Defending crosses
 

Strictly an offline player here. I've noticed that most of the goals I concede come from crosses and subsequent headers. Any tips for defending these? I do play slightly narrow (width of 4 on defensive tactics.) I do so because in real life crosses are low percentage chances. My defensive instincts are to usually try and intercept or block any dangerous ground passes into the center. But it seems perhaps applying lots of pressure to the winger to stop the cross from being made in the first place is a better idea?

Also sometimes my center back is in position to head the ball away, but simply does nothing and the offensive player heads it in.

Re: Defending crosses
 

Headers are tough because they’re so random and ratings/height don’t seem to matter much at times.

I usually try and use the jockey button and just physically get in the way of attackers. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t for the reason I stated above.


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Re: Defending crosses
 

Calling a second defender or pressuring the wing player by holding RB (Xbox) will mess up the marking of your cb's. I usually just let my fullbacks deal with the wingers as I user another player (cm, cdm's) and try to manually mark any free players in the box WITHOUT sending secondary pressure.


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Re: Defending crosses
 

i personnally press the Square to battle for headers in the box.