**Key takeaways for this lesson:**
- Make sure that the keeper is committing with his rush out of his goal before going for a chip shot.
- To perform it hold L1/LT and power up the shot.
- The ideal spot for a chip shot is when you are about to enter the box or 1-2 steps afterwards.
- Aim for a power around 2 bars.
- The left stick input is crucial, try to point out the left stick towards the middle of the goal or towards the far post to fully avoid the goalkeeper.
- Be more encouraged with players that have the silver and the gold playstyles!
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Chip shots have become more consistent with FC 25 and they are a reliable shooting technique especially when the keeper rushes out from his goal. In this lesson, we break down and show you how and when to effectively use the chip shots in FC 25.

Powerful Chip Shots In 1v1 Situations

When the opponent gets himself on your side of the pitch, you have two decide what you need to do defensively. Having a good understanding of both on-the-ball and off-the-ball defending will help you incredibly. With this lesson, we explain how these concepts work, when you can use them and how to defend strongly by combining them together.

**Key takeaways for this lesson:**
- To decide which player you want to defend with, you need to understand the intention of the opponent, which we call anticipation.
- Ask yourself, what will be the opponent’s next move? Once you understand this you can go for the following approaches.
- You can control a player that directly defends the opponent’s player which is controlling the ball, we call this on the ball defending.
- In some cases, you won’t be able to continue this hands-on approach, but instead cover the free area or the next potential passing target. This is what we call off the ball defending.
- Combining both and continuously switching between them in your defense will make you a decent defender.

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Jedijaster continuously achieved top ranks in FUT Champions in 2019 and has been trying to help others since then. He started individual coaching with bPartGaming in 2019 and became one of The GUIDE's main content creators in 2020. His passion for helping others allowed him to analyze other players more efficiently.

When the opponent gets himself on your side of the pitch, you have two decide what you need to do defensively. Having a good understanding of both on-the-ball and off-the-ball defending will help you incredibly.

Two Must Learn Crucial Defending Concepts

You need to learn some major differences between FC 24 and 25 before fully adapting to the new game. In this lesson, we show you the key points to it.

**Key takeaways for this lesson:**
- Advanced defending feels much better in FC 25. Turn it on in the settings menu if you haven't already and use your physicality against the attackers with shoulder-to-shoulder challenges!
- Tackles are better, both the standing and sliding ones. You can punish attackers with your tackles just for having the ball too long at their feet carelessly.
- Defender recovery time is insane. You don’t get punished as much for a wrong defensive move in FC 25 as much as you used to get in FC 24, which helps you to have a braver defensive approach.
- However, you still need to be cautious and not give away easy chance creation opportunities. Pulling defenders out of position comes first to mind, which you need to avoid.

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How To Transition Defensively To FC 25!

This lesson brings together all the puzzle pieces as we are taking a look at how to implement all the different techniques and fundamentals we learned in order to play nice attacking football in FC 25.

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CruZzAve has been creating tutorials since 2013 around which time he also started his competitive journey in the game. He was able to qualify for the Grand Final of the German Nation Championship “Virtuelle Bundesliga” twice and reached multiple weekly and monthly Top100 finishes in FUT Champions. In-depth analysis and years of educational experience characterize his content.

How To Combine All The Different Tools To Form A Well Rounded Attacking Game

So many things that are important in the attack... it can get confusing!

Attacking in FC 25

FC 25 is similar to FC 24 in its core, however there are a few key differences that shift the game balance and that you need to understand in order to attack succesfully in this new game. We discuss all those differences in this lesson!

**Key takeaways for this lesson:**
- FC 25 is a technical game that requires you to have a wide repertoire of skills in order to accel in the attack.
- Passing is more difficult due to bad angle passes and one touch passes being weaker and less controlled. So make sure that you clean up your passing game and go for control.
- Dribbling is more difficult as well as players take heavier touches and you can't turn as quickly. So make sure to stay safe from defenders and try to work with subtle direction changes.
- Defenders recover quickly in FC 25 so even if you break some ankles, you need to be aware that that same defender might pressure you again a second later.

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CruZzAve has been creating tutorials since 2013 around which time he also started his competitive journey in the game. He was able to qualify for the Grand Final of the German Nation Championship “Virtuelle Bundesliga” twice and reached multiple weekly and monthly Top100 finishes in FUT Champions. In-depth analysis and years of educational experience characterize his content.

How to transition your attack from FC 24 to FC 25

The transition from to FC 25 can be tricky...

Transitioning from FC 24 to FC 25

Glad you enjoyed the lesson! Yeah, there's no rule without an exception ;) Especially in FC there can be switches in priority from one second to another, but it's all logical in the end

Perfect!!  I like this one so much cause you make the point of allowing ourselves to mess up the shape which normally isn’t included and I go like, why they do X or Y thing if they advised the opposite 👍

That's very nice feedback to hear! Keep putting those opponents under pressure!

Thank very much :) very insightful tutorial on how to implement the spsp concept in my own gameplay! I like to pressure the opponent, so that tutorial comes in the perfect moment :) you give a lot of hints on how to analyse my own gamplay using the spsp concept. So one can figure out what goes well and what goes wrong. Perfect for practice purpose :) 

Hey Daniel, nein content ist nur auf Englisch. Eventuell werden deutsche Untertitel kommen in Zukunft!

geiler Content, gibt es die Videos auch auf Deutsch? oder nur englisch?

This sounds like you are making major mistakes that you're not aware of. I would recommend sending in a gameplay for the member analysis. Then we can have a look what the problem is.

It doesn't matter how many videos I watch, defending doesn't work for me. If I try to cover space, the opponent gains 30 meters of space. When I try to press, the player just runs past me and by simply running straight ahead it breaks through my whole defence. I haven't gotten that for years. This video doesn't help me either. 

Maybe it’s because I’m still playing on ps4 and have 24+ pings but smh this game is not rewarding when I follow these steps sometimes it works and sometimes it seem as if the opponent is controlling what I do smh this game have become so mechanical smh 

This lesson covers how you should apply the SPSP defending concept to defending deep inside the opponents half, trying to pressure them. 

**Key takeaways for this lesson:**
- deep inside the opponents half, keeping shape is not as important so you can prioritize pressure more often even if it means pulling a player out of position
- you need to quickly realize if there is a pass or space to cover first or if you have all options covered well and can immediately try to pressure the ball
- if you decide to pressure the ball, make sure that you don't second guess yourself and actually go in there with a tackle

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Georg "CruZzAve" Raffelt is creating tutorials since 2013 around which time he also started his competitive journey in the game. He was able to qualify for the Grand Final of the German National Championship "Virtuelle Bundesliga" twice in 2014 and 2015. Online he managed to reach the weekly and monthly Top100 in the Weekend League numerous times.

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