Originally posted by Streety
It's not hard, practice is the best cheat :y: Play match or two before on single player on harder difficulty you usually play and then play an online match. Or get one of your friends to play with you the practice match, it gets you warmed up. I played with one of my friends twice. First time I lost 4:1 and then I won 3:0 without any problem.
In Head to Head season I am in Division 5 (I only had FIFA for not even a week) and I lost like 3 matches all together. I drew 1 of them and rest of them are just pure wins. It's easy, but you can't just learn it by watching. You have to practice, it's one of the thing you learn by trying.
So don't search for exploits and glitches, they are for 12 year old nerds who cry when their opponent scores.
Also when you start playing make sure you watch whole pitch, not just the ball and don't pass to anyone you see, you will fail big time.
Here are some more tips:
Defence: If your opponent runs for the net get one of your players go for them by pressing RB (XBOX) or R1 (PS3) and with your player watch the other players running towards the net or if he is running hold A (XBOX) or X (PS3) and tackle him, don't foul as this would be your biggest mistake.. Sure sometimes you just foul even if you don't want to but don't try to.
Midfield: Keep player or two with defence and don't run with them straight to attack, you might run into some trouble if you do that. If you play for Real Madrid for example and you have Ronaldo in Midfield it's obvious that you are not going to keep him in defence. When you get a ball in Midfield and there are many players around you try to centre the ball to attack or if not that then just centre it to your keeper and start attack again.
Don't use many through balls because they are easy to catch, only use them if you are sure that the opponent will not catch it.
Use LB (XBOX) or L1 (PS3) for the other player to start running to attack (Don't use with DEFENCE!) and run the action. It's easy.
Attack: Don't rush it if you don't have to. If you have a player running next to you trying to block you try to get rid of him by using some tricks. If you don't know how to learn that first in arena and then practice match. You don't have to be a god damn skilled player who knows all of the tricks on FIFA you just need the most simple tricks which will confuse the other players. What I sometimes do is stopping using LT (XBOX) or L2 (PS3) and then starting to run in a slight angle this usually does confuse him and I don't use any tricks. When you get to net use curved shot, 95% success if you know how to shoot. If not then as I mentioned before there is a practice match available in Arena. If you run for a centre double tap X (XBOX) or Square (PS3) this will make ball go quite low and you will have a BIG chance of scoring the goal.
I hope that this will help you in your matches.
I have written this so don't just copy and paste this somewhere and say it's yours. If you want to use it I hope that you will give credits at least.
Best is to contain them, like you said. Press them a little and attack with 2 when close to the box... do a steady buildup as it would wear the opponent down so your strickers are faster. Not that hard.