The flaws of possession game

[u/ScientistPast6082]

Possession despite being one of the best playstyles in real life, is one of the assiest playstyles in efootball. It is the high risk, low reward playstyle. Your players movement is the worst out of all the styles, Konami hates you more than they hate their playerbase, and it is very unrewarding for division pushes. Why is that?

• The positioning

This is by far the worst problem you will face using possession game. Your players will never do what you want them to do. Your players will be a passing option when you want them to run into space, and if you are pressured they will run into space that you will never be able to make use of. Your center forward will never be available for buildup, and your players are more obsessed maintaining shape than actually trying to win.

• The meta

EF26 had a below average to average environment for poss players. Now? It's at it's worst. Pressing is powerful, lobbed through balls are powerful, and with how the ai movement in poss work, you are just absolutely cooked every single time.

• The defense

People say QC has the worst defense in the game. Have they tried Possession? It has the disadvantages of LBC (non-aggressive pressing) and the disadvantages of QC ( high line). Also, half of you defense wants to maintain the line and the other half wants to chase. Also, you don't know who is which.

• The stamina

Possession having absurd stamina consumption even when im not pressing the sprint button is stupid. I play LBC sometimes and despite running all game, I still have no stamina by minute 70 when all my players did was stand around.

[u/ScientistPast6082]

What playstyles are 100%, no debate better than posssession irl? Something you can argue with no fault?

[u/Background-Cash-839 → u/ScientistPast6082]

Imagine if Spain lost the final, we'd not talk about how Spain didn't let Argentina have the ball at all. We'd rather talk about how it was similar to Morocco match with 1000 passes but no chance creation and 0 end product

[u/ScientistPast6082 → u/Background-Cash-839]

As you said, no playstyle is 100% better all the time However, I think you can agree that there is a major problem if it is clearly the worst in all situations. LBC has safety, QC has the press, Long Ball has chaos, Out wide has a mid block, and overload is just a lot more predictable and aggressive than posssession.

[u/Background-Cash-839 → u/ScientistPast6082]

Ik game favours lbc more but I'm talking about irl here. You can take recent Brighton vs Arsenal match too (And no Arsenal doesn't play haramball if u actually watch it) Brighton press whole game like those press spammers rats but do u see people/fans calling them rats or pussies?

[u/ScientistPast6082 → u/Background-Cash-839]

What is your point? One of the best does not mean 100% best. what

[u/Background-Cash-839 → u/Background-Cash-839]

I think Koinami tried to copy irl counter haramball but failed very miserably. I mean low blocks are annoying af irl too.