Pass inside, one-two, another one-two, trap, stand-up your defender for a devastating one-on-one, then use that powerful pace stat to burst and, boom, it's one nil.

Bullets from midfield into strikers, who, by the way, are very good at controlling the ball, are viable. Scoring goals in FIFA 20 is more realistic, I would say, and given FIFA is supposed to be a football simulation, better. :: Doom Eternal secrets locations list - where to find every hidden item on every level The new meta is about working it into the box for a flash finish. Overpowered first-time finesse shots from outside the box are in the bin. All these shooting changes are welcome, but the knock-on effect is there's a slight dullness to the act of putting the ball in the back of the net. And while the controversial timed finishing mini-game introduced with FIFA 19 makes it into FIFA 20, it's downplayed - and it's certainly less powerful. Gone are the gravity-defying antics of FIFA 19, thankfully. FIFA 19's shooting was unreliable, particularly in one-on-ones. Shooting is more clinical, as it had to be. But what's certain is it beats normal left stick dribbling. It's fun, satisfying and perhaps ever so slightly too effective. The idea here is to lure the defender in with crab walking then beat them with speed or a skill move. This powerful technique feels particularly useful in the context of FIFA 20 downplaying skill moves (the El Tornado cross auto-goal is a thing of the past). Speaking of bursts of pace, the new strafe dribbling, dubbed 'crab walking' by the FIFA community, returns after a hiatus brought on by its overpowered star turn in FIFA 17. Pass, pass, pass around the corner then bang! The likes of Mohamed Salah and Kylian Mbappe are devastating in FIFA 20 - as they are in real life. There's a real sense of immediacy to FIFA 20's gameplay, a staccato rhythm to play that rewards quickness of thought. I find myself looking for that winger run pretty much every time I work the ball in midfield and, if I can get it to my winger, attacking the box. So much of modern football is about pace and running in behind the defence, and so it is in FIFA 20. This is very much a good thing, in my book. In FIFA 20, fast players really do feel fast. FIFA 19 had an annoying issue where decidedly average defenders would catch up with fast players.

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