Heh.
Online tournament with a 3.5 star team, not too bad, picked up Kevin Kuranyi, Schuerrle & some silver bloke who can't stop scoring as my striking duo and jacked up their fitness levels so I could really help myself out.
First game, feeling pretty confident with my squad, coming up against some guy called 3lite FC.
n00b. I'll smash him. Then his squad loads, **** me running. 5 star, 100 chemistry, all rare gold players (I think?) littered throughout his team.
His team was so ******* good he had Podolski on the bench for crying out loud.
Anyway 2nd minute his German centre midfielder unleashes from about 40 yards and sends an absolute screamer past my keeper. I'm thinking this is it, the beginning of a 6-0 rout. I just sat sort of slack jawed looking at the TV screen for a good few seconds.
From the re-start I've sent Exslager (my silver striker) on this run and just missed one. This guy wasn't that good, his team just made him look incredible. So that was a bit heartening until about 3 seconds later when his striker made my defenders look like Ralph Wiggum got cloned four times. 0-2 and I'm in strife.
It got real good from here. Sebastian Rudy glides in through the defence, off to Kuranyi, goal. Rudy you star. 1-2, I'm quietly confident.
Three minutes later Exslager creams one from just outside the box and this poxy cock's defence had no answer. Absolute howler from his CB and we're all square at 2-2 heading into the half.
At about 60 minutes I decided to bring in the subs because the fitness was starting to go downhill, and brought on some no-name Arabic striker from the dust leagues in Saudi Arabia called Fatalah.
Weapon. I mean, serious gun.
They had no answer for him. Time and time he'd run through their defence, I'd be sitting there gaping at the TV as he'd just miss.
Rudy headed one in in about the 70th minute and I was pretty confident that was it, but Ramires equalled at 3-3 not long after that.
Enter Fatalah. From the restart I sent Kuranyi on a bit of a dodging run, and Fatalah's just strolled past the defenders and is sitting in the middle of the pitch. His defender had a brain fart, Kuranyi passes to Fatalah and 4-3 Fatalah you gun keep praying to Allah whenever you want pal.
Unfortunately "tezzaaaa2010" scored a tramp goal to send it to extra time. I almost threw the controller out the window, because this bloke's team was out of sight and there was no way I should have got near him, and I was actually legitimately cheering my own goals. Fist pumping and all.
In extra time Fatalah kept producing the goods but it was a back and forth contest. They had all the momentum going down their end, and Krul kept us in it - my god he's a stalwart. Save after save, right on the death. I really need to upgrade my defence.
I got one chance in extra time, in the 120th minute. One. Fatalah. Goal. Strike from just inside the penalty box, past his overrated hack keeper.
5-4. I actually screamed. I thought the kid would be really angry, but he sent me a message directly after the game saying "sick game bro".
So I sent him one back saying "you too dude".
Was a really nice, really excellent FIFA experience.
This game is awesome. Now that I've figured out how to play UT properly, I'm really happy with the game.