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    I think the first time a tourney ball was changed from group to knockout was the 2016 Euro Cup.

    Adidas had a group stage Beau Jeu ball and then the Fracas ball was in play in the knockout rounds.

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    The errejota at the summer olympics was the same pattern with different color scheme.

    I’d expect Adidas to keep the idea in play going forward.
  2. oh yeah, at times i've dialed down the AI marking by a couple of points when it seems that i just can't control the ball at all. i'm usually adjusting some of the sliders by a point or two on a pretty regular basis. kinda weird how it never seems to just stick.

    The sliders like Madden can be wonky as hell, like 55 and the players are super defenders that can’t be beat and 54 makes them retarded...
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  3. Three way ties or even four way ties in theory.  You can have a three way tie where all three teams beat the last place team and then all go 1-1 among themselves (ala Texas, Tech, and OU in 2008) or all tie each other.  You could also have a four way tie if all games in a group are tied but I doubt this would ever happened.

    What’s the closest a World Cup Group has ever come to all draws?
  4. Right it’s just not that the lame generic “championship cup”

     

    Now it’ll be all the champions league, Europa league overlays, music, trophy and even new broadcast team of Derek Rae and lee Dixon for Champions League matches.

     

    Just makes it more immersive. Look at PES and how on consoles tons of people can never get past playing the great matchups like North East London vs Mersey Side Blue... or everyone’s favorite Man blue vs Man red...

     

    I’m a La Liga man and I’ve been bitching for years that the EPL gets all the presentation love every year while La Liga gets 3 stadiums and not much else. This year La Liga got its actual presentation overlays and tv presentation and that was huge, it felt like I was actually watching bein sports finally... still only 4 stadiums but it was huge.

     

    To actually get the champions league feel is pretty danged cool

     

  5. I think the problem is that they give you the ability to switch every positions play style and even the pressure and counter-attack vs high pressure etc but it’s static whereas the cpu team doesn’t adhere to the same “presets”

    It magnetizes to the player and the passing lanes, it doesn’t have to over commit on defense because it knows that your cpu teammates are in spot X going to spot Y so it only has to defend you and that path.

    Basically the deck can be instantly stacked against you whenever they need be by the cpu. Or the cpu is dumbed down to where is doesn’t matter anymore.

    It’s the same issues that always arise in FIFA, Madden and NBa 2k. The artificial rubber banding is annoying as fuck. Hell it’s annoying in racing games which is why I liked how Forza created the drivatar system to kinda mix up the AI and blend your friends/other users driving habits into the game.

  6. Referee of the Mexico/Germany game should be in the lead to ref the final. Dude was in total control. Didn’t put up with any diving. Let the guys play. What a nice treat.  


    Thought I heard he was Iranian?

    Dude handled that game great. Didn’t put up with the diving, thought he did a good job of communicating to the players and tried to keep the pace going.

    Best ref job so far. Especially when compared to the Brazil/Swiss ref. Thought he was bad
  7. Kroos will have to take control of the midfield like Basti always did for Germany. 


    Kroos and Ozil need to take control of the ball, push khedira deeper and muller out wide
  8. Is Muller even trying today? Jogging up the field and then goes down soft on a clean wide tackle.

    He’s started 2-3 breaks for Mexico with his halfassery

  9. name any other sport/teams where this would be okay: yankees fan saying red sox are his second team because yankees didn't mke the postseason; texas fans rooting for baker mayfield and ou to win the title because we didn't make the playoff; arsenal fans rooting for tottenham to win the champions league because we didn't make it; the fuck? hell no. helllllllll no.

    way too easy. I will give you 3 letters and then drop the mic.
    S.E.C.
    /drop

    My first fucking thought...

    Aggy can’t ever wait to root for Bama or SEC once they hit the October portion of their roller coaster.

    Hell they even sold shirts for the Longhorns “just this one time”

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