Episode Details

https://youtu.be/5r0S5-bCq9Q?si=2lz4wwtc7XFfAcKj

It’s been a long time since I shared my experience playing Head 2 Head (H2H) in EA Sports FC Mobile, so I thought it was about time I told you guys about one of my recent encounters. FC Mobile is quite different from a game like eFootball when it comes to playing against AI. In eFootball, you can have league matches, Champions League games, different cup competitions, and actually play through those competitions against the AI from the beginning of a match. FC Mobile doesn’t really work that way. Most of the matches you play against AI are more like scenario based matches, where you’re thrown into an already existing situation and expected to change the outcome. Sometimes the match starts from around the 25th minute or even later, and you could already be losing 1-0 or 2-0 before you even touch the ball. From there, your job is basically to turn the entire game around. You don’t get to start from the first minute unless it’s a special or limited time mode. At first, it might sound easy, but when you’re already behind and have limited time to make a comeback, things can get frustrating very quickly.
So, after a while, I decided to jump into Head 2 Head and see what kind of opponent I would meet. That was when I came across a player using Portugal 🇵🇹. Now, if you know me, you already know where my mind went immediately. I’m a Lionel Messi fan, so whenever I see someone representing Portugal, my brain automatically starts preparing for war. 😂 Normally, I would see it as a Messi vs Ronaldo rivalry, even though we’re literally just playing a mobile football game. The funny part is that when I started playing EA Sports FC Mobile, Messi had already left European football, so I couldn’t exactly build my team around him the way I would have loved to. I had to choose another club that I liked, and that club ended up being Manchester City. So there I was, representing Manchester City, staring at a Portugal player, and all I could hear in my head was: “Trash this Ronaldo fan!” 😭😂
The match started, and thankfully, I didn’t waste any time. I managed to score the first goal, and honestly, after getting that goal, I thought I was about to cook this guy. I was expecting myself to score a few more and completely take control of the game. But then my own skills decided to disappear. 😂 Every other good opportunity I got somehow ended with me failing to put the ball in the net. Some chances were also affected by the lag, but I’m not going to use that as an excuse because, at the end of the day, I should have done better with some of those chances. As the match continued, I started realizing that scoring that second goal was becoming more important than I initially thought. I didn’t want to give this guy any opportunity to come back into the game, especially because of something I’ve noticed from playing FC Mobile for a long time. A lot of players don’t really play like sportsmen. Once they get into a winning position, some players start trying to frustrate you, wasting time, bringing your players down, and sending disrespectful stickers just to get under your skin. I used to get genuinely annoyed when people did that to me back in the day. But with time, I decided that I didn’t want to become the same type of player just because other people were doing it.
So while I was playing this guy, I kept sending the GGs sticker. I wanted him to know that, regardless of the rivalry I had created inside my own head, this was still just a game. 😂 I wasn’t there to disrespect him. I was simply trying to enjoy the match and hopefully get the win. The funny thing was that he never replied. Not even one sticker, nothing. And based on some of my previous experiences, when an opponent stays completely silent while you’re beating them, there’s always that little fear that they’r