Player Review

98 - TOTS

5.0

Is he worth it...

By fortheberds, 14-05-2018

So above is the squad I used him in, and playing with him is a joke sometimes, in a good way. We all know the MLS weekly objective going on this week, it's tough, gritty, and a good challenge for the games where you're not just trading goals. In one game, the guy has a full icon team plus 2 MLS players uptop. So I ask guy if we can trade goals, he says sure, scores his two, immediately pauses puts away his MLS players and brings on Henry, and Dinho. I go to score my 2nd and he's just playing like a knob. I get my 2nd goal by half time, and bring on Messi for Alessandrini.

Messi procedes to show him the kinda player he is, beating Nesta and Desailly to 2 header goals, flying past Carlos on the wing, making better passes than I've ever made. I knew he was godly but this was the game that showed me his otherworldly abilities. Just thrashing defenses in a half to net me 4 goals in his 2nd game for me.

He will get you those extra wins, in WL its very obvious certain players will help you get those extra wins/decide those tight game, he is definitely one of them.
The stats don't lie, his card feels like what he is a 98 rated striker that is as lethal in passing as he is scoring.
The workrates, my god. It's like they transposed him, he just kinda stays dormant waiting in the right position not making to many runs unless you trigger him to, but when you get the ball at his feet, you can just feel the dribbling magic.

The only major con I could find was also a positive, the work rates, at striker he wasn't pressing the backline as much as I'd like him to, so I set him to false 9 and with the M/M WR this fixed the problem.
Also, the other con, is he worth 2.4 million, I honestly can't say. This is the first version of Messi I've ever owned/packed. But after playing with this card, I could justify someone spending around 2 on him easily.

Formation: 41212-2

Position: ST

Games: 7

GPG: 2.71

APG: 1.43

5.0

Overall

4.0

Value

5.0

Stamina

Pace (10/10)

Shooting (10/10)

Passing (10/10)

Dribbling (10/10)

Defending (3/10)

Physicality (10/10)

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