
Be careful however, as it will be harder to defend this way, which leads to: If you are losing and its minute 80+, start thinking of at least doing attacking mode. Your players will prioritize attacking over defending, and stay forward or rush forward to help the attack.
Double tap up arrow once for "attacking" mode, do it again for "Super attacking mode". If you are receiving an aerial ball, skilled players will pull off some crazy stuff to control it! You can also use it to go by sliding tackles. You can then move your joystick wherever you are moving towards and you can pull off some nice stuff, even sombrero's. If your player is receiving a low pass, and you press R3, generally it will control the ball towards the air. Just pass, then pass back, pass, pass back, pass. Yesterday I saw a twitch streamer who was division 1 rank 80 ish, and honestly he played like a division 9. You are not good if you simply pass pass pass. 95% of the people do NOT dribble, they just pass pass pass pass, and then complain about scripting. Try a x2 R2 sprint to overcome a defender. Dribble - Instead of passing all the time, run 3 meters+ with your players. Also, if you do this from 0 speed and the opponent is in front of you, some players even attempt to auto-pass around the opponent, among other nice variants of auto-pass. The more you repeat this, the further the ball will go further from your foot, so you have less control too, so beware. Generally doing this 1-2 times is more than enough if you are going in a straight line towards the goal.
You will have to repeat it every time your player will touch the ball. When you double press R2, your player will attempt to sprint with the ball. Its useful for close-up shots, or long ones from the side with high-curl players (Sané, Neymar, Messi, etc). These will have less power but adjusted towards one of the goal sides. I BARELY see anyone doing this, even in division 1.
Use L2 - to protect the ball and avoid losing it if an enemy approaches from the back whilst you have the ball. I don't think I've ever been scored a goal this way out of hundreds of games (maybe 1 or 2 times but only because I forgot to ran back, but thats 100% my fault).
Then press Square (shoot) to clear the ball as soon as it approaches. Just run back with one of your defenders or midfielders, preferably one on the side, to maximize how many players you got in the middle.
Kick-off "glitch" - is easily defend-able.
How many things from the below checklist do you do?.