Player Review

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3.5

Hate x Love (honest review)

By xxSundayLeague97xx, 17-05-2020

Before starting:

Division 4, Gold 1 - Elite 3

Packed mine untradeable really early in season 1 (september).

Games: 554

Goals: 244

Assists: 276

Positions: Mostly RAM / RW, meanwhile CAM / RS

As I already written I packed Messi out of an untradeable gifted pack really early in FIFA 20.

On this stage of the game Messi was my gamechanger and he settled my squad to another level.

But with time flying and if I had a tradeable one, I would have sold him in January.

As this stage arrived, many better players in value of coins where on the market and the fullbacks where also getting better and better.

Now as we are coming to the end of this years FIFA, I would be really happy to transfer him into 300k.

I honestly mean, to compete on this level you can‘t tell that Messi is fun or even effective to play either out wide or as a single ST.

The only two positions imo where Messi is still playable are central CAM in a classic 4231 or a RS in a two-striker formation.

Since TOTS came out and I still can’t bring myself to bench him, he is my CAM besides Nedved 89 and Rodrigo Birthday (which I would highly recommend using as a winger if you have a better ST) and behind Butrageno middle at ST.

His passing is still exceptional, he is of course really agile and he is still able to score a screamer on good gameplay and if the script isn‘t against you. It‘s hard to score with his right foot, his outside foot shot shines up rarely for me. But anyway his shielding and holp up play is good enough.

So is he worth the coins at the this stage of the game for a CAM or second striker?

I‘d say no.

There are so many players (with the important 5 stars weak foot) who are actually better for 300k or cheaper at CAM like KdB, Neymar, Ben Yedder and so on...

still able to score a screamer (every couple of games)
exceptional passing
shielding and hold up play
4 stars skills

weak foot (feels more like 3 stars while shooting)
stamina (conservative and stay forward have to be set)
pace feels like 85 even with hunter
his performance rises and falls with script effected gameplay more than with any other player I played with

Formation: 4231

Position: CAM

Games: 554

GPG: 0.44

APG: 0.50

3.5

Overall

3.0

Value

3.0

Stamina

Pace (7/10)

Shooting (7/10)

Passing (10/10)

Dribbling (9/10)

Defending (5/10)

Physicality (7/10)

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