After collecting enough cards, mix your starting team with the extra players. Choose formations and assign the correct role to the players that are best in those tasks. Get chemistry bonuses by placing players with the same nationality together as often as possible. When you cannot fill a position optimally, try to place a player whose statistics best fits that area until you find someone better suited. Hold onto most of your players, especially when first starting. There are tournaments and leagues that have very specific entry requirements that may require use of those cards that you may consider extra. Try to keep everyone except for duplicates until you are a few weeks into the game. Connect to Facebook to get a free pack. This will also allow you to be able play the same team over multiple devices. Save enough to purchase Premium packs. Although Premium Gold or Silver Packs are 50% more expensive than the standard versions, you will get three times as many rare cards. Team of the Week players are limited time boosted versions of players who performed at a high level in real life over the past week. Win the TOTW Cup in the Tournaments menu to obtain one.