Goalkeeper movements are crucial in EA FC 24. By strategically positioning your goalkeeper, you can gain insight into your opponent’s intentions and effectively block their shots. There are many ways and situations in which you need to move your goalkeeper, and in this guide, I’ll show you all of them.

Let's familiarize ourselves with the controls. You can move a goalkeeper by using R3, your right analog stick. Simply press and hold it, granting you the ability to shift your goalkeeper in any direction-left, right, backward, forward, according to your preference. In order to enhance your gaming experience, it is also important to give your players increased capabilities by investing some EA FC 24 Coins.

1V1

First, we have 1v1 goalkeeper movement. This is just a mind game. You never really know, but you can just try to predict. However, you won't encounter this situation very often, as it means your opponent creates a lot of chances. But when you get into these positions, you can get maximum out of it just by reading your opponent. Then all you can do is either go all out or do nothing.

Long Shots

Next, when talking about long shots, we have the Trivela, and then we’re going to talk about the Finesse.

A slight adjustment to the goalkeeper's position is necessary. We need to move the goalkeeper to the left, or for the goalkeeper to the right. But from our point of view, it’s just really important to move it a bit, because if you move the goalkeeper, the shot will somehow get worse than well.

Let’s jump over to the Finesse. It’s still really effective and obviously even more with the players with the Finesse Shots PlayStyle+. When your opponent has a right foot player for the Finesse, he needs to be on the left side. Then you need to move the goalkeeper to the right side, obviously from the goalkeeper’s point of view to the left.

Free Kicks

Next, we have free kicks. I think free kicks sometimes are just undefendable. The only way to defend them then is by moving your goalkeeper and putting a player on the line. Obviously, you don’t need to put them in the same corner.

Most of the times, I put my goalkeeper on the side of the wall. It’s important to just practice this because you will notice soon enough how far you can move him. Something I would also recommend is to move him a little back and put him really on the line. The goalkeeper makes a bit more saves than for free kicks.

I think everybody has a bit of a personal preference on how to move the goalkeeper for free kicks. The best way I think to defend it is to move your goalkeeper a bit back, a bit further to the corner he is in already, and put a player on the line on the other corners so you have the best chance of defending a free kick.

Corners

I think many people are also like playing it short and then going back post. You perform it by pressing your triangle 2 times, and the second time you press it, you need to hold it. Then your goalkeeper will move really quick. But this way, it’s also really unpredictable for your opponent because you don’t need to move it too early. When you see the crosses coming in, you press double triangle.

Corner Kicks

We jump over to corner kicks. They try to take it short and cross it back post, or they try to give it first post. This makes it harder for my opponent to cross it. He’s probably trying to drag a defender to the first post and head it in. Then, when you see your opponent is giving it back post, you can just move him back to the line because I think those headers back post, the chance to go in is way worse.

If you see your opponent is changing it up, just move him back on the line. But first of all, just try to secure the first post because these corners' first post are so dangerous and you can just appoint them by moving your goalkeeper.