#offside trap

sure, so barça has at various points in time used a defensive tactic known as the 'offside trap,' but they are especially using it to perfection this year! (and this is also a hallmark of hansi flick's tactics as well!) 😮‍💨

you will notice that our defenders, including our centerbacks like pau cubarsí and iñigo martínez, play a very high line, meaning that they move up a lot closer to the opponents goal when real madrid goes on the attack. therefore, in all these instances the attacker (mbappé) is caught offsides by the defenders moving up simultaneously. it's a high risk, high reward tactic that barça does so well because it requires the defenders to be extremely aware of each other and the last attackers making the run in order to render them offsides. so that means our defenders have this innate trust and sense with each other. it's all about timing and moving together as a unit!

as to why other teams don't do it as much? well, your backline needs to be super solid and work together, and not everyone can get it right...also flick is a master at it too.

i've found this visual graphic online that illustrates the move:

As far back as this technique has been presented in the game, there have been inquiries on the best way to make its best. Today we see how to approach utilizing D-Pad Tactics in FUT 20.

 Actuating the D-Pad Tactics

How about we start with realizing how to initiate the D-Pad strategies. It's really basic since when you play a match, you as of now have the capacities to assault and protect utilizing these strategies. For the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, every one of that should be done is to press up on the D-cushion and the strategies identified with assaulting are shown. Pushing down, in the interim, shows the guarding strategies. For the PC, squeezing the up bolt shows the assaulting strategies while the down bolt is for the shielding strategies.

At the point when initiated, regardless of whether for assaulting or safeguarding, a menu having four alternatives is appeared. Press any bearing of the D-Pad to initiate the comparing strategy. It is conceivable to blend and match D-Pad strategies to locate the one that best suits you.

When enacted, the D-Pad Tactics stays as a result until killed. To kill the element, you should essentially play out a similar activity that was done to enact it.

 Assaulting Tactics

All things considered, we should investigate the assaulting strategies and how to initiate them.

 Assaulting Full Backs

d-cushion up → d-cushion left

What this does is to move your Full Backs to a further developed situation until you lose ownership. A similar Full Backs push forward in a way like how a Wing Back pushes forward in somewhere in the range of five safeguard arrangements.

This strategy is utilized to understand that additional width when you are in control of the ball. This offers you the chance to have diverse assaulting alternatives. The disservice is that when Full Backs assault, it leaves a ton of room open behind them.

 Get In The Box

d-cushion up → d-cushion up

This strategy gives you a chance to augment the quantity of players that attempt to get inside the case, particularly when you're in an intersection circumstance.

The thing to recollect is that these strategies offer a huge effect to assaulting, however utilizing it leaves you presented to counter assaults particularly when you lose ownership.

 Embrace Sideline

d-cushion up → d-cushion right

Embrace Sideline helps increment the width of your group's wide players. This means they are probably going to play nearer to the sidelines. Wide Players incorporate Wingers, Full Backs, and Wing Backs.

This strategy is great when you need your objective kick to be wide. Enacting this before taking your kick implies that the wide players are presently going to spread out.

 Additional Attacker

d-cushion up → d-cushion down

The strategy builds you assault by having an extra player.

The thing to recollect is that this strategy thinks about the assaulting qualities just as the guidelines got. It likewise gauges these variables during the player determination stage.

So for example your CDM has been set to Stay Back When Attacking. The odds of that player being picked as Extra Attacker is low.

 Guarding Tactics

Obviously it's not all assaulting, as you likewise need to have safeguarding strategies.

Over-burden Ball Side

d-cushion down → d-cushion left

This resistance strategy gives you a chance to have a progressively smaller barrier by bringing down the width of your group.

For whatever length of time that this strategy is dynamic, your group shape is going to consistently move towards the ball. This implies they disregard the guarded player guidance just as the checked restriction players.

You can generally attempt to control your half's center region yet you are available to wide assaults.

 Striker Drop Back

d-cushion down → d-cushion up

This strategy makes you Striker help the group by working increasingly like a midfielder.

In the event that there are more than one Striker in play, the strategy considers the guarded work rates and checking quality. It at that point picks which players is to be dropped back.

 Group Press

d-cushion down → d-cushion right

This strategy is equivalent to what happens when you set your Custom Tactic Defensive Style to "Consistent Pressure." What this does is to have your AI controlled teammates always pressure your adversaries.

One disservice of utilizing this guarding strategy is that the players in your group lose significantly more stamina than expected since they are going to make more progress.

 Offside Trap

d-cushion down → d-cushion down

Offside Trap makes your safeguards quickly push as one unit with the objective of having the option to get an assailant offside.

Take additional consideration when actuating Offside Trap, since utilizing it at an inappropriate minute can prompt simple breakaways.

(via Japan executed a perfect offside trap against Senegal)

this is the best offside trap in history. #JPNSEN pic.twitter.com/HxVGHkpQLP

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