You saw in our previous article what meta mean’s (most effective type of player to use game play wise) and now this article will expand on that further by looking at the key attributes per position as well as offering some player examples to suit all budgets.
Below you will find the most important four attributes for each position plus the ideal height, work rates and weak foot.
CB – ACCELERATION – STRENGTH – STANDING TACKLE – AGILITY – 183 cm + – low priority weak foot – high defensive work rate
Example players
- Low Budget – Ike Opara – Aaron Long – Georgiy Dzhiklya
- Medium Budget – Fikayo Tomori – Lucas Hernandez
- High Budget – Laurent Blanc 89 – Nemanja Vidic 85
RB – PACE – AGILITY – SHORT PASSING – STRENGTH – 177 cm + – strong right foot – Avoid Low defensive work rates
Example players
- Low Budget – Mario Figueira Fernandes – Emerson Leite De Souza
- Medium Budget – Aaron Wan-Bissaka
- High Budget – Gianluca Zambrotta 86 and 89 – Javier Zanetti 88 and 92 – Carlos Alberto Torres 90 and 93
LB – PACE – AGILITY – SHORT PASSING – STRENGTH – 177 cm + – strong right foot – Avoid Low defensive work rates
Example players
- Low Budget – Konstantinos Tsimikas – Clerc – Keiran Tierney
- Medium Budget – Theo Hernandez – Alphonso Davis – Yuri Berchiche Izeta
- High Budget – Ferland Mendy – Alex Sandro – Emmanuel Petit 85
CDM – PHYSICAL – ACCELERATION – INTERCEPTIONS – STANDING TACKLE – 177 CM+ – 3 star and above weak foot – High defensive work rate
Example players
- Low Budget – Diadie Samassekou 81 IF – Thomas Delaney – Blaise Matuidi
- Medium Budget – Denis Zakaria – Konrad Laimer
- High Budget – Michael Essien 85 87 89 – Pep Guardiola 87 90 – Marcel Desailly 88
CM – STRENGTH – SHORT PASSING – ACCELERATION – DRIBBLING – 177 CM+ – 4 star and above weak foot
Example players
- Low Budget – Seko Fofana – Mateus Uribe – Morgan Sanson
- Medium Budget – Marcel Sabitzer
- High Budget – Leon Goretzka – Frank Lampard 90 – Michael Ballack 89
CAM – PASSING – DRIBBLING – LONG SHOTS – ACCELERATION – 4 star and above skill moves – 4 star and above weak foot – High Attacking work rate
Example players
- Low Budget – Adam Ljajic – Jonathan Viera Ramos
- Medium Budget – Anderson Talisca – Nabil Fekir
- High Budget – Marco Reus – Alejandro Gomez – Kaka 87 89 91
LM – PACE – STRENGTH – SHORT PASSING – DRIBBLING – 4 star and above skill moves – Strong Left foot – either H/H M/M H/L M/L H/M work rates
Example Players
- Low Budget – Anthony Nwakaeme –
- Medium Budget – Diogo Jose Teixeira da Silva
- High Budget – John Barnes 87 89 – Thierry Henry 90 – Marcus Rashford
RM – PACE – STRENGTH – SHORT PASSING – DRIBBLING – 4 star and above skill moves – Strong Left foot – either H/H M/M H/L M/L H/M work rates
Example Players
- Low Budget – Andre Carillo – Jeremain Lens
- Medium Budget – NONE
- High Budget – Luis Figo 90 92
RW/RF – PACE – FINISHING – SHORT PASSING – DRIBBLING – 4 star and above skill moves – 3 star and above weak foot – H/M workrates
Example Players
- Low Budget – Ferran Torres – Eduardo Salvio – Florian Thauvin – Matteo Politano
- Medium Budget – Jadon Sancho – Serge Gnabry – Jarrod Bowen 81 IF
- High Budget – Mohamed Salah
LW/LF – PACE – FINISHING – SHORT PASSING – DRIBBLING – 4 star and above skill moves – 3 star and above weak foot – H/M workrates
Example Players
- Low Budget – Goncalo Manuel Ganchinho Guedes – Leandro Trossard
- Medium Budget – Lorenzo Insigne – Ousmane Dembele – Ansu Fati 81 IF
- High Budget – Leroy Sane – Raheem Sterling – Eden Hazard
ST – FINISHING – ACCELERATION – STRENGTH – DRIBBLING – 177 cm+ – 4 star or above skill moves – 5 star weak foot – H/M work rates
Example players
- Low Budget – Alexander Isak – Johnathan Aparecido Silva – Michy Batshuayi
- Medium Budget – Richarlison de Andrade
- High Budget – Ronaldo 94
Hopefully this information helps when choosing your team and might just get you a few extra wins in weekend league.
*values were taken from excel document posted by @FUT_Economist associate live content product manager at EA.
