F me. Rush of blood to the head, but Anelka should have put the game to bed on the chance that came a few minutes after. Stupid to give away a penalty so late in the game, but in his defense, the team turned off after Lamps' goal. We let them back in the game after doing pretty well in the first half. Not a terrible result though, I think we'll still advance out of the group for sure.

Great result for Arsenal.

Damn, Marseille picked apart Dortmund. Champions league is a different animal than Europa or the Bundesliga, but they should be able to adapt quickly. Hopefully.

damn Mexico!!! i went around to 5 different stores and could not find a single copy of fifa '12.

OMG i HATE people who use Barca in FIFA. Even though I just OWNED the kid (with me having a red card I must say) I am still mad.

Manuel Neuer passed the 1,000 minute mark without conceding a goal :tup:

Aaron Ramsey picked a bad game to bottle it :shakes head:

"Miss me yet?"

I suck at FIFA 12.

tactical defending takes a few games to get used to. my defense is always stretched right now because i have a nasty habit of not keeping shape.

on the other hand, i finally got it right once last night, and recorded a 2-1 win over leverkeusen :tup: rvp put in one at the 88th, then i focused on defending haha

....then i got spanked by the CPU playing as sp*rs :facepalm:

Yeah, exactly. I'm getting used to the tactical defending & sucking. I've only played twice, though, so I'm not losing sleep (moving is a bitch-- I'm ready for everything to be sorted & in its place).

i'm still horrible at defense and i've played 20+ games, It seems like every time I make a move for the ball ie stabbing at it with my foot, the offensive player cuts inside or outside and goes around me, not a fan of it at all.

The tackle button punishes you BADLY if you mistime it, or completely miss it. It's so easy to dance around tackles now, but I'm finding myself buying into the tactical defense, and using the formation and support players to choke passing lanes and stealing the ball back instead of tackling all the time.

You guys do know there is an option to put it back to the old defence, right??? Any of you play online club w your pro?? Thats what Im into. Im loving the overall player control/movement in this iteration of fifa. Trick moves are pulled off much easier and cleaner. Tactical def is hard tho, I agree.
On another note im blow away by Newcastles performance this season. 4th place, undefeated!?!?

Newcastle's defense is rock solid, and is allowing them to stay in games when most would count them out otherwise (Demba Ba? Leon Best? REALLY???).

Like I said Im impressed. Especially for a team that recently dug itself out of relegation and got rid of some of its better players. My partner at work is a huge Newcastle fan, he currently strolls around w a boner over the recent success.

Personally, I want to get good at tactical defending rather than going back to the old way. I feel like once I've mastered it, I'll be way better at the game as a whole.

how do you enable the old defensive style?

:iagree:

don't :p

the tactical defense is hard to grasp, but it reflects the difficulty of actual defense, instead of sending a player with a heat seeking device off to wherever f*Ck they go haha

it's fulfilling in its own right to get that slide tackle down perfectly now. i'm really really happy with FIFA 12.

although i did send someone careening from the goal post into the corner flag. physics engine FAIL, it was hilarious.

I forget I saw it somewhere in the options menu. I dont use it was just seeing if you guys were aware of it.

If we can manage to keep ahold of this kid, he's going to be HUGE for Arsenal, he needs more games with the senior team, Walcott is having a hell of a time finding form and this kid is scoring boatloads of goals. Scored a hat trick in this one yesterday.

I'm getting used to FIFA 12. Thrashed Sp*rs 4-0 yesterday on Professional difficulty. Time to ramp it up to World Class and see how I do.

The Ox is quite something, isn't he Red?

the kid has class, the scary thing is that hes not even 18...

figured i'd share this with you guys:

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...6/IMG_0708.jpg

apparently Real Madrid have a hard on for Jacky. Of course I denied every attempt to lure him away, he's jumped 4 attribute points since I started, woot.

201 million? hahahahahaha

holy **** hahahahahahaahhahahaahahaha

sell sell sell!!!

I spoke with Jack and he said he wanted to remain at the Arsenal, $200 mil? pfft.

Jacky, Frimps, Coquelin....the new heartbeat of Arsenal :tup:

I do hope Robin stays...

He's always been loyal to Arsenal, I hope for our sake that he does, but who knows, 200,000 pounds a week might be too much to turn down :shakes head:

I'd sell my mom for that money.

:iagree:

Better hope that heart starts beating soon, 15th place and a -7 goal dif is no gooood!

If you dare use Ronaldo as a striker vs me this is what happens. Add 5 shots to Italy and another goal. Final was 5-2 before he quit. SHoulda been 8-2 but I hit the post 3x on headers.


Containing f@ggots who use R7 up front and just try to spin/juke around you is so ******* annoying!


http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...4/a62e0411.jpg

Online gamers are annoying.

Only if you use Ronaldo ;)

Quick question, Park Chu Young is scoring bags of goals for country, why the FUCK isnt he getting games at Arsenal?



link to the second

http://rutube.ru/tracks/4885890.html...e&bmstart=1000

my defense is shite in fifa 12 but WOCJECH SZCZESNY IS THE ******* MAN IN THIS GAME

EA shield is mine :tup: had to go through two idiots who used barcelona.

arsenal 1-0 manchester united
as roma 0-2 arsenal
tottenham 1-3 arsenal
arsenal 4-3 barcelona
arsenal 2-0 barcelona

:tup:

aaaand everyones favorite bench warming Korean knocks in another one, this dude is in ridiculous goal scoring form, why is he not getting games for us exactly?

Germany undefeated so far :D

because arsene wenger.

the oranje lost today, wow

watching USA / Ecuador meow!

yeaaah, we're garbage. I know this is kind of a feeling out period, but man we've been shit for as long as I can remember.

what, the USA game? Tim Ream is USELESS. That goal came directly from him losing his mark.

I feel good if Gooch plays that well on a consistent basis, though. He was EVERYWHERE. Dempsey was too in the first half, but faded. Why the team didn't play Deuce in more is beyond me.