Tips & Tricks For Penalties
A penalty is always an exciting and intense moment in a football match. Success and failure are so close together. With the tips and tricks shared in this lesson, we make sure you have more to celebrate when it comes to scoring and saving penalties!
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- In FC 24 there are 5 different zones that you have to consider when it comes to saving a penalty. Before that it was only 3. Thus saving penalties became much harder.
- Basic shooting technique: try to press the shooting button when the composure ring is very small to increase the accuracy of your penalty. You can put a lot of power into the penalty, when you hit it with a small composure ring, so above 3 bars is fine.
- Basic saving technique: when the opponent is close to shooting the ball in the run up, take one step to the side you want to dive to increase your chances of getting there. Also make sure to have a clean input with the direction to the top or bottom corners. Sloppy execution can lead to poor saving animations by the goalkeeper.
- In order to save penalties shoot in the middle, we advise to not touch the sticks at all. Otherwise there is a risk that you start a dive to the side.
- The Panenka "glitch": press and hold L1/LB before powering up the penalty and put only 30-40% power. Aim to the bottom left or right corner. That way you get a low shot chip which is very hard to save.
About the author: Benjamin "TaZz" Drexler is creating tutorial videos since 2011 and started to compete in tournaments at the same time. Among several weekly and monthly Top100 finishes in FUT Champions, he reached the Top8 at the Virtual Bundesliga in 2013/14 and finished in the Top8 in 2017 at the first European Regional Qualifier Event in Paris.
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