Well, right there you have a problem - unless you're really good at it, which I'm sure some are, scoring from headers is hard and doesn't occur as often as from the ground.
Myself, I play a quick move-up-field game through the middle, feeding through balls to my lightning-quick strikers, who then only need to either slot it past the goalkeeper or wait in a runner from behind and hit an easy pass for an open goal.
The wingers generally cut in field, providing assists.
Again, you need to find your own preffered playstyle and work that in. I'd suggest you try and play more through balls on a quick defender though. If Carrol aint up to that task (wouldn't know his general stats, as I haven't played him), then you should try and sign one that can.
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most of my goals are headers, i would say 90% of those goals are scored by my center forward who takes the passes from my smf and turned them into smashing heading goal straight to the net, it is simple and efficient, another 10% will be poacher's goal and lucky deflections, or getting a 1 on 1 from through passes, but that only happens occationally.
i dont think scoring on the ground is easier than in the air, everybody has different play style, my style is to let fast smf run along both wings towards bottom line and long pass to the front of the goal, then cf will try out their lucks and take care of the bussines. you might say thats just a pot of luck, right, in this game, your luck of scoring matters most of all. playing through balls to your strikers on the ground aslo needs good luck and of course excellent timing, it depends on who you play against, if you are againt juventus on top player level, then ceillini will not let you make accurate through passes easily, again you need to be fortunate to set up nice throuth passes and have a 1 on 1, even is 1 on 1, the random shooting in this game can sometimes really screw up a lot of golden opportunities, that happens way too often in this pes 2011 version, i often found my shots fly over, straight to goalies hands, wide, saving by keeper, they just dont go in the net. seldom i score on the ground 1 on 1 or long range shots, i used steven gerrad to score a goal from like 35 meters away on top player level, and i was just very lucky, wont be able to do the same again in the years to come.
anyway play through the middle field and make some nice throuth balls
to your quick cf will not be easy as well as scoring headers in the air when play against top class teams like spain, juventus, barcelona, even ROMA is a tough foe to beat, i mean if you use a average team to play against these teams on top player level and their forms are all red up in your first encouter with them, i doubt if there is anyone out there in the world who can have a comfortable win like 2:0 against those teams, just winning those games alone will be extremely hard and certainly prove you r the best pes player ever, you must be very lucky in many ways to win them after all, the thing is AI team players will likely script like hell and their through balls will be calculated and accurate to inches..... you know, they must score to show their class.
i must say if you played against those teams on those conditions before, you will know what i just blah blahed about, again your luck will be always a dominent facter for winning those tough games, most of my games against those teams are draws, 0:0 against roma me using everton, 1:1 against juventus me using man utd, well, man...., in that match those italians are so solid and rock like, you just cant get the ball off them, if you do, they ll snatch it back straight away, ianquenta runs with the throughed ball so fast right in front of my goal leaving the whole universe behind him, how that can be done by real people, well that all happened in that tough game, lucky me rooney scored the equalizer for me in 86' min after the ball was saved by buffon and deflected right to wayne rooney's path, that shot was originally fired by Barbertov' header, without luck, i ll lose. will remember the game for years. i lost 1:2 to almighty spain me using Germany, fernando torres runs through my defenders like fox chasing rabbits, there is no way i can stop him, well..., i can by a foul, a red card and a penalty, but thats too costly i reckon. torres scored a long range stunner in just 6' min from like 25 meters away, that just left me speechless. fortunately ozil scored a header for me in 68' mins, my heart was like pumping up to my throat, winning goals may still come to me at any remaining seconds. but villia scored a decisive header from their 4 th corner kick, well.... my fault to give away the corner in the first place, but my keeper saved a incoming shot from xavi and the ball was off the line, i just could not hold on to a honorable even, i lost eventually. but i wanted to take revenge, i played again with spain me using Germany for another 4 times, i did not manage to win, 3 draws and 1 lose, for the 5 th time i played against spain i finally won 1:0, i was satisfied with that very much, maybe thats the way how a tough game must be played. i dont know....
i play ground based attack or wing running attack for headers depending who i play against, for me both strategies requires luck and little tactics, as i said before, luck matters most in this game.
i am still very fond of playing this game though, the disc had been left in my ps3 for a month by now, haha........, just cant stop playing it.
alright, good luck to everyone
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