Player Review

Okay, so me and my mate are THE MOST CASUAL PLAYERS EVER, we play once a week, always together, and we're crap, so if you're looking for that 5 star skill move fut champs monster player review.... sorry. If you know how to do a roulette and a drag back or two, then enjoy...

We had already completed Rooney's MLS league SBC (we trade a lot with the app), so the fact that they released a much more usable flashback version of him with +20 pace was very annoying. The SBC was a bit expensive considering we did the Ibrahimovic SBC a few days earlier for almost half the price, but that allowed us to link them together in a frankly ridiculous 4-2-2-2 team, with Zola, Scholes, Keane and Jamés Milner supporting them.

The results were.... sensational. Rooney and Ibra annihilated opponents, we told him to stay up top and gave him a marksman, and he began wreaking havoc, aerial balls would be smashed in with Scissor kicks and laces, long shots from outside of the box, A HEEL FLICK VOLLEY INTO THE SIDE NETTING. Him and Ibra are telepathic, (and that's not because we play with two users in a game, they just made fantastic runs for each other even when we didn't control them), they just work so well together, Ibra as the target man, Rooney as the pacier finisher but still with decent enough strength to tussle for the ball.

Rooney's bad workrates didn't affect us, because once we told him to stay up he just moved into the right areas for us, and his passing meant we could easily bring our other players into the game with quick one touch passes and through balls. His agility is good enough, he feels quick on the ball but definitely not nippy like baby Zola (who feels like someone gave him cocaine flavoured weetabix for breakfast). His touch was first-rate, he never mis-controlled a ball and passes stick, his pace meant he was never lagging and once played through almost impossible to catch when combined with the strength.

And as for his shooting.... just wonderful. clean through it's a certainty. outside of the box, it's 95% going into the corners, volleys - he scores almost every chance he gets. Headers, we actually didn't get that many chances to use his head (why cross to him when Ibra's head is touching the stadium roof) but usually we held down LT and watched him do something sensational.

Defensively you can get involved with him and he can make a decent tackle, but we played him at CF for a game or two and his stamina and positioning meant you'd be dragging him forward from the CDM position every 2 minutes and he'd be struggling by the 70th minute.

His Dribbling is decent, he feels like he moves quite well and can create space for shots, with the marksman chemstyle his agility is 81 and he turns quick enough to get away from defenders.

Overall, this team and especially this card is the most fun we've had on fifa 19, if the SBC is still out as of the time of this review (think there's a few hours left) and you want to shout WAYNNNNNNEEE ROOONEY like the glory days, this card is worth every penny.

(Also we had 90 Van Nistelroy in that team and he just wasn't up to the standards of Ibra or Wazza... they vastly outperformed him. you're basically getting icon standard cards for half the price)