Player Review
86 - Ligue 1 POTM SBC
So.........at the time of writing this review, he's no longer available to get as a player. I've used him as my main striker for a month now and I have to hold my hands up, he's actually pretty decent. For a striker, you'd have to say he doesn't put a foot wrong (except for a few obvious caveats), the finishing on his is excellent, the passing is passable (no pun intended) and his dribbling, *not* skill moves but actually dribbling is actually very underrated and he's able to give me a lot of assists from positions where he's surrounded a myriad of defenders, accurately maneuvering his feet and the ball fashioning chances for others with this hold-up. the difficulties with him are the obvious 3-star ratings but on the contrary, these are actually underrated. yes, his weak foot rating does not matter because his finishing on any finishing chem style is automatic. Put him one on one and it doesn't matter what you do, it's going in. Finishing with delort is the easiest thing you can do. Well when I said it doesn't matter what you do, I definitely wasn't talking about finessing. his curve is as poor as it gets and please whatever you do, stay away from finessing with him. Also obviously linking him is quite tasking but I get around that using mahrez or flashback ben afra. ALSO mostly importantly I would say his heading stats are Ronaldo-esque (on marksman) but if that's what you're expecting then he's a bit underwhelming nonetheless, he gets his head up to a lot of stuff which means you'd find joy crossing to him. Also, I play him in a 442 mainly and let him be on target man duty but when he gets in behind it's automatically a goal and so I feel you'd get more joy playing him in behind. I just have to say, the number of defenders that can catch him arent that much, and the number of defenders that can body him off the ball in this game are even less, but these two together and I don't think you can fill a backline enough defenders that can both catch him and dispossess him or even slow him down.
-Combination of Strength and Pace
-Link up play
-Automatic Finishing
-3-star skills moves feel like almost a 4 because they're a bit faster with the amount of dribbling stats he has (esp depending on your chem style)
-3 -star weak foot doesn't matter unless you're finessing, but you shouldn't finesse with his strong foot anyway.
-Weak foot and Skill moves
-Curve
-Links