FIR SHORTS: Kvaratshelia POTM + FUTcoaching News!

[00:00:03] Hello, foodies, and welcome to another episode of FUT IN REVIEW.

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[00:00:49] My name is John and today brings us the marquee matchups, the new Serie R Player of the Month and the Magic Knights Evolution.

[00:00:59] And next to that, I will be announcing a new partnership from the team at FUTCOACHING.COM

[00:01:06] that is going to help every single player that wants to do it.

[00:01:11] So no matter what level of play you are, this announcement should help you as well.

[00:01:15] Let's start though with the marquee matchups because those are usually the most easiest to get into.

[00:01:23] Every week I say when the marquee matchups and I don't see a reason not to do it.

[00:01:29] And honestly, when I look at tonight's SPCs, it is international week.

[00:01:33] I won't know, wouldn't know why you wouldn't do it either.

[00:01:37] So if you're looking, of course, to the video show, I will be zooming in a little bit and you should be able to see it on the big screen.

[00:01:45] And of course, these days you can also check out the video show on Spotify and of course on YouTube.

[00:01:51] But else I'll talk you through it. We have four marquee matchups.

[00:01:54] As always, the total set price goes in around 14,000 coins.

[00:02:03] We have Poland versus Portugal, which gives us a small prime mixed player.

[00:02:10] You need one minimal Portuguese plus one Portugal or Poland player.

[00:02:16] Shouldn't be too hard.

[00:02:18] We got Spain versus Denmark, which is about three or four K and it gives you a mixed players pack.

[00:02:23] We get Belgium versus France for four K and also a small prime gold players pack.

[00:02:29] And of course, the big match this week, at least for me as a Dutchie, that's Germany versus the Netherlands.

[00:02:36] All should be rather easy to do.

[00:02:38] They're not very expensive, like about four, three K, four or three K a piece.

[00:02:44] And just go for it.

[00:02:46] There's plenty of good things in packs.

[00:02:48] Now, who knows?

[00:02:49] You might pack that informe Valverde.

[00:02:52] There's plenty of cards.

[00:02:53] Just try it.

[00:02:54] I think 14K is always a steal to try this.

[00:03:00] Next up is the Serie A player of the month.

[00:03:05] And of course, it's always going to be hard to pronounce his name, but I think the name is Kvarts Helia.

[00:03:12] And if I butchered it, I am so sorry.

[00:03:15] If you want to come on the show to help me pronounce it better, let me know, Mr. Kvarts Helia.

[00:03:21] Yeah.

[00:03:21] Let's put him on the screen for everyone watching, of course, as well.

[00:03:26] So Kvarts Helia, player of the month card.

[00:03:28] He already had an inform and he already had an 85 non-inform cards.

[00:03:33] The non-inform 85 rated card.

[00:03:36] Let's go start there for a second.

[00:03:38] Is 6.6K coins.

[00:03:41] So 6,600 coins.

[00:03:44] The fun part about this card is that he has five star weak foot and five star skill.

[00:03:50] He's almost giving you plenty of options.

[00:03:52] And I love the fact that on his non-inform card, if you look, of course, at his roles, the player has an inside forward plus plus when he comes from the left wing and an inside forward plus when he comes from the right wing.

[00:04:09] So left wing inside forward plus plus.

[00:04:13] Very nice.

[00:04:13] Of course, you need a Serie A team to be able to link him because he's Georgian, but definitely a cool card.

[00:04:20] Quickly dive into his 86 because that makes talking about his play of the month card a little bit easier for me.

[00:04:26] His 86 rated has a new position, namely the cam position.

[00:04:33] 94,000 coins.

[00:04:36] Currently, he can also play left midfielder, right midfielder, right winger and left winger just like the other card, but he has the added cam position.

[00:04:44] If you go into his roles though, he only has the right winger inside forward plus.

[00:04:52] So there's a big difference between his non-inform, who has left winger role plus plus inside winger plus plus on his 86 rated inform card.

[00:05:05] He can be played as a cam, but he loses many of his expertise roles.

[00:05:11] I don't think that's actually no great for this card.

[00:05:14] Sure, it might be fitting him in a little bit easier, but you also lose a little bit of expertise on this card.

[00:05:19] And I think if a left winger, if you play this card as a left winger and if it's a five to five star, he could be actually more suitable as left winger than a cam.

[00:05:29] Of course, he's got good stats as a cam.

[00:05:32] I would go personally, if I look at the difference between this card, I think the left winger card, the non-inform is the most versatile card.

[00:05:40] Nevertheless, still five star, five star, still a good card.

[00:05:44] That brings us to the new 87 rated left winger player of the month card.

[00:05:50] Still the Serie A player of the month cards.

[00:05:52] They look absolutely fantastic in my honest opinion.

[00:05:55] And if you think otherwise or share that opinion, also drop that in the comments below.

[00:06:01] So I want to check out if this card has the same versatility as the others one.

[00:06:06] But if I'm honest, this card is a boosted copy of the non-inform card.

[00:06:12] So looking at his players, at this player's roles and his positions, this one does not have a camp initiative.

[00:06:20] He is an upgrade from his 86 or 85 card.

[00:06:23] But the problem with this card is he's priced at 239 or 240,000 coins.

[00:06:33] If you look at the stats, his finishing has definitely been upgraded.

[00:06:36] So the upgrades are there, right?

[00:06:39] But he's got no playstyle plus.

[00:06:44] And if you go to the rules plus, he's back to the inside forward plus plus and the inside forward plus on the right wing.

[00:06:50] But no cam rule.

[00:06:53] I don't think if I look between this card and the 85 rated card, right?

[00:06:59] And I'll zoom out a bit if you're looking at the video show so I can show a good comparison between these two.

[00:07:04] So we have an 87,240,000 coins costing card or an 85 rated card.

[00:07:11] The 85 rated card has definitely got worse shooting.

[00:07:16] That's the biggest difference.

[00:07:17] Four in finishing, four in attack position, five in shot power and four difference in long shots.

[00:07:24] But the difference is 240,000 coins.

[00:07:29] 240,000 coins is a lot of coins at this stage of the game.

[00:07:33] And that makes this an interesting but also a very hard to recommend play over a month card.

[00:07:41] Is this a good card?

[00:07:42] The 87 rated card.

[00:07:44] I think it's a fantastic card.

[00:07:46] I think having a five star, five star in your team, especially on the left side with the inside forward plus plus is absolutely amazing.

[00:07:53] I also think that 240,000 coins and we've seen this trend going on all week where SBCs are actually, I think a little bit too highly priced might be a bit of a problem.

[00:08:07] We've got a very expensive around card.

[00:08:09] We've got a very expensive Haaland card.

[00:08:10] Now we've got a very expensive player of the month card from Graf Schelia.

[00:08:16] There I go blow his name again.

[00:08:20] I think that's a hard choice.

[00:08:22] I do think that if you decide to pull it on this card, five star, five star is a good part.

[00:08:27] But I can't honestly say this is a must do card, but it's not a bad card either.

[00:08:35] So how can I recommend this card?

[00:08:37] If I would rate this card, I would rate him seven out of 10 and maybe even an eight out of 10 at the current situation.

[00:08:44] If I pack this card, I would be extremely happy with it.

[00:08:48] But it's such a niche like league to play currently or at least a niche nation to get into your team.

[00:08:57] Combined with the fact that this 85 card is so much cheaper.

[00:09:02] I don't think this is a must do.

[00:09:04] If you have to run and the other two run and you have to run a team, of course he fits right in.

[00:09:10] And then Syria does look like a pretty cool league to set up for SBCs currently.

[00:09:17] And with those three or four players in your team, you're pretty much set for a while as well.

[00:09:22] But I do think it's a little bit expensive.

[00:09:25] Let me know what you think.

[00:09:26] I find it hard to totally recommend this card.

[00:09:30] But for now, I do highly rate him, but I don't highly recommend him to do that SBC.

[00:09:37] I recommend doing that SBC.

[00:09:38] If you have to choose between the 86 and 85, however, I would always go for the 85 because the difference between those two are marginal.

[00:09:47] And the 85 definitely has more flexibility with the inside forward plus plus on them over the cam rolls.

[00:09:54] So it only has one roll on them.

[00:09:57] And that is on the inside forward roll on the right finger.

[00:10:02] Off with Kvarad Schelia then.

[00:10:06] Oh, this is going to be the hardest one so far though.

[00:10:09] I want to talk quickly about evolutions.

[00:10:12] Evolution has been fixed this week.

[00:10:15] So we got some pretty, like they fixed it and they brought back some new evolutions.

[00:10:23] Let me remind you what EA said with evolutions when they came out this like last year, they had some flex, like not much flexibility.

[00:10:32] You could chain them, but that sort of went out of hand.

[00:10:35] So they put that down a little bit.

[00:10:36] This year, they said, we're going to give you more freedom doing these evolutions.

[00:10:44] Then they bring out the magic Knights EA FC 25 evolution, which reads, and I will also share that on the screen.

[00:10:52] If you're looking at it, of course, it reads, unleash the power of your striker with a stat boot, the Trevella playstyle and the poacher plus roll to help them create that magic Knights feeling of European competitions for your squad.

[00:11:08] So you get a Trevella playstyle, you get the Poacher plus roll and a stat boost.

[00:11:14] And a stat boost actually plus five and overall five base, five shooting, three passing and four physical.

[00:11:21] Now combine that with the Trevella plus and the, or the Trevella and the Poacher plus roll.

[00:11:28] So that sounds pretty cool, right?

[00:11:30] It is 800 points or 50,000 coins.

[00:11:33] So it's not quite, uh, it's not, not cheap.

[00:11:37] It's you have to, at this current game, I think 50,000 coins actually pretty yellow.

[00:11:42] The Trossar example they gave, I don't think that's the best example, but hey, it works.

[00:11:48] But here is my problem with the fact they said they can give you more freedom.

[00:11:53] The requirements say you need a minimum of 75 rating with a maximum of 83.

[00:11:59] That is sort of all right.

[00:12:02] The base needs to be max 93, which I get physical max 80 and the playstyle is max seven.

[00:12:08] Again, except maybe the max or the minimum rating being 75, I'd rather have them lower, but that's not too bad.

[00:12:16] The rarity has to be rare.

[00:12:18] And I'm going to repeat that.

[00:12:20] The rarity on this card has to be rare.

[00:12:24] That means many of the cards you might be aiming to get into an evolution aren't even eligible for it.

[00:12:33] Also, if you already have an evolution, I think this is where it actually, um, goes wrong.

[00:12:40] If you have an evolution player, which you might want to change, which could fit in.

[00:12:47] That's unfortunate because these, if you already done an evolution, that card doesn't count as being rare.

[00:12:55] So EA, I'm asking you, and I'm someone that doesn't care too much about the evolution, but even I can see this.

[00:13:01] Where has the freedom we want you to have with SBCs gone?

[00:13:07] If you want to change, we've recommended like let these evolutions wait until a little bit in the end.

[00:13:13] So you can see if you can change them.

[00:13:15] There are plenty of evolutions which you could put in here, so they could get changed or changed, I should say, but they can't because they don't count as rare.

[00:13:23] Why did you put that rarity requirement in?

[00:13:27] That feels like extreme gatekeeping or not making evolutions too much fun or too flexible.

[00:13:35] So why would you say in the start of the season to make it more flexible?

[00:13:39] I'm pretty disappointed by that.

[00:13:41] If you do have a player that fits, sure, do it, because it doesn't look all that bad, honestly.

[00:13:48] But it's a shame.

[00:13:49] It's going to be hard to get some nice combinations in which we never found.

[00:13:53] I think that's the fun part most people get out of evolutions.

[00:13:58] That is the fact you can find combinations, find chains to make this game fit your style even more, get the player you deserve all you want, or figure out that golden key player by doing some weird chains with the evolutions and making it fit.

[00:14:15] And this makes that impossible.

[00:14:17] So you got a good game going in EA.

[00:14:21] I want to see you guys do better at this spot, honestly, because it should be better.

[00:14:28] How about the content?

[00:14:29] We talked about the player of the month, Kvarratschelia.

[00:14:34] Good player, Kant.

[00:14:36] I think he's pretty expensive.

[00:14:39] If this card would have the cam card, the current position, I'd say more recommend them.

[00:14:46] I want to know what you guys think though.

[00:14:48] The market matchups just do them, but about the evolution, I'm very disappointed and hopefully they can do it better because these aren't magic nights at all.

[00:14:58] EA.

[00:14:59] There's something else I want to announce.

[00:15:01] I've talked about a partnership and of course, you know, I'm the founder of foodcoaching.com.

[00:15:07] Next to this podcast.

[00:15:09] We run that company to help FC players or e-sports player in general, we know only FC, but to help FC players to perform better.

[00:15:19] And we just signed a beautiful partnership with our friends from analysis pro.

[00:15:26] And so I'm going to spend like the next minute or so, maybe two minutes to talk a little bit about that announcement ship, but you can find every on about that partnership, but you can find everything in the description below.

[00:15:38] So, so if you want to get better at FIFA FC 25, we should say these days, or just curious what we do, just check it out.

[00:15:44] Let me know what you think.

[00:15:46] So back to the announcement.

[00:15:48] I'm excited to announce that new partnership between analysis pro knock sports, which is a software and food coaching.

[00:15:55] And I think this collaboration unites analysis pros expertise in sports technology implementation knock sports cutting edge video analysis software and our expertise.

[00:16:06] That's food coaching elite e-sports coaching services to actually revolutionize that.

[00:16:12] I dare to say that performance analysis in gaming.

[00:16:15] And this new partnership brings together these three parties.

[00:16:19] So we got an analysis pro with over two decades of experiences in sports performance technology.

[00:16:24] They bring an unparalleled expertise in implementing analysis solutions across various sports.

[00:16:32] One of them is on the pitch football with big renowned clubs, renowned clubs.

[00:16:39] Knock sports.

[00:16:40] Knock sports is the professional great video analysis software.

[00:16:43] You've might seen it on television.

[00:16:46] You might seen it by clubs used in real life.

[00:16:48] Knock sports provide the powerful tools that form the backbone of this partnership.

[00:16:52] And of course, we at food coaching as an e-sports coaching company.

[00:16:57] I mean, you've heard about us since food review is actually powered by food coaching.

[00:17:01] Food coaching brings deep knowledge of the competitive gaming landscape and direct access to that to players and teams.

[00:17:09] And this is where the key lies.

[00:17:11] So with the new partnership, and this is where it gets interesting to you as an FC player, which is new partnership, we'll be able to get more of the tooling used by professional football teams.

[00:17:20] And just to make like two examples, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid, just the first thing I'm going to remind.

[00:17:28] And we're going to bring those experiences and tools to you as an FC player.

[00:17:32] So with our data driven approach, we can use the same tools these top teams use for each and every FC player that comes to us to help them improve the game.

[00:17:43] That means data driven analysis, just graphical highlights, just as you can see in the football broadcast on television, like in halftime sessions on Sky Sports, for example, and even specific interactive data driven dashboards.

[00:17:56] So check out the blog in description of this podcast to find out more.

[00:18:00] You also see the office, the analysis corners and stuff, or check out, of course, foodcoaching.com for more info and book your analysis session if you want to.

[00:18:08] And if you're just wondering how a session would look like using the tools, there's, I think there's a 10 minute video and demonstration video on our food coaching YouTube, of course, foodcoaching.com.

[00:18:20] And I also put that link of that video in the show notes.

[00:18:24] You can check it out in just 10 minutes of your time, but it gives you an insight what the tools do, what we do and how we can do use apply all of these things to help you as an FC player, get more out of your game.

[00:18:37] And we're not talking about buying packs, talking about making you a better player on the long term.

[00:18:43] That's all for today though shows tomorrow I'll be joined by Yngwie and it is the return of James Hazel to talk about the new promotion, which is called rush.

[00:18:56] And of course, much, much, much more.

[00:18:59] And it leaves me with one thing left to do.

[00:19:01] And that is to drop it.

[00:19:03] Thank you.