Maldini review
Managed to acquire some decent new additions to my team recently, some real standout performances, Ronaldinho is just incredible, Matthaus, Zambrotta! Dear lord Zambrotta! 💪 anyway, I like to form my own opinion on cards, there is a lot of hype about cards to me that doesn’t really equate.
Maldini being one of them. I’ve been super critical of his cards this year and last. His prior 2 cards for me were literally awful, his dives into tackles trait, combined with that aggressiveness and pace, it made controlling him using manual switch an absolute nightmare, he was a complete liability. I was reluctant to try this one but I’m glad I did. He is absolutely solid, whatever adjustments they have made to that tackle lunge he did continuously without instruction is gone, his positioning is way improved and I’m actually for once enjoying using him.
Thuram on the other hand, he feels almost a carbon copy of what I am talking about with Maldinis previous cards! He just flies out to a tackle leaving so much space for a skill on him, he mistimes his tackles far too much.
The clincher, Maldini’s aerial threat is majestic, I rarely ping it in for a defender header as they always resulted in counters for me, so I utilise the 10 option to Dinho. But having Maldini floating around that backpost? He’s a beast in the box, I’ve had him for 4 days and I’ve scored 3 overhead volleys on corners with Maldini, so many headers, corner routines now almost feel as good as free kick set pieces.
9.5/10 finally a useable Maldini card 🙌
Managed to acquire some decent new additions to my team recently, some real standout performances, Ronaldinho is just incredible, Matthaus, Zambrotta! Dear lord Zambrotta! 💪 anyway, I like to form my own opinion on cards, there is a lot of hype about cards to me that doesn’t really equate.
Maldini being one of them. I’ve been super critical of his cards this year and last. His prior 2 cards for me were literally awful, his dives into tackles trait, combined with that aggressiveness and pace, it made controlling him using manual switch an absolute nightmare, he was a complete liability. I was reluctant to try this one but I’m glad I did. He is absolutely solid, whatever adjustments they have made to that tackle lunge he did continuously without instruction is gone, his positioning is way improved and I’m actually for once enjoying using him.
Thuram on the other hand, he feels almost a carbon copy of what I am talking about with Maldinis previous cards! He just flies out to a tackle leaving so much space for a skill on him, he mistimes his tackles far too much.
The clincher, Maldini’s aerial threat is majestic, I rarely ping it in for a defender header as they always resulted in counters for me, so I utilise the 10 option to Dinho. But having Maldini floating around that backpost? He’s a beast in the box, I’ve had him for 4 days and I’ve scored 3 overhead volleys on corners with Maldini, so many headers, corner routines now almost feel as good as free kick set pieces.
9.5/10 finally a useable Maldini card 🙌