How to do the Lunging Slide Tackle

Lunge slide tackle is very very risky, but an effective skill to have in your EA FC 24 arsenal. Our pro player Ethan will show you the best ways to utilize it and will give you examples where to use it and where not to use it.

As we’ve said – it's a very risky option that can send your player off, so Ethan doesn’t recommend doing it all the time.

Best way to use it, when the opponent has a big gap where he’ll run and your defender has good slide tackling skills. In this example, you can see Rashford running straight ahead and VVD moves in to make a lunge slide tackle.

Van Dijk moves to steps and performs a lunge slide tackle and clears the ball.

To make a lounging slide tackle – you have to press R1+Square (if you’re on a PS controller) and RB+X (if you’re using Xbox Controller).

Ethan recommends doing this only if you know that the attacker has a lot of space to run into and you’re not sure if you can cover it with Jockey or your usual defending. In that instance press R1+Square (or RB+X) to do lounging slide tackle.

It’s very effective if an attacker has a load of space to run into.

Here’s another example of effective use of lunging slide tackle. In this instance, Ethan thought that the opponent would pass it to other midfielder and he tried to cover it with lunging slide tackle.

He pressed R1+Square\RB+X with Valverde and it completely shut down options of a pass. Again, Ethan timed it very well, but if you miss-use it, your player will be on the ground for a few seconds and will be useless or will get sent off if you completely miss the ball.

It's a very risky, but highly rewarding skill to use, so wherever you feel it’s the best decision to make it’s up to you.

With that tutorial we hope that you’ll learn one more valuable skill from Pro’s gameplay and it’ll help you to concede less goals!