Cheers for that, but I've tried all sorts of permutations including putting the 2 sliders to 100 and still cant close down players!! Seriously thinkin of just getting FIFA
Definitely think it's more to do with me not knowing what the buttons do! Any tips on that would be grateful
my advise , not that its really worth much becuase i have trouble defending too.
bring either your strikers or your attacking mids BACK as the person you are controlling then press the second player pressure button to get someone to track the opposition guys with the ball
this can be infuriating because sometimes when you want to switch players it goes to the wrong guy and that messes up the routine..(i,e the player you want to use to cover the zones the ball can get played to while pressing with the COM guy)...hmm...i just had a light bulb as to why this might be happening to me.....
anyway.....
use the strikers or AM to cover zones...if the person is a wing cheeser..then cover the wing the second he gets the ball to his flank man...do this and force the guy to come inside. becuase of this and assuming that you have put your compactness settings on higher values then the only thing this guy can do is go to the other wing if he hasnt run into trouble cause your middle of pitch should be compact......all the while these things are happeing you need to be jockying your player to where you think the ball is gonna go to
an example would be if messi has the ball take control of the full back and shift him slight wide to stop wing play and press the Square button to get some help (i REALLY need the help) ..JUST BEFORE YOU THINK MESSI IS ABOUT TO TURN BACK INFIELD.....change the player you control..what this does is two things...it then takes the defending on the flank BACK TO the AI (who is quite good at sticking out a foot) and then you can use the other guy to intercept messi or the pass inside or whatever..
thats actually a decent trick in that once the AI somehow (i dont know what promts them to do this as some of mine just sleep walk) decides to CHASE the opponent ..they actually go for them...so once you have brought the defender to the oppo player close enough...assuming that this guy is hingry to get the ball back (i think that pressing slidder) then just switch the guy you are controlling to either double team the lpayer of intercept the zones..the AI does a pretty decent job of trying to win the ball or slwoing down the attack...
defending for me is really tough...i find that people running at angles seems to confuse my defenders and they get caught wrong footed and almost always end up chasing as opposed to getting in front.
hope this helps and encourages other to post