Last night on FIFA saw a lot of pretty strange goings on. Some extremely dodgy things going on for both sides. Unexplainable, illogical stuff! In the end though, there was a happy ending. Managed to win my 27th Gold Cup in my 60th final of UT16.
Highlight of the run was beating an absolutely shocking Serie A pace team 4-0 in the semi final, with TOTS Forestieri getting a second consecutive hat trick. Enjoyed using him as a false 9. The team I played against in that semi was playing with these attacking 5 in 41212:

Callejon - Doumbia
Mertens
Insigne - Biabiany

In the second half, Sau replaced Insigne, and Candreva (bit slow really) replaced Mertens. Was also a bog standard CDM and back four for a Serie A side.
The final brought a 2-0 win after extra time.

After an awful run of condeding the most horrendous run of BS goals, managed to turn things around and won my 28th gold cup.
IF Totti was the hero, scoring a first half treble in the semi final against Sturridge and friends.
The final was standard Bundesliga pace. Had my usual bad start and was 1-0 down to Aubameyang in 4 minutes! For all the pace ( Bellarabi at CM!), i began opening his defence up tim after time and eventually IF Nils Petersen made it 1-1. It was fitting when in the 82nd minute, IF Totti put the game to bed as lots of fast players ran like headless chickens around him.

I feels it.
Saw TOTS Icardis stats and felt compelled to get him. Sold SIF Florenzi for a tasty packet, given his shock no TOTS insta-rise. Sold SIF Pjanic for a mighty loss- 103k down
Bought Icardi to slot straight in up front for the B team.
Not immensely impressed. He's very good but not as good as his stats say he should be. Basically like TIF Higuain but with more affection for hitting the post and less fwd movement.

So putting him in with IF Salah and TOTS Lodeiro, topping up with my old, unused squad fitnesses, played a run of games with them.
Preposterous abysmalness in the 1st 2, some of the worst touches, bounces, misplaced passes and GK buffoonery I've seen.
Dropped Lodeiro, put Banega, Alba and Pereyra back in. Boom. Latter with a hat trick in a 5-1 demolition job. Missed Lodeiro tho, (really is a terrific playmaker), so bought Insigne, put him in for Salah and brought Totti back too.
Great run of games, with the now all NIF A team joining in, Nainggolan in for Panic.  Won the cup in a 6 game win streak.

Feeling buoyed by this, I put it on yesterday and was treated to an all new stream of total dullardishness. Even quit 3 games in a row because I just couldn't be arsed with it.
Did finish off with a couple bronze starter team slaughters, Andrezinho laughing in the face of handicap with 3 goals in the 1st 15 min for my 2nd hapless lamb. Brightened things up a touch.

Got Overwatch now tho, between that and GTA, FUT should be getting some serious back burner time.

Interesting additional stat. New Florenzi scored in his 2nd game. I swear, every gold full back I get scores in their 2nd game. Literally every single one. Even if they never do again.

Some seriously anti football players recently. Everyone on park the bus and stay back when attacking, with the front two or three on get in behind and of  course, fast!

My gold cup team has been a massively enjoyable false 9 with the ridiculously good SIF Jonas at CF. His TOTS must be insane! Lost a final with it on Tuesday but it has gone all the way tonight with 4-1, 4-1, 3-2 and 4-0 wins. Jonas scored two goals in each match, including one of the best free kicks I've scored to complete the scoring in a surprisingly easy game and one sided match.

After waking up with the worst toothache imaginable and then passing out through the pain in the bathroom while getting ready for work, I shouldn't have had much success on FIFA yesterday. Dosed up on medicine and painkillers, I played some FUT after spending the day watching old episodes of The Bill and in hospital.
Lost the first game, but then smashed through six straight wins. 5-1, 3-0 and 3-1 wins got me to the Gold Cup final. After initial attempts by the game to match me with Sweat FC and then Beast FC, I found a match against a Bundesliga 433(4) with all the usual pacey players. The match lasted 7 in game minutes!
TOTS Alan Dzagoev put me one up from a pass by TOTS Alexandr Samesov on 3 minutes, and in the 7th minute I passed around his hyperative defenders to put Dzagoev through on goal. Boateng hacked me down for a red card and a penalty. But we never got to see either as the guy just quit! Gold Cup number 30 in the bag!
Also got a couple of the wins by 1-0 in the TOTS Cup. Second one was against a full BBVA team with blues, both TOTY and TOTS, Messi and Ronaldo. Defended for a full 90 minutes without the guy creating much and then with my first shot on goal in the 90th minute, a Rooney free kick flew in.
Some days it goes your way I guess!

Also the hype of the game on Friday night still seemed to be in action. The original pre upgrade Payet I'd had for ages and bought for 1.4k months ago sold instantly for 6.2k. IF Giroud I picked up when he was released a few week ago for 10.5k. He sold instantly for 24.5k. Not bad and my coin total is now at it's highest in 16 at 425k and with an absolute ton of IF's and TOTS in my club.

It is frustrating when it decides it wants to lag. Perfect connection earlier on and can play decent stuff and score goals, sneak 1-0 wins over obviously good players. This evening, lag all round. Four games, and they all have some degree of lag. Defending becomes a lottery, passing football becomes 10 times harder as you just get closed down or passes go all over the place. So inconsistent this game.