FIFA 12 Tips, tricks, hints and tutorials
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FIFA 12 Formation Tips: The Best Formations
The best formation is: 4-1-2-1-2(2). Next to it you may set your team formation to 4-4-1-1(1) or 4-4-1-1(2). If you are looking for a very defensive formation in FIFA 12, I would suggest you to choose: 5-3-2 or 5-4-1(1). Make sure you place your players in the position depending on your selected formation. The defending players should show in YELLOW colors in the graph, midfielders GREEN, attackers BLUE. Otherwise the players who have wrong colors, won’t have their full performance and skills in the game.
The best formation is: 4-1-2-1-2(2). Next to it you may set your team formation to 4-4-1-1(1) or 4-4-1-1(2). If you are looking for a very defensive formation in FIFA 12, I would suggest you to choose: 5-3-2 or 5-4-1(1). Make sure you place your players in the position depending on your selected formation. The defending players should show in YELLOW colors in the graph, midfielders GREEN, attackers BLUE. Otherwise the players who have wrong colors, won’t have their full performance and skills in the game.
FIFA 12 Defending and Attacking Tips
Sender: Anonymous
Look around the pitch if there is more defenders than attackers try using double pressure by pressing square button.
Attacking tip: use l1 + triangle for slotted through pass to the wings from inside your half then cut from the wings and pass the ball to an open attacker works every time and works best if you have a speedster as the winger
Sender: Anonymous
Look around the pitch if there is more defenders than attackers try using double pressure by pressing square button.
Attacking tip: use l1 + triangle for slotted through pass to the wings from inside your half then cut from the wings and pass the ball to an open attacker works every time and works best if you have a speedster as the winger
FIFA 12 Hints and Tips: Turn and Spin
EA Sports
Learn how to find the space to beat defenders with the Turn and Spin FIFA 12 skill move. Watch this tutorial video and improve your FIFA 12 skills:
Link: www.fifplay.com/videa/?youtube=1JswTZV4LjY
EA Sports
Learn how to find the space to beat defenders with the Turn and Spin FIFA 12 skill move. Watch this tutorial video and improve your FIFA 12 skills:
Link: www.fifplay.com/videa/?youtube=1JswTZV4LjY
FIFA 12 Hints and Tips: Roulette
EA Sports
A great trick for beginners and an effective skill to win a one-on-one situation. Learn how to pull off the roulette move in FIFA 12 – a simple trick for beginners that can be brilliant in one-on-one situations with those over-eager defenders:
Link: www.fifplay.com/videa/?youtube=jAZhBnfJjQ0
EA Sports
A great trick for beginners and an effective skill to win a one-on-one situation. Learn how to pull off the roulette move in FIFA 12 – a simple trick for beginners that can be brilliant in one-on-one situations with those over-eager defenders:
Link: www.fifplay.com/videa/?youtube=jAZhBnfJjQ0
FIFA 12 Hints: Attacking (Online mode)
Author: chrism_fifa12
1. Use the wings to carry the ball near to penalty box to cross and score. Dribbling on the wings is usually easier.
2. Have more than one plan to score. Don’t stick with one method of scoring, strategize different ways to go to your opponent’s box.
3. You don’t need to always sprint. Remember your (online) opponent is under pressure when your attackers have the ball inside his penalty box. So you don’t need to rush, just concentrate but make your decisions quickly before your opponent reacts.
4. Practice on counter attacks. Counter is a good way to score.
5. Score from the corner kicks. Learn how to score from corner. Try to win as many corner kicks as you can.
Author: chrism_fifa12
1. Use the wings to carry the ball near to penalty box to cross and score. Dribbling on the wings is usually easier.
2. Have more than one plan to score. Don’t stick with one method of scoring, strategize different ways to go to your opponent’s box.
3. You don’t need to always sprint. Remember your (online) opponent is under pressure when your attackers have the ball inside his penalty box. So you don’t need to rush, just concentrate but make your decisions quickly before your opponent reacts.
4. Practice on counter attacks. Counter is a good way to score.
5. Score from the corner kicks. Learn how to score from corner. Try to win as many corner kicks as you can.
FIFA 12 Hints and Tips: Defending
EA Sports
Take a look at the official EA Sports guide to defending in FIFA 12 if you want to see how to defend and prevent your team from receiving goals:
EA Sports
Take a look at the official EA Sports guide to defending in FIFA 12 if you want to see how to defend and prevent your team from receiving goals:
FIFA 12 Dribbling Tips: Heel Chop
Learn how to do the heel chop in FIFA 12 and improve your skills to dribble your opponent faster.
Learn how to do the heel chop in FIFA 12 and improve your skills to dribble your opponent faster.
FIFA 12 Dribbling Tips: Elastico
Find out how to beat defenders using the Elastico (A dribbling technic) in FIFA 12.
Find out how to beat defenders using the Elastico (A dribbling technic) in FIFA 12.
FIFA 12 Driven Free Kicks Guide
Learn how to score from a freekick in FIFA 12.
Learn how to score from a freekick in FIFA 12.
FIFA 12 Unlisted Skills
Author: Yuan.
A FIFA 12 tutorial by HamburgerYoungstars, Showing you how to do skills not listed on fifa 12 on Both PS3 And Xbox 360! Hope this helps you all out!
Author: Yuan.
A FIFA 12 tutorial by HamburgerYoungstars, Showing you how to do skills not listed on fifa 12 on Both PS3 And Xbox 360! Hope this helps you all out!
FIFA 12 Arena Accomplishments Guide
Author: FIFAYankee.
This video shows how to complete FIFA 12 Arena accomplishment from 1 to 30
Author: FIFAYankee.
This video shows how to complete FIFA 12 Arena accomplishment from 1 to 30
FIFA 12 Tactical Defending Tips (Online play)
Author: Anonee.
– Don’t sprint at the player who’s on the ball, just do the and when you are on a right position, do a tackle.
– Try to intercept opposition’s passes.
Author: Anonee.
– Don’t sprint at the player who’s on the ball, just do the and when you are on a right position, do a tackle.
– Try to intercept opposition’s passes.
Defending, Calling the Goalkeeper in One-on-One Situation (Online mode)
Author: Pat M.
Bringing the goalie off his line to face the attacker is a good defending technique in one-on-one situations but it could be risky as well. The attacker can easily dribble the keeper, pass the ball to a teammate who’s running parallel with him, or simply chip shot and send the ball to back of the net over the keeper’s head. As an attacker, this situation could be also stressful as they have to be quick otherwise the defenders reaching them from behind. This is the key, as a goalie, you need to make the attackers confused, so they would not be sure what they want to do (either chip shot of direct shot or pass the ball to a teammate). You should know when to bring your keeper forward and when to send him back (when to press the calling button and when to release it). It should be very tricky, you should read your opponent decision beforehand, for example bring forward your goalie halfway but once you feel the attacker wants to chip shot, you should release the button so the keeper stops going forward but going back to his line instead to prevent the goal. Timing and pushing/releasing the calling button (Q) are very important. Again, bring the goalie halfway and release the button to 1) buy time 2) make attacker confused 3) prevent his shots (esp: chip shots).
Author: Pat M.
Bringing the goalie off his line to face the attacker is a good defending technique in one-on-one situations but it could be risky as well. The attacker can easily dribble the keeper, pass the ball to a teammate who’s running parallel with him, or simply chip shot and send the ball to back of the net over the keeper’s head. As an attacker, this situation could be also stressful as they have to be quick otherwise the defenders reaching them from behind. This is the key, as a goalie, you need to make the attackers confused, so they would not be sure what they want to do (either chip shot of direct shot or pass the ball to a teammate). You should know when to bring your keeper forward and when to send him back (when to press the calling button and when to release it). It should be very tricky, you should read your opponent decision beforehand, for example bring forward your goalie halfway but once you feel the attacker wants to chip shot, you should release the button so the keeper stops going forward but going back to his line instead to prevent the goal. Timing and pushing/releasing the calling button (Q) are very important. Again, bring the goalie halfway and release the button to 1) buy time 2) make attacker confused 3) prevent his shots (esp: chip shots).
FIFA 12 Tips: Defending (All)
Author: Simone
Do not overreact. Try to read the play and chase attacker carefully. As David Rutter also suggested, do not try to tackle with tackle button a lot, FIFA 12 is different than FIFA 11, the recovery from even short tackle kills time so your opponent will dribble you easily if your tackle isn’t successful. Timing is the key, as he said. You should tackle on the right time. The new jockey feature is very useful. Get familiar of using jockey in Arena before you go to play.
Author: Simone
Do not overreact. Try to read the play and chase attacker carefully. As David Rutter also suggested, do not try to tackle with tackle button a lot, FIFA 12 is different than FIFA 11, the recovery from even short tackle kills time so your opponent will dribble you easily if your tackle isn’t successful. Timing is the key, as he said. You should tackle on the right time. The new jockey feature is very useful. Get familiar of using jockey in Arena before you go to play.
Tips for playing online match (PS3)
Author: Pat M.
1) Defend first. Focus on defending rather than scoring.
2) Passing is important. Try to keep the control of the ball.
3) Don’t be stressed. Relax, even when you miss the ball and receive goals. That’s the key.
4) Dribble more. In FIFA 12, the dribbling is much much improved, try to use this feature as much as you can.
5) Attack with more players. Try to bring the ball to the opponents box through your midfielders. If you do so, your attackers will go to the better positions to receive the golden pass.
6) Learn from defeats. Don’t be sad when you lose a match, try to see where were you mistakes.
To be continued …
Author: Pat M.
1) Defend first. Focus on defending rather than scoring.
2) Passing is important. Try to keep the control of the ball.
3) Don’t be stressed. Relax, even when you miss the ball and receive goals. That’s the key.
4) Dribble more. In FIFA 12, the dribbling is much much improved, try to use this feature as much as you can.
5) Attack with more players. Try to bring the ball to the opponents box through your midfielders. If you do so, your attackers will go to the better positions to receive the golden pass.
6) Learn from defeats. Don’t be sad when you lose a match, try to see where were you mistakes.
To be continued …
Hello
Does anyone know if the number of owner has a result on the players?
If there is a card with many owners bad player or what?
You can, if the ref hears bad language he becomes biased against your team, it’s on Fifa 13(kinect version)
The trick are the same on pc if i use a joystick?
it seems that every time i play on line my apponts are faster than me and if somebody can tell how to run as fast as them it would be cool
can anybody tell
me hw to run faster on line it seems to me that every time i play on line there faster it would be cool
Passing. It’s seems easy, but you have to concentrate in where to pass, how to pass and when to pass. Online players usually pass forward, when passing backwards also gives the team the opportunity to organise and make the opponent put more effort when pressuring. You can also do skill passing, which confuses the opponent and open holes in the defense. Furthermore, the BEST tip is to know when to pass: When your player has the ball, you have to know how to maintain the ball in its feet the sufficient time to let your other uncontrolled players move to receive the best pass. Maintaining the ball makes the opponent start to use more of its defence, opening holes and giving you the opportunity to make a quick useful move. Finally, changes in the speed of passing also confuses the opponent and gives you the opportunity to have a good play. Hope it is useful, and sorry if the text is a bit s***ty, but im spanish 😛
Can an MLS team qualify for any additional cup?
When I first started playing this game and I didn’t know what I was doing I used TFC and I was managed to be in some random cup my first season.
After playing for a few month, now using TFC again, and winning the regular cup, I am unable to see any qualification for a bigger cup. This is so wack.
If anyone knows if you can or cannot qualify for an additional cup with an MLS team please shoot me an email. Thank you
[email protected]
best squad on fifa 12 is 4-5-1 with attacker on controlling
cassilas
arbeloa pique ramos alba
alonso busquets/bruno
xavi
david silva iniesta
fabregas
with this squad they play just so well together and you’ll get many one on ones, also the defending is really good ( good defending, excellent gemistry)
are u sure ?
add me on PSN ID: rafa_fed
i am in division 2 now thanks to my frequent disconnections and crap EA server.I have already been in division 1 and won the PREMIER TITLE twice.I dont use any skill moves as i dont know .My suggestion is to just defend well and attack on the break or look for mistakes.I score a lot of goals with corners too
add me my ps3 id :rafa_fed or email me ur ps3 id to [email protected]
i am from INDIA
I think that FIFA should spend a little time for asian leagues,too.After all asian love FIFA and FIFA should show his POWER by making some Asian leagues like persian leagues and keep it’s fan from all over the world.FIFA should ask it’s fan for this and will definetly see it’s marvelous result.
add me on ps3 connortaylor7 and if you can give me some card and players for my road to glory on youtube pzz
I play the same tactics. be interesting to play you in a match. i use Liverpool all the time and have won the Premier Division 5 times. Will be 6 by the end of the day. MR_BIG_STUFF is my Id if you fancey a shot at the best!!!
FIFA 12 is sick. Much more dynamic than 11 and the movement and “game play” is fantastic.
Once you get used to the new way of defending, it’s amazing.
My virtual pro is an 89 already!!
You should make all star teams from each league! Like la liga would have ronaldo messi marcelo casillas etc! And also premeir league rooney van persie nani chicharito and hart! But thats just my opinion! If you want to add im broady21 on ps3 and im in division 2 on my way to division 1(:
maybe Fifa will bring in ‘diving’, as it happens so much in every league….
if you time it right, you get a free and possibly the opposition booked, or you could get caught out. thoughts?
Also….i’m not a fan of the new ‘tactical defense’ controls what so ever
i think u should be able to control the training of certain players and base ur team selection on that weeks training. Also, i think fifa need nations and kit changes every season. you should be able to change ur kit a little to just show the next yr has passed. it would be good to see stadium upgrades and upgrades to training grounds and coaches. the new scounting is better but it would be better if u actually could play reserve games not just 1st team so the young players could play more.
Is there a difference between dipping free kicks and driven free kicks? Maybe is me failing, bur they look the same to me.. Please help?
on dipping free kick, no L button to modify?
How do you defend against someone who holds down sprint the whole time (with a faster team that you)?
hold right trigger and a (xbox)
play low pressure defence and banlanced playing style
and sprint just to stay up (if possible)
Fal back nd hold ur line of defece. Whn u in d box dnt hold speed
Everywhere I see tips saying don’t hold down sprint, and I don’t, but how do you defend and play against a play with a fast team that does mash the sprint button?
Wot about offsides. You can be a inch offside and they give it. So why can’t they make the linesman make mistakes like they do in real life
They do make mistakes, you just don’t realise cause you get away with it. If you watched a replay everytime you though you were offside and the ref didn’t call it you would see this.
I’ve completed season and most of my team players are gone. As I try to buy new players they keep on rejecting offers (and I cant improve it). how do I buy players?
you have to put anoth money on
Defending tip: look around the pitch if there is more defenders than attackers try using double pressure by pressing square button
Attacking tip: use l1 + triangle for slotted through pass to the wings from inside your half then cut from the wings and pass the ball to an open attacker works every time and works best if you have a speedster as the winger
how do u mean double pressure square or X will slide tackle right?
only problem with fifa 12 is the penaltys they are terrible
fifa 11 problems resolved
Damn division 3, I will add u.
thank you for this videos they r awesome
i play in legendary with 3 5 2….its d best formation i think…..
Yup agreed. I tried them using Napoli, very interesting formation to play with. Do you know any other team in fifa12 using this formation?
Do u not get opened up all the time with a through ball?
how important is it to use the tactics. its all bad if i just let the fellas do their thing and try to play a good match yea?
Tactics are very important. The only thing I can say is learn how they effect the game. Read they information that they give on each one. Formation is important as well. 1 or 2 strikers? how do you like to use your midfield? Figure that out too. I noticed that by using custom tactics and formations it raised my play level dramatically. Dramastically!
are all of these tips in relation to where your player is facing? IE: If I am playing left to right – my striker carries the ball toward goal (to the right of my screen) and then to do a move such as the “Turn and Spin” am i pulling *back* (Down) on the right analog stick and then right or left – or am I pulling back (LEFT – toward my goal, but ‘back’ in relation to my player facing RIGHT) and then “down” ?
Do you understand?
Back as in left
Your posting was not understood
He means that is the skill move done by the way the player or camera is facing.
The team players that i chioce is very slow how to make them faster online in h2h
THER ARE RATED BY THEIR PACE SO ONLY SOME PLAYERS CAN TRAVEL FAST
If you change to high pressure you can’t also play counter attack. They are both presets that tweak all the tactics. High pressure slows down your attack to focus on aggressive defense and counter attack speeds up your offense and emphasizes long passing. Two different styles of play you can do both. I recommend tweaking the custom tactics to suit your style of play. If you don’t pass long, why have your guys run long? If you have fast players, playing a slow build up style doesn’t allow you to utilize your speed. Look at how you play and figure out how you should tweak tactics based on that. Oh and use subs… thats what they are there for.
Can’t do both I mean
get el shaarawy,high potential and also eriksen and bale
thnx and leave a comment!!!:]
Honestly I have gone through most of the honourable comments here and I also think if EA can add african teams based on the rankings rather than same cameroon south africa stuff.we should see our managers talking to the players,managing a national team,domestic cups like the cup of nations,Europe cup and the world club championship.seriously let work hard and make our loving EA fifa game Loving and enjoyable.thank you.
Great hints and tips, Thanks
to play the legendary difficulty without getting whipped;
1) get as much players in defence as the game would allow.
2)make sure u have fast wingers and quick attackers for a quick counter
3)activate high pressure and set your technique to “counter attack”
4)learn how to hold the ball and be patient so your team can support your scanty attack
5)use midfielders that have high attacking and defensive ability
6)never tackle AI’s striker. contain him . he will surely dribble past you if you tackle.
7)AI will finally make a mistake if you are patient with containing it
8)try long lobs to beat the AI’s midfield.
9)get a striker who is good in the air and feed him from the wings
10) try more of finnes shots. they are more reliable.
Hi Fifa Lovers,
Im new to thte FIFA world (converted from PES) but think FIFA12 (PS3) is REALY amazing!
I have one critical question…
How do you Lob pass?
I have now played aprox 150 games online, and lost alot, (but getting better, pratic is a good thing;))
But playing 10 games, I end up loosing 3 or 4, from Lob passes, behinde my defence line, and when I try to do it… I only succed 1 out of 10..
Is it L1 + Triangle?? L1 + Square??
The same goes for Crosses into the box… My oppent does this like theres is nothing to it, and 8 out 10 always scores… but when I try.. i fail.. and I try dobble tap ect.. I NEVER score from crosses.. 🙁
Help anyone??
Best regards
Keez – Denmark
hello keez
Lob pass or the lofted pass is done by pressing L1 + triangle
And to your concerns I would say its because you defend poorly people don’t score me goals like that and hardly do they score me through crossing because I defend well you’re new to fifa like you said so I’ll take a. While before you can defend properly
A simple tip be patient while defending
How dod you do keep the ball in the air
lob passes are L1 triangle and if you want to score from crosses then make sure you have a good finisher waiting in the box (good at headers and shots) and make sure the crosser has good crossing stats. Another thing is only cross if you see your player making a good run into the box, this will help them get the ball easier and get more power.
hope it helps
Hi,
I have same problem with my brother. He can score when he wants.
So I am playing with Real Madrid , with 4-3-3 tactil until when I score one or two goals. After that I change it into 5-3-2 ans ultra defense. It’s become boring for him but if you want to win this game u have to keep your score. this reality, u cannot make it by changing anything in Control Settings. You may but , u cannot get to be use it until FIFA 2013 starts.
Regards,
PSN: Cimcoz
to help with your crosses go on settings xbox controller settings and switch crossind from manual to assisted.
why isnt there a world cup on this game
EA have a different game for the World Cup sadly 🙁
this was a waste of my time. I want to get better on fifa not f*** about wasting my life doing pathetic skill.
they should put the world cup into the season on career mode
and other cups e.g. africa cup of nations
and euro cup
Dont all you celtic fan feel we where hand done by with the celtic stats in FIFA 12
IE players stats ?
let me know
i think celtic are the best 3 and a half star team to play with, average defence, killer midfield with ki,kayal, commons and forrest, and an outstanding strikeforce with hooper and stokes, it makes h2h seasons really good for someone new to fifa (being an ex pes player myself
thet should add all of the countrys on the game
they should add alll of the countrys in the game
How do u video fifa 12 matches on the xbox 360 cause ive seen them on youtube but i dont know how to do it.
you have to buy a capture card.
the most popular ones would be a dazzle DVC 100
or a Hauppauge HD PVR.
tho i wouldn’t recommend buying the Hauppauge unless you have a good $200 in your pocket to spend
So I’ve been trying the dipping free kick as they showed in the video and after maybe about 100 times of it not working I found this one thing that did work. When you’re doing the free kick like they show in the video you should also hold the right stick down or in the direction you want. With out this the ball just goes over the post no matter what you do.
your doin it wrong then. i’ve been doin this technique for a while now and score about 60-70% of the time if not more
Yeah, whenever I aim in the right place with the right power (depending on the player) I always score. I only miss free kicks when a player has a very high power rating (that im not used to) or when they have really high curve (in which the ball just curves too far… to the keeper D:)
vat is ze tamil skiiollz?>>??><??+_+_+$£_"!
Why is there not any control over the finances. Such as sponsors, ticket prices, weekly income/outgoings? Also stadium improvements/ building would be fantastic too! Overall I love the game play of this game, the match looks fantastic! They just need that little bit more on the side of detail in career mode. (club information). Also you never know the size of crowd apart from looking at the stands in the match. I want to see some numbers please!
I’m in my second season – player career – and it appears that we’ve sold 2 of our very best players (for not much: £14m each) AND all our goalkeepers retired… so we have no recognised goalkeeper in the squad…!!! The role is being filled by one of the team’s best attacking midfielders! How DAFT is that… the AI shows no sign of chasing a goalkeeper and as far as I can see, I’ve no way of pushing it in that direction…CRAZY!
Btw, my “pro” is playing for Tottenham Hotspur – goalkeeper’s graveyard it seems!
Fifa should also do champions league europe league world cup euro africa cup and any other big cups u have dis will make d game very intresting and harder to win trophys and onther sugestion is dat d ref shouldnt always get d offside correct and players should be aloud to argue with d ref if dey choose to.d new fifa should also have real interviews with new players mangers after matches and traing in manger. Mode to make the players overall go quicker in d mode i know dis is a lot but i hope dese ideas are usefull
in the next fifa game maybe you can choose to argue with the referee and there is a chance the referee will change the decision or give you a yellow card
just a random suggestion xD
That’s retarded haha when has the referee ever changed his mind about a call? Even with all of the arguing the only thing it CAN accomplish is a yellow card for the player who argues. If you want a pointless yellow cards just slide tackle, at least this way you could injure a player…
Hi i am female who plays who plays fifa 12 lol 🙂 on ps3 in divison 3 any one wanna came add me crazyemz123 thanks
best way to attack is going down the wings and cutting in then shooting 🙂 hope this helps
hi wot team are u playing
Damn division 3, I will add u.
i will answer you, i am division 4
I think that they shoud have African International teams e.g. Ghana and Zambia. As well as having the African Cup of Nations!
i think fifa should now be able to make the players hair move.second the manager mode should be in such a way dat u can have post match interviews very much like the real thing it would be interesting.third champions league should be included as well as managing a national team on career mode.
I am guessing you never finished the first year of manager mode? There is Champions League after the first year, if you do good haha you can do pre-match interviews haha managing nationals would be a good addition to the game. Unfortunately they are unwilling to combine FIFA with FIFA World Cup.
there should combine all of there games e.g. pro street
world cup