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95 - Summer Stars

5.0

How is he so cheap?!?!

By cgopie1, 05-07-2021

Ok, so when I checked the new players released at 6pm last Friday, Locatelli was the first card which caught my eye as he could easily slip into my main team, as he could replace either Barella or Vidal (I ended up choosing to drop Barella out the team). I didn't check his price right away, as I planned on waiting a few days for his price to go down before I purchased him, but around midnight that night, I saw he was already at 132k, so I went and snapped him up. As I'm writing this, his price has gone down further to 108k!!!

So, I put him in this squad (https://www.futbin.com/21/squad/9060283), and switch to a 4-4-2 (2) in-game, with Locatelli as the left CDM. I used the anchor chem style on him.

Team instructions:

Pressure on heavy touch
6 defensive width
8 depth
Long ball
5 attacking width
4 players in box for cross

Individual instructions:

Cut passing lanes
Stay back whilst attacking
Normal interceptions
Cover centre

Stats so far:

Games: 23
Goals: 1
Assists: 8

I had already played 9 games of weekend league at the time I bought him, and put him in ahead of Barella for the other 21 games, reaching gold 2. The other two games were in division 3 rivals.

The one thing which concerned me before buying him were his dribbling stats, which were noticeably lower than Barella's. However, my play style means that I don't really dribble too much with my CDMs, as I mostly like to try and play it quickly to the forwards or wingers as soon as possible. Therefore, I did not notice the drop in dribbling compared to Barella too much at all. For what I needed him for, he moved well enough.

His passing is immaculate. When he's not under pressure, his passing is genuinely perfect. I tried a lot of difficult first-time passes with him and he was spot-on most of the time. I was worried about his 85 composure, compared to Barella's 91 composure, but I felt his passing under pressure was just as good as Barella's, though not as good as he is when not under pressure, for obvious reasons.

Defensively he is insane. I've used a lot of very good CDMs in this game, but I was amazed at how often he'd win the ball back for me. His tackling is so good and always won the ball back for me, whilst also always being in the right position to intercept.

Even though I have him on stay back instructions, I do like him to get forward sometimes, and he does this very well. I've tried a few long shots with him, and they're always close, but I haven't scored one with him yet. The one goal I've scored with him is when he broke into the box and scored a 1v1 finesse shot.

Overall, I think he's much better than Barella, and I would have seriously paid 300k for this card if that was he price. He feels so good in game, that I'm really shocked at how low his price is. If you can fit him into your team, I would highly recommend it.

Sensational passing
Wins every tackle
Always in the right position to intercept passes
Breaks forward quite well
Shooting feels very good (even though I don't shoot much with him and have only scored 1 goal)

Nothing significant

Formation: 442-2

Position: CDM

Games: 23

GPG: 0.04

APG: 0.35

5.0

Overall

5.0

Value

4.5

5.0

Stamina

Pace (9/10)

Shooting (8/10)

Passing (10/10)

Dribbling (8/10)

Defending (10/10)

Physicality (10/10)

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