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MY OPPONENTS BETTER SQUAD

Bro this Japanese tournament event PvP match was the most annoying game I’ve played in weeks and I’m still mad about it. I went in without smart assist because I wanted to prove I could actually play proper football, no help from the game, just pure manual control. It was YFM vs SMZ and I was locked in from kickoff. The first 30 minutes were actually decent, we were just feeling each other out, passing it around, trying to find space. I had a few chances with Kitagawa and Dean David but nothing was going in. The other guy was playing super defensive, just sitting back with 10 men behind the ball and waiting for me to make a mistake. I could tell he wasn’t that good but he was patient, and I was getting frustrated because I couldn’t break him down. Every time I tried a through ball his backline would drop and every cross got headed away.
The network started acting up around the 50th minute and that’s when everything went to hell. I’d press the pass button and my player would take like 2 seconds to do it, or I’d try to tackle and he’d just run past me like I wasn’t even there. I checked my WiFi and it was on MTNNG 25 but the game was lagging so bad it felt like I was playing on 200 ping. Without smart assist, you actually have to time everything manually so when there’s lag it’s literally impossible to play. I had 2-3 clear chances where I pressed shoot and the animation came out late and the keeper saved it easy. One time Kitagawa was 1v1 and I hit shoot but the delay made him take an extra touch and the defender came back to block it. He didn’t even create anything, he was just sitting in his half and letting the lag do the work for him. I was screaming at my phone like “come on man let me play” and my teammates in the game were just standing around.
By 80th minute I was just praying for full time because I knew if I made one mistake it was over. And of course that’s exactly what happened. One through ball, my defender just froze because of the delay, and he tapped it in. 1-0. That was his ONLY shot on target the entire game. The replay showed my player literally standing still while the ball went past and I wanted to throw my phone. I couldn’t even be mad at him, I was mad at the network and the servers. After the goal he just started wasting time, playing it in the corner, doing fake passes, subbing players just to run the clock. I tried to push for an equalizer but every pass was delayed and every tackle didn’t register. I hit dash and pressure and my guy would jog instead of sprint. Final whistle went and I just lost 1-0 to a guy who probably did nothing the whole match except wait for lag.
I was so pissed after because without the lag I probably win that 2-0 or 3-0 easy. I had more possession, more shots, more corners, more everything on the stats screen. But eFootball PvP without smart assist and with bad network is just pain. You can’t play skill moves, you can’t do manual defending, your players don’t respond. And this was a Japanese tournament event too so I lost points and probably dropped in the rankings after grinding all week. All that time I spent practicing manual passing and shooting for what, just to lose to lag in the 80th minute. I even went to check my connection after and it said 91% but the game felt like 10%. I took screenshots of the stats to prove I was robbed but it doesn’t even matter because the result is still a loss.
Honestly I don’t know if I’m playing another PvP event without smart assist again. It’s just not worth the stress when the servers are like this. I played clean, I played better, I deserved at least a draw, and I still lost because of one lag spike at the worst time. That 80th minute goal is gonna haunt me for days. I kept watching the replay over and over thinking “if my defender just moved” but he didn’t because the game didn’t let him. Next time I’m turning smart assist back on or just waiting for better n