Kinect Sports Rivals

Does it actually matter how you kick the ball in order to score. At best I can get 3 points, forget making them all vollies. Even if I kick at the right moment the goalie blocks almost every shot.

If you mean aiming, then no it does not matter. The game isn't that precise it is more about timing. If the ball comes to the right foot and you kick with the left it will be blocked no matter what. If it comes to the right and you kick it with the right and kick your leg up nice and high (above the waste) it should curve and the goalie should miss it. Although the goalie will still sometimes snag it but less often. It really has a bit of luck to it.

Unobtainable achievement. Challenge 1 is 100% impossible to do. Nobody has this achievement.

You're just really bad at this game, RestlessSpirit5.

This was THE WORST achievement in the game BY FAR. It is the first challenge that makes this difficult just because you have to score in that manner so many times. Your technique has to be near perfect and your luck has to be high.

On each possession, look downfield to see where your kicking strikers are and try to plan out a passing strategy to get there. Most of the time there are multiple options so don't worry if it's not obvious off the bat. It seems like a set pool of dummy positions, so I became familiar with them as the hours wore on and learned the good routes.

Avoid troublesome passes that will be blocked or use the super charge to blast through the defender if you don't think you can pass around it. For me this was typically the last pass to get it to my foot striker that was too tightly defended for comfort. The position of the blockers really made this infuriating for me.

Sometimes there just isn't a foot striker you can get to. Use this opportunity to score with a header and charge your power-up for the next attempt.

Don't do punch out saves from your own goal. Sometimes it results in a foot strike, but I struggled with the timing there since it felt different to me. Most of the time it seemed like a header attempt anyway.

The foot you use to kick with and timing is VERY important as TGB70 mentioned. I always swung my leg up and to the right or left (depending on which side of the goal I was on) in a fast sweeping motion. Most of the time that resulted in me leaving the ground. Once I got good at it, getting the ball past the goalie wasn't the issue, it was getting the ball down the field and having a foot striker that was the problem.

The closer the striker was to the goal, the higher success I seemed to have. Maybe it was just me.

Additional things to note for the final event:
- I don't think it's the number of people you pass to that charge the ball. It seemed to me that it was specific to passing it to three players that were highlighted with the yellow aura such that when you pass it to them it says "Charge Up" over their head. After the third highlighted player you should see a "Max Charge" entry in the top-left ticker. Now you have to score with that ball or you start back at square one on your next attempt needing to pass to 3 highlighted players again.
- Not every possession has three highlighted players and not every set of highlighted players is easy to pass between. This part is luck. However, having a special meter that wasn't full seemed to increase my chance of having three highlighted players downfield.
- Don't use the super charge ability! I switched to time steal because activating super charge removed the highlights from the players and sometimes I would accidentally activate it while passing. Time steal can only be activated on the opponent's possession so it won't impact an attempt at charging the ball on your possession. Use it whenever you can so when you get the ball, you have an empty meter.

(This turned out to be long. Sorry!) Good luck!

A trick you can use for these challenges to make them easier, especially the first one, is intentionally let your opponent score so that the game ends in a tie and goes into overtime. You'll have the first three minutes to score all goals except the last one, and then you have unlimited time and attempts in overtime to get the last goal.