the defenders did good.
I dont really like to play with 1 striker, but i had no other option.

I would like to inform you that I will not be taking part.in the elections this season. I appreciate the chance to conduct the NT this season. Did my best to help but it seems like I still need to learn a lot as the scores show my lack of knowledge. This and some private issues force me to make a decision not to rerun as I may get really short on time for sk.
Even though the scores have been far from perfect with me as the NT coach, I hope you'll let me me stay here with you and still be a part of the great community :)