In FIFA 16, winning is not only about being aggressive and pinning down the opponent, but building up and maintaining a strong defense also plays a major role. Leaving any kind of loophole in your defense will allow your opponents to take advantage of your shortcomings and you’ll be embarrassed over and over again. In this FIFA 16 defending guide, I’m going to talk about different strategies involved in maintaining a strong defense along with various tips and strategies to set up a good defense. First off, you need to know the defending controls in FIFA 16. I suggest you to download FIFA 16 manual first. Here are the basic classic controls for defending in FIFA 16: The circle (Playstation) or B (Xbox) button performs a sliding tackle. Be careful, you need to do it with the right timing, otherwise the attacker will easily dribble the ball and avoid you.

 

Additionally, there are several ways to hamper the player with the ball. It is possible to put pressure on the player from the front, pull the player's shirt, or even make physical contact. If used incorrectly, in sight of the referee, some of these moves may result in a booking. Be patient and contain [contain is done by pressing X on PlayStation or A on Xbox] and just follow the player and always try to force him outside. When your opponent gets to the final third on the wing, switch to the closest defensive back and cut him off by doubling him with the player you were originally marking him with [hold R1 after you switch to the defensive back to keep the original defender there for the double team]. Defend with your midfielders and only double team when you have more defenders than attackers. Pick the closest midfielder/attacker and just sprint back to keep your back four in line. AI behaves fine when they’re in line.

 

You’ll learn important techniques such as… Don’t just madly sprint towards someone and hope you can tackle them. Timing is important, and stuff. Don’t expect any groundbreaking revelations here, unless you’ve only just started playing. Also, remember never to attempt tackling anybody in your box. The referees in this game are all jerks. High pressure ball chasing works too well. Coming up against an online player who insists on employing high pressure tactics is enough to ruin any evening. Faced with this, as soon as you have the ball at your feet you have literally a second to get rid of it again before the opposition is in your face. In actual football, keeping possession and dictating play is applauded and often rewarded with a win, but in FIFA 16 the spoils too often go to those getting their team to play like a bunch of excited schoolboys full of sugar. It's just not fair.

 

It was one of those little moments in my personal gaming history that I don't think I'll ever forget. We'd been summoned to a classmate's house to witness the beginning of a new chapter in console technology: Sony's hip and edgy PlayStation. The classmate (let's call him Rob - after all, that was his name) was a rarity in our peer group - someone whose parents considered it entirely reasonable to spend around ￡300 on something which then, much more so than now, was considered little more than a toy. Rob was unpopular, in an awkward 11-year-old sort of way, but that night his living room would become the centre of our worlds. Before patches defending was actually really hard but good at the same time as it was you doing defending and now it's back to auto tackles u get cheap fifa 16 coins near op u will win ball and track them easy.

 

But to me it was community that wanted change in defending says it all really that most community could not defend to save themselves me being one of them I wasn't the worst at defending. But I was learning now it seems I can't defend like fifa 15 again. Suddenly I'm able to look at all those seemingly frivolous aesthetic tweaks afresh. Sure, you might not notice each individual change, but I can see that the crowd, the player reactions, the lighting, the grass (I could write an essay about the grass), the leaner body shapes, the shirt pulling, the throw-ins, the glancing headers, the footprints, the muddy shirts, the moving hair, the fully animated You'll Never Walk Alone - every single one of these improvements and every single one I haven't mentioned has combined to deliver, finally, that leap forward we've all been waiting for.