Player Review

90 - TOTS

4.5

200 GAMES: A REVIEW

By chaleur, 23-05-2021

To begin, Tagliafico's stats look immense. The perfect LB, the perfect kante-esque CDM. High reactions, high defensive stats all round, strength above 80. Thus, I tried him at LB, CDM, LM and even LCB in a 3 back. Let's just say, straight up, you are handicapping yourself playing this lad at CB. His body type in game feels so skinny, he never gets the all-important auto-blocks in at CB, and this is coming from someone with 1000 games on Prime Cannavaro, a CB just an inch taller than Tagliafico.

I tried 3 different chemistry styles: Backbone, Anchor, Basic and found that he was best with an anchor at LB and a backbone at CDM. But the most overwhelming issue with tagliafico is his passing on his 2 star weak foot. don't even bother attempting a driven pass on his weak foot, it fails 7 out of 10 times. This makes his playmaking abilities (for example at CDM) very limited despite the good passing stats. Even when intercepting a lofted ball at LB and attempting a normal pass to your team mate is risky especially under pressure and i usually just clear it on pure distrust of his passing. Now, its not near as bad as prime cannavaro, but he is easily far in far the second worst passer in my team.

One exception is his crossing, its top tier.

I did the flashback Roussillon a couple days ago and never looked back. Roussilon is better than Tagliafico in every aspect despite the stats. I'm a G1 consistent player btw.

stay back LB: 7.6/10 (FB Roussilon 9.4/10)

LM/ LWB: 7.8/10 (FB Roussilon 8.3/10)

CDM: 8.5/10 (Gold Kante 9.2/10)

LCB: 6.2/10 (Prime Cannavaro 9.1/10)

Crossing

Stamina

Reactions

Pace

Interceptions

Too weak to man mark

Passing on weak foot especially

Height

Skinny body type

Formation: 442

Position: LB

Games: 203

GPG: 0.03

APG: 0.20

4.5

Overall

5.0

Value

3.5

5.0

Stamina

Pace (10/10)

Shooting (5/10)

Passing (6/10)

Dribbling (8/10)

Defending (9/10)

Physicality (6/10)

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