Player Review

When I saw this card last week I was initially put off by the price, but there's a reason this card costs so much. Of course, in FIFA 19 when you could do top icons for 1.5m coins, this would be madness. But with no icons easily available and with presumably a tonne of red picks wasting away in your club, this guy is worth it.

Playing up top with Richarlison, Lucas bagged 41 goals for me as I finished 23-7, which was an incredible return. I keep stats for my WL each week and my best so far this year was Fut Birthday Havertz with 35 back in April. Nobody had sniffed 40 for me this year. He also had 24 assists - I expect about 15-20 for my goal-dominant striker so this was above expectations.

Overall, he was absolutely brilliant for me and with the game only around for a couple more months, you should do him if you have some fodder. Reasons below:

Positioning is his best attribute. He was always in the right place and whilst you can't score every shot, he gave himself every chance.

Most of my goals were either regular shots or volleys, with a couple of finesses thrown in. If you ignore my opponents being good at keeper movement, he only really had one gilt-edged chance that he didn't put away...but then he came back in the same game and got me the winner.

Sometimes cards with five-star weak foot have that 'fake' weak foot that simply doesn't feel as good as their strong one. Not the case here, his left was absolutely deadly.

In terms of pace and agility he's smaller than my other guys with maxed-out pace so he felt a little bit faster. His turns and drag backs were great too.

Passing is a bit trickier to judge - it's tough to tell a good passer from a bad one since so much of this is reliant on the person controlling the players, but he didn't feel worse than Cruyff or KDB, who are both known as some of the best passers in the game. I'm not the best dribbler/skiller, but he still made some people look silly, particularly from short corners. 9/10

The only thing that wasn't top tier was his physicality, but really, only Boateng dominated him - most of the time he held his own against the Militaos and Varanes of the world. He was also decent at winning the ball back.

I had high hopes for him after he was released, but I was fully prepared to eat humble pie if I was wrong. I said to my friends that he looked like a dollar store Eusebio, but honestly, I can't imagine Eusebio could be much better than this guy. He is absolutely perfect for the meta, he's the best striker I've used this year and I think right now I would only trade him for 94+ R9 or Birthday Mbappe.

I noticed last week that some people were trying to compare him to other cards with much cheaper SBCs, saying they were similar players. Of the seven games I lost, three of them had Lucas in their team and a few other tough players had him as well. I did not see Jota, Kamada or any other SBC attacker at all. The only Moments I saw were the ones you'd expect - Militao, Ramos, and the occasional Hazard.

So if you are thinking of doing this SBC, I cannot recommend him highly enough. Hope this helps!