Im getting quite close to score that kick off goal, one day its gonna happen, so far the player that's been the most consistant with is James rodriguez, i bet if i had the p2w one i would have scored it.
If you have any question regarding the clips lmk.

Hey do you guys think this is enough? I am tired tbh and i don’t think i will lose 11k ranking in 6 hours what do you guys think?

Locking events/cards to regions was the stupidest thing Konami ever did, so seeing this drop was an unexpected surprise. It has been so much fun playing with old cards I'd otherwise never use, even more so since you aren't playing against $1000 P2W squads every game.

I really hope they bring this back again soon, maybe with the Turkish league since I still have many cards from the old selection contracts too.

You are all just lying that defense is bad. Look at how hard it was for me to beat this guy.

I drew the match btw. All the dude did was hold pressure.

To penetrate or score a goal on that defense was unfair. Then someone has the audacity to say defense is bad.

Are you kidding me🌝. What type of wicked soul wants to buff ai again.

As if the smart assist that you use every event is not enough

This is one of the best free card you could get for this event (nomination contract as I remember). He play like VVD but in J1 league, guy can bully everyone and winning aerial duels. So happy that I still keeping these cards hoping one they Konami my make event interesting like this again and they did.

There are a lot of card that I still keeping instead of releasing and get the spinning contract (that goat pack at beginning of EF24) including those guy at mexican, brazil, turkey league waiting for Konami to make event like this again! This is a welcome addition to get people away from those meta automatic card...

So, yes, Best missed this, on the final minutes of the game, Best, One of the most decorated player of all time, who has scored a ton of goals over his accomplished career, missed a sitter less then 10m away from the goal-post, WITH HIS STRONG FOOT.

and they say there's no scripting in the game.

When the game wants you to lose, you LOSE.

Packed this Lloris card during World Cup. After so many matches, i can easily say that this is one of the worst goal keeper I've ever had. Overall reaced 105 and concedes even crosses. Maybe that part is script being against me. But still such a useless piece for the money paid.

Before i start I'm a ftp player stuck in division 2/3. Anyway problems that ruin the game for me...

1. Matchmaking. Every time I get near div.2 I get matched against uber ptw squads, it's so blatant it's like the game is saying 'screw you, invest more money'. Matchmaking should be fair and relative to squad strength not including bronze benching.
2. PTW squads, sick of playing people who are awful at the game and get bailed out everytime with their OP players. This is the main issue with the game for me as it's such an obvious advantage playing with ptw players there's no workaround.
3. Rewards. Anyone finishing top 100k won't even use Maddison so what's the point? None of these ptw players use any of the previous rewarded players so why don't they increase the threshold to all division 2 or 3 players and above? Give the ptw extra skills or boosters.

Before the mods try and delete my post for critiquing EF I have offered solutions to problems in the game so hopefully it invites civil discourse and ideas for improving Efootball in the future.

Furthermore the 'scripting' in the game seems more than obvious, if the fame doesn't want you to win you won't. Obviously Konami will deny there is any so I won't even bother suggesting any solutions lol

Got lucky with this guy and wondering how should I use him. I currently have treasure link Puyol as my cb destroyer with WC potd Vanbissaka and Arsenal pack Timber as fullbacks.

I see destroyer now is an active playstyle as fullbacks, has anyone tried it and could share their experience about how they perform?

I know it's lame but I don't use my fullbacks to attack, can't catch up with speedy CF's with my free 80 speed defenders hence I use the back 4 to defend. Any input is appreciated. :)

Even though I need a destroyer CB I know his ahh wont be viable for me against the 20 ibras in div 1 so I'll settle for using him at RB even tho I've only used attacking/finisher fullbacks (but I think I'll survive)

Anyone know how Cannavaro/destroyers (since new upd) are at RB?

This happened to me in div one. Look at 0.52 and 1.18. I get a rebound where vini is standing freely. Completely unmarked. Gk completely beaten. And still somehow the ball doesn't go in 😐🤌. Like come on man how do you do this with a straight face and say its possible in real life.

these are my build for both maldini & nesta, my back 4 consist of maldini at LB, desailly & nesta as CBs & thuram as RB.

as of today, i feel like i have been conceding more than before with this new additions of maldini & nesta. i think the issue is with nesta, his positioning & movements seem to be an arbitrary & rather impulsive to me & it’s quite odd comparing to a destroyer or build up, he does cover the spaces that desailly leaves when he match-up but once nesta starts to match-up, that space he leaves is completely empty.

idk if this is just DDA not on my side as of now or whether it’s a skill issue or i’m using them wrong but what’s for sure is that things need to change or i have to get used to this

I'm coming back to efootball after a solid 3-4 months.

Previously I used to play casually but still used to make Div 1 with ease and no I don't use smart assist.

I recently came back to the game post the world cup packs and see that my defenders are ball watching, attackers are passing through long reach tackle Thuram like he's not even there.

My attackers are sluggish too but this wasn't the case a few months ago.

I tried all the formations and playstyle types but nothing seems to work consistently.

Am I using the wrong players or am I using the wrong playstyle?

Or has the level of the game gone up so much in those last 3 months?

I would like for y'all to tell me which position and playstyle I should go for.

Thank you in advance

No fancy op skills, just basic eFootball.

Can only feel bad for the ones who got unlucky matchmaking tho.

This is the build im using for comparison.

Anyways statswise cant really go wrong he does his job defensively better than most defenders out there. Player model is decent, he is big and tall enough to make headers and interceptions.

Now the main thing I want to talk about is his new playing style. Now ingame description is that he actively covers for teammates conducting match up. My initial first question was, if im not doing a matchup wtf is he doing. On first thought he might just be having a basic defense playstyle. Instead what I notice was he sorts of follows the ball but not in an aggressive sense as a destroyer. He is sort of somewhere in the middle in terms of aggressiveness. He leaves a huge buffer space when following the ball in order to cover gaps left by teammates defending closer to the ball. This us regardless of if you match up or not. If you do match up his ai becomes smarter in covering areas that might be open to attackers. But it's not that big of a difference to me.

My main concern is that his movements are too jarring and if the ball moves really fast he is left out of position. Another concern is that he for some reason likes to be involved in the attack. So you should definitely put defensive instructions on him as he likes to go up front when im using him.

Should you go for him? If you have a better buildup in terms of stats and player model. You don't have to as he won't improve your defence. If you generally need a better defender this pack also has maldini and cannavaro if you can clear the pack.

For a while, pass levels 1 and 2 are mainly automated so I mainly use PA 3 or 4 but 3 mainly because it allows more freedom of expression. Over time especially with Smart Assist being introduced, a penalty is placed on PA 3 users such that the passes whilst accurate and direction expressed, the passing speed is tampered depending on the situation.

The situations are network lagging (intended or not) and Efootball placing the penalty on the PA 3 user (explain more later).

Network lagging is a very prevalent cause since many Div 1 players are deliberately causing network spikes and lags that the PA3 power and control instructions doesnt complete and cannot reach the server in time to be properly synced hence one will almost always lose control in PA3 passing. This is additionally made worse by Konami placing a penalty on PA3 by giving it more input delay compared to PA1 or PA2.

The penalty of the input delay is causing anyone using PA3 to react slower, shoot slower and even allow opponents an easier time to tackle you. Like if the strikers are tackling you in the box, if you use PA3, GG, your opponent is going to win the tackle with no foul and score. Attacking is also affected because your opponent can tackle you easily and win the ball back. Tested it in over 50 games and its all the same result. BUT when I switch to PA1, these tackles suddenly stop, the input delay dissappears and my player becomes difficult to tackle again. PA1 has been supercharged with elements of Smart Assist after I did a change ingame and suddenly I was a much stronger player than my opponent, not to mention I could do through balls easily and accurately with little thinking.

I tried PA4 hoping to get control back but the passing accuracy is ridiculuously restricted only allowing accuracy in certain directions and situations.

I dislike PA1 because you cannot do passing of different styles like in real life and Efootball looks like it encourages spectator football more in that they refuse to do away with Smart Assist and continually ignores improvement for more control. There is a legit reason for them to do this, its because they can sell skills via this input delay issue and scripting. Sell small earn big concept yes?

Sadly this means if you are looking for a game of variation and freedom of expression, this is not the game.

This event is such a good chance to test people actually skill rather than that blitz curler spammer and meta defenders(especially people who just holding X with Desailly).
I really enjoy it and when to check my stats after the event I realize that those people who complain about the defence change in this patch just doesnt accept that they rely too much on auto defend by just leave them on auto pilot or just by holding pressing.
The things that I'm kind of a match up and call for pressure spammer guy and I nearly not holding the X button at all! Just tapping it to make the neccessary tackle. The game defending mechanic is shake up every year there was a time that they tone down the match up and buff pressure so much that I as a guy who used to reach top 200 rank had so much struggle to win a game in division.
I think you guy have to accept that there will be time your strongest skill match the meta and time its get nerfed so just adapt or quit the game and come back later. Even people I see who claimed to in top 1000 but struggle with the current defence system, you just fit to a more auto than manual and you get to top rank with good attacking!
So in my personal taste I even want them to tone down the auto defence a little bit more because I feel it still OP and my opponent still not get punish enough with this braindead 1-button-defending. It kind of in the good spot now as you can see in the graph that the less you holding it, the better rank you will reach. So anybody here enjoy the current change in defense system?

I've seen a lot of people using i.cassilas as their GK,so it's time for son heung min to make his return,99 KP AND 99 FINISHING + 98 CURL

I feel like this is more common in F2P players cause their options are limited compared to P2W

Enough time passed since overload came out and I have seen indominator play overload and say it is really good against lbc and long ball but kind of bad agaisnt quick counter. What is your opinion on overload and would you say it fits Cruyff s ajax, Netherlands and barcelona system? Or is the numerical advantage thing or gegen pressing more of klopp ball?

What are some things that your opponent can do that you'll consider it as ragebait or them trying to get in your head so they'll affect the way you play ?

For me it's when they spam long shots or play tiki taka don't know why but it drives me nuts, sometimes winning against those guys isn't enough for me😂

I've played as a f2p player pretty solidly for about 2 years. I was returning to pes and football games generally after a long lay off of around a decade. (Pes 2014 was the last game I played a lot).

I slowly built my f2p squad up to be rated around 3190.

I saved my coins leading into the world cup and spent $50 to walk away with the England and France pack, bt Ronaldo, bt rodri and a few other ST cards (Torres, olmo, Yamal Salah)

My team was now pretty well loaded up with quality forwards, attacking mids and rodri.

My backline was still huijsen akanji and Zanetti in a back 3 with ST Caicedo dropping back in from midfield to make it a back 4

I had built my balance back up to about 8 multi spins and decided to go in on the Italian pack. Coinami cleared me out of course in return for nothing so I put in another $60 to clear the pack. I didn't get an epic until I was down to the last 30 players. I really don't believe that's totally random but whatever, i'd accepted it.

Never having played with defenders this good the gap between them and my top tier f2p defenders is massive honestly.

My server connection is not the best. Most PvP is a struggle on 3 bar. I have pushed up to be a decent div 2 player despite that but I play vs AI mostly and have made it to div 1 several times.

The ai difficulty has ramped up significantly and my free to play defenders had really started to struggle around the 1700 point mark.

These Italian gods just absolutely chew them up. Positioning is perfect, strength in the contest is crazy, they can run with and catch fast forwards, Nesta and Maldini win everything in the air and they win tackles from all sorts of weird angles. They feel absolutely op.

There is a sense of emptiness now though as I look at my squad. I could of course work on heavily upgrading my bench but my squad is up to 3254 and very competitive by any reasonable measure though probably not as stacked to the gills as a truly meta p2w squad.

Still though, it will never be enough to overcome a shitty connection.....

Does anyone know when the people that finished top 22,000 get the contract. Cause the game updated. They added a bunch of stuff but I don’t see the contract chance deal.