Hi all,
Really struggling to use advanced through ball and was wondering if it was still considered non functional - as in 2016.
I find it too unwieldy during games and nearly always use manual pass to Knock the ball through. I find lofted through balls to be almostly completely useless on advanced too - they never elvate enough to chip the defence
I use full manual passing so wanted my through balls manual too but i just can't get them to function properly.
Any tips / thoughts
Anyone use it?
I think advanced throughballs are ok. Though a bit harder to execute obviously....
But I get, and agree what you're saying with lofted through balls...I can use them diagonally across the field to the wing/corner....
But, because of the game mechanics that have been talked about constantly on this forum....it's very very rare, that you can go over the top.....I've done it, but it's not relative to real life football/soccer...
Especially the part where the defenders, when running straight towards their own goal, have unrealistic pace out of nowhere....a slow defender will be slow everywhere else, but will end up being as fast as, if not faster than any player on the pitch, if he's defending the ball, running towards his own goal...that combined with the supernatural/unrealistic anticipation of lofted balls that they have while running any direction.
Given those mechanics, yeah pretty useless, and an extremely low percentage the receiver of the ball will be able to retrieve the ball faster than the person defending the ball, when it's over the top....it's happened for me, but very very few and far in between. Maybe 2 or 3 balls in every hundred games.
In real life pace would make a difference here, and if the attacker is faster he should get to the ball first, though slow down when he's trying to control it....Then maybe a defender who is not playing the ball, may run past him at an angle to cover the goal/lanes...while the person defending the ball, will either control/clear/head, fight for the ball, or get beat....
Not in this game brother...defender will always be able to full sprint to the exact location of the ball dropping to his level, he won't get beat, and he'll one touch pass it, head flick it, or clear it....
Kinda sucks, as pretty as tiki taka is to watch in real life, and how they did so great to try and emulate it in game....they put quick and easy unrealistic fixes to make the D more rigid, individually, rather than as a team....and not enough attention given to over the top long ball play, which might not be as pretty, but it's pretty rampant in today's football...
Some people might consider it less skillful, and less pretty, but it's so much a part of the game, that they should of made it better.
