Counter Attacks

Counter attacks are one of the most useful things in the game. A counter attack happens during your opponents shot. If you are able to kick the ball right as its about to hit you your character will counter it. If you counter somebody's power shot, then you will use their power shot.

Strategy
Most power shots aren't that difficult to counter. The ones that travel in a straight line you just need to time things.For most power shots you just need to: Jump up so that the ball will hit you, but right before it hits you hit the kick button and you should counter the power shot. However, you don;t want to counter Germany's shot or Spain's shot. These shouldn't be countered because they shoot three balls. This means that if you counter the first one then the second one will score on you.

Achievement
There is an achievement that is to win against a character with at least 5 counter attacks. The best way to do this is to use Italy. The reasoning is that the defender should be able to counter Italy's power shot, sending it back at you to counter. If you use Italy then most of the time you don't even need to counter the defenders actual  shot, because you can just pass Italy's power shot back and forth. Against Greece however, when the ball is countered, It will be shot in a spear. You should try to counter this in the exact same way as you counter Italy's, the ball is just moving faster.