Player Review
87 - Icon
Great Icon for a relatively cheap price. I bought him because I'm from Germany and he's been a Legend with our national team.
For around 450,000 you get an amazing box-to-box player with no real weaknesses which I would of course recommend to play in Central Midfield. His lowest stat (with a shadow, still) might be defending, but as a CM with a defensively solid CM/CDM, he's been doing great for me. He's really good at cutting passing lanes, his pace enables him to catch up to most opponents in midfield. Going forward he's truly a machine, you can use his pace (with shadow) in quick one-twos so well, and he seems to find open spaces to run into most of the times.
His shooting is amazing, his shot power and finishing can really punish your opponent if he comes forward as an additional offensive player in an attacking situation.
His corners are solid as well, and in terms of heading duels he wins lots of them.
The only downside would be that he's lacking in strength sometimes in crucial situations in midfield. Also you should remember that he's not good enough defensively to REALLY rely on him as being your Staubsauger (as we call it in German). Him having 3/3 is a bit of a shame, in my opinion he should have gotten at least 3/4.
Otherwise a really great card!
- Pace (outstanding for a CM)
- Shooting (Finishing, shot power)
- heading duels
- solid defensively as a CM
- not good enough to play him as CDM
- have to put him on the LW/LM position due to chem
- 3 star 3 star