Player Review

88 - Icon

4.5

Once a CB, Always a CB

By pokeopolis, 25-11-2020

I packed this card in the Base Icon SBC and at first I felt bad about it. I mean it's Maldini but just not the one you want. However, I wanted to use him since I just spent 500k on him. So I put him at CB at 7 chemistry with an Anchor chem style and went into Rivals. At first, he was absolute trash. No matter what I did, he just could never stay in position and was always had a slow tackle about him. So after losing that game because of his atrocious defending, I started to lose hope. Then I started to think, "What was this card missing? He's got all the pace, defending, and even physical I could ask for. What is wrong here?". I went to FUTBIN and looked at his 92 mid Icon and looked at the dribbling. His mid has 95 reactions! That had to be it! And it was. So, I looked for chem styles that brought up his reactions and Maestro brought it up to 90 on 7 chem. That was just enough to make this card click for me. He was a brick wall in defense and with his boosted passing, he could actually pass up to my strikers. So, if you want Maldini or have packed him in your base Icon pack, he is good. You just have to raise his reactions and he will do wonders in the defense. For the price, I would say he's definitely worth the 580k as long as you play him at CB with Maestro. Also, he is so good with headers it's actually insane.

PACE

DEFENSIVE AWARENESS

STANDING TACKLE

HEADING ACCURACY

COMPOSURE

REACTIONS (can be improved with Maestro or Artist)

STRENGTH (sometimes but not all the time)

Formation: 442

Position: CB

Games: 15

GPG: 0.07

APG: 0.13

4.5

Overall

4.0

Value

5.0

4.0

Stamina

Pace (9/10)

Shooting (5/10)

Passing (7/10)

Dribbling (6/10)

Defending (10/10)

Physicality (7/10)

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