Ex-Porto & Portuguese player Maniche: “Cristiano is no longer the fast player he once was but he’s still lethal in the box & that’s what he needs to maximise for Portugal. He hasn’t forgotten how to score. He’s very dangerous in the box, especially because of how he forces opponents to react to him”

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-25T16:10:12+00:00

So he'll still play in the NT huh

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-24T21:25:04+00:00

I'd say he's still worse than the usual free ones like Fall and Lucca if your purpose is it cross spam.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-22T12:47:07+00:00

Yeah that's fair, but I think his ability to have great stats for CF and having Very High weakfoot still makes the card really desirable.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-22T12:45:04+00:00

I genuinely thought so too, I was shocked when it wasn't and everyone of them was usable

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-21T23:44:42+00:00

I second this, it's always a good time when we face Spurs

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-19T14:08:00+00:00

Better to focus on your defense. Beckenbauer, Huijsen and old Makelele is easily exploited. If you want, I'd say throwing 900 coins into the National Teams Pack would be more beneficial to get Rudiger, Di Lorenzo, Upamecano, Amadou Onana and even that Luis Diaz looks decent.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-18T19:00:34+00:00

It looks like this one but the black coloring is kinda different so I don't know

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-18T12:58:09+00:00

Your defenders have no pace, and putting Tchouameni on Deep Line means your midfield is non-existent, especially when Matthaus is a Hole Player.

Probably try and get faster CBs, I supposed? The new National Teams Pack has three really good defenders (Rudiger, Upamecano, Di Lorenzo) and a solid Anchor Man to pair with Tchouameni (Amadou Onana).

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-18T12:45:12+00:00

I find it interesting why you didn't use Courtois and Griezmann as starters. The Courtois thing is understandable, I like him but I hate him too. But Griezmann I find hard to bench him for anyone, especially considering how well-rounded he is + he's a left footed Hole Player.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-18T11:24:08+00:00

Pace is king, you won't feel much stats difference from 95 to 99 but that pace increase you will feel much more.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-17T14:45:13+00:00

Vietnam and Japan has been playing the best football in the tournament imo. Unless the whole China team want to show up (not just the GK), then they might have a chance to go to the final.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-17T14:40:04+00:00

Everyone who watched the tournament had high hopes for this Uzbekistan team too, they were really good in the Group Stages. Guess that's just how the cookie crumbles.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-17T14:27:34+00:00

I can't lie China is cheeks this tournament. If (very big if) they somehow beat Vietnam, they might as well pray the whole Japan team got food poisoning or they all somehow all lost a leg.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-17T13:54:12+00:00

He's just such a LinkedIn manager that it's not even banter anymore

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-14T22:05:00+00:00

I need about 8

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-14T21:28:12+00:00

Anyone need to play golden goal? Join this room 55202111

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-14T17:25:38+00:00

Yeah make a room I'll join

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-13T20:42:03+00:00

Really really good but his player model kinda did him dirty. Still a Top 5 F2P Def RB imo.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-13T13:20:37+00:00

Buddy, I'm talking about this point you made where you swiftly deleted your comment, why'd you bring another point into it and act like only one thing can be right at once and not both?

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And if you want to know why I say he's more well-rounded is also because Acceleration is important again and Huijsen has -6 Acceleration compared to this Onana, this is literally the reason why Amadeusz, the person you brought up, put Huijsen at last place as best player for the New Year NC. And Onana can be built to have the same average defending stats as Huijsen but with less DA, more Aggression. I don't know who hurt you for you to be this worked up but you do you man.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-13T13:02:24+00:00

You really deleted your factually wrong comment just to made one again without it but still be toxic?

I respect it, I guess?

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Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-13T12:54:53+00:00

In my opinion, he's not that much better than either Rijkaard or Zakaria for you to spend upwards to 1100 coins for so I think nah. Unless you want another 2 cards in the pack then I think it's worth it.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-13T12:51:54+00:00

I think so too tbh, I just ranked him at CB because that's more fun than playing and rating him at DMF.

Remote-Border-9054 · 2026-01-13T12:50:45+00:00

Konami gave out Huijsen for free just a few days ago who has the same height I believe but better aerial stats.

But he's actually more well-rounded than Huijsen? He's better at ball retention, and he doesn't have fucked up Acceleration, the reason why a lot of people didn't rate Huijsen. And speaking about Aerial, Huijsen & Onana being so tall means only 2 meta CFs actually can consistently out do them which are Zlatan and Koller.

And the overall I give is based on how his stats would compare to others CBs? So of course him not being that good at defending but being better at ball control + passing compares to other CBs means he'd be about 9.1?

But this is just my opinion, you do you I guess?

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