Player Review
93 - Icon
After having a look at Bobby's stats I thought to myself "Hmm. He is short, but those stats are insane. Let's try him as a CDM!". Boooooooooooy lemme tell you that was one of the best ideas I've ever had. I use him as a box to box CDM in a 4-2-3-1 formation next to a defensive CDM as I'm an absolute mad man. I slapped a finisher on Bobby Moore bringing him to 84 longshots with 94 shot power. This also gives him 97 jumping, 89 strength and 90 aggression on top of his 95 stamina and absolutely mental passing and defending stats. With popup flick-up volley longshots being just absolutely stupidly broken in this game, 75 volleys combined with his longshots and shot power makes him deadly for these kinds of shots. Regular long shots he is a massive threat as well. He reminds me of Kante as he is always all over the pitch intercepting passes and creating play non-stop. His Icon SBC is relatively cheap and you get some saucy packs out of it so I do highly recommend him. I start in a 5-at-the-back formation as I have 3 world class untradable CB's.
Shooting - Very good inside the box (surprisingly), very good longshots and very good shot power. Most shots from a good angle will go in.
Heading - He has very good jumping, so he just leaps above everyone and wins every header.
Passing - He has 97 short and 97 long passing so it's safe to say his passes will find their target. (Unless its a 2 yard pass, nobody can make those).
Dribbling - The amount of times I've decided to dribble past 2 or 3 players from the halfway line and pop a longshot is incredible. He has 67 dribbling but the rest of his ingame stats are very good for a defender.
Physicality - Very strong, very good heading, amazing stamina. Always running up and down the pitch, knocking players off the ball with his strength, never getting tired due to his stamina.
Pace - He is rather slow. 70 Pace, but it doesn't bother me too much as a CDM.
Positioning - Sometimes he likes to push a bit too far up for my liking, but that may be due to my tactics as I don't set him to stay back while attacking.
Workrates - Medium/medium can be a problem for a defensive minded CDM, times when I have paired him up with Pogba at CDM has been a bit shambolic due to both of them pushing up.