FIFA 21: Creative Runs and How to Do It

Creative runs, the new feature in FIFA 21, prevents your attackers to run in straight vertical lines. If you want to learn how to do it, continue reading this article provided by WhatsGaming group.

To unlock a defence in FIFA 21, your movement has the most important rule. Players know how important it is to stay compact at the back. The only way you're going to unsettle them is with a run.

Triggering runs has been a simple case of hitting L1/LB and watching as a player darts into the empty space ahead of them in previous FIFA games. But players have only ever moved vertically on FIFA.

As a result, we've learned to adapt. Widemen in the game have become skillful and quick so that you can control your player and beat your man on the ball, rather than slip past him off the ball. Not anymore. It's possible to make those cutting diagonal runs from the flanks that the wide forwards of the modern game use to score.

Hit the L1/LB button and flick the right analog stick in the direction you'd like your teammate to run in when you're controlling a player in possession and you'd like another player to make a run.

Here is an example of Arsenal's 3-4-3 at getting Bukayo Saka to make the inside runs that he does for real. It also works just after you've made a pass with a player too.

Creative runs is useful if you've just stepped out of defence with a centre-back and you'd like them to run back. Maybe you're looking for a player to run horizontally and distract an opposing defender with a decoy run.