FIFA 21: 10 Players Who Will Be Totally Overrated
Don't buy into the hype, you'll come away disappointed.
Whilst football is often referred to as 'the beautiful game', the more recent FIFA titles have been anything but.
Every year around August/September, shortly before the annual release, EA will release the entire database so that you can view every single player's ratings and stats. On some very special occasions, the fan backlash to a certain rating has been so strong that EA has actually changed some ratings and stats before the full launch.
There is never going to be a player where everyone universally agrees on the rating, but this list is here to point out the players likely to be rated higher than they deserve to be.
Whether it is because they play in the English Premier League (EA have a bad habit of paying more attention to this league than any other and overpowering their players), the player in question has a good reputation, or they have just been over-generous, you can count on the eggheads at EA to mess up.
For this list, I will also be using the head-to-head (H2H) ratings as they are more up to date than their original Ultimate Team release rating back in September.
Honourable mentions: Jordan Pickford, Christian Eriksen, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Djene Dakonam, Edin Dzeko and Roman Burki.
10. Kepa Arrizabalaga
Kepa had some sizeable weight on his shoulders when he moved to Chelsea in August 2018.
Not only was he to be replacing Thibaut Courtois, who had won two Premier Leagues, an FA Cup and a Carabao Cup with the Blues, but he also became the new world record transfer for a goalkeeper when he moved for £72,000,000.
His first season in England went fairly well. With 0.94 goals conceded per game in his 54 appearances and 23 clean sheets in total, Kepa retained his 84 rating when transitioning from FIFA 19 to FIFA 20.
This season, however, his form has fallen off a cliff.
As of January 2020, Kepa had the lowest save percentage of any starting goalkeeper in the Premier League with just 55.56% (8% lower than 19th placed Pickford). Between this and his leap to 1.3 goals conceded per 90, Kepa is in line for a pretty sharp downgrade.
With his H2H rating currently at 83 - a downgrade of only 1 and a rating that still places him as the 6th best goalkeeper in the Premier League - EA look set to be a bit too lenient with the Spaniard.
Kepa still has bags of potential at only 25 years old, but after the torrid season he has had, 80 is more deserving.