On FIFA 16, simple, basic, short passing won't get you anywhere. The new AI-controlled players are now more organised and therefore harder to manipulate away from the tempting gaps your midfielders and wingers can move into as well as blocking the strikers' runs in behind the centre halves. In order to open these tactical pockets of space you will have to use a more varied passing style and make your distribution less predicable. Also you will have to get used to playing the ball into an area rather to one of your players' feet as this will give you better angles to play through balls and quick one-twos. There is a also a new-drilled pass feature that you will need to practise as well as your lofted switch balls that can sharply shift the momentum onto the other side of the pitch giving you better space to run into.
NCTJ-accredited football writer with an MA in Sports Journalism. What Culture football editor. Write for the official Newcastle United programme. Former video reporter at North News. Featured and published in the Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette, Mail Online, The Mirror, The Sun and others.
