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5.0
Baby Socrates Review
By Nico4848, 02-11-2019

I sniped Socrates on Thursday when the rewards came out to make some profit, but after I played some Rivals games with him I came to the conclusion to play the WL with him and sell him afterwards.


I would consider myself as a casual player, I usually end the WL at Gold 2-3, and in this review I will compare Socrates to Eriksen, with which I played like 100 games already.


Lets start with my feelings about him after 40 games. Socrates was an immense upgrade to Eriksen, he scoared in almost every game for me and what I loved most about him, you can't push him of the ball. I play in the 4231 formation, Coman and Lucas Moura are my wingers, Dembele my striker and Socrates the CAM behind them. I really loved playing with him and he carried many games for me, I want my CAM to be kind off a second striker, deadly in front of the goal and with runs in the depth. Thats why I used Deadeye, and to be honest he felt sometimes very heavy to me (which could be changed with Engine), but without Deadeye he was not deadly enough in front of the goal, which is more important to me.

I played my whole WL with him and around 10 games Rivals, and Socrates was really a gamechanger for me. In 41 games he scored 37 goalds and assisted another 10, but like already mentioned he felt way more sluggish than Eriksen when it comes to dribbling, but his positioning and his runs compensated that for me. His short passing is very good, but in comparison to Eriksen his long passes are not that accurate. The biggest Con for me was his stamina, he has 85 but I always needed to sub him out at min 60-70. However, even though his workates are Middle/Low, compared to Eriksen who was High/High Socrates was running more than Eriksen, in defence he always ran back to the box, in offense I found him in the other box with some nice offensive runs. But a player from his price should play the whole 90 (or 120 sometimes) minutes in my opinion, but maybe that is just due to my instructions that he ran so much. Despite his height he didn't score a header for me, but he won the most areals in midfield which is more important for me.



Can I recommend him to you? 100%, the best player I have used this FIFA so far.


Is he worth 800-900k? If you are rich yes, if not better build a well rounded team.

  • Strength, can hold up the balls and just rarely pushed off
  • Pace, felt really fast
  • Longshots
  • Deadly inside the box, and nice runs
  • Short passing
  • 4 Star Skills combined with 5 Star weak foot
  • Crazy runs from Box to Box despite his Mid/Low Workrates


  • Stamina, always subbed him of after 60-70 min
  • Sometimes a bit sluggish
  • Dribbling, could be fixed with engine
  • Long passes (compared to Eriksen, however they are still good but not that good)
  • Did not score one header after a corner despite his size
  • Maybe his price
Formation: 4231
Position: CAM
Games: 41
GPG: 0.90
APG: 0.24
5.0
Overall
4.0
Value
5.0
GC
4.0
Stamina
Pace (8/10)
Shooting (10/10)
Passing (9/10)
Dribbling (7/10)
Defending (6/10)
Physicality (9/10)
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