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What a way to start this weekend, first Nice's crazy ass truckman and and now Turkey's coup d'etat..

I have a question about the defense stat: is there any player with 98 or 99 in defense in this forum? Baresi and Nesta have 97 but maybe there is another footballer with higher defense.

Yashin with 98 but he is not a defender..

The regretful cameback

Just out of curiosity: who is the best crosser/long passer in history, in your opinion?

For me... Luís Suárez or Pirlo

For me are : Beckham, Scholes , Pirlo , Recoba .

To me are: Becks the long crosser and Platini the best long Passer..

Netzer, maybe?

Best Long Passer:

Best Crosser:

For me Verón and Pirlo.

What exactly does Defense mean for a Goalkeeper? Sometimes, it seems to me as if it does absolutely nothing. Btw, I play PES 6.

Positioning..

Yes, this is how DEF is rated on this site and I've been thinking that for a long time, too. But I've tested Goalkeepers with DEF 1, GKS 99 and RES 99 and I never noticed any significant change in their behaviour. They made fantastic saves, nonetheless. If DEF meant positioning then they would be extremely bad at stopping shots from distance, especially, because they wouldn't reach the ball due to bad positioning. But this effect only occured when I gave them low GKS, not low DEF. But PSD's defintion of DEF (=ability to stop the ball with doesn't matter which body part) did not convince me, neither because, imo, GKS not only affects the save's quality itself which means catching the ball or clearing it out of the danger zone, but also the keeper's ability to do these insane double or triple saves.

Yes, you're right. I've noticed the same. GKS is the key ability for the Keeper, almost everything depends on it and RES concerning the keepers. Rating DEF=postioning for the keepers is the wrong thing to do IMO, in the game it seems it doesn't work like that.