Player Review
84 - Champions League
It's been a while ever since Verissimo was out and I thought on making one review of him because I've seen comments that say he's good some say he's bad, so here is my sincere opinion if you are in doubt if you should or not try this card out in your team.
I've had Verissimo for the longest month of my life, I've played 278 games with him and I'm feeling confident when writing this. I've explored literally every position this guy can play, CB, CDM, CM, LB, LWB. And his best place it is at CB. Verissimo is an odd card you look at his 83 pace (Going up to 85 soon) and you expect him to destroy the attackers, well it doesn't work like that. Even with the Anchor (best chem style for him) Verissimo is not gonna be a cheap Varane. Lucas has a physical that puts me in doubt when challenging for the ball, sometimes he'll tumble over or be completely overpowered by an attacker. But rarely he'll give away a game. what makes Verissimo a good card is his pace. the fact he can outrun many players like Insigne and even Mbappe makes me wonder what this guy actually has in store. In my team he plays the agreesive defensder, running after the attackers while 85 Dante stays back as he conservative one. He gives good slide tackles and its very good on the 1v1 situations, intercepts the ball when needed disarms very well, its always good positioned defensively but he sometimes makes unecessary runs up the pitch due to the Low/Med workrates. He's 1.88m and has good heading accuracy. He'll receive the 2+ upgrade soon and I can say he'll be a cheaper version of 85 Eder Militão. And the links might be a certain problem but with the NOS objective players you can link him better I've played him with 6 chem and he ws almost the same so there are no excuses for the links.
I play him at RCB with these instructions:
> Stay back defending.
> Agressive Intercepting.
> Anticipation.
It works for me might work for you too. :)
> Pace: I'm doing this review before the upgrade so his 83 pace might have changed by now.
> Tackling: Really solid in 1v1 situations.
> Awareness: He always manages to stay in position.
> Intercepting: He always find good spots to pressure on to cut a pass.
> Physical: CAUTION! He might be overpowered by strong attackers like Lukaku and Haaland.
> Workrates: Low/Med makes him run up for no reason.
> Links: Hard to link with meta players.
> Upgrade: He has gotten the 84 upgrade but I think that's it for Benfica.