The developers are EA, who created FIFA 22

For rather than club colours both sides are sporting Motion capture suits made by Xsens. The touchline is where the crews sit on laptops. Signalling devices with FUT 22 Coins short range, that measure players' movements according to millimetres, stand in the stands alongside the production team, who are studying tablets that display live data. From thousands of miles away an animation director is looking at the game on Zoom. However, this isn't part of a space-age scouting team, nor the latest innovations in coaching.

The developers are EA, who created FIFA 22. First time, EA motion-captured a real-time 90-minute football match, tracking players' movements to an exact level, which can later be added to its animation database.

The gaming firm looked at the biggest details to the most minute of details: From how a full-back smacks the ball with the laces of their shoes or how a player instinctively glances over their shoulder when they receive a ball. "Ultimately Realism is the key to better play," says Gareth Eaves, senior animation director at EA who conducted the session remotely. "We would have liked to do it for a while, but the technology had not been there."

Usually, EA uses optical capture actors, as well as the odd star footballer, such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, to write new animations. But , it's only a small space that only has one or two players at one time - making it difficult to strike the ball in a fast pace or to pass the ball between one wing and the other. Motion-captured games that are restricted in their play, like keepie-uppies or one-on-one dribbles must be modified by FIFA animators into fluid motions that mimic eleven-a-side games.

The cameras have been removed. Motion capture has been removed. Only the Xsens suits are left. "One of the issues been drift - we'd know where players' joints were relative to each other, but not relative to an actual point in distance," Eaves explains. Virtually speaking, this resulted in players running around having to buy FIFA 22 Coins return 10 metres from their initial location.