Spikey, trust me, it can work on 5* if you use it from a counter-attack deep within your own half.
My Larsson volley & Ronaldo chip are examples of this.
If you're using a top player, like any of these, you can do it!
I must have tried over a hundred times for that Larsson one though!
I use my edited Elite squads for most of my efforts.
I use random conditions for both teams, but I'll stick in strikers who are in the best condition (often yellow or red arrows). If, say, Henry & Vieri are down (grey) arrows in my Euro Elites, I'll always have Totti, Shevchenko, RVN, Owen, Raul & Larsson as possibilities.
Just keep plugging-away at it. I try to have an idea of the goal I want to score, then dedicate some entire matches to it. People are gonna say "that takes the fun out of it" & all that, but I can always play normally too, and vary my tactics.
Hope some of that helps.