Tight marking and man marking helps but not helpful enough.

What will make you win is if you watch how you use your match up.

A slight direction change in how you use your match up makes a difference.

That's how you defeat him. It's all in the match up and how you use it.

It's not hard using match up but slight angle differences will let your opponent passes penetrate you. That's the important thing.

Then you can go a step forward by removing interception skill to avoid players using their legs wrongly. Or you can keep it. Depends on whether you defenders miss their tackles. (Happens in laggy matches that they wrongly mistackle)

Back to the main point. Everything is in the match up. The other instructions help but they're not as useful as using the matchup properly.

If you can defend, you can win matches

He has every defensive skill needed.

Only training guide is whether you'll increase defensive awareness stats or not increase it all.

Both guides work perfectly but both will change how you have to use your match up.

Manual cursor switching link:
https://youtube.com/@nulltestergh


Assisted cursor link:
Very Secret guide. Check old videos on YouTube channel. You'll find this guide

Assisted cursor = low def engagement.
Manual cursor = high def engagement.


Both still requires you to use your match up right in relation to how your defenders are moving at any point in time due to def engagement. New tricks updated. eFootball 2026 releases next week

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Tall Defenders over short defenders but there's a trick.

There are certain ball in the air you shouldn't go for. The ball can move in different ways to bypass the tall player.

So avoid going for certain balls by "avoiding giving a command".

The reason to avoid is, when you fail to win ball, opponent players quickly move to counter you.

If you avoid going for ball, your defender will be in his position and opponent cannot Counter you. Only applies to certain circumstance. It's not always you have to leave the ball. But there are times you have to.

New tricks updated. eFootball 2026 releases next week

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New game. One trick everyday.
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Read red line... Like i said earlier, forget about goalkeeper, focus on defending. Konami decides what situation gk can catch balls, he won't catch regardless of how you train him. Some situations are just random. Will update in new videos.
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12 votes for bad.... Your game has to be very smooth to enjoy. Both internet and controls.

If it's not very smooth, use the old guides. Don't increase defensive awareness for not very smooth devices.

Defensive awareness adds extra touches for you to be able to win ball.

It's useful to increase for smooth games but if you don't have smooth games, don't increase at all. (Assisted cursor)

The important thing is getting your angles when match up. Like I've said goalkeeper doesn't matter. Konami already decided what balls they can catch depending on the situations.

Just focus on getting angles right when match up. Reduce awareness if not smooth.

Attacking already explained. Check old videos. Will upload new tricks after some weeks

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Fix for match up (pressure)

1. Increase defensive engagement (the higher the better)

2. Wait for all your players to fall back before you press. Once you start pressing, don't change the command to something else you'll mess the entire strategy up.

It's better than match up but pressure has it's own issues.

Issue
1) can be affected by lag heavily.
2) needs right timing to pressure.

Since it needs right timing, you need to combine with circle match up trick. Or you change the situations in which you pressure.

You still have to pressure. That's the way to defend now. Sometimes you'll be close to player when pressuring and you won't win ball. But still hold it.



Option A) You can combine the strategy above with smart assist. Will make defence overpowered. Auto clear when you pressure

Option B) Don't use smart assist. This will allow you to use circle match up trick before you pressure. Circle trick is very useful in laggy matches because lag affects pressure more than matchup. But you still have to use pressure in this update.

All latest videos explains both strategy.
Game is good but i don't like certain things. It's too inconsistent. Lots of issues..

Dash trick: https://youtu.be/roJdz500gxA

Free auto win.

Just use 325 formation. Opponent formation will crash when he checks your squad

Defending itself is not hard. It's just stupid mechanics. No skill needed. Just good internet vrs bad internet opponent.

If opponent can control ball well, your defending will be bad

If opponent cannot control ball well, your defending will be great.

Nothing to learn about defending. Even though the defending guide i posted earlier works, it's still not a realistic game this update. Don't stress. Just dash back and Wait for right timing to pressure.

Check new videos if you don't understand.
https://youtu.be/roJdz500gxA?si=gV5y2W8UtGHs_gTF

Opponent needs to check your formation. You have to delay without starting match

Formation needs to be 3115

Once you set formation like i did, don't go to gameplan. Else you'll have to set again.. you can use any manager. Once you've successfully set, that's all. Wait for opponent to check your gameplan

Just be on this screen. Don't proceed to check your gameplan else you'll rather lose.

Screenshot your loaded ping from fast.com if loaded ping is too high usually, the matches aren't very smooth in eFootball

Top rank 55 with previous trick. For defence, if you face laggy matches, try to delay the timing at which you pressure. Like I've said, there's no effective way to defend now. It's about whether your opponent can control the ball well in defensive situations so you use pressure.

Pressure itself has lots of issues but that's better than using matchup. You can add circle trick too right before pressing the pressure (use circle only in laggy matches). Full pressure in smooth matches. Combine both for best result in laggy match.

Final guide in link below
https://youtu.be/PRufsIFdVk4?si=p3ZssCB3A-xlsobR