Specialist thugs

Have you ever deployed a thug in your team with the sole intention of injuring the opposition? Someone with high dirtiness, aggression, bravery etc. and given man-marking and hard tackling instructions.

I'm not planning on it, just wondering if anyone's done and if it worked.

i've done it a couple of times if there is one superstar in the team, just got em' to aim for the super star, but unless its just the one player, i feel like it would be a waisted man on the pitch.

Andy23 you sound like someone who would manage Millwall with that line of thinking

I'm glad the opposition are just little pixels because i regularly employ roughing up tactics, and to good effect. As well as targeting the opponents lacking bravery, in-game I keep the oppo motivation widget open. When an oppo player is nervous, wound-up, on a yellow or with low condition because he's carrying an injury I'll have my boys put a reducer on him. The number of players carried off on stretchers far exceeds red cards for mine. I lure the ones on yellows and wound up into getting reds. Nasty, but effective!