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4.5

Way too underrated! (John Barnes)

By dieter123yx2, 11-03-2021

So I did an mid/prime icon pack and first were disappointed when seeing barnes walking out, but I gave him a chance and I have to say that this card is unbelievebly good.

I play him as a striker because I think as a LW he is a bit too slow and clunky. With his med/high work rates he fits perfectly into the ST position. His pace is perfect and he will score bangers from 7m,15m or even 25m. I use a hunter on him so both pace and shooting are literally perfect. With bad gameplay his dribbling can feel a bit clunky but if you have a good connection he feels so good on the ball. The fact that he has 85 physicality and is 6'0 high, he'll be able to push away some defenders. Especially when using a fake shot to move into the box. There's no need to improve his passing.

All in all, the only problem I see with this card is that he is a LW so you will most likely play him on 6 chemistry as a ST or switch him with a striker in-game. Also his agility can be a bit annoying sometimes.

He is definetly not meta but I think it's a card you can have much fun with.

-pace

-shooting

-weakfoot

-physicality

-agility (with bad gameplay)

Formation: 4222

Position: ST

Games: 15

GPG: 1.13

APG: 0.40

4.5

Overall

5.0

Value

4.5

5.0

Stamina

Pace (9/10)

Shooting (9/10)

Passing (8/10)

Dribbling (7/10)

Defending (1/10)

Physicality (9/10)

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