Ball Winning Midfielder

So I typically play a standard 4-4-2 with my teams, especially lower league, simple and easy to understand. I usually go with a ball winning midfielder role (on defend) and a centre midfielder role (on support) as my middle two.

My issue is that I find the ball winning midfielder picks up a huge (and I mean huge) amount of yellow cards throughout a season, and is sent off quite frequently! It's the only position in the team that seems to collect cards for fun, whichever player I put in there. On my current save, I've had my 1st choice in the role pick up 16 bookings and 3 red cards, which has totalled roughly 11 games suspended for him!

The other lads I put in there also tend to reach at least 10 yellows a season.

Anyone else have this issue and what have you done to reduce the cards? Or is there a simple way I can try to reduce the number of cards (whilst still keeping the role as Ball Winning Midfielder)? The player instruction doesn't allow me to change the tackling instruction.

why would you want to change the tackling instruction, if you did that he wouldn't be a ball winning midfielder anymore, if its not working for you then pick another role, theres plenty to choose from. one thing to take into account is the tackling attribute of the player, you want as high a tackling attribute as possible for a ball winning midfielder, if you have a player with low tackling attribute in that role he is more likely to mistime tackles and commit fouls, and that means more cards. this is more likely to happen in lower leagues when you have players with much lower attributes, so you should perhaps not use that role in lower leagues.

Good point. I'm going to switch it into a standard centre mid with defend role and see what happens. The two lads I use in that position are suited to Ball Winning Mids but I'll tinker. Thanks!