
What I am about to write may seem like common sense, but like some say: sometimes common sense isn’t common. So as I offer you some tips and strategies for FIFA 09's Manager mode, keep this cliché in mind: Imitation is often the most sincere form of flattery.

Furthermore, he has taken all of our Football Manager or PES Master mode dreams and brought them to reality. So why is the above story notable? Well, I firmly believe that Wenger has presented and validated an easy and sure path to managerial success a blueprint to football supremacy. After the match, Wigan manager Steve Bruce simply said, " They were frightening." The youngsters not only outplayed their older compatriots, but they also did so in frighteningly dominating fashion.

Kind of looks like a mismatch, right? Well, not really. Facing a Wigan squad playing at near full-strength, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger eschewed starting his top players, and instead he decided to field a squad of teens, the average age being 19. But this victory wasn’t particularly noteworthy because of how Arsenal did it, (although that was also impressive) it was noteworthy because of whom Arsenal did it with.
FREE KICKS FIFA 09 FREE
You can also dummy free kicks and decide to pass instead by calling a second team-mate with L2/LT or even a third team-mate with R1/RB, you can then perform the fake shot by pressing shoot and then immediately passing it to lay it off to one of the team-mates you have near the ball.Normally no one would raise an eyebrow when they heard that Arsenal whooped on Wigan in a Carling Cup match. It is possibly the most difficult free kick to perform and from a long-range distance it may be more effective to use the power dipped free kick or to cross the ball into the area. This is to counteract with the natural curve a player will put on the ball and guide the ball into the corner. The knuckleball free kick is a long-range strike where you initially aim away from the goalkeeper, power up your shot while holding L1/LB, and then point backwards in the direction of the goalkeeper. The power curved free kick is similar to this, but you use a right-footed player on the right and then curl the ball back towards the goalkeeper, following the same method. A right-footed player should take trivela free kicks on the left side of the area, aim about one ball's width outside of the left goalpost, power up your shot and then aim to the top-right to curl the ball into the net with the outside of your boot. The trivela works like a curved free kick, but you aim outside of the goal before curving it back in. Some of the trickier free kicks are trivela and knuckleball frees. These are performed similarly to a dipped free kick, but you need to hold L1/LB while powering up your shot to ensure the ball stays on the ground. A dipped free kick requires aiming at the corner of the goal and then holding the left stick upwards while you are powering up to get the ball to dip over the wall and below the crossbar.ĭriven free kicks are ones that go under the wall or low past the wall and into the net. To perform a curved free kick, line the ball up with the inside edge of the wall and then when powering up, point the left stick in the other direction towards the top corner of the goal to curl the ball over and around the wall. Dipping free kicks can be performed by players with either dominant foot as long as they are the right distance from the goal. Left-footed players are best at curving the ball into the top-right corner of the goal and vice-versa on the other side of the pitch. They can be used in most situations near the box and from either side of the area.

The curved free kick and dipping free kick are the simplest to execute and the quickest to learn.
