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Player Review
92 - Flashback SBC
I am writting this review for people to make an idea of just about how good David Villa Flashback is. When I grew up David Villa was a player I really enjoyed watching when he was at Barcelona. His pace, finishing, positioning were brilliant, it was a joy watching him play. Well, I must say, this Flashback David Villa isn't any different from how he was IRL during his prime time. For about a reasonable price, you get a brilliant card that is definitely a gamechanger, at least for me. To add a bit of context, I did the sbc friday evening as soon as it dropped. I didn't play a single game of rivals or squad battles to get used to the card. I fit him straight in my team and started playing my WL matches. Villa and Podoloski are replacements for Firmino and Aguero(which are known to be pretty good in this game), so the 2 new faces had some high expectations to live up to. And must I say, David Villa alone counts twice as much as Aguero and Firmino togheter. I started playing this FIFA on the 12th of February(I did play before from FIFA 12 to FIFA 16 but I quit it) so the WL was kinda unknown territory for me. Since I played FIFA before I caught up to the gameplay pretty quickly and in my first weekend league I finished 18/12( Gold 2). In fact, every single weekend I finished Gold 2 with either 17 or 18 wins. Untill now. I've played 30 games with David Villa(all of my weekend league matches of the 22th march- 24th of march weekend competition) and I must say I am beyond impressed I finished 23/7 which is a massive boost from the usual of what I've finished before. And David Villa carried me so hard. If there's a played I would compare this David Villa to it would be Messi(normal card) Fanatastic pace, shooting, ball control. Both are short so you wouldn't expect the to win headers. The only difference is Villa's passing which is significantly worse than Messi, but the extra Stamina, better workrates and 5* weak foot I think make up for it.
- Pace - I use an engine chemstyle on him, and I must say, he feels so much quicker than he seems. People just don't expect it. He catches a lot of the balls that seem impossible to get to. He glides past defenders like Varane as if they're bronzes with 25 pace. Impressive
- Shooting- Nothing much to say here. Not using a chemstyle to boost shooting, because it's already impecable. He scored all kinds of goals: power shots, low driven, volleys, outside the box finesse shots(he scores like 8/10 finesse shots he takes which is remarkable since it's not finesse meta anymore). I usually time the shots but they're cases where I just don't. It doesn't matter for David Villa. Timed or not timed, he will score anyway. He is always in the right place at the right time.
- Dribbling- With the engine chemstyle, his dribbling becomes phenomenal. It's so hard to disposses him, he always keeps the ball so close to his feet, and he turns so swiftly even though his agility is only 84(with the chemstyle boost).
- 5*/4*- This is really important as a striker( at least for me) cause I am abusing the overpowered tehnique: la croqueta and power shot. David Villa is great at that. Honestly I sometimes felt like his left footed shots were better than his right footed ones. Deadly around the box.
- Stamina- You may think that 83 stamina is a little on the low side but trust me, it's more than enough. I set my striker to come back and help defense, which he does, and yet not a single time he was tired and had to sub him off. Even in the matches that go to extra time, at the end of the 120 minutes his stamina is still at around a quarter.
- Passing- You definitely need to boost his passing with a chemstyle because it average without and only about decent with the chemstyle(unless you apply something like a Catalyst, Deadeye, Artist or Powerhouse). It's still not bad don't get me wrong but it's not impecable. He missed quite a few through balls, but you wouldn't really expect from your striker and goal scorer to be a mastermind a creator. That why I persoanlly use Reus the 88 CAM Figo, to feed through balls to him so he can score them.
- Height- In the somewhat crossing meta this might be an issue for some, but it isn't for me as I play 4-1-2-1-2 narrow and I rely on scoring through the center and not through crosses. But don't expect him to win many headers cause his height doesn't help him. But be sure that he can still win them(decent jumping), and if he wins them he scores them(really good heading accuracy), it's just not a guarantee such as for Flashback Ibra for example.
- Defending- Not much to say here as you wouldn't expect a striker to be good defensively.