I’m sure you’ve noticed yet that the defenders in PES 2016 are complete retards if you let AI do the job you’re supposed to. So, get a hold of your own destiny. You will have to practice, practice, practice but it’ll pay off.
How to defend in PES 2016 OFFLINE, from my experience?
Basic controls to take the ball away from opponent are:
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1. Determine which formation and strategy works best for you
This is the foundation around which you’ll build your defensive success. The formation will differ from team to team, from player to player, but the strategy could be the same, whichever team you play (of course, it can’t be the same if you play Barcelona or FC Girona). The strategy that works best for me with Tenerife (ML, season 3, players with OR from 73-81) if I want to defend successfully is the most defensive one. 442 or 4231, counter attack. I mostly use long passing with 6-7 support and wide attacking. Without ball, my defensive line is set to the deepest (1) , and compactness to the most compact (10). I do not use aggresive and frontline attack beacause it usually backfires at me.
2. Choose your players wisely.
When playing against Barcelona, choose two defensively stronger central midfielders instead of a playmaker and a DM. You can also, for example, put your offensive full back to the ML or MR position and have a more defensive one on the DL or DR (if you have two decent full backs in the team, of course). For example – your usual full back Gael Clichy could play ML and your central defender Mamadou Sakho can play DL, when you play a strong team. This game is becoming a football manager (and that’s okay).
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3. When playing big teams, use man marking and a five man defence
When I play big teams, I play 5-4-1 fluid formation and set a man marking before game. Every one of my players has a defensive duty (except for one CB!), even central forward. He usually marks their defensive midfielder. I use double marking on extremely dangerous players such as Messi or Bale. For example, if Messi plays RWF I use my LB and my LM to man mark him. If he plays CF, I use two of my CBs to mark him. I always leave one of my CBs without man marking duty so he roams around cleaning loose balls. Konami could’ve put a sweeper position in the game…
4. Don’t run around chasing attackers
First, you’ll lose your stamina quickly. This will be your death at the end of the game because your players will err much more. Second, it won’t really get you anywhere, the CPU is good at keeping the possesion. It is better to wait out till the CPU makes a mistake in passing or the chance to take the ball by sliding tackle or double tap of the A button. And, hey, if it’s necessary, foul it! Every wrong sliding tackle isn’t a yellow/red card these days. But! Here lies the big danger – DHTB!
5. The dreaded high through ball (DHTB) and how to defend it
The Dreaded High Through Ball (DHTB) which CPU uses so much against you, shows how really stupid your defenders are. You can set up mark settings all you want, attackers will get away from your defenders, receive the ball and score, while you watch helplessly.
The black cloud slowly shadows your sight and you (do or don’t) supress the urge to throw that motherfuc*ing gamepad to the ground and tell Konami a few chosen words about intelligence (your defenders artificial one and theirs… well… ). Your wife looks at you like you’re the biggest moron in the world when you talk to the monitor and doesn’t understand how can a game frustrate you so much.
There is a solution to that and it’s called manual player change. You do it with RS instead of LB. The main goal is to change the cursor to a defender who stands next to an attacker who is about to run away from him so that his teammates could send him a DHTB. If you do this correctly, they will not pass to him or will, but you’ll at least stand a chance of cutting off the ball. In the same time, you should double tap the X so the rest of your players press the guy with the ball. I’ve made a video to explain this better:
That deadly through ball devastated my defence yesterday. I started to play Master League and pazi ovo- I had 3-0 lead but I lost 4-3. Twice.
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Hey, at least it wasn’t three times. 😀
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I love this game but in pes 2016, bayern munich too strong, how can I catch Robben ? I alway use man marking for him with LB + CB or CB + CB but its doesn’t work. he runs too fast… and his finishing no is 91, what kind of defender can stop him ????
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Did you try moving your defensive line all the way to your goal? When you do that, you won’t have much problems with players running into space.
I can recommend reading my manual. You can find everything on setting up tactics and playing against stronger teams there.
https://pesexpert.wordpress.com/2015/12/20/pes-2016-ultimate-manual-how-to-set-up-a-formation-how-to-attack-how-to-defend-how-to-cross-how-to-win-more-headers/
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Hey, do you have some tips for getting first to the ball (high and low passes)???
it’s seems that my players are stuck in place while my opponent (CPU or NOT) moves freely and manage to come first to the ball
I tried R2 (PS4) but didnt worked for me….is it just a matter of timing??
appriciate any help….
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Hi Yuvga!
Are you watching how high is your Team spirit?
From my experience, low Team spirit is the main reason my players are slow and seemingly uninterested.
If that’s not the case, did you try setting your Off the ball instructions to aggressive defending (as opposed to ‘contain’)?
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where do I see team spirit? i play on Exhabition mode (with friends).
I will look for the Off the ball settings.
but when I play One On One withe friends they manage to take control of the player befor I do and get ahed to the ball…..What do I do wrong??
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Hello. I have a problem when trying to take the ball from oposition player in sprint or when not in sprint. I always bounce from him or hes just faster then mine player. And when i sprint he always takes the ball from me so easly…No matter wich player i use their players (com or online) is always stronger then mine. When i press double X(ps4) to tackle him he just runs out my player.. Tried pressing the □ button and x button (ps 4) together to attack him with 2 players at once and it doesent help. There is an exaple of my problem in your video in 20-22 second. Thats the problem when im not in sprint.. any solution? or post a video how to tahe the ball while sprinting.. ty
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or post a video how to TAKE*
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Hi!
When playing against COM, this is, unfortunately, ‘normal’ (even though it’s not fair).
I find that ‘passive’ defending, especially against stronger teams, is the best. Meaning you don’t use sprint much, you don’t use 2xX much, you don’t tackle much, but only
when you’re almost sure you’ll win the ball. You wait for your opponents mistake.
To win the ball, you have to be perfectly positioned (even that doesn’t guarantee that you’ll succeed). This can’t be described, you have to ‘feel it’.
Do you use L1 + X when sprinting? That way your player will automatically sprint towards the player with the ball.
Also, group pressing isn’t performed by square and X button but by pressing square button twice and then holding it (I was using xbox controls in the video).
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Ok. WIll try those combinations u just told me. I wanted to know are there any button combinatios that i didnt know about. ty man. 🙂 going online right now to try 😀
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What suggestions do you have when using team such barcelona that has almost all fullback players with the type of offensive fullback not to panic when faced a very fast counterattack by the opponent who does DHTB to their winger?
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Hi man!
I don’t play online, but here are some tips which could work.
First of all, when playing those kind of teams i believe you should try minimizing the number of counter attacks they have. So…
– set your number of player in attack to ‘few’ to avoid your full back to come forward and leave a space behind
– set your defensive line depth to deepest (1)
– in the defensive instructions set contain area to ‘wide’ (instead of center)
– set number of players in the defense to ‘many’
– don’t use ‘frontline pressure’ nor ‘aggressive’, use ‘all out defense’ and ‘contain’
– man mark their full backs with your wingers
– if you use fluid formation, when in possession don’t let your full backs go high up
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In pes 2016 speed doesnt mean much, especialy if you are a human player, even if you using a player like Bale you wont be able to outrun a “slow” com player with just 40 in speed…and the player team defender in BaL…my goodness…i will score 100x in 11 vs 1 if all the defender just that stupid
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