First of all, thanks for taking the time to watch the game and give your feedback, it's much appreciated.

I'm gonna try and address what was going through my mind in the instances you mentioned, but first and foremost:

Now the issue I have with your post is that you seem to imply that this is actually your teammates fault when you are the one shutting them off a lot of times.

As I said in the post, this was a game selected at random from my replays, and I'm in no way saying that we lost because of my teammates and I was a god and should've won but they held me back.

This isn't supposed to be a rant where I deserve a better rank but I'm in Elo Hell. I'm fully aware that Elo Hell isn't real, and I'm exactly at the rank I deserve. I have 3 accounts, and in all of them I'm platinum III at 3v3 and 2v2, so it's not a coincidence and that's the rank I deserve. No question about it.

The reason I made this post is for you guys to help me analyze my gameplay, spot mistakes, as you did, and try to prevent them in future games. So I'm sorry if I gave the wrong impression, I've been a bit on tilt for the last couple of days and it shows in my tone. Apologies.

Now on to the feedback:

Have a a look at 4:21. You are very hesistant here leading to one of your mates cutting you since nobody is challenging.

I'm not hesitant at all, and I never had any intention to go for that ball. I'm slowly creeping towards them because I know it's possible they make a bad contact with the ball, and I want to be in position to rush into the play if that's the way it plays out. I would think of that as actually trusting in my teammates, since they're not on my screen, therefore they're behind my back, and with a better position to challenge whatever shot comes out of here. What would you suggest in that situation? If I challenge the ball, it just goes over my head, and if I turn back, we're basically 3 players inside the goal waiting for them to come to us.

The guy who appears on screen at 4:18? That's the guy who cut the rotation, in my opinion. He aimlessly wandered into the play, and he was absolutely never gonna come even close to the ball. Now we're two people falling back instead of one, and he chooses to fall back directly underneath the ball. The guy who was playing at the ball? He had all the time in the world to go for that ball, but chose not to until the last second. Bonus points: they were playing in a party together.

So yeah, I actually do think that was a bad play on their part.

Or take a look at 3:45. You drive into 2nd position and then just turn away from the play leaving your position and giving up the play basically while teammates trust you to stay in position.

What do you expect me to do there? Seriously. I drive into 2nd position waiting for a pass, but instead he just shoots a crappy shot, soft into their goal for them to easily smash towards our half. I turn around the instant I see my teammate's shot, because I recognized it as a crappy shot, and I knew I needed to go back to defend.

I honestly don't know what you were expecting of me there. Should I have just kept going? Where? To an empty goal because the play switched sides? Turning back was the only possible play there.

Another example: 3:19. You don't commit at all to your decision! Consider what it looks like to be the player behind you.

No argument there. I completely misread the bounce at the wall, I should've made that a 50/50. Then I saw the opponent whiff and thought "I'll get up on the back wall and clear it from there", but the ball was slower than I thought. I jumped trying to block the pass the last guy was about to make, but he whiffed and I was there in the air like a moron.

I always give my teammates the benefit of the doubt when a match starts, but as soon as they make it clear that they're not to be trusted, I change my mindset and go for everything, because I know for a fact that I can't count on them. Sometimes it ends up biting me in the ass, but I've climbed from Platinum I by doing this. You wouldn't believe the amount of times the don't challenge anything down at this rank. It's not that they try and they fail, or they're hesitant or whatever. It's the fact that they are perfectly happy waiting right on the goal line, hoping that maybe a ball will come to them. They choose not to go for the ball, and I grow angrier and angrier, until I say "fuck it" and start zooming around the field trying to do everything myself.

I obviously can't, but I must say, the results are better than if I trust them anyways. I went through a phase were I conciously tried to trust my teammates no matter what, respecting their positions and hoping they would do their job. It didn't go well.