Reviews

To be frank, this year I loved Pogba and he is way better than last year (maybe undeserved but it’s not my business and its just a game…) but only in online seasons while in weekend league, he didn’t meet my expectations and I decided to try Zidane for his pace and other iconic abilities :) who is similar to Pogba due his height and body type with skills of course.

Despite being a baby icon, he is even better than baby

Ronaldo (who I tried and sold quickly since he is awful this year) as a baby

icon and he performed very well and continue to perform since I am not planning

to sell him in the short term.

He is agile, fast and everywhere. Shooting is perfect and even DDG cant save her shots and you don’t need timed shooting with him. Behind Mbappe and Neymar, he is so strong and leading the gameplay by also coming deep to take the ball even if I instructed to stay forward which is nice cause he is strong and his long passing is also great in game. I believe that he will be more expensive since 2.5 mio is nothing for such a card while Eusebio and others are around 3 mio and more.

Played 250 games with him at CAM, ST, CM, and he's brilliant at all three. I've also put hunter, engine and hawk Chem styles on him and here is what I've found. At CDM you want an engine on him, because pace is not as necessary when playing the deeper roles. Being a bigger player he is not as shifty/agile at Kante, or IF Torreira, but has better ability to spring your counter attack with skills, and passing ability. His attacking qualities are very much wasted here. At striker the lack of elite agility and balance let him down against elite defenders. I found him running into the defender often because he needs more room than Griezmann or Messi to go through the animations. However if you play with him like a Vardy, and he's out pacing everyone in the back or using his high strength to gain the advantage. He's best running at players from CAM/CM with the hunter chem style. He has more space to pick out a pass, and dribble, and tends to make the late run into the box opposite the ball. I would recommend him if you have the coins to play with, but I would not be trading in RTTF cards to get him as his price is probably at it's ceiling.

I would like to make a premise, my level in WL is gold 1 or 2 and in previous FIFA I used players like Leo Messi, CR7, Ronaldinho Prime and others. Zidane is the best player I've ever used.
I use a 433 (5) with central midfielder Zidane and it's surreal:
- It's everywhere, it starts the action and often two or three steps later it is in a dangerous position where it can score;
- With the ball you can do whatever you want, it has an incredible dribble and is very agile (with maestro chem);
- The shots are fantastic, both soft and powerful. In front of the goalkeeper he has excellent finalization statistics;
- Movements without the ball perfect for building constructed and unpredictable ball and chain actions;
- Clean and ingenious passages (even if it is more realizer than assist-man in my game).

To conclude, in 127 games he scored 122 goals, as a central midfielder !!! (75% used in rivals and WL and 25% in squad battle)
If you want to have fun, if you want to remember its elegant movements and you miss it then buy it!

Zidane is one of very, very few people who would force my 94 De Bruyne out of the central CAM spot in a 4-2-3-1. Alongside previously mentioned 94 KDB & 87 Del Piero in the other CAM spots, Zizou rules the midfield in every sense. A 6'1" figure whose 84 strength and 5 star weak foot & skill moves turn a sublime box-to-box midfielder into a 90 minute ball winning (and passing) machine. As soon as I changed my chemistry formation to accomodate this card, I applied an Engine chemistry style to it, to give that 84 pace just that little boost it needs. After all, I have pace elsewhere on the field. You'll notice I've given this card 4.5 stars out of 5 for value for money, I tried to be impartial and think of the 2.3M coins he costs, but the reality is that I packed him out of a Base Icon SBC pack, using predominantly untradeables and spending 50K on the cards I didn't have. That being said, I think giving him 5 stars would be misleading considering I am in the aforementioned negligible, blessed minority. Just for the record, I think 2.3 million for this card is probably spot on with its in-game value.