FIFA 18: 10 Changes EA Sports Must Make

10. Free Kicks

This is not going to be a crowd pleaser but if we’re honest with ourselves, the new free kick should show itself out.

It’s not pandering to the ill-skilled masses, but the effort that scoring free kicks takes isn’t worth the ONE goal you get when you manage to pull it off. The new penalty system is a vast improvement mainly because you can pick where you put the ball. I’m told there’s a similar feature on free kicks but it’s just so temperamental. There’s no mid-ground between picking the head off a fly at 40 yards and shanking it over the crossbar from just outside the box.

It’s time Fifa realised that they were never going to get a free kick system purer than that ball in the bottom left hand corner that let you control exactly where you hit it.