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Player Review
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As a Madridista since 1999 I had been longing to use this card, actually my main motivation behind playing Ultimate Team. So last night I had to sell half my squad when I realized I could finally afford him. Played him for a couple WL games and another 10 Rivals games in division 4. He is my favourite player of all time, along with Figo so believe me when I tell you that I really wanted him to live up to my expectations. I teamed him up with Guedes 87 and Asensio/Robben/Dembele by his side. So why the mixed emotions? I might just be shit at the game but I usually dominate the number of chances/possession, but I suck at defending because the players I don't control always run out of position and when I try to swap players I have to swap 3/4 times by the times the opponent has already scored. While everyone else are gods at just magnetically running with their CB from 20m away and tackling whoever happens to have the ball at the moment he presses circle. Whatever I do I can't get away from this bullshit OP tackling this year. Now, reasons for review:
- Headers (Very good jumping & accuracy) Unfortunately wasn't able to consistently beat Van Dijk's or Varane's, maybe 1/5 near post corners results in goals at best. Crossing to him only worked when he wasn't marked at all. Cavani (91) for a 100k was about twice as good in that aspect
- Shooting. Great finishing inside the box and if un-pressured he would score everything. Scored probably as many with his left as his right. Long shots mostly went just outside or hit the post
- Passing, ball control & dribbling. Received driven passes effortlessly and felt quick and reactive in the attacking short-pass game. Will turn and twist without breaking a sweat and will toy around with bigger guys in the build up because of this. Has great vision which means he can easily thread balls through
- Stamina is great, he never tires and he almost every game popped up late in games unexpectedly intercepting passes in front of the oppositions box. I actually got caught by surprise a couple of times where I had already pressed the tackle button but this guys already has the ball and blows a terrible attempt up to the stands.
Now unfortunately there is some bittersweet feelings left. Reason:
- Getting clean shots off. His dribbling is so extra that he would take 1-2 or 3 touches within a short space of time in between you pressing shoot and he actually getting the shot off. Also I hate this years shooting 1on1s through on goal in general. Just feels like it's set up for you to just miss, or hit the post etc. Scripting is real this year lmao. This resulted in him almost always getting run down by big strong defenders / or in best case scenario he would lose his momentum enough so that his shots would be very bad. Incredibly frustrating considering how good he was back in the days at handling defenders who were bullying him
- Pace, used him with the Hunter Chemistry style and he was quite fast, often got breakaways but he would so often just get train'ed by solid heavy defenders, and didn't have enough sprint speed to keep his advantage going enough to get a clean shot off whenever he beat the defensive line. This meant that whenever a Van Dijk would get close to him while trying to keep your advantage going you would have to turn and play support half the times
- Aggression - Has zero interest in covering spaces or winning the ball back, except for those odd late-game situations where he suddenly pops up like I said
- Price . This part is the worst part, got him for 360,000 coins and man you could just buy so much more quality for your team for those coins. Son's 86 rated ST inform apart from the heading felt maybe twice as responsive/easy to play with, and Son has way better long shots and felt 1/3 faster. Edinson Cavani's 91 card who has everything Raul has except for pace and dribbling, felt much better (might be because of higher aggression and he is taller player)
to sum it up: Raúl had chances to probably score 5 goals every game, but he missed 4 of those chances about every single time. Not in a bad way, it would just hit the post or go for a corner etc. So being a player who started playing in march I can sense which players gets jo the most bang for bucks and is fun to play with. This guy is not fun to play with when he feels just a little less competitive than top-rated CB's. Thats a shame for 360K actually