Player Review
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Okay, two things to acknowledge first:
- I played over 200 games with his mid before
- Huge Bayern fan, so substract sentimental value
I do love me some postional experiments. As I needed to try this card, I recently acquired him, put him next to IF Kanté in a 4231 and put IF Valverde as RB for chemistry reasons.
And wow, is he phenomenal. Lightning quick and agile, precision passing long and short while also being defensively great.
He truly feels like an extremely upgraded Kanté ingame.
Great defensive awareness paired with his speed means that he will always be there to defend. In build-up, he obviously is great, too.
I absolutely recommend trying him out at CDM if you can manage to put someone at RB. Hard to imagine that there will be better CDM cards except the obvious ones (Gullit, Vieira).
As I prefer agile players in every postion to e.g. the Sissokos of the world, he is perfection.
I advise using Catalyst on him as his defending already is incredible but boosting that pace and maxing that passing seems to be the move.
He obviously is not a scoring threat but will put clear chances in the back of the net. As I do not shoot with my CDMs too much, this is not relevant for me.
I also feel like that strenth is not important. He is not bullied but wins his duels, especially when jockeying.
- Speed
- Agility
- Defending
- Presence overall
- Passing (Long and short)
- Shooting (irrelevant for me)