FIFA 17: 10 Ratings They Got Wildly Wrong (Based On Last Season)

5. Hector Bellerin

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FIFA 17 Rating - 79

As the Premier League’s outstanding right-back of 2015/16, you’d think Bellerin would command a rating that stretches up into mid-80s as recognition for an outstanding breakthrough season - not the astonishingly low 79 overall that the Arsenal defender has been allocated by EA.

Most would agree that the 21-year-old has been criminally underrated this year, especially when you consider that Gunners team-mate Mathieu Debuchy, the player whom he usurped in Arsene Wenger’s starting XI after bursting onto the scene in 2014, has been granted an overall rating of 80 despite playing only 144 minutes of Premier League football last season compared to the 3,240 clocked up by Bellerin.

In that time the Spaniard contributed six assists and one goal, more than 81-rated top-flight contemporaries Nathaniel Clyne and Kyle Walker, exhibiting his 96-rated acceleration, 94 sprint speed and 84 agility and demonstrating what a consistent, creative and dependable right-back he is at such a tender age.

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