Understanding Player Roles Instructions - Central Midfielders
| Role | Central Midfielder | Deep Lying Playmaker | Box to Box Midfielder | Advanced Playmaker | Ball Winning Midfielder | Roaming Playmaker | ||||||
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| Duty | Defend | Support | Attack | Automatic | Defend | Support | Support | Support | Attack | Defend | Support | Support |
| Possession | ||||||||||||
| Shoot More Often | ||||||||||||
| Shoot Less Often | ||||||||||||
| Dribble More | ||||||||||||
| Dribble Less | ||||||||||||
| Run Wide With Ball | ||||||||||||
| Distribution | ||||||||||||
| Pass It Shorter | ||||||||||||
| More Direct Passes | ||||||||||||
| More Risky Passes | ||||||||||||
| Fewer Risky Passes | ||||||||||||
| Cross More Often | ||||||||||||
| Cross Less Often | ||||||||||||
| Cross From ... | deep | deep | deep | deep | deep | deep | deep | deep | deep | |||
| Movement | ||||||||||||
| Get Further Forward | ||||||||||||
| Hold Position | ||||||||||||
| Move Into Channels | ||||||||||||
| Roam From Position | ||||||||||||
| Defending | ||||||||||||
| Close Down Much More | ||||||||||||
| Close Down More | ||||||||||||
| Close Down Less | ||||||||||||
| Close Down Much Less | ||||||||||||
| Tackle Harder | ||||||||||||
| Ease of Tackles | ||||||||||||
| Mark Tighter | ||||||||||||
| Legend | ||
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