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5.0

Baby Cantona

By Cato42, 21-03-2022

I have tried a lot of strikers this year (Gold Mbappe, 90 Fekir, WW Martial, Prime Dalglish, Mid Eto'o, etc.) because it's been hard for me finding the best striker for my game style and since i don't have enough coins for cards like R9, Eusebio, Cruyff and company so i'm trying to find the perfect mid tier striker for me. However i felt like this guy need a review even though there are already a couple reviews on him. The fact is that i had so may doubts before buying him, he had the very difficult job of replacing gold Mbappe (we all know how good he is) and looking at his stats you can say he's an absolute monster but we all know how much body type and height are important on FIFA. I still bought him and i'm overall very happy with him, I use Hunter on him and he's really fast with and without the ball, his runs are perfects and sometimes it looks really effortless to bridge into opponents defences with through passes. His dribbling is not that bad, the 5 star skills helps a lot in this, but don't expect him to dribble like Neymar, Pele or Messi, this is not how you have to use him, in fact his biggest cons are narrow dribbling situation, you can't just spam left stick dribble or RB dribble like with other cards, it just doesn't work; however when it comes to normal dribble situation, for example when the opponent is not pressing hardly and he has enough space to turn and face the goal or during a counter, it's over. Point the defender, spam a Zidane 360 or an elastico and he's gone, he feels like defender can't follow him, they blocks and all you have to do now is smash the shoot button on second post.

With him you can shoot literally from everywhere, he's shooting is insane, if you are not pressed just shoot, it doesn't matter where you are, it's either a goal or a corner, he never miss. But why would you prefer him over cards like Prime Stoichkov, Baby Eto'o or Prime Rooney who are also very fast and can shoot? His strength. It's very very very difficult to take away the ball from him, especially if you abuse L2/LT, he helped me to solve my main issue with strikers and it's even clearer when i compare him with my other striker (FB Griezmann) who has a lot of good things but get bullied a lot of times by defenders. In conclusion he's really funny to use, he made me smile a lot of times while using him and i don't find anyone who is as complete as this guy, he's class and it's been a pleasure to play with him, the only reason i'm selling him it's because i have finally enough money to buy if Mbappe but if he was untreadable he would have never left my club, see you soon King, if i'll ever be able to afford the Prime.

Shooting: As i said his shooting is out of this world, he can score literally from every position inside and outside the box, on first or second post. Arguably one of the best shooters for this price range if not the best alongside mbappe (who however have not a good finesse shot like Eric)

Pace: with hunter, he's really fast for a 1.88 striker and

Movements and positioning: He's always on the right spot at the right time inside the box, sometimes he comes in midfield to play one twos with the CAM or the CM he never does useless runs (you know, when strikers sprint and even tho the CB is following them, making impossible to do a through pass, they still sprint and now you have no one to pass the ball to)

Price: Not expensive now, with 450/500k the only guy who can compete with him is Mbappe

Dribbling: as i said in certain situations he's a bit slow with the ball but 5* skill helps a lot, i'm not a skiller abuser but if you are and you can skill correctly there is no problem then

Formation: 442

Position: ST

Games: 628

GPG: 0.76

APG: 0.24

5.0

Overall

5.0

Value

5.0

Stamina

Pace (9/10)

Shooting (10/10)

Passing (9/10)

Dribbling (9/10)

Defending (6/10)

Physicality (10/10)

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