It is sometimes hard to estimate how a match will go, without knowing the formation and settings of your opponent. And of course, there is always a lot of luck involved as well.
Currently, there is only one way to affect the course of a match after it starts, and that is by playing a half-time direction trading card. Those cards will change your "tactic" in the second half of the match. This can be the perfect way to turn around a losing match.
The following half-time cards are available:
- Encourage card (common) increase team effort by 25% (up to max 150%)
- Encourage (uncommon) increases team effort by 50% (up to max 150%)
- Take it slow (common) reduces energy consumption by 50%.
- Full attack (rare) instructs the team to create more chances, but the risk for counter-attacks is greater.
- Full defence (uncommon) instructs the team to create a full defensive block, opponent chances go down but yours as well.
- Play for free kicks (rare) instructs your team to get more free kicks, risk for yellow cards is higher.
- Get penalties (ultra-rare): Your team tries to get a penalty, the yellow cards risk is high.
Half-time directions can be played in any match type. You can save a card at the time you set the formation, or you can place it right into the live ticker up until 50 minutes after kick-off. (And of course, you can change or remove the card added at any time until 50 minutes after kick-off.)
Good to know!
When setting a high effort even from the start of the match, playing an Encourage card at halftime will increase the effort up to 150%. For example, if you set 125% effort for your match and play the Encourage card uncommon, the max effort in the second half won't be higher than 150%.
Here is how you can play an action card in the lineup:
Here is how to add an action card in live ticker:
