In order to be successful in this game, you do not need a killer tactic like Iodine or DWS. All you need is take into consideration a few things about the match engine in general and apply a few simple things to wibwob screens.
- You need a narrow formation without wingers.
- Use 2 or 4 defenders.
- Use one or more DMCs (it's the most overpowered position in CM 01/02)
- Use 1 or 3 strikers
- Short passing
- Pressing on
- Offside trap on
- Attacking mentality
- Tackling hard
Put your fullbacks (or other wide players if you decided to use them) as narrow as possible while maintaining their wide positions on overview screen.
Crowd the highest middle WIB box with your forwards and midfielders.
Place your players on the edges of each box, avoid having more than one player in the middle.
The lowest middle WOB box is the key, you need to fill it with bodies.
On upper WOB screens, you need to push your defensive line much higher than the default position.
Coaches and Assistant Manager need Coaching Goalkeepers and Coaching Outfield Players
Scouts need Judging Ability and Judging Potential Ability
Physios only require Physiotherapy
You can easily ignore other attribute (they can't hurt, of course).
All positions demand Determination.
Need: Handling
Nice-to-have: Reflexes, Positioning
Need: Positioning
Nice-to-have: Jumping, Marking, Tackling
Need: Passing, Off the Ball
Need: Jumping, Pace, Off the Ball
Just send your scouts once or twice a season to each of the countries available. Once their report is completed, browse it using the filters above. That's all, you don't need to click club after club, player after player etc.
- Fitness: Light
- Tactics: Light
- Shooting: Medium
- Goalkeeping: Intensive
- Fitness: Medium
- Tactics: Intensive
- Shooting: Light
- Skills: Medium
- Goalkeeping: Light
- Fitness: Medium
- Tactics: Medium
- Shooting: Light
- Skills: Intensive
- Goalkeeping: None
- Fitness: Medium
- Tactics: None
- Shooting: Intensive
- Skills: Intensive
- Goalkeeping: None
- Fitness: Medium
- Tactics: None
- Shooting: Intensive
- Skill: Intensive
- Goalkeeping: None
Everyone that is 24 and under no matter how good they are
- Fitness: Intensive
- Tactics: Intensive
- Shooting: Intensive
- Skill: Intensive
- Goalkeeping: Light (Light goalkeeping will give better positioning stats)
| Player | Position | Value | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxim Tsigalko | FW (R/C) | ||
| Andrei Milevsky | |||
| Isaac Okoronkowo | |||
| Taribo West | |||
| Assane N'Diaye | |||
| Dionsis Chiotis | |||
| Mark Kerr | |||
| Lewis Buxton | |||
| Mark Byrnes | |||
| Abgar Barsom | |||
| Fernando Torres | |||
| Eldar Hadzimehmedovic | |||
| Alexandros Papadopoulos | |||
| Alexis Thébaux | |||
| Kristoffer Weckström | |||
| Robert Vittek | |||
| Sanli Tuncay | |||
| Max Tonetto | |||
| Joao Paiva | SC (C) | ||
| Luca Toni | |||
| Giacomo Cipriani | |||
| Emil Debski | |||
| Carlos Gamarra | |||
| Mike Duff | |||
| Victor Renner | |||
| Julius Aghahowa | |||
| Vitaliy Volodenkov | |||
| Fredrik Risp | |||
| Kim Kallstrøm | |||
| Alexander Farnerud | |||
| Stefan Selakovic | |||
| Kennedy Bakirkiolgu | |||
| Pawel Brozek | |||
| Tieme Klompe | |||
| William Viali | |||
| Mariano Messera | |||
| Radosław Kałużny | |||
| Sebastian Frey | |||
| David Prutton | |||
| Hugo Pinheiro | |||
| Tonton Zola | |||
| Michael Dunwell | |||
| Cherno Samba | |||
| Pa Modou Kah | |||
| Antonis Voulgaris | |||
| Franco Costanzo |