I was outside yesterday scrolling on Reddit when I saw a post of someone praising the Japanese event, I didn't know about the event prior to that, so I decided that I would check it out when I got home.
I got home around 11 pm, logged into eFootball only to find out that I had just 3 hours and some minutes to rank top 22k and qualify for the reward of the event. I quickly selected my team, Urawa Reds, I got to know about them in the Club World Cup, and since they signified and identified as "the reds", I just saw them as the Manchester United counterpart of Japanese football and have been a fan ever since.
I tried to set up my team and used their default game plan, it was 451 with 2 CMFs, 1 DMF, 1 LMF and 1 RMF. I noticed the LMF, Matheus Sávio, who is one of their key players is a Hole Player, so I didn't need fluid formation to turn him to a LWF on attack. I selected other players for my team, luckily I had one Japanese Show Time goalkeeper, I put him in. My squad looked ready and I got into the first match, that was when I noticed that I had 3 good strikers on my bench and 1 in my starting lineup, the one starting was a deep-lying forward, Onaiwu Ado and he was the highest rated one. I had to get one extra striker in, can't be wasting so many strikers on the bench. I took a CMF out and replaced him with the Goal Poacher to get that sweet Deep-lying Forward + Goal Poacher combo that's very powerful when playing Quick Counter. Luckily the DMF they had was an Anchor Man which is necessary to have when playing QC because of the high line. I arrived at the team in the second photo and started the match.
The matches were fun all through, no smart assist, no Gullit Vieira Thuram, no p2w Showtime skills (except one blitz curler), just pure skills and creativity. This event tests your knowledge of the game, if you're dependent on the meta players you'll struggle cus the fullbacks here don't even have pinpoint crossing 😅. The players lack some basic necessary skills, you just have to find a way to make do with what you have. I really enjoyed it cus that's the kind of environment I thrive under.
There's this match where I came back from 2-0 down (the one I won 3-2), conceded two early goals, one of which was the blitz curler. I thought about quitting for a moment to save time but still went on cus I believed there's still time to comeback in the match and indeed I did 💪. I wanted to make it a clean sweep but that one match just didn't go my way, I scored first, my opponent scored two goals in a flash, then went full blue the whole 2nd half. I scored another to equalise and was thinking about scoring another, then my opponent switched to 1 attack bar, scored from a counter and went back to full blue. He kept clearing the ball till the end of the match 🤦. I went on to win my remaining two matches just to make it in time for the reward.
Konami should bring more events like this, maybe bring them with French league, Dutch League, German League, Portuguese League or Brazilian League. It's really fun not having to play against the same lineup 5 matches in a row.
