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Originally Posted by bluchampblogger
This suggestion was made primarily because goalscoring became a boring, stereotyped task. Most of the goals were scored through one-on-ones from through balls. This is a well documented issue of this game, even io this forum. I needed a lot more variety in goalscoring.
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Agreed, this is a real issue with 09, not just offline - this is a major issue in online. One on ones are certainly far too frequent in 09 a deep defence can reduse this somewhat, but unfortunately makes possetion in midfeild too easy to keep.
A lot of this is down to the basic AI, but part of the issues is specifically to do with the new instruction system that came with the tactics function. When it comes to defending the game treats your whole team as a single unit and when given defensive instruction it's aplied to everyone. In real life coaches deal in units (defence/midfield/attack), where each unit will be told to defend in a certain way - eg. defenders may be told to play deep and stay goalside so they can't easily get beaten on the break, midfielders will be told to contain the opposition and tackle players before they get in the final third so they can break up the build up play, and attackers may be told to either press high or drop back to make more numbers in defense. Also players will be given more detailed individual instruction. (I've touched on this in -
Team Tactics Improvements)
TBH I don't think "Legendary" is EVER the answer. Rather than increasing the quality of your opponents AI it just seems to create more scripted play.
I would suggest you try two things; increase match length to 7 min halves, it seems to slow down the gameplay, creating more emphasis on build up play and less opportunities for 1v1s (defenders seem to have that little bit of extra time to react).
Start switching over to manual. It's very hard to get the hang of at first, but it completely changes the gameplay. It makes it a lot harder to make yourself those 1v1s and if you do it takes a lot more skill to beat an on-rushing goalkeeper.
Give them a try and let me know how you get on
