In this article, I want to teach you how to fix some defense mistake in FIFA, if you're this kind of a player, who spans the tackle button every time, making it easy for the opponent to outplay your Defenders and score easy goals.

Here, the opponent is making a lot of mistakes, which makes it hard for him to tackle the ball and again if you're this guy, who makes fears to tackle the ball, thinking that you might make a mistake and the opponent gets an easy chance, so by the end of this article, you will have the full idea on how to tackle the ball. If you use FUT 23 Coins to improve your players before learning more tricks, you can win more games more easily. So, let's jump into it.

First of all, when learning how to defend, we are told that you have to jockey. Yes, it's the best way to defend. And jockey itself can automatically tackle the ball. If you get closer to the opponent's ball holder, you don't even need to press the tackle button sometimes.

But this has a limit in some cases, which we gonna see and learn to tackle. We are told to do it, if the opponent is showing us the ball and a lot of the times if he's in front of our Defender, which sometimes work and sometimes don't. So, why doesn't it work sometimes? it's because of the ball contact concept.

Ball Contact

So, what's the meaning of the ball contact? We have two variations of ball contact normally and one is the Close Ball Contact. This is where the ball carrier controls and dribbles the ball with a lot of close contacts. The ball is always at the feet of the player very close and he makes small micro touches. So, even if the opponent dribbles facing your Defender sometimes, he can dodge your tackles. It's because he's controlling the ball very close to his feet, which makes it easy to change directions very easy.

*And quick then, we have the Long Ball Contact, known as the Heavy Touch in terms of FIFA game language. This is where the player dribbles and makes a long touch and he takes some micro seconds to control the ball because it's not close to his feet. This normally happens when the player is sprinting.

Here, he knocks the ball further away from his feet to match his running speed with the ball.

*The second way is during or after performing a skill move a lot of the times, if the player performs any skill move he makes a Heavy Touch.

*The third way is when controlling the ball sometimes or a lot of the times when controlling the ball, your player makes a Heavy Touch. When you control the ball in 180 turn and when the ball travels to or from a certain direction and you control it in an opposite direction, your player will make a Heavy Touch because you're forcing a natural change of direction.

But even if you don't make 180 turn or if you sprint while receiving the ball, your player will still make a Heavy Touch. So, let's see the best way to tackle the ball.

The Best Way To Tackle The Ball

*The first step is to be close. You have to be near the ball holder to be able to tackle the ball in this first mistake.

The opponent spams the tackle button but he was not near the ball holder, which makes it useless to press the tackle button. So, position your Defender near the ball holder in order to tackle away the ball. Jockey and make sure you don't over commit, then wait for that perfect moment when the opponent's player makes a Heavy Touch. That's when you move towards the ball holder and press the tackle button.

If you spot the Heavy Touch in any scenario then that's the moment you step in and tackle the ball a lot of the times you will be successful.

*Despite learning how to tackle but being active is the best thing you have to watch out passes in spaces actively. Don't just move towards the ball holder blindly. Watch out for dangerous passes at the same time pressing the ball holder and waiting for that Heavy Touch to step in and challenge the ball.

But remember these are just basic knowledge. Sometimes, you will press the tackle button and win the ball even if the opponent didn't make a Heavy Touch or you can notice the Heavy Touch and attempt to tackle and you fail to take the ball.