Tom Wiggins
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If you were expecting a whole new ball game you won’t find it here, but EA has begun its new era with typical flair
Like José Mourinho parking a bus, Watford sacking another manager, and Jurgen Klopp moaning about fixture congestion, no football season is complete without a new edition of FIFA.
Like José Mourinho parking a bus, Watford sacking another manager, and Jurgen Klopp moaning about fixture congestion, no football season is complete without a new edition of FIFA.
1-0 is the most popular scoreline in football, but if you played last year’s FIFA 21 you’d be forgiven for thinking it was 6-5 or 5-4.
Pep Guardiola’s sky-blue wave swept away everything in front of it for two seasons in a row, racking up records left, right and centre, but fell well short in 2019/20 and surrendered the title to Jurgen Klopp’s rampant Liverpool side.
It’s hard to feel sorry for PSG, but for a team backed by the funds of an oil-rich nation state, that’s become accustomed to winning Ligue 1 by a canter, Neymar and co do find some hilarious ways of getting dumped out of the Champions League every season.
Some people say we shouldn’t compare Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Rather than pointlessly trying to work out who’s better, we should just sit back and enjoy a time when two of football’s GOATiest GOATs can spur each other on to even greater heights.
Zidane’s Real Madrid might have won three Champions League titles in a row, but did they change the way people think about how football should be played? No.
Zidane’s Real Madrid might have won three Champions League titles in a row, but did they change the way people think about how football should be played? No.
“I always want it loud,” he said in 2013 when describing the differences between his all-action Borussia Dortmund side and Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal. “He likes having the ball, playing football, passes. It’s like an orchestra.”
“I always want it loud,” he said in 2013 when describing the differences between his all-action Borussia Dortmund side and Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal. “He likes having the ball, playing football, passes. It’s like an orchestra.”
It was more nuanced, less reliant on pace and allowed you to employ more varied tactical approaches, rather than just looking to play through-balls in behind the opposition defence or shoot from distance. Pro Evo‘s crossing in particular was a revelation, allowing deadly whipped balls where FIFA could only manage...
