Set pieces

🏳️ Set pieces are configured on the Tactics screen, in the Set Pieces tab. The takers themselves live in the Specialists panel: penalty taker, left corner taker, right corner taker and free-kick taker. Set all four yourself. If your nominated taker is not on the pitch — injured, suspended or rested — the engine falls back to the best available player by attribute, which is better than nothing but never as good as having your man out there.

Beyond takers you choose a routine for corners and one for free kicks. The engine reads a single corner routine, so the left selection is the one that counts. The aggressive settings are free kick → direct and corner → penalty spot or far post; the cautious ones are free kick → short and corner → short, both of which deliberately trade direct threat for keeping the ball. The full numbers behind every routine are in the wiki article on set pieces.

🧤 Keep a deputy in mind for every duty. A taker who is not on the pitch cannot take anything, and the auto-pick does not know your dressing room — it simply reads attributes. Re-check the panel after every transfer window and after any injury that keeps a first-choice taker out. One thing that does not matter yet: throw-ins are not simulated as set-piece events, so the throw-in routine changes nothing in the match engine today.