FIFA 21 Ultimate Team

Redzer7

Laporte back down to 520000 and still dropping.
Could invest again depending how low he goes.

chips1234

Redzer7 wrote: »

Laporte back down to 520000 and still dropping.
Could invest again depending how low he goes.

they are hammering out the promo packs for fun, there is 21 of him up on xbox market atm, if supply keeps coming i can see him going below 450k around the usual slump time of 2am.

chips1234

i did a thing and realised i could afford mbappe if i got rid of vvd IF ben yedder alisson and rashford so we running this soon in weekend league

Calvin

Came up against a fella in a division higher than me, about 120 points higher... not entirely sure what’s up with this matchmaking. Lost 5-4 to a 92nd winner where my RB was playing in midfield despite instructions being set on stay back.

chips1234

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Came up against a fella in a division higher than me... not entirely sure what’s up with this matchmaking. Lost 5-4 to a 92nd winner where my RB was playing in midfield despite instructions being set on stay back.

there is people in higher divisions still from the placement matches that shouldnt be there imo, the amount of times i've come up against someone and during the game thought he was a good 2-300 rating below me and then seeing him above 2kSR is hilarious. I am guessing they just havent played enough matches since placement games to be relegated/dont want to be relegated so they can say they are div 1/div 2 or whatever when they complain about losing

Blazer

Cashed in my icons and dropped Ben Yedder for Aub and Aguero up front and splashed out on VVD.
Christ he’s even better this year.
No way can I drop him now.
Need to strengthen midfield alright.

Calvin

chips1234 wrote: »

there is people in higher divisions still from the placement matches that shouldnt be there imo, the amount of times i've come up against someone and during the game thought he was a good 2-300 rating below me and then seeing him above 2kSR is hilarious. I am guessing they just havent played enough matches since placement games to be relegated/dont want to be relegated so they can say they are div 1/div 2 or whatever when they complain about losing

Yeah I’m not too sure about the matchmaking this year... not the first time I’ve come up against people in higher divisions.

Got in Rodrigo yday for 17k and only got to play today and christ he’s unreal. I can see the hype now.. 7 games, 10 goals and 4 assists. Him and Hamez at CAM are tearing it up. Wide CAMs aren’t doing enough but that’s normal for me in a 4231.

Parawind

Decided to get in Kante before playing my WL games.

Swapped out partey for him and dropped Aubameyang and Bale.

Replaced them with Lucas moura and put ben yedder back in.

6 wins from 7 games and my only loss so far was on penalties. Kante really is head and shoulders above every other midfielder I have used. Lucas feels so much better then Bale its not even funny.

But I have introduced one small issue for some reason the game decides to put Lucas near post defending corners. Is it possible to change players positioning for defensive set pieces? I just know thats going to cost me at some point.

Jim Gazebo

Played my 5 placement games, ended up in division 5. Actually feel a bit more comfortable in 21 than 20. Slipped to div6 because I had to quit a game, but for straight back up. Played about 10 games and won 6 of them, all close bar one where I was beaten 6-1 despite dominating the game. I love when everyone has a similar squad at the start. Makes it more fun. The agueros do pose a challenge when you come up against a stacked squad but the lethal finishing doesn't seem to be as strong and you can soak up a bit of pressure before surging up the wing , shipping a ball in and nodding it home. Games play out a bit better I think.

My team so far attached.

dmigsy

dmigsy wrote: »

My sweaty, sweaty team for the weekend. 99 Pace and Acceleration all across the front four. Keane and Fabinho a wall in midfield. Watch me do worse than last weekend!

Scrapped this plan because I was shipping a lot of goals. Sold Keane and Werner and brought in Walker, VVD, Robertson and Allan. Much better. Might end up buying Werner again - I liked him but I do like POTM Calvert-Lewin too.

7-3 in WL so far. Will be happy with anything better than 15 wins.

Chiarrai92

Anyone else having a hard time in the weekend league this game?

Last year i spent all my time in div 7/6 of rivals and every weekend i was getting 11+ wins..

So far this year im in div 5, pushing div 4 in rivals but playing absolutely shocking in the WL.. Last weekend i got my 4th win in my 15th game and then lost my last 15 in a row..

So far this weekend iv won 4 and lost18 so far..

Blazer

Chiarrai92 wrote: »

Anyone else having a hard time in the weekend league this game?

Last year i spent all my time in div 7/6 of rivals and every weekend i was getting 11+ wins..

So far this year im in div 5, pushing div 4 in rivals but playing absolutely shocking in the WL.. Last weekend i got my 4th win in my 15th game and then lost my last 15 in a row..

So far this weekend iv won 4 and lost18 so far..

bloody hell...would love to see how they're matching you up with other players.

Bunny Colvin

Chiarrai92 wrote: »

Anyone else having a hard time in the weekend league this game?

Last year i spent all my time in div 7/6 of rivals and every weekend i was getting 11+ wins..

So far this year im in div 5, pushing div 4 in rivals but playing absolutely shocking in the WL.. Last weekend i got my 4th win in my 15th game and then lost my last 15 in a row..

So far this weekend iv won 4 and lost18 so far..

Yeah I noticied it's tougher alright. I scrapped 14 last week and this week I've finished with 13. I'd only about two easy games wheras I was getting at least 5/6 before.

I just need to sort out my defending. I'm finding switching between players tougher and it's causing havoc inside my box, especially against skillful players. Giving away soft goals is costing me wins and when I score, most of the goals are well worked so it's frustrating. Going up againist a good player means I have to score 5/6 to have a chance of a win. Need to watch some tutorials before I play WL again. Keeping clean sheets are tough in this game. Ramos is getting bought too.

Jim Gazebo

Blazer wrote: »

bloody hell...would love to see how they're matching you up with other players.

I would not have the patience to lose that many games in a row!

On my side, still feeling the game out, upgraded a few players. Got Rodrigo in, at cam he is excellent.

Holding my own in div5. One 8-1 hammering today, again an even game but for some reason something clicks and I can't live with the other team defensively. 1-1 at half time and tight. Open in the 2nd half and I miss as many chances as they have to score the 7 other goals.

Enjoying the crossing and better headers. Crosses last season never worked, now if there is a man free, whip it in and there's a chance.

Rossi IRL

Did my 30 games yesterday, got 16 wins, bottled last 3 games so didn't get the 17.

Sold O2W Allan and Son today and bought Kante. Also brought in rulebreaker Kamara and Lenglet instead of Telles and Militao.

Packed De Bruyne as well so now using Bruno as a cdm.

Impressed with Kamara so far in Div 1 rivals

Blazer

changed my team around yet again
This time Kante is staying in midfield. With a shadow card he's just absolutely crazy op. Had tried him with powerhouse but shadow...you'd swear he was the fastest player on the pitch with how much ground he covers. In his first game he broke up play on the edge of the box, ran upfield with it , passed to Ben Yedder who took a shot at the keeper who spilled it and kicked it out to be blocked by Kante who bundled it into the net to make the guy rage quit.
I don't know who had the bigger grin...me or Kante but I'm pretty sure I looked as happy as this.

Osmosis Jones

So the Milestone to score in 200 WL games with Rare Players was an issue last week where Special cards weren't counted as Rares, so they fixed that. This week it's an issue again because now Rulebreakers don't count as Rare cards.

Blazer

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

So the Milestone to score in 200 WL games with Rare Players was an issue last week where Special cards weren't counted as Rares, so they fixed that. This week it's an issue again because now Rulebreakers don't count as Rare cards.

did you mean last year?
Who on earth has played 200 WL games already?

Osmosis Jones

Blazer wrote: »

did you mean last year?
Who on earth has played 200 WL games already?

Nobody, there have only been 60 available WL games so far.

The Milestone shows how many you've played, if you have a Rulebreaker in your team the game does not count

Blazer

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Nobody, there have only been 60 available WL games so far.

The Milestone shows how many you've played, if you have a Rulebreaker in your team the game does not count

ah...ffs

Osmosis Jones

Just playwd a game I was told was 4 ping in which I can't make a pass without waiting a full second between pressing the button and seeing it play out. I swear I get 3 losses a week from this. 7-2 now.

chips1234

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Just playwd a game I was told was 4 ping in which I can't make a pass without waiting a full second between pressing the button and seeing it play out. I swear I get 3 losses a week from this. 7-2 now.

im 90% sure they are fabricating ping to make it look like the new servers are working at this stage almost every game in rivals i went into last night felt like i was connecting to someone in australia.

Parawind

Just dragged myself over the line to get Gold 1 with my last game. I went 1-0 up in the first 15 mins and the guy just quite out instantly.

20-10 vs 18-12 last weekend.

Only a 2 game Improvement but this time the penalties cost me. Seems that for me Rashford is the most difficult player to handle. Almost all my defeats were with him up front.

Also is anyone else noticing that there seems to be no real punishment for fouls or mistimed tackles. Like I finish a game check the stats page and both the other players CBs always end up 1/11 tackles, yet the match stats decides there was only 2 fouls all game.

Calvin

Check your clubs for 77/75s in good leagues/nations. They’re very inflated atm cos of the new SBC.

Blazer

10-5 so far.
Bringing in Kante has put me on a 4 game winning streak so far. Might try and hit 14/17 tomorrow depending on work.
I’m just playing 442 with balanced everything and long ball attack when every other setting on default.

Calvin

Gameplay this weekend feels so stiff, not sure what’s wrong. Had 3 draws in a row where I couldn’t finish/opponents keeper turned into prime Neuer and then 2 losses where the opponent had the miles better squad and I was just dominated.

Having trouble with wide CAMs in a 4231 too.. they’re just not getting involved at all. 12 games each and they’ve 3 goals and 4 assists between them.

chips1234

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Gameplay this weekend feels so stiff, not sure what’s wrong. Had 3 draws in a row where I couldn’t finish/opponents keeper turned into prime Neuer and then 2 losses where the opponent had the miles better squad and I was just dominated.

Having trouble with wide CAMs in a 4231 too.. they’re just not getting involved at all. 12 games each and they’ve 3 goals and 4 assists between them.

what width are you using attacking ?

gameplay is pretty bad and ive not even started champs yet

Calvin

chips1234 wrote: »

what width are you using attacking ?

gameplay is pretty bad and ive not even started champs yet

I’ve left it at default 5. Find they’re just anonymous unless I bring them into play.

chips1234

Calvin Leong wrote: »

I’ve left it at default 5. Find they’re just anonymous unless I bring them into play.

try using it narrower on like 3 to bring them into the game more then use attacking full backs in game to push the full backs forward for width instead. then have the most defensive cdm to drop between cbs.

BrentMused

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Check your clubs for 77/75s in good leagues/nations. They’re very inflated atm cos of the new SBC.

Did those 2 SBC’s. Packed nothing (what a shock) but made about 60,000 on the 77’s and 75’s I had.

I wonder if they’re going to release league SBC’s soon as this is a great way for them to gut clubs in advance of same.

Mr Moon

RB Andre was the best I packed from E2 SB rewards.

Calvin

chips1234 wrote: »

try using it narrower on like 3 to bring them into the game more then use attacking full backs in game to push the full backs forward for width instead. then have the most defensive cdm to drop between cbs.

I’ll give that a try next time I’m on.

I’ve dropped about 300 SR this weekend and dropped into div 5. Cannot finish for the life of me... think I’m gonna have to go back to 4321 as 4231 is just not working at all. 18 games played this weekend, 3 wins, 3 draws and the rest losses. Players feeling very stiff but a lot of the games just come down to me not being able to finish.

Might have to just go out and rage buy Aubameyang or something. My overall record is 24-5-26 which is the first time I’ve had a negative record since maybe fifa 13.

chips1234

Calvin Leong wrote: »

I’ll give that a try next time I’m on.

I’ve dropped about 300 SR this weekend and dropped into div 5. Cannot finish for the life of me... think I’m gonna have to go back to 4321 as 4231 is just not working at all. 18 games played this weekend, 3 wins, 3 draws and the rest losses. Players feeling very stiff but a lot of the games just come down to me not being able to finish.

Might have to just go out and rage buy Aubameyang or something. My overall record is 24-5-26 which is the first time I’ve had a negative record since maybe fifa 13.

tbh gameplay has been sh!te all weekend pretty much everybody moving like a truck if youre away from home you arent winning the game pretty much. people just fake shot glitching by defenders for fun and defenders just being stuck in teh mud not being able to get back etc

Calvin

chips1234 wrote: »

tbh gameplay has been sh!te all weekend pretty much everybody moving like a truck if youre away from home you arent winning the game pretty much. people just fake shot glitching by defenders for fun and defenders just being stuck in teh mud not being able to get back etc

Yeah, night and day compared to last week where it was pretty much flawless. I’ll give it another shot sometime before Thursday and hope that it’s improved. 6100 points so I’ll try push for 8k to secure rank 3 at least.

chips1234

Calvin Leong wrote: »

Yeah, night and day compared to last week where it was pretty much flawless. I’ll give it another shot sometime before Thursday and hope that it’s improved. 6100 points so I’ll try push for 8k to secure rank 3 at least.

i have 16060 in div 1 after finishing my 30 games tonight, its sh!t but it should hold i think since less people are grinding rivals cos of WL will be annoyed if it doesnt cos not being able to move while defending has cost me a lot of games this week. starting WL soon and honestly im not really expecting a whole lot from it this week.

wonski

BrentMused wrote: »

Did those 2 SBC’s. Packed nothing (what a shock) but made about 60,000 on the 77’s and 75’s I had.

I wonder if they’re going to release league SBC’s soon as this is a great way for them to gut clubs in advance of same.

2 sbc's?

Where is/was the other one?

Osmosis Jones

Finishing the night at 10-2, here's the team in-game (8 chem for Carlos, 7 for TAA and Martial, all others on 10). It's a really weird set up but it works well for me and it's so much fun to finally get to play with attacking wingbacks again after last year. They basically play further forward than the strikers and at least one of them gets an assist every game:

Calvin

chips1234 wrote: »

i have 16060 in div 1 after finishing my 30 games tonight, its sh!t but it should hold i think since less people are grinding rivals cos of WL will be annoyed if it doesnt cos not being able to move while defending has cost me a lot of games this week. starting WL soon and honestly im not really expecting a whole lot from it this week.

I finished on 7.5k last week I think and it still wasn’t enough :pac: so pushing it out for 8k+ this week to secure it. Not enough time this year for FIFA, so rank 3 will do me every week. Enough packs to satisfy my addiction

AdamD

My team isn't particularly great so my first ever WL was a bit of a struggle. Anyways, ended up needing to win one of my last 2 games to get Gold III.

2-1 up at half time, all going quite smoothly, get a penalty - keeper saves
Opponent scores on counter attack - 2-2
Get penalty and opponent gets red card - keeper saves
Opponent scores on counter attack - 2-3
88th minute, I score to bring it to 3-3 and extra time
First half of extra time - opponent scores to go 4-3
2nd half of extra time - I get penalty (number 3!!) - keeper saves :eek:
119th minute - I score to make it 4-4 and go to pens...


So after missing 3 pens during the match what happens?

Win 3-1 in the shootout :pac:

Was using this:



Kinda regret putting the coins into DCL, and I got very little out of my wingers so definitely looking at a rebuild for next week.

Its my first fifa in a few years and not sure what to make of it, the defending is weird. At times I play against people who's defender can seemingly sprint at my attacker and change pace at full speed to cover any possible dribbling angle, but I can't do this at all? Like at times I've actually started messing around dribbling with my wingers just to look at how these guys are somehow controlling a defender to cover everything and change directions in a way I can't seem to..

chips1234

8-0 leaving it there since last guy rubber banded and annoyed me 4 goals conceded and i dunno 30-40 scored, 4222 with mbappe and neymar as strikers is lots of fun. should be a fun 22 games tomorrow.

Mr Moon

I’ve noticed they’ve removed the feature where if your opponent scores 3 OGs he disqualifies himself. Played a guy earlier and he scored goal after goal until the game was over when losing.

Blazer

chips1234 wrote: »

8-0 leaving it there since last guy rubber banded and annoyed me 4 goals conceded and i dunno 30-40 scored, 4222 with mbappe and neymar as strikers is lots of fun. should be a fun 22 games tomorrow.

ouch..the thoughts of playing 22 games of fifa in one day would just send me crazy.

chips1234

Blazer wrote: »

ouch..the thoughts of playing 22 games of fifa in one day would just send me crazy.

hopefully playing 22 games most likely it wont be when i decide to bottle every game again cos i cant take a break cos ive left it too late to play

Lord TSC

Anyone else finding trading ultra slow?

Up till last week, I was getting 20 or so sales a day without trying. Now I'm down to 2 or 3

Bunny Colvin

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Finishing the night at 10-2, here's the team in-game (8 chem for Carlos, 7 for TAA and Martial, all others on 10). It's a really weird set up but it works well for me and it's so much fun to finally get to play with attacking wingbacks again after last year. They basically play further forward than the strikers and at least one of them gets an assist every game:

I've similar enough players so might give it a try for the craic. What instructions are you using and how do you manage to play Williams CM

BrentMused

Gold Courtois and that IF Danish RWB the best pull from Elite 1 Squad Battles rewards.

Plus the 30k coins means about 100k-ish made from it if I sold everything.

Not too bad considering I was able to blast through the games in the background while at home during the week but you’d be hoping for at least one big pull from 2 x Rare Mega Packs.

Guys, is there any app/software that will go through your club and give you an idea of any obscure players you have that might be worth a few coins without setting the ban alarms ringing in EA? I have about 700 players at the moment and don’t really have the time to go through them all individually, so if there was something available that would flag up any gems it would be very handy.

Osmosis Jones

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

I've similar enough players so might give it a try for the craic. What instructions are you using and how do you manage to play Williams CM

It's a mad system really, hard to explain :pac:

LWB/RWB Join the Attack
CCM: Stay Back, Cover Center
LCM/RCM: Get Forward, Get into the Box, Conservative Interceptions, Cover Wing
ST: Get in Behind, Stay Forward, Conservative Interceptions, one on Stay Central one on Drift Wide.

Rossi IRL

Have played 80 games since Friday and feel like ****e but am still playing today to get some objectives done.

Don't think I will do it again. 40 max a weekend is enough

Might take a few days off after I get Mukiele

Bunny Colvin

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

It's a mad system really, hard to explain :pac:

LWB/RWB Join the Attack
CCM: Stay Back, Cover Center
LCM/RCM: Get Forward, Get into the Box, Conservative Interceptions, Cover Wing
ST: Get in Behind, Stay Forward, Conservative Interceptions, one on Stay Central one on Drift Wide.

Played 3 games in Rivals with that setup, won 3 and lost two.

It seems to have a great balance. You're well covered at the back and you have a load of different options going forward. Frustrating as well for the opposition. Although if they press you it can be difficult playing it out from the back.

Definitely going to stick with it.

Calvin

Rossi IRL wrote: »

Have played 80 games since Friday and feel like ****e but am still playing today to get some objectives done.

Don't think I will do it again. 40 max a weekend is enough

Might take a few days off after I get Mukiele

Might have to hop back in :pac:

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