FIFA 12 passing tip

Improve your FIFA through balls and crossing

Lots of people don’t realise that the players on the pitch give you good clues as to when and where to pass. If using assisted passing this tip becomes even easier as the game understands what you want to do and moves various players not being controlled by anyone to allow the attack to happen. Some people might call this scripting within FIFA.

So the key to look for when doing through balls and crossing is this – look for a player putting his arm out forward saying pass it ahead of me I am making a run. Most of the time this will be the best person to try to pass to. Here is the following example in a game I was in against a really good player. In extra time still no goals when this opportunity appeared. Looking at the 1st image with 5 defenders outside the box the obvious pass would be to the Ibrahimovic at the top of the screen in space. If we do this you know what the game will do?? GIVE OFFSIDE! Because the game loves to put strikers just ahead of the defenders offside where you can’t control them. But if we look Pato has his arm out saying play it ahead of me I am running through (they can do this without you telling them to or if you start a pass with 1-2 button they will look for return with arm out. Can also tell players to go on runs while you have the ball). So this is what we do….

As soon as you see this do a lobbed through ball over the defenders towards the penalty area. You can see that already before the pass 3 defenders are going towards the ball. Usually as people are using a pressing game defensively.

Look how Pato has simply run straight past the 3 defenders and now just has 1 defender looking at him. Also notice how Ibrahimovic is keeping onside.

Because I did a through ball the 1 defender who was looking at Pato can’t turn quick enough and is left stood seeing Pato run past him. Ibrahimovic has kept himself available for the pass when the keeper comes out. Look at Hulk with his arm out saying through pass. A through ball to him and he will put the ball into the open net. Or you could finesse with Pato or even use Ibra to score. Goal!

Same when crossing always look for an early cross to anyone with their arm out. They will be more prepared than any other player around them to score.