FC 27 Bicycle Kick: How to Score One (and Finish Grizi's Golazo Before It Locks)

To score a bicycle kick in FC 27, play a high, lofted cross to a striker who is facing away from goal, then hold L2/LT and press Circle/B (the Flair Shot) as the ball reaches head height. Do it in Squad Battles on the lowest difficulty with at least one French player in your starting XI, and it completes Grizi's Golazo, the Road to the Knockouts objective that pays a 10x 80+ Gold Players Pack. The catch: the Group Stage only needs any 5 of its 7 objectives, and one player's in-game screen shows the leftovers greyed out at 5/5. Score the bicycle kick first.

EA added the Road to the Knockouts: Group Stage objectives to EA SPORTS FC 27 Ultimate Team on Friday 6 November 2026 at 18:00 UTC, alongside the first RTTK squad. Fut.gg's mirror of the in-game data lists the window as 6 November 18:00 UTC to Friday 13 November 17:59 UTC (fut.gg, RTTK Group Stage). Within eight hours, r/EASportsFC and r/fut had four separate threads asking how to pull off a bicycle kick, or why one didn't count. "I've scored like 30 and none of them are counting," wrote u/SidTheSloth044 on r/fut. This is the third week of Season 2, which started on 22 October, and RTTK replaced Ultimate Scream in packs on 6 November.

TLDR: FC 27 bicycle kick in 30 seconds. Input: hold L2/LT + Circle/B (Flair Shot) as a lofted ball reaches head height, with your striker facing away from goal. Side-on, you may get a scissor kick instead. Easiest setup: Squad Battles on the lowest difficulty. Grizi's Golazo says "any FUT game mode" with no difficulty minimum. Squad rule: at least 1 French player in your starting XI. The scorer doesn't have to be French. Reward: 10x 80+ Gold Players Pack, untradeable. The trap: the Group Stage is any 5 of 7. At 5/5 the other two grey out, so do Grizi's Golazo before your fifth tick. Deadline: Friday 13 November, 17:59 UTC.

How do you do a bicycle kick in FC 27?

There is no dedicated bicycle-kick button in FC 27. It is a contextual animation, so the game decides when your player goes overhead. EA's help article on shooting, which covers FC 27, says it plainly:

"Use the regular shot input when the ball reaches your player in the air. Depending on the ball's height, position, and your player's movement, they may attempt a volley or header." (EA Help, How to shoot)

EA doesn't list a separate bicycle-kick input anywhere we could find. The guide hub and the tips hub have no controls page, and EA's FC 27 controls URL returns a 404. The same help article points you to your own button map instead: Learn to Play, Practice Arena, pause, Button Help. What players and guide sites agree on is the Flair Shot modifier: hold L2 on PlayStation or LT on Xbox and press Circle or B as the ball arrives. Dot Esports' FC 27 guide (7 November) gives the same input and says you don't need a right-stick flick or a skill move. Treat that input as community-tested, not EA-documented.

Here's the sequence players and guides recommend. None of it comes from EA, so treat it as community advice:

• Get the ball wide. A byline cross gives a high, dropping ball.
• Use a lobbed cross (Square/X), not a driven or ground cross. A driven cross tends to arrive lower, where your striker volleys or chests it.
• Hold your striker with their back to goal, around the penalty spot. The bicycle animation usually needs the body facing away from goal.
• Hold L2/LT, then press Circle/B a fraction early, as the ball drops towards head height. Press late and the ball is often past the window.
• Go easy on shot power. Close in, you don't need much, and a full bar is easy to sky.

If your striker is side-on when the ball arrives, you may get a scissor kick (a sideways volley) instead, as Dot Esports also notes. One r/EASportsFC video post on 6 November is titled “According to EA, this wasn't a bicycle kick”, and an r/fut post a few hours later asks "If this isn't a bicycle kick, what is?" EA hasn't said what the objective counts, but a side-on scissor animation is one plausible explanation. Facing away from goal is the safer setup.

Does the Acrobatic PlayStyle make bicycle kicks easier?

It helps, though EA never says "bicycle kick" in so many words. Acrobatic is one of seven Finishing PlayStyles in FC 27. EA's PlayStyles guide describes it this way:

"A Player who tends to perform acrobatic passes, clearances, and shots. PlayStyle Impact: Performs volleys with improved accuracy and has access to acrobatic volley animations." (EA, What are PlayStyles)

The PlayStyle+ version adds "significant accuracy" and "unique acrobatic volley animations". So a striker with Acrobatic or Acrobatic+ unlocks more acrobatic animations and finishes them more accurately. It doesn't trigger a bicycle kick by itself. Like every PlayStyle, EA has published no numbers for it. It's no guarantee either: "I am on beginner, acrobatic+ playstyle, yet my stupid sam kerr cant get a bicycle kick," wrote u/United_Opening7967 on r/EASportsFC on 7 November. For how PlayStyles work in general, and which ones EA changed this year, see our FC 27 PlayStyles guide.

Height probably matters more than the PlayStyle. A tall striker meets more crosses at head height, and that's the window the animation needs. You don't need an expensive card. A cheap tall gold striker you already own will do the job.

What is the easiest way to complete Grizi's Golazo?

The objective text, as mirrored by fut.gg: "Score a bicycle kick with min. 1 French player in your starting XI in any FUT game mode." Two details make this much easier than it looks.

• Any FUT mode, no difficulty floor. Four of the seven Group Stage objectives demand Squad Battles on Semi-Pro or higher (or Rush, Rivals, Champions or Live Events). Grizi's Golazo doesn't. Fut.gg's parsed requirements show no minimum Squad Battles difficulty, so Squad Battles on the lowest setting counts. That gives you a passive AI and lots of free crosses.
• The French player doesn't have to score. The requirement is one French player in the starting XI. Your bicycle kick can come from anyone. A cheap French gold at the back ticks the box. If you need one, our best cheap players by position guide covers the budget tiers.

The fastest route:

• Put one French player in the XI and your tallest striker up front. Two strikers double the targets.
• Queue Squad Battles on the lowest difficulty.
• Spam lobbed crosses from the byline, holding L2/LT + Circle/B with the striker facing away from goal.
• Corners give you more high balls into the box. Our FC 27 corners guide covers delivery.
• Play the match out. Quitting early hurts your Match Coins in FC 27 (see our DNF multiplier explainer). On the lowest difficulty the AI gives you plenty of time to cross, so one match is usually enough for several attempts.

Why does Grizi's Golazo grey out at 5/5?

This is the trap. The Group Stage screen says "Complete any 5 of the following", and fut.gg's data lists 7 tasks with a completion count of 5. A player on r/fut posted the screen above on 7 November. They were at 5/5, and Grizi's Golazo (0/1) and Best of the Best (8/10) were both greyed out. They asked whether they could still finish them. We found no EA statement on it. Treat greyed out as locked.

That matters because each objective pays its own reward. The 2x 85+ group pack is a bonus on top. Clear five easy ones first and you can lose the two best packs in the set. Grizi's Golazo pays a 10x 80+ Gold Players Pack, tied for the biggest reward in the group. Do it before your fifth completion.

If you've already locked it, there's no known fix. We know of no way to reset objective progress, and every reward is untradeable.

Which 5 RTTK Group Stage objectives should you do?

Here are all seven with the exact requirement and reward, ranked by what each one pays for the effort.

Objective	Requirement (short)	Mode rule	Reward	Effort
Grizi's Golazo	Bicycle kick, 1+ French player in XI	Any FUT mode	10x 80+ Gold Players Pack	Medium (skill)
Pope's Hail Mary	Assist with your GK, 1+ English player in XI	Any FUT mode	10x 80+ Gold Players Pack	Medium (skill)
Harder's Hat-trick	Hat-trick with a GPFBL player	Any game mode	2x 84+ Gold Players Pack	Medium
Venemous Vitinha	Goal from outside the box with a Ligue 1 CM, and win	SB Semi-Pro+ or Rush/Rivals/Champions/Live Events	3x 82+ Gold Players Pack	Low
Best of the Best	Win 10 separate matches with 4+ First Owned players in XI	SB Semi-Pro+ or Rush/Rivals/Champions/Live Events	1 of 3 84+ Gold Player Pick	High (10 wins)
The rise of Gegenpressing	Score in 5 separate matches with 1+ Borussia Dortmund player	SB Semi-Pro+ or Rush/Rivals/Champions/Live Events	1 of 3 78+ Gold Player Pick	Low–medium
The 11% Miracle	Score 2, concede 1 or fewer, 1+ Scottish player	SB Semi-Pro+ or Rush/Rivals/Champions/Live Events	Consumables Pack	Low

Group reward for any 5: 2x 85+ Gold Players Pack. All rewards untradeable. Source: fut.gg objective data, 7 November 2026.

Our pick: Grizi's Golazo, Pope's Hail Mary, Harder's Hat-trick, Venemous Vitinha, plus one more. For the fifth, take Best of the Best if you're grinding Rivals or Champions this week anyway. Ten wins with four First Owned players happens on its own. If you're short on time, take Gegenpressing. Skip The 11% Miracle. It's the easiest of the seven, so people clear it first without thinking, and then it uses up one of your five completions for a Consumables Pack.

The two skill objectives say "any FUT game mode" with no difficulty floor, and Harder's Hat-trick says "any game mode". Stack them: one Squad Battles squad with a French player, an English player and a tall striker can chase both skill objectives at once. For Pope's Hail Mary, catch a cross or pick up a back-pass with your keeper, then kick long to a fast forward on the counter. On low difficulty the AI defends loosely, so the long ball can run straight through.

Harder's Hat-trick needs a player from the GPFBL, the short name for the Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga, Germany's women's top flight. The hat-trick has to come from that GPFBL player, so play one up front in Squad Battles on the lowest difficulty.

Is the RTTK Group Stage worth the time?

Yes, it's one of the better free pack sets this season. Five objectives get you 2x 85+ as the group reward. Picking the five above adds two 10x 80+ packs, a 2x 84+, a 3x 82+, and either a 1 of 3 84+ pick or a 1 of 3 78+ pick. That's 28 gold players, almost all 80 or higher. Some of it is fodder you'd otherwise buy for SBCs. Nothing is tradeable, so the value is in your club, not on the market. Our estimate is 2–4 hours if you chase the bicycle kick and the keeper assist on low difficulty and fold the rest into matches you'd play anyway.

The time cost is the honest catch. Best of the Best alone is 10 wins on Semi-Pro or above. If your week is already full of Rivals and the Weekend League, that's where the time goes. Our FUT Champions worth-it breakdown prices every win in coins. RTTK also runs a separate event objective for an 84-rated RTTK Emiliano Buendía, and this week's new free Evo, Matchday Marksman, which wants five matches with the last two won. Plan those matches together. Any Rivals or Champions win this week, with 4 First Owned players in the XI, also counts toward Best of the Best.

For the cards themselves, and the leaked upgrade path, see our RTTK release and upgrades guide. If you're also running this week's Ultimate Gauntlet, the claim-timing lesson from our Ultimate Gauntlet 2 guide still applies.

Why didn't my bicycle kick count?

Four threads on 6–7 November asked this, and EA hasn't answered it. Going by the objective text, these are the likely causes:

• It may have been a scissor kick. A side-on overhead volley can look like a bicycle kick in the replay. Face away from goal.
• No French player in the starting XI. The objective says starting XI, so a French player on the bench doesn't count. Name one in the XI before kick-off.
• You'd already hit 5/5. Greyed out most likely means locked (see above).
• The ball didn't go in. The objective says "score a bicycle kick". A saved or blocked attempt counts for nothing.
• Training Center or other non-FUT modes. The objective says "any FUT game mode". The Training Center and Practice Arena (both under Learn to Play, per EA Help) are good for practising the timing, but they aren't FUT modes, so they can't count. We haven't confirmed whether FUT Friendlies track it, so Squad Battles is the safe bet.

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FAQ

How do you do a bicycle kick in EA FC 27? Hold L2/LT and press Circle/B (the Flair Shot) as a lofted ball reaches head height, with your striker facing away from goal. EA's help article only says players "may attempt a volley or header" depending on the ball's height, position and movement, and it lists no dedicated bicycle-kick button.

Can I do Grizi's Golazo on Beginner difficulty? Yes, as far as the data shows. The objective says "any FUT game mode", and fut.gg's parsed requirements show no minimum Squad Battles difficulty, unlike four of the other six Group Stage objectives.

Does the French player have to score the bicycle kick? No. The requirement is at least one French player in your starting XI. Anyone in the team can score the bicycle kick.

Why are some RTTK Group Stage objectives greyed out? The group only needs any 5 of its 7 objectives. A player's screen posted on r/fut on 7 November shows the two remaining objectives greyed out at 5/5. EA hasn't confirmed it, but treat them as locked, which would cost you those individual rewards.

When do the Road to the Knockouts Group Stage objectives end? Friday 13 November 2026 at 17:59 UTC, per fut.gg's mirror of the in-game timer. They went live on 6 November at 18:00 UTC.

Is the Acrobatic PlayStyle needed for a bicycle kick? No. EA says Acrobatic improves volley accuracy and unlocks acrobatic volley animations. Positioning and a high cross probably matter more, and any striker can attempt one.