[Physical Data: Speed 99, Acceleration 99, Explosiveness 96, Strength 73, Jumping 90, Hang Time 75, Stamina 72, Balance 80, Agility 78, Injury Resistance 99]
[Technical Data: Shooting 88, Dribbling 89, Ball Control 81, Short Passing 82, Long Passing 52, Crossing 67, Long Shots 70, Heading 58, Shot Power 75, Set Pieces 60]
[Other Data: Mentality 80, Football IQ 75, Poaching 75, Vision 65, Anticipation 62, Creativity 72, Aggression 75, Off-ball Movement 63, Tackling 40, Interceptions 25, Sliding Tackle 20, Goalkeeping 10]
[Overall Rating: 84]
After seeing his various stats, Fly let out a long breath.
His current stats were looking better and better!
After his dribbling reached 89 and he temporarily couldn't add points using intermediate soft-rice points, Fly added the 3 ability points he got from completing the last mission all to shooting.
Now, Fly's shooting had reached 88, just one step away from the upper limit of 89.
As for explosiveness, it also increased from 95 to 96.
Perhaps because going from 95 to 96 was a threshold, Fly's incidentally increased jumping directly surged by 3 points, reaching the 90 mark.
This meant Fly now had 5 attributes with ability values exceeding 90.
As for the improvement in attributes like strength, stamina, crossing, long passing, heading, vision, anticipation, off-ball movement, etc.
It was entirely the result of self-improvement from playing official matches during this period.
His overall rating also rose from the initial 83 to 84.
But Fly knew very well that this 84 was not the same concept as the overall player rating given in FIFA game cards.
In FIFA's player ratings, it only calculates a series of values relevant to the player's position.
For example, since Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are forwards, FIFA's rating for them only considers the attribute values related to attacking players.
That is, attributes like shooting, dribbling, control, speed, etc.
And defensive attributes like tackling, interceptions, etc., are not included within FIFA's scope.
Later, Messi's super high rating of 94 and Cristiano Ronaldo's 92 were calculated this way.
Of course, currently in FIFA 10, Messi's rating is temporarily only 90, ranking first, while Cristiano Ronaldo is 89, ranking second.
Fly's database had not been updated yet, and his rating was temporarily only 75.
But if the system's rating rules were converted to FIFA rating rules for calculation.
Under the system's rules, with an overall rating of 84, if all defensive attributes were disregarded, just considering the rating of a pure attacking player, Fly could probably reach around 87, with a minimum of 86.
In other words, adding two to three points to the system's overall rating is Fly's true rating as a forward.
Whether it's a rating of 86 or 87, in this era, it is undeniably the score of a world-class forward.
There were even few players with a higher rating than Fly.
Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Ibrahimović, Rooney, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi, Buffon, Casillas, etc., at most around 10 people in total.
If only counting attacking players, Fly could almost break into the top five!
This was Fly's current strength.
Whenever he thought about reaching the level of a world-class forward in such a short amount of time.
Fly couldn't help but feel a surge of pride.
He had underestimated himself too much; originally, Fly thought he would need at least one season to truly take off.
Now it seemed, perhaps only half a season would be enough.
Even if there were still obvious weaknesses by then, as long as his strengths were long enough, he could completely dominate matches!
Because forward is inherently a position that relies on strengths.
Defenders are the ones who are more about weaknesses!
As a forward, often having just one special skill is enough to succeed everywhere with that single move.
A typical example is the Flying Dutchman, Robben.
Why was Robben able to become a near-Ballon dOr level player during his peak?
It was because his speed was too fast, plus his signature move of cutting inside and shooting was always effective.
Based solely on these two points, Robben became the world's second-best right winger after Messi.
Thinking this through, Fly suddenly realized that his past demands on himself were too strict.
In fact, with his speed and acceleration that were second to none in football, he was already a near world-class forward.
The remaining shooting, ball control, and dribbling just needed to reach an upper-mid level among European top 5 leagues attacking players, and he would be a definite world-class forward!
Even if this player was useless at everything else, his passing was terrible, and his playmaking ability was almost zero.
But it still wouldn't affect his evaluation as a world-class forward.
Because maxed-out speed and acceleration, plus decent ball control, dribbling, and shooting skills, were enough to guarantee this player's goal efficiency!
When a forward's goal efficiency is guaranteed, and they can also produce enough output, such a forward is naturally a world-class player.
The current Fly was roughly at this level.
Although many attacking weapons hadn't been developed yet, relying on his invincible speed and acceleration and exquisite shooting skills, he had already achieved the feat of scoring seven goals in three League matches!
Even though, besides Liverpool, the other two opponents were pushovers... No, one could even say that the current Liverpool was also a pushover.
In other words, the teams Fly faced in the first three League matches were all novices!
The seven goals in three matches were also stats achieved by dominating weaker opponents.
But in football matches, being good at dominating weaker opponents is itself a bonus.
After all, in a season's matches, the vast majority of opponents a strong team faces are weaker teams.
If this team's forward doesn't have the ability to consistently dominate weaker opponents, wouldn't they lose many points they shouldn't?
So, even dominating weaker opponents has a very high threshold; it's not something just any player can do.
Fly's ability to score seven goals in three consecutive matches against weaker opponents, based on this alone, already surpassed ninety-nine percent of the forwards in the world.
Nothing unexpected happened in this match against Bolton Wanderers.
Perhaps spurred by Fly's interview, Fabregas was exceptionally active in this match.
Clearly, he wanted to prove that, at least in the current Arsenal team, he was still the undisputed boss on the field!
In the 24th minute of the match.
Fabregas assisted Koscielny from a corner kick with a header in the box, and Arsenal led 1:0.
In the 38th minute of the match.
Fabregas advanced in the attacking third, and a perfectly weighted through ball assisted Fly's run and goal, putting Arsenal 2:0 up.
Just before the end of the first half, Varane made a fatal error; his clearance wasn't far, and it was picked up by the South Korean player Lee Chung-yong, who immediately played a through ball to assist the Swede Elmander in scoring.
2:1, Bolton Wanderers pulled one back just before the end of the first half.
Seeing Varane's self-reproaching expression, Fly stepped forward, patted his head, and comforted him:
"It's okay, defender is a position that needs constant matches to gain experience. One or two mistakes are nothing."
"We'll win this match easily, don't take it to heart."
After Fly said this, Varane nodded, but his expression clearly showed he was still very dejected.
Fly knew that he could only recover from this himself, so he didn't say anything more.
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