Serie A Squad Guide for FIFA 15 Ultimate Team

 
 

For all those players that plan to build an FUT 15 team based on the Serie A, we’ve conducted an extensive analysis on the best players.

Here is our guide to the top Italian League in FIFA 15 Ultimate Team.

 
 
 

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Goalkeepers
Centre Backs
Right Backs
Left Backs
Central Defensive Midfielders
Central Midfielders
Right Midfielders
Left Midfielders
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Introduction to the FUT 15 Serie A Guide

 

Building a team is the biggest challenge on FIFA 15 Ultimate Team. It doesn’t need to be the best team, because your budget may not allow it, but it is player’s stature that helps him 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 15. It’s precisely this aspect that this guide focuses on. For each position, and focusing on the truly important attributes, we’ll show you who are the best athletes to choose.

It’s also important that you check to see if the player you choose fits the formations you like to play in. For example, a good full back will be useless if you only use a formation with three defenders. According to these formations, you must be cautious and look at the work rate. Try 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 will 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 to gather players of the same nationality, while others decide to form a team of players from the same league. The most popular is the Barclays Premier League. There are also more experienced players that can form hybrid squads without damaging team chemistry a lot.

All of these steps are necessary to have; or it could mean that the team is not always well built as it could be. This article aims to help those that want to form a FIFA 15 Ultimate Team based on players from the Serie A. Even the players that have a Serie A team, could take out some valuable conclusions from this guide that could help them make their team even better.

We received thousands of comments about similar guides that we have published in previous years. Most of them have asked us to help improve their teams and the players they had. It’s important that the readers understand that this guide is simply guidance. It’s a theme too vast and the player combinations are almost infinite. Besides, there are various factors that influence the choices, like 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 15 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 the criteria we chose and should be of everyone’s knowledge:

Only Gold Players

In this guide we didn’t consider silver or bronze players. 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 15 Ultimate Team Serie A teams are suggested, the prices considered are the ones of the date of the guide’s publication: December 2014. It’s natural that the prices have suffered some peaks and troughs throughout the season, so they should only be considered as guiding prices.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Serie A

 

The Serie A is one of the most competitive leagues in 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 teams gain access to the champions league of the next year, while the fourth and fifth qualify for the Europa League and the last three trade places with the first three qualified from 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 30 titles. AC Milan (18), Inter (18) and Genova (9) are the other teams that have won numerous titles.

As to last season, the Serie A lost some good players such as Cristante (Benfica), Robinho (Santos), Kaká (Orlando City), Livaja (Rubin Kazan), Diego Milito (Racing Club), Walter Samuel (FC Basel), Esteban Cambiasso (Leicester), Javier Zanetti (retirado), Vucinic (Al-Jazira Abu Dhabi), Pandev (Galatasaray), Abel Hernández (Hull City) and Alessio Cerci (Atlético Madrid). But, the biggest out transfers were the move of Mehdi Benatia from Roma to FC Bayern by 25 million Euros and of Mario Balotelli from AC Milan to Liverpool by 20 million Euros.

These transfers didn’t necessarily make the Serie A weaker. The Italian teams spent a few million Euros on strong reinforcements: Diego López, Fernando Torres, Adil Rami, J. Ménez, Alex and Didac (AC Milan), Ashley Cole and Manolas (Roma), Micah Richards (Fiorentina), Medel, Osvaldo and Vidic (Inter), David López, De Guzmán and Eduardo Vargas (Napoli), Lucas Evangelista and Guilherme (Udinese). But the biggest transfers of the season happened in Turin. Evra and Mórata joined Serie A by 20 million Euros.

Serie A is a good choice for those who are looking for quality players, but don’t have a large budget. There is not many choices, but the players in Serie A are probably the best value for money.

Total Players: 565
Gold Players: 160
Average Rating (Global): 71
Average Price: 27k

Best New Cards:
Vidic
Diego López
Alex

Highest Upgrades:
Daniele Baselli (12)
Luca Antei (11)
Luigi Sepe (9)
Antonio Ragusa (8)
Matteo Politano (8)

Highest Downgrades:
Rodney Strasser (-11)
Salvatore Masiello (-9)
Sergio Pellissier (-8)
Sergio Bernardo Almirón (-8)
Cristian Raimondi (-8)

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

FUT 15 Serie A Goalkeepers (GK)

 

Goalkeepers are the players that are used least on the field. Because of this they are also first ignored 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. They are a good investment because they are normally the most economically accessible players.

The goalkeepers with most prestige in the Serie A are the charismatic Gianluigi Buffon, the new signing Diego López and the Slovenian National team goalkeeper Samir Handanovič. With having the best rating they are also the most searched for by this league’s teams so this makes them more expensive.

 

MOST HIGH-RATED GOALKEEPERS
Diego López	83	Milan	Spain
Samir Handanovič	83	Inter	Slovenia
Gianluigi Buffon	82	Juventus	Italy
Federico Marchetti	79	Lazio	Italy
Morgan De Sanctis	79	Roma	Italy
Antonio Mirante	78	Parma	Italy
Andrea Consigli	78	Sassuolo	Italy
Emiliano Viviano	77	Sampdoria	Italy
Jean Francois Gillet	77	Torino	Belgium
Mattia Perin	76	Genoa	Italy

 

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 Samir Handanovič and Federico Marchetti.

 

GOALKEEPERS WITH BEST REFLEXES
Samir Handanovič	85	Inter	Slovenia
Federico Marchetti	84	Lazio	Italy
Andrea Consigli	83	Sassuolo	Italy
Mattia Perin	83	Genoa	Italy
Neto	83	Fiorentina	Brazil
Emiliano Viviano	82	Sampdoria	Italy
Michael Agazzi	82	Milan	Italy
Morgan De Sanctis	81	Roma	Italy
Antonio Mirante	81	Parma	Italy
Diego López	80	Milan	Spain

 

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

Samir Handanovič is also the best one with this attribute.

 

GOALKEEPER WITH BEST DIVING
Samir Handanovič	87	Inter	Slovenia
Gianluigi Buffon	84	Juventus	Italy
Federico Marchetti	81	Lazio	Italy
Željko Brkić	81	Udinese	Serbia
Christian Abbiati	81	Milan	Italy
Diego López	80	Milan	Spain
Andrea Consigli	80	Sassuolo	Italy
Antonio Mirante	80	Parma	Italy
Morgan De Sanctis	79	Roma	Italy
Neto	79	Fiorentina	Brazil

 

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.

The Serie A goalkeepers are very tall. From the fourteen goalies, nine have at least 190cm. Diego Lopez is the tallest one, 3cm taller than Handanovič.

 

TALLEST GOALKEEPERS
Diego López	196	Milan	Spain
Emiliano Viviano	195	Sampdoria	Italy
Željko Brkić	195	Udinese	Serbia
Samir Handanovič	193	Inter	Slovenia
Antonio Mirante	193	Parma	Italy
Gianluigi Buffon	191	Juventus	Italy
Neto	191	Fiorentina	Brazil
Christian Abbiati	191	Milan	Italy
Morgan De Sanctis	190	Roma	Italy
Andrea Consigli	189	Sassuolo	Italy

 

The choice for the best Serie A goalkeeper on FIFA 15 Ultimate Team is really easy.

Besides being the best in the two most important attributes, Samir Handanovič is also one of the fastest goalkeepers and with better handling. For us, Diego López is the number two. He is the tallest Serie A goalkeeper and the one with better kicking and handling. Federico Marchetti, the second player with best diving + reflexes, is our economic choice.

 
 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Goalkeeper

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FUT 15 Serie A Centre Backs (CB)

 

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

Giorgio Chiellini, Nemanja Vidić and Andrea Barzagli are the centre backs with the best reputation in the Serie A.

 

HIGHEST RATED CENTRE BACKS
Giorgio Chiellini	84	Juventus	Italy
Nemanja Vidić	83	Inter	Serbia
Andrea Barzagli	83	Juventus	Italy
Alex	82	Milan	Brazil
Leandro Castán	81	Roma	Brazil
Raúl Albiol	80	Napoli	Spain
Gonzalo Rodríguez	79	Fiorentina	Argentina
Adil Rami	79	Milan	France
Gabriel Paletta	79	Parma	Italy
Kamil Glik	79	Torino	Poland
Hugo Campagnaro	79	Inter	Argentina
Martín Cáceres	79	Juventus	Uruguay
Leonardo Bonucci	79	Juventus	Italy
Stefan Savić	78	Fiorentina	Montenegro
Juan Jesus	78	Inter	Brazil

 

With a centre back, two attributes assume particular importance on their performance: defending and the new attribute physical, which represents strength, stamina, aggression and jumping.

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 players: Giorgio Chiellini, Nemanja Vidić and Andrea Barzagli. It’s really hard to get past hem. The most experienced players are normally those who have a higher rating on this attribute. Hugo Campagnaro and Alex prove this.

 

CENTRE BACKS WITH BEST DEFENDING
Giorgio Chiellini	87	Juventus	Italy
Andrea Barzagli	86	Juventus	Italy
Nemanja Vidić	84	Inter	Serbia
Alex	84	Milan	Brazil
Leandro Castán	84	Roma	Brazil
Raúl Albiol	83	Napoli	Spain
Adil Rami	83	Milan	France
Hugo Campagnaro	82	Inter	Argentina
Martín Cáceres	82	Juventus	Uruguay
Angelo Ogbonna	82	Juventus	Italy
Gabriel Paletta	81	Parma	Italy
Kamil Glik	81	Torino	Poland
Gonzalo Rodríguez	81	Fiorentina	Argentina
Davide Astori	81	Roma	Italy
Stefan Savić	81	Fiorentina	Montenegro

 

The new physical attribute shows the old heading capability but also how likely the players are to win game with their body. This is a crucial attribute when looking for the best centre back.

In this chapter Chiellini, Vidic and Alex are the strongest ones.

 

CENTRE BACKS WITH BEST PHYSICAL
Giorgio Chiellini	86	Juventus	Italy
Nemanja Vidić	83	Inter	Serbia
Alex	83	Milan	Brazil
Adil Rami	82	Milan	France
Gabriel Paletta	82	Parma	Italy
Lorik Cana	82	Lazio	Albania
Michaël Ciani	82	Lazio	France
Leandro Castán	81	Roma	Brazil
Juan Jesus	81	Inter	Brazil
Hugo Campagnaro	80	Inter	Argentina
Cristian Zapata	80	Milan	Colombia
Philippe Mexès	80	Milan	France
Kostas Manolas	80	Roma	Greece
Mapou Yanga-M’Biwa	80	Roma	France
Yohan Benalouane	80	Atalanta	Tunisia

 

Defending and heading may be useless against fast opponents. It’s necessary to fight fire with fire. No one 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.

Martín Cáceres is the fastest in Serie A and the second gold centre back in the world. But there are other fast players in Serie A, like Juan Jesus and Manolas.

 

CENTRE BACKS WITH BEST PACE
Martín Cáceres	82	Juventus	Uruguay
Kostas Manolas	79	Roma	Greece
Juan Jesus	78	Inter	Brazil
Giorgio Chiellini	76	Juventus	Italy
Mapou Yanga-M’Biwa	76	Roma	France
Andrea Barzagli	75	Juventus	Italy
Angelo Ogbonna	73	Juventus	Italy
Philippe Mexès	73	Milan	France
Cristian Zapata	72	Milan	Colombia
Leandro Castán	71	Roma	Brazil
Hugo Campagnaro	71	Inter	Argentina
Leonardo Bonucci	69	Juventus	Italy
Adil Rami	68	Milan	France
Davide Astori	68	Roma	Italy
Thomas Heurtaux	68	Udinese	France

 

Giorgio Chiellini is our number one choice for this position. He is fast and the one with better defending and physical stats. The Juventus’ defender is the most expensive of all centre backs in Serie A.

Andrea Barzagli is slightly better than Martín Cáceres, while Alex or Vidic can be very useful in squads with three centre backs. Juan Jesus is our economic choice. He is fast and has good defending and physical stats.

 
 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Centre Backs

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

FUT 15 Serie A Right Backs (RB and RWB)

 

Full backs have the role of troubling the job of wingers. In addition, good full backs also support their team mates on offensive manoeuvres.

Maicon is the most popular right back playing in Serie A.

 

HIGHEST RATED RIGHT BACKS
Maicon	79	Roma	Brazil
Micah Richards	77	Fiorentina	England
Christian Maggio	76	Napoli	Italy
Abdoulay Konko	76	Lazio	France
Mattia De Sciglio	76	Milan	Italy
Dušan Basta	75	Lazio	Serbia

 

There are very important attributes for 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 most popular right back of Serie A but Micah Richards defends better than him.

 

RIGHT BACKS WITH BEST DEFENDING
Micah Richards	78	Fiorentina	England
Maicon	76	Roma	Brazil
Mattia De Sciglio	74	Milan	Italy
Dušan Basta	73	Lazio	Serbia
Christian Maggio	72	Napoli	Italy
Abdoulay Konko	72	Lazio	France

 

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.

Konko and De Sciglio are the only ones that may be considered fast players.

 

RIGHT BACKS WITH BEST PACE
Abdoulay Konko	86	Lazio	France
Mattia De Sciglio	85	Milan	Italy
Micah Richards	79	Fiorentina	England
Maicon	78	Roma	Brazil
Christian Maggio	78	Napoli	Italy
Dušan Basta	77	Lazio	Serbia

 

Maicon is the most complete right back playing in Serie A. He has the best shooting, the best passing and the best dribbling. In our opinion he is the best one. However, he is not a fast player. If that is a problem to you, then try Konko.

If you don’t have enough coins to buy them, choose Mattia De Sciglio. He has poor defensive stats but he is really fast, which may be important too. If you are looking for someone with better defensive skills, you can try Micah Richards. He is the right back who defends best in this league.

 
 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Right Backs

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FUT 15 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 in the team’s offensive manoeuvres.

A team’s left flank has even less options than the right but that doesn’t necessarily mean it has less quality. There are only three left backs but two of them are players that stand out in this position: Ashley Cole and Patrice Evra.

 

HIGHEST RATED LEFT BACKS
Ashley Cole	81	Roma	England
Patrice Evra	80	Juventus	France
Stefan Radu	77	Lazio	Romania

 

The Serie A left backs defend equally well.

 

LEFT BACKS WITH BEST DEFENDING
Stefan Radu	81	Lazio	Romania
Ashley Cole	80	Roma	England
Patrice Evra	79	Juventus	France

 

Evra and Radu are faster than Cole.

 

LEFT BACKS WITH BEST PACE
Patrice Evra	79	Juventus	France
Stefan Radu	78	Lazio	Romania
Ashley Cole	73	Roma	England

 

Patrice Evra is, in our opinion, the best left back playing in Serie A. His pace is enough to make the difference between him and our second choice, Ashley Cole. Radu, the economic choice, should be used if you need someone to defend.

 
 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Left Backs

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Central Defensive Midfielder (CDM)

 

Many of the FIFA 15 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	Roma	Italy
Nigel de Jong	81	Milan	Netherlands
Gökhan Inler	79	Napoli	Switzerland
Yann M’Vila	78	Inter	France
Cristian Ledesma	77	Lazio	Italy
Seydou Keita	77	Roma	Mali
Sulley Muntari	76	Milan	Ghana
Gary Medel	76	Inter	Chile
David Pizarro	75	Fiorentina	Chile
Zdravko Kuzmanović	75	Inter	Serbia

 

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 in 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 and 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. 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 BEST DEFENDING
Daniele De Rossi	82	Roma	Italy
Nigel de Jong	78	Milan	Netherlands
Gary Medel	78	Inter	Chile
Yann M’Vila	77	Inter	France
Gökhan Inler	75	Napoli	Switzerland
Seydou Keita	75	Roma	Mali
Sulley Muntari	74	Milan	Ghana
Michaël Essien	74	Milan	Ghana
Zdravko Kuzmanović	73	Inter	Serbia
Cristian Ledesma	68	Lazio	Italy

 

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

Once again, De Rossi stands out. Only Gary Medel has better physical than him. On the other hand there’s Cristian Ledesma. The Italian player rarely wins a physical brawl due to being the weakest central defensive midfielder from the main Italian League.

 

CENTRAL DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDERS WITH BEST PHYSICAL
Gary Medel	86	Inter	Chile
Daniele De Rossi	84	Roma	Italy
Sulley Muntari	83	Milan	Ghana
Nigel de Jong	82	Milan	Netherlands
Zdravko Kuzmanović	78	Inter	Serbia
Gökhan Inler	77	Napoli	Switzerland
Yann M’Vila	77	Inter	France
Seydou Keita	77	Roma	Mali
Michaël Essien	77	Milan	Ghana
Cristian Ledesma	71	Lazio	Italy

 

De Rossi is without a doubt the best in this position by far. No other player can guarantee this quality on the field. He is a balanced defensive midfielder with great stats in almost every attributes.

The difficult scenario would be to choose between Yann M’Villa and Sulley Muntari. The first one is faster but the Milan player is stronger and with much better positioning. He is our economic choice.

 
 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Central Defensive Midfielders

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Centre Midfielders (CM e CAM)

 

A lot of games are decided in 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 much quality in the Serie A midfield. Some of the world’s best footballers play there. Look at Pirlo, Pogba and Vidal.

 

HIGHEST RATED CENTRE MIDFIELDERS
Arturo Vidal	85	Juventus	Chile
Andrea Pirlo	84	Juventus	Italy
Paul Pogba	83	Juventus	France
Miralem Pjanić	83	Roma	Bosnia Herz…
Claudio Marchisio	83	Juventus	Italy
Marek Hamšik	83	Napoli	Slovakia
Borja Valero	82	Fiorentina	Spain
Dries Mertens	82	Napoli	Belgium
Hernanes	82	Inter	Brazil
Kevin Strootman	81	Roma	Netherlands
Riccardo Montolivo	81	Milan	Italy
José Callejón	80	Napoli	Spain
Radja Nainggolan	79	Roma	Belgium
Keisuke Honda	79	Milan	Japan
Fredy Guarín	79	Inter	Colombia

 

Centre 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 Miralem Pjanić and Borja Valero have great passing stat, Andrea Pirlo is the second best in the world. In all leagues, only Xavi is better than him in this attribute.

 

CENTRE MIDFIELDERS WITH BEST PASSING
Andrea Pirlo	91	Juventus	Italy
Miralem Pjanić	85	Roma	Bosnia Herz…
Borja Valero	85	Fiorentina	Spain
Hernanes	83	Inter	Brazil
Riccardo Montolivo	83	Milan	Italy
Marek Hamšik	82	Napoli	Slovakia
Keisuke Honda	82	Milan	Japan
Alberto Aquilani	82	Fiorentina	Italy
Luca Cigarini	82	Atalanta	Italy
Claudio Marchisio	81	Juventus	Italy
Arturo Vidal	80	Juventus	Chile
Dries Mertens	80	Napoli	Belgium
Stefano Mauri	80	Lazio	Italy
Paul Pogba	79	Juventus	France
Kevin Strootman	79	Roma	Netherlands

 

 

CENTRE MIDFIELDERS WITH BEST DRIBBLING
Dries Mertens	87	Napoli	Belgium
Lorenzo Insigne	85	Napoli	Italy
Marko Marin	85	Fiorentina	Germany
Miralem Pjanić	84	Roma	Bosnia Herz…
Hernanes	84	Inter	Brazil
Mateo Kovačić	84	Inter	Croatia
Claudio Marchisio	83	Juventus	Italy
Paul Pogba	83	Juventus	France
Matías Fernández	83	Fiorentina	Chile
Andrea Pirlo	82	Juventus	Italy
Marek Hamšik	82	Napoli	Slovakia
José Callejón	82	Napoli	Spain
Arturo Vidal	81	Juventus	Chile
Borja Valero	81	Fiorentina	Spain
Fredy Guarín	81	Inter	Colombia

 

Arturo Vidal and Paul Pogba are undoubtedly the best players for this position. Both are strong, fast and with great stats for all other attributes, including amazing stamina. Vidal can play very well as CDM if you need. Our third choice is Claudio Marchisio. He is much better than Pirlo, who is weak and slow.

Dries Mertens is also an interesting player. He is the second fastest midfielder and the one with best dribbling. These two attributes are two of the most important in FIFA 15. He is much cheaper than the Vidal and Pogba, which makes him our economic choice.

 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Centre Midfielders

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

Best FUT 15 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.

Cuadrado and Candreva are the two right wingers most popular who play in Serie A.

 

HIGHEST RATED RIGHT WINGERS
Juan Cuadrado	83	Fiorentina	Colombia
Antonio Candreva	83	Lazio	Italy
Jonathan Biabiany	79	Parma	France
Joaquín	78	Fiorentina	Spain
Jérémy Ménez	78	Milan	France
Jonathan	77	Inter	Brazil
Stephan Lichtsteiner	77	Juventus	Switzerland
Juan Manuel Iturbe	77	Roma	Argentina
Alessandro Florenzi	76	Roma	Italy
Valter Birsa	76	Chievo Verona	Slovenia

 

There are three fundamental attributes for 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 via sprints on the side lines.

The Serie A is extremely well served in this chapter. Three gold players have pace over 92, being the highlighted Jonathan Biabiany.

 

FASTEST RIGHT WINGERS
Jonathan Biabiany	96	Parma	France
Juan Cuadrado	93	Fiorentina	Colombia
Juan Manuel Iturbe	92	Roma	Argentina
Jonathan	86	Inter	Brazil
Antonio Candreva	85	Lazio	Italy
Jérémy Ménez	85	Milan	France
Stephan Lichtsteiner	84	Juventus	Switzerland
Ioannis Fetfatzidis	83	Genoa	Greece
Simone Pepe	81	Juventus	Italy
Alessandro Florenzi	80	Roma	Italy

 

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.

There are a lot of players gifted in dribbling, being Cuadrado the best one.

 

RIGHT WINGERS WITH BEST DRIBLLING
Juan Cuadrado	87	Fiorentina	Colombia
Antonio Candreva	84	Lazio	Italy
Juan Manuel Iturbe	84	Roma	Argentina
Ioannis Fetfatzidis	84	Genoa	Greece
Jérémy Ménez	83	Milan	France
Jonathan Biabiany	82	Parma	France
Joaquín	80	Fiorentina	Spain
Simone Pepe	80	Juventus	Italy
Jonathan	78	Inter	Brazil
Alessandro Florenzi	77	Roma	Italy

 

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.

Only Candreva and Joaquín offer good quality passing. Biabiany, for example, could’ve been an option to consider filling this slot in virtue of his fantastic pace, but he is affected negatively for missing frequently passes to his more forward team mates.

 

RIGHT WINGERS WITH BEST PASSING
Antonio Candreva	82	Lazio	Italy
Joaquín	80	Fiorentina	Spain
Valter Birsa	78	Chievo Verona	Slovenia
Juan Cuadrado	76	Fiorentina	Colombia
Simone Pepe	75	Juventus	Italy
Stephan Lichtsteiner	73	Juventus	Switzerland
Jonathan	72	Inter	Brazil
Alessandro Florenzi	72	Roma	Italy
Jonathan Biabiany	70	Parma	France
Jérémy Ménez	70	Milan	France

 

There are only two good players for this position but it is really difficult to choose between them. Candreva is slightly better than Cuadrado in almost every stat, including much better stamina. However, the pace of the Colombian player can make the difference. What he lacks in these attributes he highly compensates with his pace. That’s the main reason why we consider him the best Serie A right winger.

Biabiany, the fastest gold player, is our economic choice.

 

Best FUT 15 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.

Gervinho and Stephan El Shaarawy are the two most popular left wingers playing in Serie A.

 

HIGHEST RATED LEFT WINGERS
Gervinho	81	Roma	Ivory Coast
Stephan El Shaarawy	80	Milan	Italy
Giacomo Bonaventura	79	Milan	Italy
Kwadwo Asamoah	79	Juventus	Ghana
Senad Lulić	78	Lazio	Bosnia Herz…
Juan Manuel Vargas	76	Fiorentina	Peru
Yuto Nagatomo	76	Inter	Japan
Adem Ljajić	76	Roma	Serbia
Balde Diao Keita	76	Lazio	Spain
Maxime Lestienne	75	Genoa	Belgium

 

Even though they’re fast, Keita and Nagamoto are far away from Gervinho, the fastest left winger in Serie A.

 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BEST PACE
Gervinho	93	Roma	Ivory Coast
Balde Diao Keita	89	Lazio	Spain
Yuto Nagatomo	88	Inter	Japan
Stephan El Shaarawy	87	Milan	Italy
Maxime Lestienne	86	Genoa	Belgium
Kwadwo Asamoah	84	Juventus	Ghana
Senad Lulić	84	Lazio	Bosnia Herz…
Adem Ljajić	81	Roma	Serbia
Giacomo Bonaventura	80	Milan	Italy
Juan Manuel Vargas	76	Fiorentina	Peru

 

El Shaarawy and Gervinho are the most highlighted left wingers in this chapter.

 
 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BEST DRIBBLING
Stephan El Shaarawy	84	Milan	Italy
Gervinho	83	Roma	Ivory Coast
Kwadwo Asamoah	82	Juventus	Ghana
Balde Diao Keita	81	Lazio	Spain
Adem Ljajić	81	Roma	Serbia
Giacomo Bonaventura	80	Milan	Italy
Senad Lulić	76	Lazio	Bosnia Herz…
Maxime Lestienne	76	Genoa	Belgium
Yuto Nagatomo	75	Inter	Japan
Juan Manuel Vargas	75	Fiorentina	Peru

 

Left wingers in Serie A don’t have a good passing. Bonaventura and Vargas are the best ones.

 
 

LEFT WINGERS WITH BEST PASSING
Giacomo Bonaventura	77	Milan	Italy
Juan Manuel Vargas	77	Fiorentina	Peru
Kwadwo Asamoah	75	Juventus	Ghana
Senad Lulić	75	Lazio	Bosnia Herz…
Gervinho	72	Roma	Ivory Coast
Stephan El Shaarawy	72	Milan	Italy
Yuto Nagatomo	72	Inter	Japan
Adem Ljajić	72	Roma	Serbia
Maxime Lestienne	72	Genoa	Belgium
Balde Diao Keita	69	Lazio	Spain

 

There is lack of quality left wingers in Serie A. It’s probably the weakest position of this league.

In our opinion, Gervinho is the best left winger. His stats are not great, but pace and dribbling, which are the most important ones, look amazing. He is faster and has much better stamina than El Shaarawy, our second choice.

If you are looking for someone that also help your defence, you should try Kwadwo Asamoah. He is not as fast as Gervinho and El Shaarawy, but he is a more balanced player. The Ghanaian winger is the strongest and one of the best in any of the other five basic attributes. Besides that, he has high/high work rate which is great for a player with stamina 88 like him.

 

Best FUT 15 Serie A Left Wingers

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Serie A Forwards (CF and ST)

 

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

Carlos Tévez and Gonzalo Higuaín are the most popular forwards playing in Serie A.

 

HIGHEST RATED FORWARDS
Carlos Tévez	85	Juventus	Argentina
Gonzalo Higuaín	84	Napoli	Argentina
Giuseppe Rossi	82	Fiorentina	Italy
Rodrigo Palacio	82	Inter	Argentina
Mario Gomez	82	Fiorentina	Germany
Fernando Torres	81	Milan	Spain
Llorente	81	Juventus	Spain
Miroslav Klose	81	Lazio	Germany
Francesco Totti	80	Roma	Italy
Antonio Cassano	80	Parma	Italy
Fabio Quagliarella	78	Torino	Italy
Michu	78	Napoli	Spain
Pablo Daniel Osvaldo	78	Inter	Italy
Antonio Di Natale	78	Udinese	Italy
Germán Denis	78	Atalanta	Argentina

 

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.

Carlos Tévez and Gonzalo Higuaín are the Serie A forwards with the best shooting. This means the best forwards are the ones that are better at shooting.

 

FORWARDS WITH BEST SHOOTING
Carlos Tévez	86	Juventus	Argentina
Gonzalo Higuaín	84	Napoli	Argentina
Giuseppe Rossi	83	Fiorentina	Italy
Francesco Totti	83	Roma	Italy
Fabio Quagliarella	83	Torino	Italy
Mario Gomez	82	Fiorentina	Germany
Rodrigo Palacio	82	Inter	Argentina
Antonio Di Natale	82	Udinese	Italy
Germán Denis	80	Atalanta	Argentina
Llorente	79	Juventus	Spain
Fernando Torres	79	Milan	Spain
Antonio Cassano	78	Parma	Italy
Michu	78	Napoli	Spain
Miroslav Klose	77	Lazio	Germany
Pablo Daniel Osvaldo	77	Inter	Italy

 

Jump, strength and stamina are the ingredients to the new physical attribute, very important when we are analysing the best forwards: jump to score with the head; strength to dispute the ball with the opponents; and stamina to sprint in direction of goal at any time of the game.

Again, Tévez is who stands out, this time with Llorente in the top of the list.

 

FORWARDS WITH BEST PHYSICAL
Llorente	85	Juventus	Spain
Carlos Tévez	84	Juventus	Argentina
Mario Gomez	79	Fiorentina	Germany
Alberto Paloschi	79	Chievo Verona	Italy
Michu	76	Napoli	Spain
Pablo Daniel Osvaldo	76	Inter	Italy
Cyril Théréau	75	Udinese	France
Germán Denis	74	Atalanta	Argentina
Giampaolo Pazzini	74	Milan	Italy
Gonzalo Higuaín	71	Napoli	Argentina
Alessandro Matri	71	Genoa	Italy
Fernando Torres	70	Milan	Spain
Francesco Totti	69	Roma	Italy
Mauro Icardi	69	Inter	Argentina
Fabio Quagliarella	68	Torino	Italy

 

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.

Giovinco and Ibarbo are the fastest strikers. They are better than Marco Sau, Maximiliano Moralez and… Carlos Tévez.

 

FORWARDS WITH BEST PACE
Sebastian Giovinco	91	Juventus	Italy
Víctor Ibarbo	91	Cagliari	Colombia
Marco Sau	89	Cagliari	Italy
Maximiliano Moralez	89	Atalanta	Argentina
Carlos Tévez	86	Juventus	Argentina
Rodrigo Palacio	85	Inter	Argentina
Giuseppe Rossi	84	Fiorentina	Italy
Gonzalo Higuaín	81	Napoli	Argentina
Fernando Torres	79	Milan	Spain
Mauro Icardi	79	Inter	Argentina
Alessandro Matri	79	Genoa	Italy
Antonio Di Natale	78	Udinese	Italy
Mattia Destro	78	Roma	Italy
Morata	78	Juventus	Spain
Alberto Paloschi	77	Chievo Verona	Italy

 

Tevez is, without any discussion, the best Serie A forward. He is one of the fastest, the second with best physical and wins in another three categories: best shooting, best dribbling and best defending. Not enough for you? He is also the striker with highest stamina, something really important in a player with high/high work rate like he has.

More difficult is to choose the second best forward. Higuain is the most balanced one, but if you like to play in counter attack, the pace of Ibarbo is something you can not dismiss.

Far from these strikers quality, Rodrigo Palácio is our cheapest choice.

MORE GOALS PER GAME

> 0.9
Carlos Tevez
Matri

0.8 to 0.9
Ibarbo
Rodrigo Palácio
Morata

0.7 to 0.8
Fernando Torres
Giuseppe Rossi
Mario Gomez
Gonzalo Higuaín
Llorente
Di Natale

 
 

Best FUT 15 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 players based on their role and style of play that fits each player. 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 25k budget and 4-4-2 with a 10k budget.

 
 
 
 

Team with Unlimited Budget

 

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• Budget
Playstation: 175.8k coins (153.9k + 21.9k)
Xbox: 132.9k coins (112.9k + 20k)
PC: 202.1k coins (181.5k + 20.6k)

 

• Summary

The choice for this team’s players was based on analysis made in the previous chapters.

If there are undoubted players in this team, Handanovic is certainly one of them. It is clear his superiority.

Chiellini keeps on being the boss of the defensive foursome for all and a few more reasons. With Barzagli they are the nightmare for every forward. On the right side, Maicon is the best player, but you may pick Konko or Micah Richards depending if you want someone faster or with better defensive skills. On the left side, it’s difficult to choose between Ashley Cole and Patrice Evra. To us, what makes the difference is the great Evra’s pace, something so important in FIFA 15.

Vidal is a CM but he plays as a CDM like no one does. Not even De Rossi. This ‘box to box’ player is perfect to play behind Pogba, the most expensive Serie A player.

On the wings, pace is crucial. That’s why Gervinho and Cuadrado were chosen to these positions. Carlos Tévez is The striker but if you need someone else, you can choose between Higuain and Ibarbo, the same is to say between a football player and a sprinter.

Once all the players reach maximum individual chemistry you can go without a manager for your squad. They’ll be of no use and still spend contracts.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

25k Budget Team

 

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• Budget
Playstation: 27.8k coins (17.8k + 10k)
Xbox: 26.3k coins (16.3k + 10k)
PC: 25.3k coins (15.6k + 10k)

 

• Summary

The choice for this team’s players was based on analysis made in the previous chapters.

Handanovic, Maicon and Barzagli are cheap enough to keep the defence with three of the five players. Cáceres is a bargain and Ashley Cole is good enough to replace Evra.

For this budget, the central midfield position has to be De Rossi’s. The Italian builds up the first barrier between your goal line and the opponent, making his defensiveness and physicality count. Guarin and the surprise Mertens complete the midfield.

In the attack, the low price of Gervinho and Higuain helps them to still be in this team, while Cuadrado is replaced by the even faster Biabiany.

If you still have some room in your budget, Candreva, Marchisio and even Chiellini are players that would improve this squad a lot.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

10K Budget Team

 

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• Budget
Playstation: 10.1k coins (6k + 4.1k)
Xbox: 10.2k coins (6.2k + 4k)
PC: 11k coins (6.7k + 4.3k)

 

• Summary

The choice for this team’s players was based on analysis made in the previous chapters.

In the goal, Marchetti is a decent cheap goalkeeper.

Juan Jesus is probably the ‘bets value for money’ you will ever find in Serie A. Manolas, De Sciglio and Radu are the three other defenders. In the bench we were forced to use an extra CB due to the LB lack.

On the midfield, Muntari and Borja Valero complete each other well. The first one is a defensive midfielder, and the second is an experienced player that’s usually more advanced and is used to assisting his colleagues. Lichsteiner and Asamoah, another player that it is very cheap, fill the wings in order to assist Rodrigo Palacio and Paloschi.

 
 
 

Follow our tips and you’ll become more successful on FIFA 15 Ultimate Team with your Serie A Team.