Player Review

83 - Objectives

2.5

Better stats than Essien? Yes, but...

By lucaguadagnino, 13-01-2021

There was a time in older FUT versions, especially the 13s, the 14s, the 15s... in which I would often stumble upon an average player getting a very good IF card, making the player going from average looking to very good looking. Sometimes, this upgrade would make the player much better (some random names: IF Burak Yilmaz in FIFA 13, IF Teemu Pukki, Diamanti TOTS from that same edition, SIF Heung-Min Son from FIFA 14, IF Darijo Srna... you named it) but sometimes this upgrade would just not make the same difference in game as it was on the card. To this day, I still want to believe it was and it is just my sensation, but I feel like 83 Alfred Duncan can belong to this last category, in part. It feels like EA can't make these kind of average players going from "eh" to "Wow!" just because they don't have a reason to, and because it would not resonate like a plausible thing. It's as if the fact that Duncan is an average player IRL, even doubling his stats would not actually make him that better, as if every player had their own, unique tendencies.

The problem that I had with him was "The Presence": I don't know if it was just me, but I have felt like he was not a part of the game, both offensively and defensively. On offense, I can understand given his workrates, but on defense, he was just "okay". If you would select him, he would have gone for the tackle, otherwise, he would have always been out of position. It almost seemed to me like he was shy.

Given the fact that he has almost no traits, apart from the Long-Shot Taker one, he seems not to have any real unique superpower. He is not aggressive on the ball unless you really dive into tackles. His pace is good, so he is definitely quick. His passing is okay, nothing new, nothing bad. His longshots are almost useless, and even when I had some free space, his shot was actually not that fast and powerful. His physicals are okay, but I feel like sometimes he suffers being 5'10''. You don't feel that with Kanté, but you can feel it with Duncan. Everything is kind of average with him. You might sometimes get a splendid longshots or an amazing recover on defense, but I also feel like I can't expect these things to happen in every game.

Overall, he is a decent player and can be a good all around midfielder, but I sense he lacks all the tendencies that star players have. I am a bit disappointed just because the card looks incredibly good, but in game, a lot of those things just seem to disappear. Obviously with him being ghanian, everyone was comparing him with Essien, given that he even has more stats than Essien's baby version. Sure, but the problem is that Duncan is in no way present like Baby Essien would be.

I still want to try him out in different formations, but let me know how you felt him, just to know if this was just my rapid, placebo feelings.

- "Little Jack" of all trades, master of nothing

- Presence. Presence. Presence

Formation: 4231

Position: CDM

Games: 21

GPG: 0.10

APG: 0.05

2.5

Overall

5.0

Value

2.0

4.0

Stamina

Pace (8/10)

Shooting (6/10)

Passing (7/10)

Dribbling (4/10)

Defending (7/10)

Physicality (8/10)

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