Description of Players'
Attributes
Description of Playing Styles
Cheats
| Attribute | Description |
Footballing skills |
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| Creativity | Whether he can create goalscoring chances for his team-mates with incisive passes, headers, flick-ons etc. |
| Dribbling | Whether he can take on and beat defenders to create dangerous situations from which a goalscoring chance might arise. |
| Flair | Whether he has the tendency to do the unexpected, for example shoot from 30 yards, or try something brilliant. |
| Heading | Whether he is good in the air and wins headers either in defense or attack. |
| Marking | Whether he has the ability to track an opponent and mark him out of the game. |
| Off the Ball | Whether he makes good runs into space which can lead to a shot/header on goal if he is given the ball. |
| Passing | Whether he can pass the ball where he wants it. |
| Positioning | Whether he has good defensive positional sense and rarely gets caught out of position. |
| Set Pieces | Whether he can make use of set piece situations(corner, free kick) either by making a creative pass or a direct shot on goal. |
| Shooting | Whether he scores goals. |
| Tackling | Whether he is good at making tackles to dispossess an opponent. |
| Technique | Whether he has good control, first touch, and all round technical ability. |
Goalkeeping skills |
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| Shot Stopping | This is their ability to save shots. |
| Passing | This is their accuracy when kicking or throwing the ball out. |
| Set Pieces | This is their ability to defend set pieces, line up the wall etc. |
| Positioning | This is their positioning for shots, crosses etc. |
| Aerial Ability | This is their ability in the air, for example when handling corners and crosses. |
| Rushing Out | This is whether he can rush out quickly in one-on-one situations. |
Physical Attributes |
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| Aggression | Whether he goes in hard when competing for the ball, without necessarily being dirty. |
| Injury Proneness | Whether he is often out of action with injuries. The higher the rating the more likely the player is to get injured |
| Pace | Whether he has speed and acceleration both in and out of possession. |
| Stamina | Whether he can keep going at the end of the most grueling matches. |
| Strength | Whether he has strength in holding off opponents to keep possession or in competing to win the ball. |
Mental Attributes |
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| Determination | Whether he keeps battling, even when the odds are against him. |
| Influence | Whether he can motivate and inspire team-mates, as for example a captain would. |
| Intelligence | Whether he can read the game and make good decisions about when to sit back, push up etc. |
Hidden Ratings |
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| Big Occasion | Whether he rises to the occasion in big games, play-offs, top of the table clashes, cup finals, etc. |
| Character | Whether the player reacts badly to on/off the field events. On the field this could be whether he reacts to provocation, off the field whether he reacts to being dropped, fined etc. The higher the rating the more likely the player will react badly to on/off the field events. |
| Consistency | Whether he normally performs to his ability and rarely has an off day. |
| Dirtiness | The amount of bad fouls, bookings and sending off a player is likely to commit/get. You can tell who has a high rating for this because of the amount of fouls, yellow and red cards he has, or the number of disciplinary points a player has accumulated. |
| Ability | This is an overall rating of how good the player is now. |
| Potential Ability | This is a rating of how good the player could become. For a young player his ability will tend to rise towards his potential ability as he gets older; for a player at his peak his ability will tend to be equal to his potential ability; for an older player his ability will tend to drop below his potential ability. The ability rating is therefore a variable rating and all the other ratings are relative to this rating and the potential ability rating. |
| Style | Description |
| Long Ball | This is where the ball is hit long and high up front into zones asoppose to any target man. Even if the defenders win the ball, advancing midfielders and strikers are quick to close down possession and try and win back the ball. A lot of the lower division teams would employ this style of play, sometimes known as a 'percentage game'. |
| Passing | This is where the team would build up the play by short passing movements. Examples of this style would be Liverpool, Newcastle, and Nottingham Forest. |
| Direct | This is where the ball is played from the back to the forward players, without necessarily being passed through the midfield. This differs from Long Ball, in that passes are aimed at particular players (e.g. a targetman), rather than just booted into areas. Examples of teams playing this style are Blackburn and Everton. |
| Cheat | How to do it |
| National management cheat |
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| Get any player for free |
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| Young talents the easy way | Method 1: Make a bid for a player you know is going to retire the day before the game updates its stats. Then the game will let you buy the successor instead of the old player, because he retired. Method 2: Write down all the skills for the player that you know is going to retire and find him after the game has changed season using the skill search filter. You must only write down the skills that don't change by the player's age (stamina, influence etc.) Method 3: (Courtesy of Gary Kam:) When a team has got old players, they often free transfer them BEFORE CM2 updates the data for the new season. Or, if they have a free transfer clause in their contract, the player free transfer himselves. What you'll have to do is just to take a look at the transfers outs list of the team that you knew the player who was going to retire played for after the game has updated the stats and made new players. Now the name of the retired player's successor will be there instead of the name of the player who retired. Method 4: Take a look at the 'Recommended by Euro, world or league scout' list at player search after the game has updated its stats for a new season. Choose 'Sorting by Average Rating'. The players who don't have any average ratings and still are recommended highly by the scouts are players who have replaced old stars. |
| Quitting CM2 without saving | Press the * (asterisk) key on your keyboard. |
| Prevent big-club release clause players from leaving | Put the player with the clause in his contract on the list for loan instead of the transfer list when he asks for a transfer......and simply reject any offers that clubs make for the player. |
| Controlling the contracts | (Courtesy of Yoav
Naveh:) At August 1 of a season, go to your team's squad
screen. If you now choose offer new contract to a player, and you're not satisfied with the length of it, press cancel and then offer a new contract. Now the player will (in most cases) demand a different contract length. |