FIFA 18

I’m having a lot of trouble against people who are good at shielding the ball, they just hold up the ball on the edge of my box and play through onrushing strikers. It seems near impossible to defend against.

I rarely use L2 for that so think I need to practice it, didn’t seem to matter that much on 17.
 
Robbo said:
I’m having a lot of trouble against people who are good at shielding the ball, they just hold up the ball on the edge of my box and play through onrushing strikers. It seems near impossible to defend against.

I rarely use L2 for that so think I need to practice it, didn’t seem to matter that much on 17.
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I find it's the perfect move in 4-3-2-1.

Fire it into the striker, have the RF & LF instruction to 'get in behind', hold the ball up with L2 and turn or fake shot / pass and slot it through to one of the other forwards or shoot if you're close.
 
What custom tactics are people using? A lot of the people I'm against somehow keep their entire defence near the box and very narrow, making it near on impossible to get through.

Messi is pretty disappointing, there are moments where he's amazing but overall he just gets shoved around by defenders and Suarez seems better.
 
First Squad Battles game post patch and it's made my passing game so much smoother. Retaining possession seems a lot easier and the game's much slower which I prefer. Playing a high rated team so only playing on pro but it seems like the difficulty has been massively reduced.

Edit: 4-1 on Legendary in the next game which is my best performance by a mile. Conceded from a corner in the 45 minute to their only shot but defending was so much easier. I really like this game now lol

Edit: No Halloween SBC, servers up and down for everyone. EA really don't care do they? :(
 
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Whatever they've changed has gimped me completely, any time I go near anyone now I instantly lose the ball, finding it impossible to get past defences.
 
Just something I've noticed with SB that I haven't seen mentioned? The AI regardless of difficulty(?) goes all out and puts a defender up front in the last 10 minutes if it's losing or drawing and in extra time.

I've noticed it before but just decided to try it out and force it to happen. In a Legendary game, 2-1 up ~ 10 minutes to go AI puts defender up front so I let them score with a minute left... goes to extra time 2-2. They still put the defender up front for the whole of extra time, I score 4 more goals in extra time, when they had 3 defenders the whole time against my 3 strikers, really easy to pick them apart on the counter attack.

Got 2437 points.


Will see if the same happens on Ultimate later.
 
Quinnaay said:
not noticed much difference aside from it maybe feels a little slower, not lost yet though so all good :p
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Really? Defending is easier than '17, you literally just track any central passing lane and put zero pressure on. As long you don't break the back 4 you're golden as far as I can tell, well thats what I've taken from the 3 games I've played.

Also when you pass sometimes the player doesn't control the pass instantly like before. I predict a very boring and frustrating weekend league:( Kurt said it best on twitter since release we've 2 updates and 3 very different games with the first being the best!:p
 
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