How Do I Get Better??

[chriszhou]

I got FIFA 13 during Thanksgiving. I started by playing tournament mode and then I got into Seasons. I was stuck in Division 9 for a long time but finally one day I got to Division 8. Then the next day I got to Division 7 but now I lost so many matches I'm going to get relegated to Division 9 again. I'm starting to rage a lot because of these issues:

1) I have trouble defending especially against players who just pass around in the midfield. How do I win tackles? When I'm defending I just hold A (I play on Xbox) and sometimes their attacker just runs pass my defender and I have to manually sprint with my defender but my defender usually can't keep up.

2) How do I score on crosses? I can't score on any crosses so I just drag back if my winger is running and then pass back to the middle hoping for some long shot or something.

3) What moves should I use to beat people on the wing so I can just dribble into the box and finesse.

4) How do you beat goalie 1v1 if you can't sweaty goal? I did a couple of chips but sometimes the keeper just catches it and sometimes I try to bomb a shot into upper 90 and it hit the crossbar like 4 times.

5) How do you maneuver in the middle? I can pass well in the midfield up to the 18 and I try to maneuver/through ball/pass and I end up losing it 90% of the time.

6) What are the most effective skill moves?

Thanks so much I really appreciate all the help

 

[smf_fede]

Ok, let's resume everything in 2 important things that u must have: contain rivals and pace.

All depends upon ur gameplay system, but normally when rivals get the ball away from the 25mts line, i play contain and only put pressure when rivals cames close to my area, or when i "get the numbers" to challenge the posession.
So, contain, sometimes u also can put pressure with 2nd defender and use ur controlled defender to defend the pass or the dribble.
One thing important, don't ever dare to put pressure with your CB to the rivals far away from the area, or you'll get exposed to through balls.
Read the rival's gameplay, specially if they tend to cross from the wings, try to not press with LB and RB if they do that.

Crosses, are more "manual" than previous years, so it's matter of practice to nail it, usually, if u got the position and the cross is good, u can score, find the space and cross, or try to cut if u can't do that. Don't be predictable, and try to put on wings players with good crossing, and a ST with good heading.

Pace is the main stuff, check youtube videos about "precission dribbling", basic dribbles are useful too, about skilled ones, roulette or ronaldo's chop are useful, but control of the ball and passing gameplay with precission dribble are key to break defenses.

Have plan B, try to put on field different gameplays depending ur rival, i mean, some rivals tend to cross more, so their formation will be more wide and exposed to passing, some counter-attacks, so needed to have balanced gameplay and try to keep 5 players on defense, some runs like a dog after the ball, so passing and control will be useful, some pressing really hard, so playing wide and deep is useful.

Again, contain, 2nd defender, standing tackle on defense, don't run like a dog; on offense master the precission dribble, don't play steady, pass and move, and have plan b or c depending the rival.