Explanations related to Advanced Defending
In the FC 24 version, a new feature called advanced defending has been introduced, which is a new defensive mechanism for defending, and many questions have arisen whether it is more practical to use the new advanced defending mechanism or the tactical defending mechanism that we have had for years. Do we use it?
First, an explanation about how to use advanced defending, what is it like?
Advance Defending is a new setting that changes the layout of the defending buttons. The goal is to give players the choice of what defensive action they want to launch.
- Press X || A to request a Shoulder Challenge or Seal Out
- Press O || B to request a Stand Tackle
According to the explanation given, if you use Advanced Defending, you have more freedom and choice in how to defend against opposing players. At first glance, you might say to yourself that the use of advanced defending only creates an apparent freedom of action in the way we defend, and it is not very effective in the defensive gameplay core of the game!
The videos that I share with my friends, I hope that you can get the answer to this question, and in the end, you are the one who chooses which type of defense mechanism is more useful for you, and in this article, I will give you the explanations, and the final decision is yours. .
The use of Advanced Defending does not end only with the apparent use of the X button to defend body to body and the square button for Stand Tackle, and there have been more fundamental changes in this regard, especially when you intend to use the X button to defend. Use body-to-body/shoulder-to-shoulder, of course, the use of X does not only include body-to-body defense, but it is wider, and you can find out about this with the videos that I leave for friends.
Advanced defending is different from tactical defending. It is less manual. It means that when you use advanced defending, by pressing the X button, your defense will make the desired ball catch according to its intelligence and defensive abilities. Using advanced defending, the ability of the defenses is seen better and more clearly, and this is where the defensive features of the play style are further explained and the defensive skills of the players are seen to be more practical and efficient compared to tactical defending.
When you are defending and the opponent player is in front of you, according to the distance and angle you have in front of the opponent player, when you use the X button, the defensive core of the game will create the best defense mode for you, which the animations It is specially intended for this task that you will not see many animations when using tactical defending and you cannot use the new defensive features.
For example, in the video below, when I was in control of jamal musiala, when I held the speed trigger and pressed the X button, musiala tried to kick the opponent player with a strong pressure. As I said, according to the distance, angle and physical condition of the player, you will see all kinds of ball shots, which you can see and understand in the next videos.
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These are other examples of different types of catching the ball with the X button, and as you can see, the player of my team named Jonathan Tah, who is a strong defender, when I press the X button, he catches the ball like a shield, that is, with Shielding and blocking the opponent's way by using the high physical strength that is taking the ball from the opponent's player.
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- Similarly, another type of catching the ball with X, where Niklas Süle uses her body strength, kicks and takes the ball from the opponent player like a shield.
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Another example of catching the ball with the X button, which you can see, is the type of catching the ball during physical battles between two players. In these moments, you press the X button continuously and repeatedly, and your player is trying to disturb the balance of the opponent's player by constantly kicking and throwing his hands, so that he cannot have proper control of the ball, and you see that the opponent's player With constant pressure from me, he finally loses the ball.
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And this video is exactly like the way of catching the ball, you press the X button continuously and repeatedly, and Joshua Kimmich persistently presses the player and kicks the ball out. This kicking is done by this player himself, and as I said, the X button is useful in advanced defending and you should use it a lot.
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The last example that I will give you the video of is related to pressuring the opponent when you are behind the player and you want to put pressure on him, as you can see in the video, on the other hand when he is behind the player, I will continuously try I press the X button and Antonio Rüdiger charges the opponent with his hands.
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Finally, it must be said that if you can learn to work with advanced defending, it can show much better performance than using tactical defending, you will see more diversity in the ball catching section, you will see more animations And defending becomes easier and better for you. Likewise, using the square button is similar to tactical defending, and I feel that when I use the square button in advanced defending, we see more diverse ball catching animations than in tactical defending.
The videos posted for you are part of the examples and you will see more diverse movements and animations during the game while defending. The only problem I have with advanced defending is that in some places, when you press the X button on the opponent, fouls are made on the opponent's player, which the referee ignores, and I have seen problems in this field anyway.