I’m going to show you how to do a bicycle kick in EA FC 24. There is an objective in Finishing Mastery like previous games such as FIFA 23, where you need to score a goal from a bicycle kick. I’m going to show you how. Now, there are a couple of things you can do to increase your chances of scoring a bicycle kick.

PlayStyle

The first of which is to use players with a specific playstyle. So if I have a brief look at my club in Ultimate Team and go into Squad, there are a couple of players in my squad capable of doing bicycle kicks very nicely, and I’ve put them as my 2 Strikers.

I have Haaland and Aimen, but you can use your EA FC 24 Coins to buy other players you like who have this playstyle. The reason being, if we right-stick button over on Harland and have a little look at playstyles, if you’re on Player Bio, just hit RB to come over and have a little look over in physical, he’s got this Acrobatic playstyle, and it says performs volleys with improved accuracy and has access to Acrobatic volley animations. So not only is he going to do those volleys or bicycle kicks easier, he’s got access to more animations.

Aimen’s got the same, but a player such as Messi does not. Under his physical attributes, he’s nice and quick, but he’s not got this Acrobatic ability, so he’s going to find that the overhead bicycle kicks harder to do than Harland is. Not saying it’s impossible, but it is easier with Acrobatic playstyle players such as these 2.

Game Mode

The next thing you can do to increase your chances of scoring with a bicycle kick is to play a basic team. So if you go to the play menu and go to Squad Battles, you’re looking for a team that’s got a much lower rating than you. The other nice thing about the Squad Battles mode is you can change the difficulty, so you don’t have to score a bicycle kick on professional.

There’s 2 different tactics I think you can do to get the bicycle kick. I think one of them is to cross the ball in, but I think possibly slightly easier is to come in from the center and just try to have the player ahead of you and just a high sort of the ball over or cross it over. So I’m going to try LB+X, which would be a high cross. That’s going to flick the ball up, so we’re going to do that with our Strikers while they’re sort of facing me or my player, and then you get that overhead kick. The more acrobatic they are, the nicer that move is going to be, but that’s basically what we want to be using.

Bicycle Kick Goal

LB+X, L2+B, and then we got the overhead kick there.That would be L1+Square on the PlayStation and L2+Circle on the PlayStation for the actual kick itself. So we’ve got the ball coming forwards, and we’re looking to do a little high cross in. So the buttons for that would be LB+X on the Xbox or L1+Square on the PlayStation to chip the ball in as that ball comes in.

Our player then faces us, which is what’s important. So the chest is towards it, the ball is coming in just at a nice height here, and then what we’re hitting is a Left Trigger+B to shoot, or that would be L2+Circle on the PlayStation. He comes up nicely, and we can see this is a lovely overhead kick or a bicycle kick straight into the goal.