Player Review

Lucky pick

So I have never written a review for a player before, but for this card I feel like I just have too.

I was lucky enough to get him as an option from the Mid or Prime Icon Player Pick SBC. Lucky especially since I have been saving up for months to buy his baby version and now I don't have too anymore!

As a longtime Ajax fan, playing with Cruyff in game has been a longtime goal. This is the first Fifa (Been playing FUT since 2012) where I actually the opportunity.

I have only played six games so far, all in Division Rivals (starting in DIV 4, but 5 wins and 1 draw took me straight to DIV 3 for the first time). But I feel it is already enough to tell you how amazing this card is. It is truly unlike anyother card that I have ever used before.

All about the dribble

For me this is basically up to the combination of three things: unreal dribbling, blistering pace and clinical finishing.

But mostly the dribbling, oh boy. I am not by any means a skiller in game. I know some basic skill moves (ball roll, bridge to bridge, berbatov spin, fake shot and elastico) but I do not apply them frequently and am trash at 'chaining them'. But that does not matter with Cruyff. Because you don't need any skill moves to dribble past defenders with him. He is just so silky on the ball, it somehow seems stuck to his foot. He keeps the ball real close to him and his responsiveness is so high that you can just use the left analog stick to run by defenders left and right. I cannot stress this enough: his dribbling is unlike anything else, truly glitched. Once you have found your open space due to this dribbling, his pace makes sures that he stays away. I do admit I was cheeky enough to apply a Hunter on him, just because I feel that the meta requires me to do so.

Deadly finisher

Once you have found your way to the goal, you can hardly miss with this card. HIs shooting is so clinical on either foot. His goal tally is only hindered by your own skill: as long as you make the logical choice (near post, far post, finesse, low shot), the ball will go in. In the six games I have played so far, he managed to score at least a hattrick in 5 of them, with him being stuck on 2 goals and 1 assist in the other game (3-3 draw).

True teamplayer/teamlifter

But most of all what I felt with this card, is that it actually pays tribute to the real player. Even though EA has done a dirty job in terms of his rating (to me Cruyff is only competing with Maradonna and/or Pele as the GOAT), I do feel that the way the card plays actually is accurate. Because what this card does, is the same as Cruyff did in his days: he lifts the whole team up a level. I just seem to have a lot better teamplay with him upfront. I think that this is due to the fact that this card is so good, the opponent is forced to commit more defenders to him, which opens up huge amounts of space for other players. Apart from the earlier mentionend 3-3 draw, the other five games saw me scoring 6+ goals in each of them, with a DR record of 11-1 in one game for me.

This is also reflected in the 11 assists that Cruyff provided and that is excluding the pre-assists (the pass to the player who provides actual the assist) that are unfortunately recorderd. Otherwise you could state that this card achieved a triple-double in those six games (goals, assists, pre-assists).

I can't wait to try this card in the upcoming WL.

Conclusion

This card is insane. I can't imagine how his prime or PIM can even be better. The only thing I can think of is more strength or stamina, but he does not really need it.

Sure he is not the strongest card and will get bullied of the ball by stronger players. The problem for those players is that they rarely get the chance to bully him because he already has shown them his heels.

And stamina-wise: it is not brilliant, but it surely is enough for 90 minutes (I do have him on stay forward though). Have not had the chance (because DR) to play extra time with him, but in fairness I don't think that chance will come often: you will have beaten your opponent within those 90 minutes.

Sure 4 million is a ridiculous amount of coins, but this is a ridiculous player. Get this man if you can.

Squad

BTW: I was too lazy to squad build my squad, but here it is, please don't judge my extreme pack luck:

4-3-2-1: Alisson, Klaiber 86, Van Dijk 90, Casemiro,90, Acuna 88, Bruno Guimaraes (87 CDM version), Ramos TOTY (packed from saving a huge amount of packs), Bergkamp 92, Cantona 90 (Icon Swaps 1, mid 89+), Cruyff 91, Neymar (packed out of 75+ rare player pack)

Everyone on 10 chem, except Neymar on 7 (starting formation is 5-2-1-2 to make this possible, switch ingame)

Hope you enjoyed the review, I was to lazy to spell check (+non-native), my apologies!