Player orders

Uses the ordinary finish selected from delivery height and the player’s Scoring/Aerial profile.

On the 50% attacker-order roll, shoots before the goalkeeper settles.

• The keeper’s Goalkeeper Positioning is reduced by 5.
• The shot’s miss chance is multiplied by 1.20.

Always attempts a power shot.

• Reduces Control by 10 for handling the initial Power Shot; Cannonball doubles that to 20. The penalty does not carry into ordinary rebound attempts.
• There is no accuracy penalty.
• The Cannonball ability adds another 15 to shot quality.
• A keeper with Velvet Touch is immune to the power shot’s Control penalty.

On the 50% roll and only for a high delivery, forces a header.

• Header skill is the average of Scoring and Aerial, capped by Aerial.
• The shot’s miss chance is multiplied by 1.10.
• On a low delivery the instruction has no effect.

On the 50% roll, attempts a lob using the lob save logic.

• The shot’s miss chance is multiplied by 1.25.
• It changes which goalkeeper reflex comparison is used; it is not a flat Scoring bonus.

On the 50% roll, wins space in the positioning battle with the goalkeeper.

• Reduces keeper positioning by 12.
• A goalkeeper with Mind Reader halves the reduction to 6.

On the 50% roll, amplifies a good entry ball’s effect on attacking assistance.

• Only helps when the pass already beats 1.5× the keeper’s Organisation.
• The favourable entry-pass shift grows by 50%.
• A keeper with Mind Reader halves that extra effect.

Requests a high delivery after this forward has been chosen to receive the ball; it does not make the team target him more often.

• Guarantees the height on ordinary deliveries. Routes that already fix the height and set-piece deliveries keep their own rules.
• If a starting forward has higher Aerial Ability than Scoring, this request is worth trying. Receiving a high ball combines Ball Control with Aerial Ability, capped at Aerial Ability; the defender also contests the delivery.
• The request does not force a header: when Aerial Ability and Scoring are within 5 points, the automatic contact is a volley; beyond that band, stronger Aerial Ability produces a header and stronger Scoring a foot finish.
• The goalkeeper can claim a high delivery before the forward receives it.
• Forcing the delivery carries a 30% bad-angle risk. On the ordinary contested route, that source reduces the shooting situation by 7; other causes of a bad angle remain.
• Skyscraper removes the bad-angle risk caused by this request, not the defender or the goalkeeper.

Guarantees a low delivery on the ordinary box-entry route.

• Carries a 30% bad-angle risk.
• Bypass midfield overrides this request on its direct launches, which are always high. Ordinary deliveries still obey it; set pieces use their own rules.
• If every attacker demands a ball and all ask for the same height, Fun Factor also falls.

Uses the normal reception duel and pass into the box.

Makes the reception safer by reducing the challenger’s Tackling contribution by 4.

• The slower, easier final ball lets the goalkeeper position 3 points better against the resulting shot.
• A midfielder using it counts as sitting deep for Fun Factor.

Attempts a more dangerous box pass.

• 12% of attempts are intercepted immediately.
• If not intercepted, the delivery receives +6 quality.
• Counts as a midfielder running at the box for Fun Factor.

Keeps the normal pass into the box and hunts a deflection if the defender stops the attack.

• It acts only after the box defender wins, so the original box attack is not sacrificed.
• It raises the ordinary chance that the intervention goes behind, but a corner is never guaranteed.
• Unlike Play for the corner, it can help through the centre as well as on a flank.

After a clear midfield win and the 50% order roll, shoots from range.

• Shot skill starts from the lower of Scoring and Passing, then adds up to 15 but never more than 50% of that base.
• Miss chance is ×1.50 and the shot starts from a guarded −5 position modifier.
• The inside foot is the foot towards the centre of the pitch: right foot from the left flank, left foot from the right. Left and right follow your team’s attacking direction; the flank is the side of the current move, not necessarily the player’s usual position.
• Through the centre, either preferred foot is allowed. A player who uses both feet or has the Two-Footed ability can attempt this order from either flank too.
• Without either exception, a left-footed player on the left flank or a right-footed player on the right flank does not shoot through this order; he continues with a pass into the box. The check uses the preferred foot shown in his profile.
• The keeper adds half of Interceptions above 50 to positioning.

Adds +5 Offensive Positioning and +5 Ball Control in the midfield reception.

• Without the Deep Range ability the duel cannot count as a clear-margin win — advanced follow-ups are blocked and the reception margin is capped below the almost-free band.
• A long delivery cannot improve assistance by moving defenders; the Deep Range ability removes that drawback.
• Each midfielder using it costs Fun Factor.

After a clear win on a flank and the 50% order roll, replaces the final ball with an immediate corner.

• It cannot trigger through the centre, and a move develops on its receiver’s own side: the order is offered only in a flank role (LM, RM, LW or RW).
• When it activates, the normal box attack is deliberately sacrificed and the corner is awarded immediately.
• Unlike Attack the block, it acts before any box duel and does not need a defender to win the ball.
• The corner is resolved normally with the saved set-piece plan.

A passing instruction given to the player building the move — usually a midfielder — not to the ST. It directs that player’s box pass to the player currently in the ST position.

• It affects only eligible build-up actions by the player carrying the instruction. Give it to more than one eligible midfielder if you want several creators to seek the striker.
• Targeting is guaranteed after a clear midfield win; otherwise it has a 50% chance to activate.
• The order only changes the receiver. It creates no extra opportunity and adds no Scoring, Offensive Positioning or box-duel bonus.
• After receiving the pass, the ST must still resolve the ordinary contest against the defender and then beat the goalkeeper.
• If more than one ST somehow exists during a live transition, the higher-Scoring one is selected.
• The pass can reach an isolated ST, but a waiting defence applies an 8-point reception penalty.
• With no ST on the pitch, the ordinary receiver selection remains.

Uses Ball Control against a covering box defender’s Tackling before the box.

• On the flank, the defender on that physical channel meets the carry; a centre-back covers if that flank defender is absent. Through the middle, centre-backs have priority. If neither is available, another surviving defender covers.
• The same channel selection applies to Carry and finish. The report records the defender, BC/TA, chance and sampled draw.
• On success, the following delivery cannot be intercepted and gets +6.
• On failure, the defender clears the move.
• Hasty Action reduces the dribbler by 10.

For midfielders, uses the same Ball Control-versus-Tackling carry, then keeps the shot. For FW/ST, a low delivery must first pass any interception, goalkeeper claim and offside check. With a defender available, the existing 50% order roll can then select a Ball Control-versus-Tackling dribble: success gives the existing almost-free Scoring finish and failure ends the attack. High deliveries, a beaten trap, no defender or nonactivation keep the ordinary route.

• For midfielders, success gives an almost-free finish.
• The goalkeeper cannot rush out to claim during this midfielder route.
• On failure, the defender clears.
• Counts as a midfielder running at the box for Fun Factor.

Uses the ordinary positioning, control and tackle result.

Against a high delivery, has a 60% chance to steer the finisher into one bad-angle source after the duel.

Against a low delivery, after a perfect positioning win, has a 60% chance to create a bad angle.

• The Wall ability raises the chance to 90%.
• If the attacker already forced an awkward demanded ball, two angle sources become a really bad angle.

Can downgrade a completely free finisher to almost free.

• Works 50% of the time when the attacker would otherwise be completely free.
• Mind Reader provides the same recovery; order plus Mind Reader raises it to 75%.

No context-specific goalkeeper bonus.

+10 to Reflexes and Goalkeeper Positioning against central open-play attempts, and to Interceptions when the attempt is a lob.

The same save-skill bonus against open-play attempts arriving from a flank.

The same save-skill bonus against Shoot from distance attempts.

The same save-skill bonus against direct set-piece attempts, penalties included; Organisation also carries the bonus into set-piece marshalling.