Player Review

I probably wasn't the only one who almost got orgasm when EA published this sbc card and luckily i had lot of Japanese League players so it didnt cost me more than 70-90k which is still a lot, but almost 2x cheaper than the actual price. He has insane stats in his card, but when you look closely his in game stats he misses all the important ones as striker.

Lets start at composure. 64 composure must be one of the lowest i've seen in this Fifa, if not the lowest really and i can tell you can really feel it. At under pressured this guy turns in to bronze card.

Second thing is his positioning, 78 positioning as a striker? I would be ok with that if you are a midfielder, but having that low positioning as striker means he doesn't make any good runs behind defense like world class strikers do.

And then the third thing, reactions. 71 reactions as striker !?!? Some of you people may not know this but reactions are actually one of the most important stats, specially as striker because when you receive the ball, reaction stats defines the time how fast your player can either shoot or pass the ball. That's why almost all world class strikers like Messi, Suarez, Ronaldo, Lewandowski etc.. all have at least 90+ reactions. So as i like to play a lot of tiki taka football it just didn't work with Cristiano because i never was able to pass or shoot the ball quick enough, there was always little delay and that's because the reactions.

And then the fourth thing, finishing. 83 finishing aren't the worst, but when you combine that with his composure, it's gonna feel way more awful than 83. Sure he can finish sometimes pretty decent goals, but when i look closely to his goals they all are going pretty middle but it beats the keeper just because his insane 93 shot power. And to be fair i scored most of his goals from outside the box, he has insane long shots i give you that, but that's pretty much it. But inside the box he is so inconsistent.

And then the fifth thing, agility & ball control. This wasn't the biggest thing i hated about Cristiano, but i had to speak about this too. 83 ball control doesn't seem to be that low, but it is. Combine that ball control with his composure again so he basically takes like 2-3m touches everytime, specially inside the box. And then the agility, 82 again doesn't seem to be that bad but he really feel just clumsy and you cannot dribble past defenders with that agility. Ok, he ain't no Messi so i can't be so rough on his agility, but it's still shit.

And then the sixth and the final bad thing, jumping. When i did this card i thought he would be as good in the air like Suarez or Cavani who are same height as Cristiano. Well then i discovered that jumping really affects a lot to your chances to win headers. I mean Cristiano didn't even won full backs in the air and full backs usually are like 5'10 or lower. But this again wasn't so big thing but had to tell you that you ain't winning headers with him, even when hes 6'0.

And then to the good things, shot power & long shots. So like i said he scored most of his goals from outside the box and i can really say he can hit the ball outside the box, and his long shot trait really feels to be helping that also.

And then the second good thing, pace. Of course like we all know, Cristiano is fast as f*ck, but only if he would have better positioning so he would actually use his pace... But yeah he is fast and with that 99 strength its pretty hard to get ball away from him.

And then to the third and final good thing in this card, of course the strength. And to be fair i didn't keep his 99 strength that good, maybe because his 55 balance affected that little bit too but sometimes when he faced little tougher defender he fall to the ground pretty easily, but against full backs or weak centre back it was almost impossible to tackle ball away from him. And he was also really good at shielding the ball.

So is it worth doing Cristiano? Maybe if hes sbc drops to like 50k and then use him as super sub (like i do now) but unless it doesn't, no. I've played with him 20 games (all weekend league) and about 7-10 of them was from starting lineup and rest of those i just fed up and start using him as super sub and then he actually did something. And i actually have been using him couple times as winger now in 4-4-2 formation and last game he played really well and won motm, so maybe that's something you can try too.