How to make GoalKeeper move within post but not move towards to the player?

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1

Hello so basically I make a 2d top-down soccer game but I have to trouble with GK AI, I want to GK is followed the ball but not move toward on it

let say (Enemy = GK)
so when the player moves to the left or right the enemy will follow to the right or left not The Yaxis but in X-axis with guarding the post or Y=0

my default enemy movement is like this :

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if (gameObject.CompareTag("GK"))
        {

            anim.SetBool("GKRun", false);
            gkballInRange = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(transform.position, gkballRange, playerMask);
            float distancePlayer = Vector2.Distance(target.position, transform.position);

            if (gkballInRange)
            {
                if (distancePlayer <= gkballRange)
                {
                    //Animation
                    anim.SetBool("GKRun", true);
                    transform.Translate(0, -speed * Time.deltaTime, 0);
                }
            }

        }

in that scrip, when the ball is on the range the GK is moving to the ball just that. maybe anyone can explain to me how to do it?

2

The problem is that you are Translating in the Y-axis instead of the X-axis. The translate method adds values in this order (x , y , z)

So the issue is here:

//Problematic line
transform.Translate(0,-speed*Time.deltaTime,0) 

//You should be doing
transform.Translate(-speed*Time.deltaTime,0,0);