FIFA 23 Player Review

4.5

If Kante and Pirlo had a child

BySimson240516-01-2023

I´m saving all my "good" packs for toty, so I was really surprised when he hopped out of a 2x80+ Players pack from some objective.

I benched baby Vieira to try him and he hasn´t left my starting 11 since.

The main thing you can say about him is, you get exactly what you would expect when looking at his stats.

With a shadow he is super quick, great dribbling and passing, solid defending just lacks the size and strenght when you compare him to the likes of Vieira/Gullit/Yaya etc.

If you play him alongside a bigger playertype in your midfiled (I´m using PTG Milinkovic-Savic) he´s gonna be one of the best stay back CM/CDMs you can play.

With a 530k pricetag by the time of this review he is on the more expensive side, but seeing how he performs for me i would say he is worth the price.

Also as an italian PSG player he is fairly easy to link. 80-90% of the teams I face in Champs have Mbappe and Maldini. Those two alone with another Ligue1 player or manager and you already got him on 3 chem.

93 pace with 99 acceleration (Shadow) is far more than you could ask for on a CM/CDM he´s the definition of rapid
Passing like Pirlo: 90+ in Vision, long Passing, short Passing and Cruve combined with the 5*WF are close to perfection
Dribbling is exactly what you think it would be if you look at those stats. 90+ everything is literally TOTS/TOTY level
Defense is very good just lacks a little bit of strenght and has a really small ingame build

Shooting is pretty mid, but I don´t mind because I use him as a stay back 6
as i told already his defense is really solid but because of his low strenght and small bulid of course he gets pushed off the ball by the likes of Gullit/Vieira/Yaya most of the time

Formation442PositionCMGames52GPG0.04APG0.33

4.5

Overall

3.5

Value

3.5

4.0

Stamina

Pace (8/10)

Shooting (6/10)

Passing (10/10)

Dribbling (10/10)

Defending (10/10)

Physicality (8/10)

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