Europa League Draw | March 16, 2012

Weather130 wrote:

The Zlatan wrote:Seems like the Bilbao bandwagon is on a roll...

Lu❣s Suarez wrote:Atleast I was on it for 3 years now.

ahlycotc wrote:I jumped on the Athletic Bilbao bandwagon too. I knew they were good before, but I never really payed much attention to them in the past.

What makes this more impressive is their policy of only choosing players born in the Basque Country which makes it more amazing because it really limits your talent pool. While Fernando Amorebieta was born in Venezuela he was raised in the Basque Country which qualifies him for the team.

Yeah that's amazing, their academy is just as good as Barca's imo.

I started using Athletic Bilbao on FIFA 12 recently. They are beast (especially Llorente).

It would be interesting to see perhaps more English sides playing a pure domestic lineup like Athletic Bilbao. I had to look all the way down to Crewe Alexandra who are 9th in League Two. They have one guy from Scotland in the squad and everyone else is from England so it is a 100% UK based team. It seems to make some sort of statement that the best pure UK squad is only 77th best.

Hopefully Bilbao go on and win this now, if they play like the did vs United then it should be a breeze.

ahlycotc wrote:I started using Athletic Bilbao on FIFA 12 recently. They are beast (especially Llorente).

Llorente was underrated at Bilbao before the patch. Hopefully he got a lot better.

Lus Suarez wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:I started using Athletic Bilbao on FIFA 12 recently. They are beast (especially Llorente).

Llorente was underrated at Bilbao before the patch. Hopefully he got a lot better.

I don't remember how good he was before the update, but now he is beast. He is tall and good at headers so just get plenty of crosses to him. He is also good at dribbling past defenders.

I made my brother hate Athletic Bilbao and Llorente already after I destroyed him.

Is he still pitifully and wrongfully slow though? And unable to jump?

He was terribly slow and his jumping stat was lower than some wingers before the update.

I was just checking the database. It seems they made him even worse after the update.

Changes:
Acceleration -7
Sprint Speed -15
Strength +1
Shot Power -3

Potential Overall before update: 84
Potential Overall after update: 85

That's just gay.

His shooting is also nothing to impressive for one of the best strikers in the world.