FIFA 20 is a football simulation that is always striving for realism. However, some aspects of the game are pretty far from real football – here are 5 things we will probably never see in the Bundesliga.
How realistic can FIFA be? If you look at a simple FIFA match, there is already a lot of realism involved. Apart from the shortened game time, both the gameplay and the atmosphere of a FIFA match quite match the major games of real football.
But ultimately, FIFA is a game that should be fun for the player, is influenced by the players, and is also bound by technical limitations. All three aspects ensure that things happen in FIFA that we will probably never experience in the Bundesliga or on any other football pitch – even if some of it would be quite spectacular.
5 things that only FIFA does – and real football does not
1. Want Messi? Well, let’s see!
Career mode with equal rights for everyone: How many official offers has SC Paderborn probably made for Lionel Messi? Probably none. In career mode, you can of course do that – even if you just started and only have a budget of about 9.5 million euros.
Messi’s market value in the game is 95.5 million in this scenario, which is a relaxed ten times your budget. In real life, Messi’s value is estimated at a whopping 140 million euros according to Transfermarkt. A sum with which you could buy the entire squad of SC Paderborn – that is, about five times (market value: about 31 million).
Nevertheless, the big FC Barcelona in career mode is not too ashamed to at least send a negotiator to hear your offer. And even if he angrily dashes off because of the offer – at least he was there. An occurrence that probably wouldn’t take place in real football.
That it is possible in FIFA 20 is of course because you are supposed to build your club to be the best in the world. After a few years and the odd Champions League win, the Paderborns could even have success in negotiations with Messi in FIFA 20. Let’s say: In the career mode, it is at least more likely to get Messi than in Ultimate Team.
2. Double-digit scores? Pff, totally normal
Goals upon goals: How can you tell you’re watching a Weekend League match, and not one of the Bundesliga? Well, it’s probably not that hard to distinguish.
But at the latest, when there is a 10:10 on the scoreboard at the end, which is then decided in a penalty shootout – it should become clear that the simulation sometimes has not much to do with real football.
Because while FIFA 20 likes to have very high scores at the end, this happens rather rarely in the Bundesliga. The highest win ever was, according to official data, a 12:0 from Borussia Mönchengladbach against Borussia Dortmund, while the highest draws were each a 5:5 between Frankfurt and Stuttgart (1974) and Schalke and Bayern (1973).
A result like in the picture above will probably be waited for forever in the Bundesliga. Especially since there is no penalty shootout at the end anyway.
3. Goal? No way – end of the match!
The final whistle – a mystery: The ball is round and a game lasts 90 minutes. This is a well-known football saying by Sepp Herberger, which rarely applies in FIFA 20 as well as in real football. Usually, there is injury time – at least 2 or 3 minutes. Often more.
Unlike basketball, however, there is no precise clock running during the game that ends the match exactly after two minutes of injury time. It is always at the referee’s discretion when the game ends exactly – and normally “last attacks” are still played out.
Thus, football and FIFA fans often hope for a few more seconds to somehow score the decisive goal. However, in the FIFA series, players sometimes wonder why the game is actually blown up in the middle of the last attack.
This probably also applied to Reddit user Navman147. Because the referee chose the probably unluckiest moment for the final whistle. We can all agree: A real referee would have let the following scene run for a few seconds longer.
4. Defenders? Which defenders?
Alone against everyone: Yes, there are true dribbling artists in professional football. In the Bundesliga, no question. Many players possess almost magical abilities on the ball, with which they can leave opponents standing one after the other.
But when the match has just been kicked off, a player stands still for a moment with his teammates in their own half and then runs to outsmart all of the opponent’s players – then it is a FIFA 20 player with a lot of tricks. Well, or maybe still Zlatan Ibrahimovic. We are certainly sure: A scene like in the following video will probably never be seen in the Bundesliga:
5. How many meters is that? 90? No problem!
Goal of the month: In FIFA 20, countless beautiful goals are scored every day. And the Bundesliga also has many true works of art in goals. However, what the Bundesliga does not have are funny glitches or sliders that allow you to increase shot power. Too bad.
Because sometimes in FIFA 20, goals are scored that simply do not exist. Not in the Bundesliga, and nowhere else. Like in this video from Reddit user PSGAcademy:
Moritz Stoppelkamp scored from 83 meters against Hannover 96 in the 2014/15 season – still the distance record of the Bundesliga. A keeper who hits directly into the other goal from the defense, from nearly 100 meters away – that can probably only be offered by FIFA 20.
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