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Is there a way to hold up the ball in midfield without having to take on players? I want to play differently...
What is the best defence tactic?
Nope. The AI will bring its players in and move yours away and get possession.
Run your player along in front of opposition player, and use the pressure button to have your players engage him. Then you run across the front of him, swooping up the ball without having to tackle. Similarly, select your CB and stay in front of the opposing player, blocking his shot, while your others are pressuring.
Use pressure to surprise a player running at your back line. As you hang on the back of him, wait until he gets close to your CB, then hit pressure, to make your defender step up.
Watch who the AI doesn't let you select, or which players are running out of position. This is where the AI is going.
The AI's preferred route are the wings. Watch your WB's closely, select them even if play seems to be going center. The comp will desperately want the overlap, and before you know it, it's got it. If that happens, you have to block crosses from going in. Once in the air, you will be made to feel the CPUGod's wrath.
The moments when the AI goes into "super score mode":
Its first possession of each half.
Last five minutes of each half.
Its first possession after scoring it's first goal.
If you see an opposition player flying down the wing in any of the above times, tackle him while it's still a yellow card, because if that cross goes in...they WILL score.
When under pressure in these times, just clear it, don't make any passes, into or near the penalty area...no matter how easy they look. "Things" will happen.
Lot of bollocks in this thread. The only way to defend properly is realizing what your AI controlled team mates do wrong. They pull gaps.
What you will want to do is grab a midfielder/defender, and simply position them in the half circle outside your own 16y box while constantly holding Press 2 (the AI press).
Let me know how you like this tactic.
Don't like.
Doesn't this pull you out of shape?
This poster is correct and his technique is sound.
I do much the same save;
1) Not exclusively using the back defender as he does (not always a CB-type positioning), but I do not take on the computer attacker 1v1.
"Lot of bollocks in this thread. The only way to defend properly is realizing what your AI controlled team mates do wrong. They pull gaps." -Robdg
This poster is correct and his technique is sound.
I do much the same save;
3) Lastly, I use a very atypical formation with 4 deep defenders, one additional sweeper, two wingers, a single AMF and SS and CF playing deep rather than forward. This is entirely set up for counter-attack football with longer runs and LESS passing. Why?
- because the computer cheats during passing. The passes go astray, are intercepted, can bounce off players with good technique event when accurately made, etc.
This is a very good technique and I totally understand it and such (although I don't use it because I find not going in the tackle boring, and also I haven't really mastered getting in the right position for headers). But one part intrigues me; where you said you play "with 4 deep defenders, one additional sweeper, two wingers, a single AMF and SS and CF playing deep rather than forward." This formation poses some questions for me. Firstly, when you play with 4 deep defenders with a sweeper, don't you find that, if a team uses attackers that are more withdrawn, your defenders don't mark them tightly and let them roam around "the hole". And furthermore, since this formation doesn't have a CMF or DMF, no-one can defend the hole area. Do you find that lots of defensive pressure is put on you that way?
BTW, this isn't in anyway as saying your method isn't good (my defense record is worst, about a bit more that 1 goal every 2 matches), I was just wondering if these problems exist for you and such.