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I agree. I really liked the timed finishing mechanic, I thought it was great and a really nice skillful mechanic to have in game. A lot of the time, especially in previous years where defending AI was so incredibly intense, timed finishes were the only way to score goals (finesse shots etc), people just parked the bus so it was your only real option. A lot of people complained about trivela's, but I've played the game for years at a high level (Div1-Elite) and only ever really ran into a couple people 'abusing' it, I don't think it was as rampant as people make out, and again, if people weren't meta rats parking the bus the entire time other players wouldn't have to find alternate ways to score goals, if you're going to fill your entire box with your team, expect long range shots.
But yea I thought it was great. I do miss it this year, I feel like it's quite hard to score outside the box, almost to the point that it's not even worth trying without finesse+ and some serious shooting stats on top of that. The only player I've had do it consistently was Leao when his stats got boosted to 99.
With defending being as weak as it is this year I can kind of understand why it was removed. But at the same time things like Power Shots would become viable again if they bought it back, currently it's a dump stat playstyle.
FC is (should be) a skill based game, timed finishing wasn't easy, you had to work at getting good at it, like anything I feel like you should be rewarded for being able to perform higher skill based game mechanics. That doesn't seem to be the case this year. To many people who clearly have no attacking skill sets just spinning in circles until they get through defensive AI, it's pathetic to watch.