Serie A Squad Guide for FIFA 14 Ultimate Team

 
 

For all those players that plan a FUT 14 team based on the Serie A, or that plan on building one, we’ve conducted an extensive analysis on the best players.

Here is our guide of the main Italian league for FIFA 14 Ultimate Team.

 
 

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Introduction
Serie A
Goalkeepers
Central Backs
Right Backs
Left Backs
Central Defensive Midfielders
Central Midfielders
Right Midfielders
Left Midfielders
Forwards
Teams
Hybrids
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Introduction to the FUT 14 Serie A Guide

 

Building a team is the biggest challenge in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team. It doesn’t need to be the best team, even because the budget may not allow it, but it needs to be the player’s stature for him to obtain success.

When choosing which players to play with, you will have to look carefully at their attributes. Choosing a team based on ratings is one of the most common mistakes on FUT 14. It’s precisely this aspect that this guide focuses on. For each position, and focusing on the truly important attributes, we’ll show who are the best athletes to choose.

It’s also important that the player checks to see if the player he chooses fits the formations he likes to play in. For example, a good full back will be useless if the player only uses formations with three defenders. According to those formations, the player must be cautious to look at the work rates, trying to relate them with the ones we advise in our Formations Guide.

Last but not least, it’s mandatory that you tune all of your team so that the individual and team chemistry be as high possible. For this last step to be easier, the majority of the players start to define the type of team they’re building. Some choose gathering players of the same nationality, while others decide to form a team of players from the same league. The most popular leagues are the Brazilians and the Barclays Premier League. There are also more experienced players that can form hybrid teams without damaging the chemistry a lot.

All of these steps are necessary to have; it could be that the team is not always well built as it could’ve been. This article aims to help those that think or want to form a FIFA 14 Ultimate Team based on players from the Serie A. Even the ones have one, could take out some valuable conclusion from this guide that could help turn your team even better.

It’s important that the readers understand that this guide is simply guidance. It’s a theme too vast and the player’s combinations are almost infinite. Besides, there are various factors that influence the choices, like it’s one’s style of play, the formations used, the available budget, the preferences or even the time spent playing. There’s still one uncertain component: a good player for someone might not be for another. If there was a better team everyone would fight to get it. Part of the fun of FIFA 14 Ultimate Team is this: everyone has their personal club and players.

Another important point and that must stay very clear is that whoever is reading this guide, it’s about some criteria we chose and should be of everyone’s knowledge:

Only Gold Players

In this guide we didn’t consider silver or bronze player. Most players don’t assume them to be a better option than gold players, so to simplify the guide’s analysis we didn’t include them. In the future we may come to publish guides exclusively talking about these categories.

Only Regular Players

In this guide we didn’t consider In Forms (IF). They’re extremely expensive and in most cases are not considered good value for money. They should only be used by players with generous budgets, that already have the best team possible and that want small upgrades.

Only Normal Players

In this guide we didn’t consider players that have been transferred to other clubs or that have been reviewed (UP). Only players that started their season in the Serie A and with their original attributes were considered.

Only Original Attributes

In this guide we didn’t consider changes made on a players performance such happens when applying training or chemistry styles cards.

Position analysis

To make the comprehension of this guide easier we divided the players in nine distinct groups in order of their original position: Goalkeeper (GK), central backs (CB), right backs (RB and RWB), left backs (LB and LWB), central defensive midfielders (CDM) central midfielders (CM and CAM), right midfielders (RM, RW and RF), left midfielders (LM, LW and LF) and forwards (CF and ST).

Prices at the date of publication of the guide

In the chapter where FIFA 14 Ultimate Team Serie A teams are suggested, the prices considered are the ones of the date of the guide’s publication: February 2014. It’s natural that the prices have suffered some oscillations throughout the season, so they should only be considered as guiding prices.

 
 

 
 
 

Serie A

 

The Serie A is one of the most competitive leagues of the world, but the football is not as spectacular as it is in UK, Spain or Germany.

The qualification of the champion is made through the made points system. Whichever team gathers the most points wins the league. The first three classified gain access to the champions league of the next year, while the fourth and fifth qualify to the Europa League and the last three trade places with the first three qualified of the Serie B. Every season starts in September and finishes in May, having 38 game weeks with ten matches each, being a total of 380 matches per season.

The Serie A is the fourth best league classified in the UEFA league coefficients.

Started in 1898, the Italian league has been conquered by sixteen clubs. The dominant club is Juventus, with a total of 31 titles. AC Milan (18), Inter (18) and Genova (9) are the other teams that won more titles.

As to last season, the Serie A lost some good players such as Kevin Prince-Boateng (Schalke 04), Taiwo (Bursaspor), Bojan (Barcelona), Lamela (Tottenham), Oswaldo (Southampton), Konate (Lleida Esportiu), Marquinhos (Paris Saint Germain), Sissoko (Paris Saint Germain), Jovetic (Manchester City), Sebastian Frey (Bursaspor), Anelka (West Bromwich Albion) and Felipe Melo (Galatasaray). But, the biggest out transfer was the move of Cavani from Nápoles to Paris Saint Germain by 64 million Euros.

These transfers didn’t necessarily make the Serie A weaker. The Italians teams spent many million Euros on strong reinforcements: Gervinho (Roma), Konaté (Roma), Maicon (Roma), Anderson (Fiorentina), Mario Gómez (Fiorentina), Llorente (Juventus), D. Mertens (Nápoles) and Jadson (Udinese). But the biggest signings of the season happened in Milan and Turim. Kaka and Carlos Tévez joined to Serie A by only 12 million Euros.

The choices are a lot for which our guide will certainly be useful as to building a team with players from this league. Serie A is a good choice to who is looking for quality players, but don’t have a large budget. There is no many choices, but the players of Serie A are probably the best value for money.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

FUT 14 Serie A Goalkeepers (GK)

 

Goalkeepers are the players that are less used on field. Because of this they are also the disdained when building a team. Most players start their purchases with a forward, later they strengthen the midfield the defence and only later the goal. The truth is a good goalkeeper may be worth a lot of goals. It’s good investment because they’re normally the most economically accessible players.

Gianluigi Buffon is the more popular goalkeeper from Serie A. To come gamers, he is the best FUT 14 goalkeeper. Only Handanovic and Marchetti have a rating that can be compared. For having the best rating they are also the most searched by this league’s teams so they’re more expensive.

 

MOST HIGH-RATED GOALKEEPERS
Gianluigi Buffon	86	Italy	Juventus
Federico Marchetti	84	Italy	Lazio
Samir Handanovic	84	Slovenia	Inter
José Reina	83	Spain	Napoli
Morgan De Sanctis	81	Italy	Roma
Christian Abbiati	80	Italy	Milan
Andrea Consigli	80	Italy	Atalanta
Marco Storari	78	Italy	Juventus
Željko Brkic	77	Serbia	Udinese
Rafael	77	Brazil	Napoli

 

When choosing a good goalkeeper it’s not only down to his rating. There are two fundamental attributes for choosing a good goalkeeper: reflexes and diving.

The first measures a goalkeeper’s agility when making a save. The best on this aspect are Marchetti and Handanovic. Buffon is one of the Serie A goalkeepers with worse reflexes.

 

GOALKEEPERS WITH BEST REFLEXES
Federico Marchetti	89	Italy	Lazio
Samir Handanovic	88	Slovenia	Inter
Andrea Consigli	86	Italy	Atalanta
José Reina	84	Spain	Napoli
Christian Abbiati	84	Italy	Milan
Nikolay Mihaylov	84	Bulgaria	Hellas Verona
Michael Agazzi	84	Italy	Cagliari
Rafael	83	Brazil	Napoli
Juan Pablo Carrizo	82	Argentina	Inter
Mattia Perin	82	Italy	Genoa

 

Diving is a fundamental attribute when choosing a goalkeeper. It measures the capacity for a goalkeeper to make a save when jumping.

In the world, only Diego Alves has a diving as good as Buffon has. Marchetti is another goalkeeper with a great diving.

 

GOALKEEPER WITH BEST DIVING
Gianluigi Buffon	90	Italy	Juventus
Federico Marchetti	87	Italy	Lazio
Samir Handanovic	87	Slovenia	Inter
Christian Abbiati	84	Italy	Milan
Željko Brkic	84	Serbia	Udinese
José Reina	83	Spain	Napoli
Morgan De Sanctis	82	Italy	Roma
Andrea Consigli	82	Italy	Atalanta
Rafael	82	Brazil	Napoli
Marco Storari	80	Italy	Juventus

 

The most experienced Ultimate Team players know that another leaning factor on a goalkeeper’s performance without considering the remaining four attributes: height. The more tall a goalkeeper is, better his chances of having a clean sheet.

This is Marchetti’s weak point. Even though he can’t be considered a short goalkeeper, the truth is he’s 6 cm shorter than Željko Brkic, Nikolay Mihaylov and Mariano Andújar, the tallest gold goalkeepers of Serie A

 

TALLEST GOALKEEPERS
Željko Brkic	194	Serbia	Udinese
Nikolay Mihaylov	194	Bulgaria	Hellas Verona
Mariano Andújar	194	Argentina	Catania
Samir Handanovic	193	Slovenia	Inter
Antonio Mirante	193	Italy	Parma
Gianluigi Buffon	191	Italy	Juventus
Christian Abbiati	191	Italy	Milan
Morgan De Sanctis	190	Italy	Roma
Marco Amelia	190	Italy	Milan
Andrea Consigli	189	Italy	Atalanta

 

The choice for the best Serie A goalkeeper on FIFA 14 Ultimate team, is easy.

In our opinion, Gianluigi Buffon is still the best choice. Besides being the best with one of the two most important attributes, he’s also who has the best positioning in the whole game. For us, Handanovic is the best alternative to the Italian Champion. Marchetti is very similar to him, but the Slovenian GK is 5 cm taller.

For those who want a cheap goalkeeper, Hosé Reina is a great choice. He is not as good as the three best Serie A goalkeepers but he is cheap to the quality he has.

 
 

Best Serie A Goalkeepers in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

FUT 14 Serie A Central Backs (CB)

A goalkeepers task is made easier if in front of him are quality central backs. Their function is to stop the opponent from getting dangerously close to your team’s goal.

Giorgio Chiellini and Andrea Barzagli are the central backs with the best reputation in the Serie A. No other players can be compared to them.

 

HIGHEST RATED CENTRAL BACKS
Giorgio Chiellini	86	Italy	Juventus
Andrea Barzagli	84	Italy	Juventus
Walter Samuel	82	Argentina	Inter
Medhi Benatia	82	Morocco	Roma
Hugo Campagnaro	82	Argentina	Inter
Philippe Mexès	81	France	Milan
Nicolás Spolli	80	Argentina	Catania
Maurizio Domizzi	80	Italy	Udinese
Angelo Ogbonna	80	Italy	Juventus
Danilo	80	Brazil	Udinese

 

On a central back, two attributes assume particular importance on their performance: defending and heading.

A player with better defending will have an easier chance of dispossessing the opponent and avoid him reaching your box.

It’s the case of the best rated player: Giorgio Chiellini. It’s really hard to get past him. The most experienced players are normally those who have a higher rating on this attribute. Walter Samuel proves this.

 

CENTRAL BACKS WITH BETTER DEFENDING
Walter Samuel	87	Argentina	Inter
Giorgio Chiellini	86	Italy	Juventus
Andrea Barzagli	86	Italy	Juventus
Medhi Benatia	84	Morocco	Roma
Hugo Campagnaro	84	Argentina	Inter
Nicolás Spolli	83	Argentina	Catania
Maurizio Domizzi	82	Italy	Udinese
Angelo Ogbonna	82	Italy	Juventus
Danilo	82	Brazil	Udinese
Andrea Ranocchia	82	Italy	Inter

 

On a game partially made difficult on stopping an opponent’s header in our box, possessing good heading is even more important on a central back than it was before. Allow him to be superior in your box when defending air balls but it’s also worth it on set pieces, like corners where a central backs jump may just be worth some goals.

In this chapter Leonardo Bonucci and Matías Silvestre are the strongest ones, both with great jumping stat. In the other hand, Andrea Ranocchia is the tallest CB of Serie A but he is also one of the players with worse heading

 

CENTRAL BACKS WITH BETTER HEADING
Leonardo Bonucci	84	Italy	Juventus
Matías Silvestre	83	Italy	Milan
Giorgio Chiellini	82	Italy	Juventus
Philippe Mexès	82	France	Milan
Paolo Cannavaro	82	Italy	Napoli
Stefan Savic	82	Montenegro	Fiorentina
Nicolás Spolli	81	Argentina	Catania
Gabriel Paletta	81	Argentina	Parma
Nicolás Burdisso	81	Argentina	Roma
Nicola Legrottaglie	81	Italy	Catania

 

Defending and heading may be useless against fast opponents. It’s necessary to fight fire with fire. No likes feeling impotent when seeing you get overrun by extremely fast players. Even though, in a way, centre backs aren’t that fast, every team needs one of these players with a high pace attribute.

Chiellini is the best central back from Serie A. Barzagli is also very popular but he is much more slow. For that reason, Martín Cáceres and Angelo Ogbonna may be good alternatives to the Italian player.

 

CENTRAL BACKS WITH BETTER PACE
Martín Cáceres	81	Uruguay	Juventus
Juan Jesus	79	Brazil	Inter
Giorgio Chiellini	77	Italy	Juventus
Angelo Ogbonna	77	Italy	Juventus
Alessandro Gamberini	75	Italy	Genoa
Federico Peluso	74	Italy	Juventus
Medhi Benatia	73	Morocco	Roma
Cristian Zapata	73	Colombia	Milan
Leonardo Bonucci	72	Italy	Juventus
Nenad Tomovic	72	Serbia	Fiorentina

 

Chiellini intercepts everything that is at his reach. His place in any Serie A based squad is unquestionable.

Benefiting from their popularity and their characteristic for a good chemistry, Barzagli come up as being one of the first choices for teams based on the main Italian League. He is without a doubt a good player for this position but there are other cheaper and faster solutions. Like, Martín Cáceres, Angelo Ogbonna and Medhi Benatia, the central backs with best average between the three most important attributes we considered (excepting Chiellini).

 
 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Central Backs

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

FUT 14 Serie A Right Backs (RB and RWB)

 

Full backs have the role of troubling the mission of the wingers. Not only. In addition, good full backs also support their team mates on offensive maneuvers.

Maicon, Abate and Konko are the three best players in a position that Serie A doesn’t have many good choices.

 

HIGHEST RATED RIGHT BACKS
Abdoulay Konko	79	France	Lazio
Ignazio Abate	78	Italy	Milan
Maicon	78	Brazil	Roma
Mattia De Sciglio	77	Italy	Milan
Vassilis Torosidis	76	Greece	Roma

 

There are very important attributes in any right back: defending and pace.

Since they’re defenders they should have good defending capacities. This reduces a team’s risk of conceding.

Maicon is the players that best fits this aspect. The only other players that offer any type of competition is Konko.

 

RIGHT BACKS WITH BETTER DEFENDING
Maicon	79	Brazil	Roma
Abdoulay Konko	77	France	Lazio
Mattia De Sciglio	74	Italy	Milan
Vassilis Torosidis	74	Greece	Roma
Ignazio Abate	73	Italy	Milan

 

A flanked game tends to be faster than a game based in the middle of the field. The players that fill these spaces are obligated to be fast, both penetrating defensive and attacking moves of the team. Pace is one of the most important requirements for a good full back.

Between all of the right backs of FUT 14, Abate is clearly the fastest one. This is the weakest point of Maicon, the fourth fastest Serie A Right Back.

 

RIGHT BACKS WITH BETTER PACE
Ignazio Abate	93	Italy	Milan
Abdoulay Konko	86	France	Lazio
Mattia De Sciglio	84	Italy	Milan
Maicon	79	Brazil	Roma
Vassilis Torosidis	76	Greece	Roma

 

Abate and Maicon are undoubtedly the best right backs playing on Serie A. The Italian player is faster and more attacking. Maicon has the best passing and shooting but he is better on the defence also thanks to his strength. If you don’t have enough coins to buy any of these two players, choose Abdoulay Konko.

 
 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Right Backs

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Left Backs (LB e LWB)

 

Left backs have exactly the same role of their team mates on the other flank. In other words, they try to make a winger’s job hard and participate on the team’s offensive manoeuvres.

There are only two gold players on Serie A for this position: Kévin Constant and Stefan Radu

 

HIGHEST RATED LEFT BACKS
Kévin Constant	78	Guinea	Milan
Stefan Radu	78	Romania	Lazio

 

From these two players, Radu is the one who has better defending stats.

 

LEFT BACKS WITH BETTER DEFENDING
Stefan Radu	82	Romania	Lazio
Kévin Constant	77	Guinea	Milan

 

If it is true that Radu is better on the defence, it is also true that Kévin Constant is faster.

 

LEFT BACKS WITH BETTER PACE
Kévin Constant	83	Guinea	Milan
Stefan Radu	78	Romania	Lazio

 

The two gold left backs from Serie A are too different from each other. The attributes and the work rates show that Kévin Constant is more attacking and Stefan Radu is more defensive. The right choice depends of what kind of player are you looking for your team. For us, the AC Milan player is the best one. If you want more alternatives, you can try Criscito on Serie A team.

 
 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Left Backs

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Defensive Midfielder (CDM)

 

Many of the FIFA 14 Ultimate Team formations require some midfielders that have a natural aptitude to defend. Central defensive midfielders distinguish themselves for being especially aimed to help the more retreated line of their teams. According to their attributes and their work rates, they can also be useful for starting attacks. They are players that occupy a very strategic position in the field.

The supremacy of Daniele De Rossi over all other Serie A central defensive midfielders is extremely clear.

 

HIGHEST RATED CENTRAL DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS
Daniele De Rossi	84	Italy	Roma
Nigel de Jong	79	Netherlands	Milan
Esteban Cambiasso	78	Argentina	Inter
Walter Gargano	77	Uruguay	Parma
Massimo Ambrosini	76	Italy	Fiorentina

 

There are a variety of attributes in a central defensive midfielder that you have to give attention: defending, so that the first defender of team works; strength, so that you win all brawls on a prone area of the field; heading, to win possession in aerial moves like goal kicks; pace, so that you cover the most terrain on the field as possible; stamina, so they can equally participate in offensive a defensive moves (especially useful for players with high/high work rates); passing and possession so that he can properly start attacks. In our opinion the two first are the most important.

Normally using a central defensive midfielder is associated with having a deficit of elements in your defence. So, it makes sense that when you search for a player to occupy this position you’d want players that can defend.

The CDM with best defending stats is Daniele De Rossi. Beisdes that, only Ambrosini has a better heading than him, so he is a really good choice for teams that want to complicate an opponent’s game in the space between the midfield and the defence.

 

CENTRAL DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS WITH BETTER DEFENDING
Daniele De Rossi	83	Italy	Roma
Nigel de Jong	81	Netherlands	Milan
Massimo Ambrosini	79	Italy	Fiorentina
Esteban Cambiasso	78	Argentina	Inter
Walter Gargano	76	Uruguay	Parma

 

The area of the field occupied by the central defensive midfielders is the one where most ball dispute happen. Strong players will have a higher probability of winning the ball.

There’s not much of muscle between the central defensive midfielders of Serie A. Once again, Daniele De Rossi is the one that stands out. On the other hand there’s Walter Gargano. The Parma’s player rarely wins a physical brawl due to being the weakest central defensive midfielder from the main Italian League.

 

STRONGEST CENTRAL DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS
Daniele De Rossi	83	Italy	Roma
Massimo Ambrosini	78	Italy	Fiorentina
Zdravko Kuzmanovic	76	Serbia	Inter
Nigel de Jong	75	Netherlands	Milan
Esteban Cambiasso	74	Argentina	Inter

 

Daniele De Rossi is our first choice for this position. He is the best defensive midfielder on the most important attributes. He is also the best in four of the six main attributes and the second best on the other two.

Esteban Cambiasso is our economic choice.

 
 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Central Defensive Midfielders

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Central Midfielders (CM e CAM)

 

A lot of games are decided on the midfield and not close to the goals. The players that play in these zones are the ones that should create the game and define its rhythm.

There is many quality in the Serie A midfield. Some of the best footballers of this league play in this position. It’s the case of Pirlo and Vidal.

 

HIGHEST RATED CENTRAL MIDFIELDERS
Andrea Pirlo	86	Italy	Juventus
Arturo Vidal	85	Chile	Juventus
Riccardo Montolivo	84	Italy	Milan
Claudio Marchisio	84	Italy	Juventus
Marek Hamšik	84	Slovakia	Napoli
Alessandro Diamanti	83	Italy	Bologna
Hernanes	83	Brazil	Lazio
Borja Valero	82	Spain	Fiorentina
Kaká	82	Brazil	Milan
Fredy Guarín	81	Colombia	Inter

 

Central midfielders are responsible for discovering lines that break the opponents defence. Their passing quality has to be really good so they can assist forwards.

Even though Montolivo and Pizarro are on the top table of the players with best passing skills, Pirlo is who stands out by being who does it better. In the whole world, only Xavi is better than him.

 

CENTRAL MIDFIELDERS WITH BETTER PASSING
Andrea Pirlo	91	Italy	Juventus
Riccardo Montolivo	87	Italy	Milan
David Pizarro	87	Chile	Fiorentina
Borja Valero	86	Spain	Fiorentina
Francesco Lodi	86	Italy	Genoa
Alessandro Diamanti	85	Italy	Bologna
Luca Cigarini	85	Italy	Atalanta
Alberto Aquilani	84	Italy	Fiorentina
Jaime Valdés	84	Chile	Parma
Claudio Marchisio	83	Italy	Juventus

 

Hernanes has the best dribbling of Serie A. On Italy, only Kaka e Diamanti can be compared with him in this aspect.

 

CENTRAL MIDFIELDERS WITH BETTER DRIBBLING
Hernanes	86	Brazil	Lazio
Alessandro Diamanti	84	Italy	Bologna
Kaká	84	Brazil	Milan
Claudio Marchisio	83	Italy	Juventus
Fredy Guarín	83	Colombia	Inter
Ederson	83	Brazil	Lazio
Andrea Pirlo	82	Italy	Juventus
Arturo Vidal	82	Chile	Juventus
Marek Hamšik	82	Slovakia	Napoli
David Pizarro	82	Chile	Fiorentina

 

Pirlo is the best midfielder of Serie A. His ball control, long passing and vision are simply amazing. His only problem is to be a slow player. Vidal is the most popular alternative. He is fast, very balanced and can play very well as a CDM. He has a stamina of 93 which is great for a payer with a work rate high/high. Marchisio and Guarin are players not much different from the Chilean player but with worse defending stats. Hernanes and Hamsik are the right choices for who needs an attacking midfielder.

Our cheapest choice falls to Diamanti and David Pizarro. Excepting Pirlo, they are the two best players on the stats we consider more important.

 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Central Midfielders

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Serie A Right Wingers (RM, RW e RF)

 

The wingers are responsible for giving game width in the attack. They’re normally very explosive players.

Candreva and Joaquín are the most popular right wings from Serie A but it doesn’t means that they are the best ones.

 

HIGHEST RATED RIGHT WINGERS
Antonio Candreva	82	Italy	Lazio
Joaquín	82	Spain	Fiorentina
Juan Cuadrado	81	Colombia	Fiorentina
Alessio Cerci	81	Italy	Torino
Jonathan Biabiany	80	France	Parma
Christian Maggio	79	Italy	Napoli
Simone Pepe	78	Italy	Juventus
Stephan Lichtsteiner	78	Switzerland	Juventus
Dušan Basta	78	Serbia	Udinese
Pablo Barrientos	78	Argentina	Catania

 

There are three fundamental attribute on a winger: pace, dribbling and passing.

Pace is probably the biggest weapon of these players. They use it to evade opponents and getting to the other side, many times through sprints on the side lines.

Among all FUT 14 players, only Walcott and Mathis Bolly have better pace than Biabiany. There are two other right midfielders with a pace over 90.

 

FASTEST RIGHT WINGERS
Jonathan Biabiany	96	France	Parma
Juan Cuadrado	93	Colombia	Fiorentina
José Callejón	90	Spain	Napoli
M’Baye Niang	86	Senegal	Milan
Antonio Candreva	84	Italy	Lazio
Alessio Cerci	84	Italy	Torino
Simone Pepe	84	Italy	Juventus
Christian Maggio	83	Italy	Napoli
Stephan Lichtsteiner	83	Switzerland	Juventus
Mauricio Isla	81	Chile	Juventus

 

Just being fast doesn’t cut it to reach the opponents box, having good dribbling to surpass the opponents’ players that appear on the way.

The two players with higher ratings are also the ones with best dribbling: Joaquín and Candreva.

 

RIGHT WINGERS WITH BETTER DRIBLLING
Joaquín	87	Spain	Fiorentina
Juan Cuadrado	87	Colombia	Fiorentina
Pablo Barrientos	85	Argentina	Catania
Antonio Candreva	84	Italy	Lazio
Alessio Cerci	84	Italy	Torino
Jonathan Biabiany	83	France	Parma
M’Baye Niang	81	Senegal	Milan
Simone Pepe	80	Italy	Juventus
Javier Zanetti	79	Argentina	Inter
Dušan Basta	78	Serbia	Udinese

 

When reaching the opponents box the winger has to decide what to do. Normally, they choose to cross to the forwards. That is why it’s important for them to have good passing.

Joaquín and Cuadrado are the players with better passing but the Spanish player is better on crossings. José Callejón, for example, could’ve been an option to consider filling this slot in virtue of his fantastic pace, but he’s affected negatively for missing frequently passes to his more forward team mates.

 

RIGHT WINGERS WITH BETTER PASSING
Joaquín	84	Spain	Fiorentina
Antonio Candreva	82	Italy	Lazio
Alessio Cerci	81	Italy	Torino
Christian Maggio	81	Italy	Napoli
Javier Zanetti	80	Argentina	Inter
Pablo Barrientos	79	Argentina	Catania
Stephan Lichtsteiner	78	Switzerland	Juventus
Dušan Basta	78	Serbia	Udinese
Mauricio Isla	77	Chile	Juventus
Boško Jankovic	77	Serbia	Hellas Verona

 

Juan Cuadrado is clearly the most indicated player to occupy this position in a Serie A team. He is really fast, has a good passing and his dribbling is great.

Biabiany is, to us, the second best right midfielder. His passing and dribbling are not so good, but his pace is something unbelievable. If you don’t need someone so fast, you can try Candreva.

Joaquín is our economic choice. He is a slow player but in the others stats he is as good as the better ones.

 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Right Wingers

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Serie A Left Wingers (LM, LW e LF)

 

The left wingers have exactly the same role as their team mates from the other side.

El Shaarawy and Totti are the most popular left midfielders of Serie A.

 

HIGHEST RATED LEFT WINGERS
Francesco Totti	82	Italy	Roma
Stephan El Shaarawy	81	Italy	Milan
Dries Mertens	80	Belgium	Napoli
Kwadwo Asamoah	80	Ghana	Juventus
Juan Camilo Zúñiga	79	Colombia	Napoli
Gervinho	79	Ivory Coast	Roma
Senad Lulic	79	Bosnia Herzegovina	Lazio
Giacomo Bonaventura	79	Italy	Atalanta
Pablo Armero	78	Colombia	Napoli
Álvaro Pereira	78	Uruguay	Inter

 

Pablo Armero is the only left midfielder of Serie A that can reaches the pace of 90. The player with highest rating is also the one with worse pace: Totti.

 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BETTER PACE
Pablo Armero	90	Colombia	Napoli
Juan Camilo Zúñiga	88	Colombia	Napoli
Gervinho	88	Ivory Coast	Roma
Stephan El Shaarawy	87	Italy	Milan
Yuto Nagatomo	87	Japan	Inter
Senad Lulic	84	Bosnia Herzegovina	Lazio
Dries Mertens	83	Belgium	Napoli
Kwadwo Asamoah	83	Ghana	Juventus
Giacomo Bonaventura	82	Italy	Atalanta
Álvaro Pereira	81	Uruguay	Inter

 

The four players with highest ratings are the ones with best dribbling.

 
 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BETTER DRIBBLING
Stephan El Shaarawy	85	Italy	Milan
Francesco Totti	84	Italy	Roma
Dries Mertens	83	Belgium	Napoli
Kwadwo Asamoah	82	Ghana	Juventus
Juan Camilo Zúñiga	82	Colombia	Napoli
Gervinho	82	Ivory Coast	Roma
Sebastián Leto	82	Argentina	Catania
Giacomo Bonaventura	81	Italy	Atalanta
Mario Santana	81	Argentina	Genoa
Senad Lulic	79	Bosnia Herzegovina	Lazio

 

Totti is clearly the best fitted passer between the remaining left wingers. No one can be compared with him.

 
 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BETTER PASSING
Francesco Totti	88	Italy	Roma
Juan Manuel Vargas	81	Peru	Fiorentina
Senad Lulic	79	Bosnia Herzegovina	Lazio
Álvaro Pereira	79	Uruguay	Inter
Kwadwo Asamoah	78	Ghana	Juventus
Giacomo Bonaventura	78	Italy	Atalanta
Juan Camilo Zúñiga	77	Colombia	Napoli
Pablo Armero	77	Colombia	Napoli
Manuel Pasqual	77	Italy	Fiorentina
Yuto Nagatomo	76	Japan	Inter

 

Totti has amazing stats but he is too slow to play on this position. In our opinion, Stephan El Shaarawy is the best left midfielder of Serie A.

For those that don’t want to pay as many coins for the Milan’s winger, Kwadwo Asamoah is a good alternative, specially for who is looking for a player that attacks but also defends.

Our cheap suggestion is Pablo Armero. Only Zúñiga and El Shaarawy can be better than him on the average of the three most important attributes in a player of this position.

 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Left Wingers

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Serie A Forwards (CF e ST)

 

The forwards are the players on which fall the most responsibility of scoring goals.

There are many good forwards on Serie A.

 

HIGHEST RATED FORWARDS
Carlos Tévez	86	Argentina	Juventus
Mario Gomez	86	Germany	Fiorentina
Antonio Di Natale	85	Italy	Udinese
Mario Balotelli	84	Italy	Milan
Gonzalo Higuaín	84	Argentina	Napoli
Mirko Vucinic	83	Montenegro	Juventus
Miroslav Klose	83	Germany	Lazio
Rodrigo Palacio	82	Argentina	Inter
Diego Milito	82	Argentina	Inter
Llorente	82	Spain	Juventus
Fabio Quagliarella	81	Italy	Juventus
Giuseppe Rossi	81	Italy	Fiorentina
Antonio Cassano	81	Italy	Parma
Germán Denis	80	Argentina	Atalanta
Luis Muriel	80	Colombia	Udinese

 

To score goals shooting is necessary. If either by foot or head, the most important attribute for a forward are: shooting, heading and pace.

Most goals are scored with the foot so good shooting is a necessary attribute for a forward.

Di Natale has the best shooting and the second best finishing of the Serie A.

 

FORWARDS WITH BETTER SHOOTING
Antonio Di Natale	86	Italy	Udinese
Carlos Tévez	85	Argentina	Juventus
Fabio Quagliarella	84	Italy	Juventus
Mario Balotelli	82	Italy	Milan
Giuseppe Rossi	82	Italy	Fiorentina
Gonzalo Higuaín	81	Argentina	Napoli
Mirko Vucinic	81	Montenegro	Juventus
Rodrigo Palacio	81	Argentina	Inter
Goran Pandev	81	FYR Macedonia	Napoli
Antonio Cassano	80	Italy	Parma
Sergio Pellissier	80	Italy	Chievo Verona
Mario Gomez	79	Germany	Fiorentina
Diego Milito	79	Argentina	Inter
Josip Ilicic	79	Slovenia	Fiorentina
Germán Denis	78	Argentina	Atalanta

 

On FUT 14, knowing how to head gained another importance. Plenty of goals are born like this.

Unlike with shooting there’s no proportionality between players with high ratings and players with good heading. Serie A player with best heading is Amauri, one of the gold forwards with lowest rating. If you are looking a more balanced player that can also be used on crosses, Klose and Llorente are good choices.

 

FORWARDS WITH BETTER HEADING
Amauri	88	Italy	Parma
Llorente	87	Spain	Juventus
Miroslav Klose	86	Germany	Lazio
Germán Denis	86	Argentina	Atalanta
Mario Gomez	84	Germany	Fiorentina
Giampaolo Pazzini	84	Italy	Milan
Alberto Gilardino	83	Italy	Genoa
Mauricio Pinilla	82	Chile	Cagliari
Rolando Bianchi	81	Italy	Bologna
Diego Milito	80	Argentina	Inter
Cyril Théréau	80	France	Chievo Verona
Sergio Floccari	80	Italy	Lazio
Marco Borriello	80	Italy	Roma
Alessandro Matri	80	Italy	Milan
Ciro Immobile	80	Italy	Torino

 

Depending on the style of play and formation having good shooting and heading may not be enough for a striker. Especially in games that privilege counter-attack, pace is a very important attribute.

Víctor Ibarbo is the fastest forward of Serie A. There are many other fast forwards.

 

FORWARDS WITH BETTER PACE
Víctor Ibarbo	93	Colombia	Cagliari
Sebastian Giovinco	91	Italy	Juventus
Marco Sau	91	Italy	Cagliari
Luis Muriel	89	Colombia	Udinese
Maximiliano Moralez	89	Argentina	Atalanta
Lorenzo Insigne	89	Italy	Napoli
Antonio Di Natale	86	Italy	Udinese
Rodrigo Palacio	85	Argentina	Inter
Mario Balotelli	84	Italy	Milan
Robinho	82	Brazil	Milan
Manolo Gabbiadini	82	Italy	Sampdoria
Carlos Tévez	81	Argentina	Juventus
Adem Ljajic	81	Serbia	Roma
Mirko Vucinic	80	Montenegro	Juventus
Giuseppe Rossi	80	Italy	Fiorentina

 

There are three amazing forwards on Serie A: Mario Balotelli, Carlos Tévez and Antonio Di Natale. The Milan’s player is very strong and the other two can play as CF or CAM. The work rates of each of these players show exactly how they are on the field.

If you don’t have enough coins to buy them, you have other good forwards to choose. That choice is subjective because it depends of your play style. In our opinion, Mario Gomez, Miroslav Klose and Llorente are the best ones for who wants a player with good heading; Rodrigo Palácio, Giovinco and Ibarbo for who likes to play in counters and needs a fast player; Higuain and for who is looking for a finisher.

 
 

Best FUT 14 Serie A Forwards

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Serie A Team Suggestions

 

A lot of people think that this is the most important part of the guide. It’s not. The thing that is really important to know is how to choose player based on their role and style of play that fits each player. And that is made in the previous chapters. The team suggestions that follow are simple graphic indicators of what we wrote previously. They should serve merely as orientation because it’s impossible to build a team that fits everyone. They depend on various factors we don’t know such as budget, formation, style of play and player preferences.

To try and explore the needs of the maximum player as possible we suggest three teams with different budgets and formations: 4-1-2-1-2 with unlimited budget, 4-3-3 with 35k budget and 4-4-2 with a 15k budget.

 
 
 

Team with Unlimited Budget

 

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• Budget

108.5 k coins (84.2k + 24.3k)

• Summary

The choice for this team’s player was based on analysis made in the previous chapters.
In goal, Buffon is better than Handanovic. The Inter’s goalkeeper is a good alternative for who can’t lives with the low reflexes of Buffon.
In centre back position, Chiellini is unquestionable. Benatia and Ogbonna are also good players to this position. In the right side, the pace of Abate is more important than the higher technical quality of Maicon. In the other side, and since there are only two players for this position, Domenico Criscito can take the place we gave to Kévin Constant.
As CDM we have chosen Arturo Vidal instead of De Rossi. The two wingers are irreplaceable, but the same doesn’t happen with Di Natale. Many players don’t need a fast player to this position and, in that case, Pirlo should be perfect.
On the attack, Di Natale is the only one that can replace Balotelli and Tévez.

 
 
 
 

35K Budget Team

 




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• First Squad

GK: Samir Handanovic (1k)
RB: Ignazio Abate (1.5k)
CBR: Medhi Benatia (1k)
CBL: Andrea Barzagli (1.2k)
CMR: Hernanes (2.7k)
CM: Daniele De Rossi (1.8k)
CML: Marek Hamsik (1.2k)
RW: Juan Cuadrado (1.9k)
LW: Kwadwo Asamoah (1k)
ST: Mario Gomez (2.1k)

• Substitutes and Reserves

GK: Federico Marchetti (1.1k)
RB: Maicon (2k)
CB: Angelo Ogbonna (1k)
CB: Martin Cáceres (1k)
LB: Stefan Radu (1.1k)
CM: Fredy Guarin (1.8k)
CM: Claudio Marchisio (2.1k)
CM: Paul Pogba (2.3k)
RW: Jonathan Biabiany (1.3k)
LW: Pablo Armero (0.8k)
ST: Mirko Vucinic (1k)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Budget

32.5k coins (17k + 15.5k)

• Summary

The choice for this team’s players was based on analysis made in the previous chapter.
In goal, Handanovic is a cheaper alternative to Buffon. In the defence, the four players are the same, except Chiellini that was replaced by Benatia due to his price.
On the midfield, Daniele De Rossi plays on the centre to help the back four. Guarin and Marchisio are also good players for this position specially for who wants a more attacking player than De Rossi. The other two midfielders are the attacking players: Hamsik and Hernanes are our first choices.
Cuadrado and Asamoah are responsible to assist Mario Gomez, a very balanced striker.

 
 
 

15K Budget Team

 




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• First Squad

GK: José Reina (0.8k)
RB: Abdoulay Konko (0.8k)
CBR: Juan Jesus (0.5k)
CBL: Cristian Zapata (0.7k)
LB: Kévin Constant (1.6k)
RM: Joaquín (0.8k)
CMR: David Pizarro (0.7k)
CML: Radja Nainggolan (0.8k)
LM: Pablo Armero (0.8k)
ST: Diego Milito (0.7k)
ST: Miroslav Klose (0.8k)

• Substitutes and Reserves

GK: Christian Abbiati (0.7k)
RB: Mattia de Sciglio (0.5k)
CB: Leonardo Bonucci (0.5k)
CB: Alessandro Gamberini (0.4k)
LB: Stefan Radu (1.1k)
RM: Simone Pepe (0.8k)
CM: Borja Valero (0.7k)
CM: Esteban Cambiasso (0.6k)
LM: Juan Camilo Zuniga (0.5k)
ST: Llorente (0.8k)
ST: Giampolo Pazzini (0.3k)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• Budget

15.9k coins (9k + 6.9k)

• Summary

The choice for this team’s players was based on analysis made in the previous chapter.
In goal José Reina is a true penny saver. In front of him, Zapata and Juan Jesus close the path to goal. Konko and Constant are the other two defenders.

The biggest new of this team is the pair Pabo Armero / David Pizarro that with their pace, dribbling, and above average passing give width to the attack. On a 442 formation it may be a good option to use someone more defensive, like Cambiasso.
On the last third of the field, Joaquín and Nainggolan are great players that support the strikers Milito and Klose, two really cheap and popular players.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Hybrid Squads

 

Building a hybrid team is not usually an easy task. The biggest difficulty is finding key players to join between different leagues.

The Serie A is not a good league to hybrid squads because there are very few Italian players playing outside the country.

The teams with greatest quality are the result of the combination of Serie A with Bundesliga, Brazilian players and Argentine players. Klose, Mario Gomez, Hernanes, Kaka, Maicon, Danilo, Tevez, Higuaín, Diego Milito, Hugo Campagnaro, Rodrigo Palacio, Walter Samuel and Esteban Cambiasso have a key role in these hybrids.

Follow our other league guide to easily build your hybrid team.

 
 
 

Follow our tips and you’ll more successful on FIFA 14 Ultimate Team with your Serie A squad.