Slide tackles are another way to nick the ball off your opponent, though they're trickier to time correctly than a standing tackle. Hit X on Xbox or the Square button on PlayStation to perform one.

Slide Tackles: Whenever you're without the ball, pressing Circle (or your controller's equivalent) while sprinting will launch you into a sliding animation that covers a lot of ground.

But that's for another day. With their clamp down on slide tackling, referees have now begun to punish slide tackles where the ball is won first, because the tackle was over-aggressive.

Life & Culture Toddler runs onto soccer field during game, forcing mom to ‘slide tackle’ him: video Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 11:41 a.m.