Attacking: Running

It is very important to know how and when to control your players to run. If you want to attack, you need people to run up for offensive measure. We all know the importance of making runs when we saw last night match between Spain vs Germany.



Now im going to share the direction to make your players run. There are 2 direction which is direct and indirect.



Direct:



Direct means you point your movement key base on where the position of the players that you want to run. For example:





So by actually pointing towards the midfielder and the winger, they will start to run into their respective position. This is what most of us always do.



Indirect:



For indirect, instead of pressing the run button which is Q on keyboard for indirect you press Q to the direction of the outside line. For example,






If you press Q once, the winger will be running first. But if you press Q twice, the winger and striker will run too. So this is indirect Q.



This are the 2 common direction that can be use to control your players to run nicely. Try experiment with it to get the right timing for your own play ^^

Attacking: Mix Your Passes

In attacking section, we will discuss on the attacking area obviously.



Now some of us has this feeling that playing long ball is consider as cheap shot. Because of this we seldom do long ball and play more passes on the ground. Saying that its beautiful football to play without long ball and makes it more realistic.


I dont wanna debate on beautiful football because everyone has its own opinion about this issue. But what i would like to share is the benefit of mixing your passes.


Normally when we play just with ground passes, formation such as 433 and 424 can easily pressure the defence thus producing passing mistakes. So the only way to get out of this pressuring trap is to do a long ball to your midfielder.

424 Attackers Pressuring The Defense

It seems like there is no way out for the defender rite. The only way out against 424 is to play a longball to the midfielder.

1 Longball And You Free Yourself

As you can see, just by doing 1 simple long ball, you are set to demolish 424 defense with 6 attackers vs 6 defender. Now if you mix your passes correctly, you will be able to launch a successful attack against the defender even before they can react to your longball.

Mixing Up Passes And You Just Unleash A Deadly Attack

Just applying something simple to your play, you've just manage to punish any defensive mistake. If just focus on one type of passes, it is almost unlikely to do the above scenario. Besides that, mixing up passes does create what we so call beautiful football.


Hope this help everyone to understand the importance of mixing up your passes. So play attacking football ^^