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What's the crackers? Welcome back to the
channel. Today we are checking out all
the free Showtime cards. Yes, all of
these players, Jordan Henderson, they do
have Showtime skills. You will be able
to get one for free. Bernarda Silva as
well. Robertson is there with Edge
Crossing and of course you have Ariel
Fort Marinos. These will be free on
Thursday. Don't make the wrong choice.
We're going to go through all the cards.
They will be available on the match pass
or the campaign hub and they are pretty
decent. So, we're going to start with
long reach tackle Henderson. Now, this
is his build. These are his main stats.
He's got really good defense as you can
see. You will need to train a couple of
skills on him such as weighted pass if
you want heading acrobatic clearance or
track back and aerial superiority. He
does have long reach tackle. Now long
range tackle is probably the most
overpowered Showtime skill from the
selection of four players. But that is
the build that you guys can copy there
if you do go for him, which at the end
of the video I'll show you my ranking
for these. But long reach tackle on
display here with Virgil van Djk. This
is what it is. It's an animationbased
tackle animation. That's basically what
it is and it's shown you there exactly
how it works. So, it is overpowered.
Next up, we do have Bernardo Silva. Now,
Silva's with flick. That is his build
here. Ball carrying and striker instinct
we're going to give him. And look at the
strength and attack stats that he has.
90s out the wazoo. Really, really nice
speed, acceleration, balance. Doesn't
have finishing these down as a creative
playmaker, so that's a small issue, but
huge ball control, dribbling, type
possession, and low and lofted pass. And
of course he does have visionary pass as
well going to 102 overall. Is he worth
it? I think he's one of the weaker
options of the pack. Yes, the passing I
mean you can do a lot of nice visionary
passing and a lot of low lofted passing
but I do feel like the passing at the
moment you do need to have a complete
player in attacking midfield and
Bernardo Silva can't really shoot. So
that's one thing to keep in mind. his
finishing is quite low no matter how you
train him unless you don't want to put
his speed and acceleration into the 90s
or you want to reduce his dribbling to
90 instead of 95 94 and 95 that is
obviously a personal decision you guys
can make for yourself but I feel like if
you're using a player to carry the ball
and length the play you definitely need
high dribbling very high dribbling if
you want to do it now also we do have
Brazil's Marinos with aerial fourth what
do I think of aerial fourth well let's
first concentrate on his defense stats
95 95 96 and 95 five. Huge tackling,
huge aggression and awareness and
engagement rocked up with Ariel Fort. As
I mentioned, do I rate Aerial Fort as a
Showtime skill? Not really. I'll be
honest with you, not really. And I do
feel that like strikers at the moment,
if they're going to win a ball, as you
see Wayne Rooney beating Virgil van Djk
in the air here, I know you'll say
Virgil van Djk is not going to win every
battle and aerial fort is obviously
going to be slightly different. But I do
feel that like even center backs like
Marinho, they will lose battles. I mean
aerial fort is one of these
animationbased or one of these showtime
skill based skills that I don't know
like a lot of people don't attack
aerally anymore. We'll get into that at
the end of the video with my final
ranking, but that's something to keep in
mind. Now, last but not least, we do
have Andy Robertson. Liverpool's left
back. Actually got quite solid defensive
stats. kind of reminds me of Roberto
Carlos attacking, but also 90 engagement
and 90 aggression for his defense as
well is pretty huge. The only stat that
doesn't hit the threshold is 84 there.
Edge crossing. So, this is an attack
first left back. If you want a defensive
fullback, this is not your pick. This is
not your man. But with the with the way
the game is at the moment now, that's
obviously you can bypass a lot of the
edge crossing or the visionary passing
or a lot of the animation based stuff
with stunning crosses or putting the
ball into really dangerous areas with L2
if you're holding that or stunning as
you're seeing here with auto swinging
the ball in. Obviously edge crossing,
pinpoint crossing, they will maximize
the benefit of swinging across in and
that just goes without saying. It does
help consistency and that is pretty much
why people do it if they're spamming.
But a lot of people attack on the ground
there. That's where Robertson I think
you need to be careful. Robertson could
be S tier. He could be the ultimate pick
if you actually play a lot of crosses.
But as you see here right in the 87
minute, this is kind of how a lot of
people attack is how I score this goal.
We pick up the ball here with Jabi
Alonzo who's our main creative force. We
hold the tackle off. We split it to
Wayne Rooney who's making the run from
AMF as a whole player and then it's
popped in the back of the net. Now I do
like his stats, don't get me wrong. He's
got really good defensive stats, huge
speed, acceleration. his kick and bar is
just one behind but massive stamina. So
you'll be able to get up and down the
pitch and equally play with a subtactic
as well which is always nice if you're
used to playing with a subtactic that
you can switch from a four to a three at
the back and push him into a left
midfielder. And I of course he also does
have a few nice stats. So in in like
kind of like final thoughts of this I
think Bernardo Silva is probably the
weakest followed by Marinos. Now I know
people will like get Marinos and say how
can you say he's weak? It's just because
most people don't attack aerally at the
moment. And then also on top of that, we
do have Robertson who comes in second in
this or third best. And then I think
long reach tackle Henderson is going to
be the man to get in this. If you
disagree, let me know in the comments
below. But this is my tier ranking. I do
think Robertson, if you play crossing,
right, is an S tier card. If you don't
have, if you're free to play these cards
in this tier list is not to be compared,
you know, as in if TM was on this list
or Patrick Vieira was on this list
comparing him to Henderson. Like Vieira
would be like an SSS SSS, like he'd be S
by 10. Obviously, there's not going to
be a comparison there, but a lot of
people don't have long reach tackle
cards. Henderson looks unreal. 90 speed,
which is insane. Really good defense and
can pass the ball and dribble and hold
and tie possession. very very solid for
a free showtime with long reach tackle.
It is insane. If you play out wide, if
you cross a lot of balls in and if you
want to vary your play, which a lot of
people are like playing possession now,
even going away from the meta, just have
a bit of crack. Robertson can be S tier
as well within these batch of four
players. Is he S tier in the wider
scheme of things with comparing it to
Roberto Carlos? No. And Marinios, right?
I know I'm going to get a bit of flack
for Marinos and Silva being a A tier and
a little bit below these two boys,
Robertson and Henderson. I just feel
that like 90% of people that I come up
against, they don't use the wings. They
don't cross balls in. If somebody's
going to spam balls, one single center
back that's aerial for such as Marinos
is not going to actually stop. It might
work for a game or two, but eventually
you will succumb to the spam because
it's just overwhelming at the moment.
But most of the time you're going to
have to defend the ball on the deck, on
the grounds. Um, and just when people
are keeping it on the deck, you know
what I mean? They're keeping it low.
They're not putting the ball up high.
They're not using target men. And then
Bernardo Silva, again, I just feel like
his finishing is slightly off. There's a
lot of players that have got really good
attacking stats. Unless you've been
playing the game for the last couple of
weeks, you're probably going to have
five, six, seven, 10, 15, 20 players
that have got comparable stats to him.
In saying that, there are no wrong
choices here really. I mean Henderson I
think is the top choice but if you have
five six like really good long-range
tackle cards if you've got five or six
crossers with edge crossing you don't
need to get Henderson and Robertson
that's why it's very difficult to have
every factor in this but on the surface
with these four players just being
compared in a compartmentalized vacuum
sample size this is my ranking of them
this is who I think you should sign if
you're looking for the best bang for
your buck Henderson and if you're
looking for obviously something
different Robertson but Marinius and
Silva can also do a depending on your
team, your tactics, your quality of
play, how good you are on the sticks.
But that is it. Let me know who you're
going to spin for. I will catch you guys
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