Player Review
89 - Normal
Against the AI this card scores more goals than my striker. But only because the AI marks the dribbling impeccably, thus the weakness of average agility players doesn't show.
Against human opponents, dribbling is the key this year, even more so than pace. Not just for dribbling! But for passing and shooting as well, because beforehand you need to create space to pass or shoot. And here lies the problem for De Bruyne and Eriksen. De Bruyne is a Long pass taker and really can pass wonderful through balls, but the problem is, the moment he has to TURN into a direction to pass, he's not fast and agile enough to do it before he gets bullied. Getting bullied reduces the pass accuracy even if he can pass (that's what Nick28 doesn't understand...). If you look into the stats of the gold cards on the market, you'll see that he doesn't have many assists.
KDB would be a truly wonderful card, Eriksen's long passing is nowhere near. But here me out. You buy Alexis Sanches, put an Architect chem on him. You buy Alessandrini or whatever, so that you can start with 4-3-3, after that you can change without chem loss, so that Sanches wlll be your CAM. With Architect, his passing is better than KDB's! And he has 86 pace, 90 dribbling, better finishing, he's a longshot taker as well. With Architect he has 90 strength and agression. So the only thing KDB still has over him is his height (doesn't matter) and that he's a longpass taker.
Long pass taker. I have never experienced such through balls, Eriksen is a joke compared to him.
He's one sided considering that you can change formation and use beast players as CAM. No pros use standard CAM cards, they use strikers like Messi, Suarez, even Dembelé.