Reviews

I played fifa 19 last year and i faced a few times Rio, he was maybe the best CB I faced right after VVD toty and tots, Ramos toty and Varane toty, so when the set of icons for the first swap was reveled i thought i should give Rio a try, as his baby version is better than his middle version. Fifa keeps on being a game where pace really matters, it matters so much that even Hummels, Boateng, and great CB with low pace are unusable at a good level of skill rating, because you have to face players like dembele, sancho, gnabry, coman, werner, crespo, walcott, mbappe, neymar, so when you see Rio card there is an appealing 84 pace on the card. You then need to see if this card has agility and balance cause a lot of pace low agility and balance equals to no pace at all in many players but he has 60 agility and 60 balance for a guy that is 6´2 (189cm) thats quite high. Cb as Sule or Varane or Scream Pique they all have very low balance, im not saying that scream Pique or Varane are bad im just saying that balance is a very important stat convined with pace as we can see on that 81 gold card that Eder Militao has that is awsome and very cheap. I chose to use a Shadow on him, i know maybe some of you are thinking that is an abuse but really its not. The thing is that with a shadow he has 98 acceleration with 95 sprint speed, he is just a player that can recover and get almost any attacker in this game. All in all Huge guy, really quick, top tier CB, good agility and balance, wins aerial balls (only goal I scored so far with him comeing from a corner), and will not let you down just trust me, totally worth the grind for this God

Ferdinand the Tank is one of the best central backs ive played so far, i used Van Dijk, Joe Gomez 83, Koulibaly and much more... but in this Weekendleague after many many hours of grinding for him.. he was my gamechanger.. his pace is so good and with the sentinal combination he's also a fricking tanky dude, if u did the joe gomez sbc (83 rated road to the final) u must do the ferdinand sbc (icon swaps) i swear this is a deadly lifetime duo.

Ferdinand was always going to be the player I took in ICON Swaps. I loved him in real life, looks like a META card and 16 tokens isn't quite enough to make you go insane. I really, really wanted him to be good but he's largely inconsistent. For reference I am a Div 4/Gold 1/2 player.

I played him next to Lucas Hernandez who is my favourite CB this year, and unfortunately Hernandez seemed to outperform Rio. His tackling is extremely inconsistent, he doesn't seem to 'lock on' like the best defenders in the game do, he'll often go in for a tackle you think he'll make and he misses the man completely or other times he won't come out with the ball in that horrible animation where the ball sticks with the attacking player.

I don't necessarily regret my choice, as the only other player I'd have gone for is Zanetti and I already have RTTF Mbabu who is outstanding, but I am feeling largely underwhelmed by a player I thought would be comparable to the best in the game. Unfortunately he's not.