Player Review

96 - ShapeShifters

5.0

The GOAT

By viktormad, 11-04-2020

Similar to many of the people who said they won't complete the FUT Birthday Bag SBC, I was contemplating for hours whether to submit 1/4th of my team or not. I decided to craft some Gold Upgrades and found myself with few 88+ players after an hour of bronze/silver/gold upgrades.(Super lucky, I know) Being nothing close to a good player, I realised that it might be worth to submit all of the newly acquired players (Including Mane, Godin, Sterling) and I opened the Pandora box at 3 in the morning. Having done it on the Companion app, Messi instantly popped on my phone screen. Not gonna lie, I thought I was tripping and I went back to sleep as I had to wake up early. The next morning, I decided to check on my trades and saw one unassigned item. I was not hallucinating after all, the greatest player to ever play football (Sorry CR7/R9 fans) was sitting in my club. I played around 35 games that day. 35 Division Rivals games and no matter whether a win/loss/draw, this guy kept scoring. He scored 7 goals during the first game. He scored 4 goals during the second one and ended up with one hundred goals for the club after 51 games. (Div 3-4 player) This guy impressed me so much that I was forced to write my first review here. (I was lucky enough to pack TOTS CR7 last season and he wasn't nearly as impactful, given the meta last year)

His updated work rates make him a perfect ST/CAM/CF in any formation. The runs behind the defence, the midfield domination, he is simply all over the place. 9 out of 10 shots are bangers. Finesse shots, power shots, chip shots, this man does it all. Dribbling? There are two possible scenarios - he either wins a free kick and scores it or simply left stick dribbles past defenders/goalkeepers. He is unstoppable. I found myself not giving a crap about how shitty the EA Servers are, because at this point, I simply play in order to enjoy this card. Having said that, I highly recommend you to find the players you enjoy playing with the most and to simply play for fun. FIFA 20 ain't worth the nerves. Good luck!

Updated work rates. Perfect positioning!
Feels faster in-game, certainly 91+ pace.
Shooting.
Top 3 dribblers in the game.
Shooting.
Crazy passing, in case you play him as a CAM and have a better striker up in front.

Strength (You can try Hawk, although I didn't see much of a difference vs Hunter)
Stamina (I'd recommend you to instruct him to stay forward and adjust his interceptions to conservative)

Formation: 4231

Position: ST

Games: 71

GPG: 1.83

APG: 0.24

5.0

Overall

4.0

Value

5.0

4.0

Stamina

Pace (10/10)

Shooting (10/10)

Passing (10/10)

Dribbling (10/10)

Defending (5/10)

Physicality (6/10)

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