wooden ermine
GK control in FC 26 is clearly broken, most players in the community use it because it’s the dominant strategy (meta), but almost everyone hates it. It completely ruins well-built plays with just one move, many preferred when goalkeepers couldn’t be moved, and everything depended on shot quality and the play itself.
Right now, GK movement feels unrealistic and unfair. It takes away the reward for well-executed attacks and perfectly timed shots. Many players have said it nullifies skill, you can outplay your opponent, create a perfect chance, and still lose it because of an unrealistic keeper movement.
This system also makes matches feel more like tennis games than football matches, almost every community match ends 5–4, 6–5, or even higher. Those scores are not realistic at all, the game should reward solid defending and intelligently created plays, not endless goals just because the defending system and GK control are unbalanced
The ability to manually control the goalkeeper should honestly be removed. Most of the time it doesn’t even work properly, and when it does, it completely changes the outcome of the match in an unrealistic way
Instead, EA should focus on improving AI, so that keepers actually make logical, skill-based saves on their own, stopping shots that are realistically possible to save without player intervention
And by AI, I also mean defensive AI, because tackling has become obsolete. If you try to tackle, your player ends up completely exposed, which is why nobody in the community uses this technique anymore. This has made the current meta all about GK control, since traditional defending is no longer effective.
Right now, the GK and defensive systems don’t reflect real football, they are frustrating, unbalanced, and take away the fun of both attacking and defending, please consider removing manual GK control and improving the defensive AI instead
sage yacht