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Wide Overlap

Fullbacks and wings

You use the wide channel without turning every attack into a hopeful cross. Tired fullbacks are open wings — yours and theirs.

Attack: Overlap, cut back, do not cross every ball to the first manDefense: Track back before legs die

Kit: Stamina on fullbacks · A winger who can wait · Subs at 70 if they have sprinted the whole half

EA FC 26 wing overlap and cut-back

Strengths

  • • Stretches a low block the recycler already created
  • • Cut-backs beat driven crosses into the keeper
  • • Teaches stamina, which Champs punishes

Weaknesses

  • • Overlapping as a CB because you panicked the stick
  • • Never tracking back after one good run

Starter tips

  1. 1

    Analog sprint. Fullbacks on always-sprint are dead at 60 minutes.

  2. 2

    Ignore stamina and you concede the counter you just created.

  3. 3

    Substitute before legs die. Pause is a tactic.

  4. 4

    A 5-star skiller on the wing still needs a cut-back sometimes.