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MY OPPONENTS XI

This was actually my very first match in the FC Mobile 3 years anniversary celebration event and I swear I was confused when I first entered the lobby because I didn't really read the rules well. I just clicked play and suddenly I saw the scoreboard showing Kin 0 - 3 CAP even before kickoff, I was like what is going on, did the game already give me a loss? Then I noticed on the left side of the screen there is that Score x1 and later it changes to Score x3 and I started to understand the beginner mode concept. What EA did in this mode is that they give your opponent 3 goals ahead to make it look hard for beginners, but they also give you a multiplier where each of your goal counts as three goals. So if I score one goal in real time, it automatically adds three to my side and the match becomes 3-3 straight up. At first it was annoying because I thought I was chasing the game, but after I understood it, it actually made me more relaxed and I started playing my normal football without pressure.
The match itself was a very nice one, not too sweaty, not too defensive like those Division Rivals games where everybody is just time wasting and using 5 at the back. This anniversary mode felt more open, the opponent in green jersey was pressing but also leaving a lot of space behind, so I could use my wingers and midfielders to create chances. If you watch the gameplay clip you will see how I was moving the ball from Raphinha to Guler to Aguero, I was trying to find gaps. My formation is 4-3-3 Holding and it worked perfectly because Berghuis and Guaye in the middle were controlling the tempo. The first goal to make it 3-3 came around the 49th minute from Guler after a nice cut inside and a low finish that beat the keeper who dived the wrong way, and immediately after that goal you see his card pop up 114 RM Guler with that Sujood celebration, that celebration always gets me hyped. After that equalizer the whole game changed.
From there I just took over completely, my attack became unstoppable and my defense was also solid, I barely allowed them to get near my box. Aguero was the absolute star of this match, that 119 ST Aguero card is just different level, his positioning, his finishing, his strength, everything is top. He scored a hattrick and each goal was different. The first one was a typical Aguero goal where he held off two defenders inside the green x3 zone and just smashed it in, the second one was a team goal where I played a through ball from Cortes Puyol and he made a clever run behind and finished calmly, and the third one you can see in the video around 53:50 where Olise passed to him and he scored to make it 6-3 on the normal multiplier but on the board it became 18-3 because of the x3. That hattrick really showed why I still keep Aguero in my team despite all the new cards.
After Aguero's three goals, the remaining goals came from Raphinha and Muller which completed my six actual goals in the match. Raphinha scored one with his weak foot after cutting from the left wing, it was a beautiful curler that the keeper had no chance to save, and Muller scored the remaining two goals with his usual fox-in-the-box movement, one was a tap-in after a rebound from the keeper and the second one was a header from a cross. So in total I scored six real goals in the match, which is 6-1 if we count it like a normal football match because the opponent only had that free 3 goals they were given at the start and they didn't score any other goal after that. But because of this anniversary beginner mode multiplier system, my six goals times three equals eighteen, so the final scoreboard was showing Kin 18 - 3 CAP and it looked like I was playing basketball not football.
Honestly I enjoyed this first game a lot and it gave me a good impression of the 3 years anniversary event, I was expecting it to be boring or too easy but the way they set up that 3 goals handicap makes it intere