Player Review

90 - CL SBC

5.0

Middle CAM beast

By DavideTala, 07-05-2019

As the title of the review may suggest, he plays middle cam in 4231, behind gold bale and between gold neymar and 95 cf messi.

I completed his sbc for 80k back when it came out and i've never taken him out of my team once. i started using him at ST in 5212 with marskman alongside bale and he did well (9 games 8 goals 8 assists), but after packing leo i decided to change the team to play those 3 beasts, so now he plays middle CAM. in that position i opted for engine because it boosts pace, balance and long passing which i felt like the major flaws in his card. shooting and strength are already good enough.

https://www.futbin.com/19/squad/7414597 --> this is the team now, i'm waiting to get the 5 tokens to get 88 cancelo and thus upgrade the gk spot. he will play on 8 chem when that happens, but 8 chem isn't that big of a downgrade from 10 (i already tried it with messi).. it'll make him MAYBE microscopically worse, if that much.

he has strength to hold off opponents, 4*4* to be unpredictable, extremely good passing, dribbling and shooting. pace is ok. he's perfect for middle cam, especially with wide players like messi and neymar who are fast and make good runs. not to forget bale at st. he can set the 3 of them pretty well with his passing and skills. his vision specifically is insane and allows him to play wild accurate throughballs that most players just can't do. it seems like he can see any space to make the ball run through for his teammates.

but he can also score well from outside and inside the box thanks to his powerful shot.

his workrates were not an issue at all for me, especially at middle cam. his 95 positioning seems to be a pretty strong compensation and by the way he's not the player that has to make the runs.

overall, an absolutely powerful and effective card, especially for his full price, even more for the price i completed the sbc for. the fact that he's untradeable does not hurt squadbuilding one bit because he has a lot of good links being french from real madrid. he doesn't have any glaring flaws apart from long passing which is the only real issue i have with him.

everything else is at least good, mostly amazing.

Disclaimer: pace is neither a pro or a con, it's neither awesome or terrible. i think it's very usable, he does not feel slow. stamina also feels ok

Links (you do have him untradeable so if you want to use him you need good links. he has plenty)

Price (he's untradeable but at least he's cheap)

Vision and passing (short and throughballs)

Shooting, especially from outside the box

Dribbling, even though he's not the most agile player of course

Strenght

4*4*

Long passing can be pretty bad at times

Formation: 4231

Position: CAM

Games: 36

GPG: 0.69

APG: 0.94

5.0

Overall

5.0

Value

5.0

4.5

Stamina

Pace (8/10)

Shooting (10/10)

Passing (9/10)

Dribbling (10/10)

Defending (4/10)

Physicality (8/10)

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