Have you mastered or figured out the penalty kick taking in pes 201? It was a big mystery when I executed aiming with d-pad or keyboard.
, as 1) it still feels clunky 2)there aren't this many penalties in general.. however, from what I understood, by pressing up/down during the run up you can give the right/left direction to the ball.. at the opposite, with the right/left buttons you decide how much height you're gonna give your shoot. 
A week ago I was going for a PS2 gaming session, after months of not playing anything on the console, but had no idea what to play. Said to myself, let's roll with whatever I had left on the tray, and turns out, it was the glorious PES08 PS2.
A few guys here might remember my Generations Mode challenge with the ML Defaults on the Master League mode.
I had put in 8 seasons of save, and quit playing it after conquering the treble: League, Cup and WEFA Championships. However, this time I felt compelled to reload the save, check out the team and how the players evolved, and maybe play a few matches just for the sake of it.
Well, turns out, I can't play PES08 PS2 "just for the sake of it"this game pulls you in and before you realize it, you've just played half a season without noticing
I'm now close to the end of Season 9 and, coincidentally, not only it has been the most exciting season of them all but also one of the most exciting I've ever had on any ML on any PES. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say someone or something is doing this on purpose to pull me back in to this save. I must've played around 30 matches or so this season; well, I wouldn't be exaggerating to say that probably only 5 of them were boring. Besides those, every single one was either really interesting or an instant classic. I'm dead serious. Almost everything that could happen on a football match has happened to me this season.
Midway through S9 I was already far away from Benfica and Galatasaray, the top 2 of the league, and just 3 points away from the relegation spots. Remember, we'd won the treble last season! Fortunately, our cup runs were much brighter, as we were able to clinch the 1st place of a WEFA group with North London, Bayern Munchen and Real Madrid (!!!) - with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss (0-4 at home vs Bayern...). Currently, we're on the WEFA Championships semifinals (vs Galatasaray) and also we're on the D1 Cup semifinals vs...Galatasaray!
On the 1st leg of the WEFA quarter-finals, we met Liverpool...ahem, Merseyside Red at home and this happened...
It could've easily been 10/11-0 with the clear chances we created...
On the 2nd leg, I play all the reserves and ageing (as in, "goddamn old") underachievers like Burchet, Ceciu and Stremer...we were winning 2-0 when our 18-year-old debutant keeper forgets we were playing football, not american football, and tackles the quarterback...I mean, the attacker, while he didn't even have the ball. Instant-red-card, penalty, and I have to play Lothar (Lethal Lothar), a guy who literally hasn't played a competitive football match in more than 4 years! Fernando Torres takes the penalty, Lothar defends it, holds on to the ball, and then turns his back on the game, faces the Liverpool fans behind the goal and spends a good 7/8 seconds standing still, staring them down, with me pressing all the buttons to see if he could carry on with the match
Certainly the best of the 6 total matches he played in 9 years so far. Zamenhof shed a tear.
As for the league, we picked up the pace on the latter half of the season and are now 3rd with 5 matches until the end of the season. Benfica is 1st and is 6 points ahead, while Galatasaray is 2nd, 5 points away. Though it seems we'll clinch a WEFA qualification spot - and we certainly had to fight for it -, our chances at qualifying directly to the best of the WEFA competitions are not quite so good, as only the top 2 of the league get that perk.
We still have a match against Benfica so I wouldn't say we're out of the title race either, but I believe the European Superleague will see another winner this year.
Anyhow, here's a couple of interesting screens.
- Ceciu became the oldest player to play a match for ML United, surpassing Espimas and Iouga, I think, who were both 40 when they played their last match.
Given he'll retire by the end of this season (alongside a 38-year-old Burchet), I don't know when this milestone will be beaten...if ever.
- Gutierrez became the first ML United player to score 200 goals for the club!
...and is well-positioned to become the first to get 300 appearances for the club as well. Some say his motivation is the fact that he had been cut off of @Madmac79's roster on his PES11 save, and he used that rage to get back at his previous manager and show the world what he's really made of.
Also, paging @WhoAteMeDinner...I had a match in which I couldn't field two natural strikers (injuries + red cards + accumulated fatigue + accumulated yellow cards...) so I said f*ck it, this one's for Dinner, I'll field in Sousa there. One goal, two assists. I see no reason why this should work but goddamn it, you were right and it did
Last but not least, given two players will retire by the end of the season, according to the rules of the Generations Mode challenge, I'll be able to sign two newcomers. Our starting-11 is peaking, as many are reaching the 28-32 years of age, and most of them are not evolving stats anymore. I have to start thinking about a short-term replacement for Stein (34 years old) and a left-footed wingback/sidemidfielder/sideback to replace Ruskin. Another CB wouldn't be so bad too.
The man is indeed a machine, and this season he has beaten the record for most goals scored (by any player of any team, not just ML United's). 
: a league match a few seasons ago (we won that match anyway) and...the freakin WEFA Championships final. So David Silva found an empty goal and scored, which gave Valencia a 1-0 win they'd hold on to until the end of the match: the Championships title goes to Spain.
@MafiaMurderBag: Great stuff, as always your game is looking so fine with that brilliant camera mod. And can't argue about the realism there, as Portugal seems on the verge of dropping out on the group stage, as it happened in real-life's 02 WC.
You and me both! Looks great to watch but as soon as the camera angle rotates and I'm aiming at goal from an angle (rather than straight-on), I'm hitting the corner flag when I shoot... The modern FIFA games' co-op camera is my all-time favourite!
Thanks for taking the time to find this and it looks nice and all, but i prefer to use the Rosters/time period the game was released in.
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! They scored and I lost.. complete tilt. In my head canon I justify this refereeing with Riganpool being a young, not european famous team, still very low in the rangkins.. so they still don't respect us. Was pretty bullshit anyway.
It was all rigged against Riganpool...
Wait, are you saying you have PES6 2001-02 patch or OF?
That's my spelling mistake, they're correct in the file, in fact I see I spelled Vugrinec right in the man of the match part but not in the scorers
. A bit baffling but it's kinda pretty rare, anyway. I've had another penalty given against me for a clear ball contrast some games ago but it's just 2 in 2 and half seasons.. it's acceptable.
