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94 - IF
First off: I really love Messi in real life, thats the main reason I bought this card. I already had his normal card and as soon as I saw his Inform I knew I had to get him. I played him as right striker next to Joao Felix (sick card btw) in the 4-4-2. I´m an average Division 2/Gold 2 Player.
-Pace: I mean he isn´t the fastest player and probably not what you are searching if you are playing full drop back and counter attack, but as I am playing a very offensive and tiki taka like playstyle the accelaration is far more important for me than the sprint speed. His acceleration being this high you can easily do a fake shot stop and just burst through defenders.
-Shooting: This is the main difference I noticed between the gold and the totw card, his gold card seemed to miss some shots I thought he should score, but this card doesn´t miss. I´ve used Ronaldo, Mbappe and Neymar and imo Messi is better than all of them especially when you consider his finesse shot.
-Passing: As I already mentioned i like to play many passes and I looooves Messi´s passing. He just can´t miss a pass, doesn´t matter if it´s on his right or left
-Dribbling: His dribbling is just cracked. When you hold R1 and do some close dribbling with him you can litterally walk through defenders and he doesn´t seem to lose the ball.
-Weak Foot: Obviously with this year Weak Foot not being that important you would expect him to score with his right, but he nearly feels like he has 5* Weak Foot, because of his crazy shooting and passing.
-Physical: Of course he isn´t strong and won´t score headers, but you don´t need those stats as his crazy dribbling compensates for his lack of strength.
-Stamina: This is the only real problem I had with this card as when you like to use Team Press he is gonna be tired at the 70-80th minute and needs to be subbed out unless you play him at CAM where he can definetely play the full 90min.
-Skills: Of course for a god tier card you´d like him to have 5* skills, but as I already said you can just left stick dribble with him and it´s probably gonna be more effective than skills most of the time.
Price: Of course 1.8mil (time of writing this review but got him for 1.6 earlier on thursday) is a lot to pay for just one card, but I still think he is worth it as he is just crazy good.
Never played with Messi or someone as good as him (except Draft) and got him as a red.
His movement and first touch is out of this world and with a hunter on him pace is not a big problem. He also saved me lots of wins because almost every shot he makes is a goal (other than Trashford...). When i changed Rashford for Mertens it got even way better.
Conclusion: If u dont need pace or 5 star dribbling you should buy him as he makes an excellent cam or even st because he´s one of those guys who can win you important games. But beware that you should try to include his base card first because its much cheaper.
- His passing of course... It was reall hard for my opponents to intercept them
- His dribblng: His Skill-Moves arent as good as Neymar, but with holding rb near the goal its really hard to defend him without causing a penalty
- His shootig: He makes goals like he just does them for fun (You should use his left foot as he "only" has 4 WF). 70 goals in 50 games (only WL)
- hes not big so u actually wont make lots of headers with him
- he only 4 star weak foot and dribbling and hes not as fast as Neymar or Mbappe wich makes him more predictable
- His Price: Hes x2 the price of his base card so if u dont need him because of his position change hes not worth it
- His stamina is not a big problem but in extra time he wouldn´t help u as much as before
I was lucky enough to pack this guy from my TOTW pack, built a squad around him not expecting way too much as people said he isn't that good, but after using him for a while I can feel free to deny the fact he is bad. Man scores every shot he takes and is impossible to take the ball off, if you don't need 5 star skills or weak foot this is one of the best, if not the best player you can buy. 10
Pros:
Shooting
Passing
Dribbling
Pace
Playmaking
Freekicks
Cons:
Stamina
Physicality
hes a lot of money but you really get value for money ive used him for multiple weekend leagues and hes never let me down and very often came in clutch for me
pace(hunter)
finishing
dribbling
week foot actually very good for 4*
weak
work rates
stamina
I packed this guy thinking, maybe he is the next Varane. I was wrong. This guy cant jump for his life. He tackles so half-heartedly and gets bullied off the ball. His height isn't really the best either, absolutely useless at corners :( I really wouldn't recommend this guy. He is quite fast though, to be honest.
- Pace
- Height
- Aggression
- Tackling
- Marking