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Thank you! Same thing for roles, right? So if a striker is dark orange for false nine, it’s just a recommendation based on his attributes and he won’t actually be impacted if played as a F9? I feel these things were brought in to help new players, but they have a strange psychological effect on me in that they make me think twice before going for what I feel is right. When you see a role in red and one in bright greens, you are bound to pick the green one even though red would work better in your system.

[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

Does the match engine actually penalize fielding players out of position (red circle and all that?). Or is it just a recommendation to the player? An extreme example: putting a CB on a striker position - will the game actually make him play worse because of this, or is it just a matter of his attributes not being well-suited to a striker role, so he'll play as he does, but just won't produce goals because his finishing is bad?

A practical question in terms of borderline roles, for example what if my CM can't play DM at all, but has the attributes for it. I put him in the DM slot, it's all in red, but I know he can actually do a decent job. So I'm worried if the game goes out of its way to somehow make him play worse than he could, only because I had the audacity to put him a different slot. Or, say, an AMR/L being told to play in the MR/L position (without knowing it). 

Please reply, as I've always been wondering... How much freedom do I have to decide where to field my guys based not on these color-ratings, but on their attributes.