Player Review
89 - FUT Birthday SBC
I am a Div 1 player, who regularly gets to G1 on WL. I am rocking a serie a/la liga hybrid and when I saw Vidal, I thought he was a must buy (especially as all the reviewers were raving about him)! On paper, Vidal is one of the best b2b midfielders in the game but for whatever reason I could not get him to work!
Defending (5/10)
I started off playing him as the sole holding midfielder in a 41212 narrow but found that he wasn't good enough defensively - for whatever reason he seemed to bounce off other players like mbappe and even weaker players like Neymar. As far as positioning, he didn't do a bad job but there are definitely better defensive CDMs out there.
Passing (9/10)
I could not fault vidal's passing this weekend league - he very rarely put a foot wrong and could thread both long and short passes
Pace/agility/dribbling (5/10)
Lumpy lumpy lumpy. Slow and lumpy (I had a shadow on him, maybe it should have been an engine?)
Shooting (6/10)
Vidal's shooting was good, but nothing special. He does make good attacking runs but hasn't got the pace to make them count
Strength (6/10)
Regularly got shrugged off the ball by the likes of Kante.
I started off this weekend League with with vidal at RCM and had the worst start to WL I have ever had. As soon as I dropped Vidal, my weekend league picked up significantly and I clutched G1 by winning 9 (yes nine) games in a row! Vidal had a goal/assist contribution of 0.2 per game. If I compare that to Cucurella, who played LCM, he had a G/A of 0.8 per game (from basically the same position)
From my experience, I would highly recommend not getting Vidal.