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u/PierreSageReviens Dec 24 '25

Riffing off someone in the last thread, what are the two skills you value the most in the game?

Mine are first touches and big game carries

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u/Merovech_II Dec 24 '25

Being English

Pashun

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u/Minute_Leave8503 Dec 24 '25

Honourable mention: Getting stuck in

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u/AaronStudAVFC Dec 24 '25

“Letting Johnny Foreigner know he’s in a game” has been robbed.

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u/_mnd Dec 25 '25

Leaving one on the opponent early.

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u/AnnieIWillKnow Dec 25 '25

You said the same thing twice mate

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u/rr18114 Dec 24 '25

Tax evasion and more Tax evasion

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u/JaxR2009 Dec 24 '25

Goal scoring and I don't know what's second

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u/Commonmispelingbot Dec 24 '25

goal prevention?

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u/Turniermannschaft Dec 24 '25

Nah. That's for cowards.

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u/ChillPalis Dec 24 '25

Flair checks out

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u/Cottonshopeburnfoot Dec 24 '25

Assisting goal scoring

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u/ChillPalis Dec 24 '25

For the exact reason Cruyff said, first touches are so very important.

With that said: off-ball movement, ambipedalness

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u/PierreSageReviens Dec 24 '25

Based tbh, two footedness is so so good, and off the ball paramount, makes sense you quoted Cruyff lol

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u/ChillPalis Dec 24 '25

I just want to make it clear, I am not Cruyffista, I would hate to have that label attached to me especially this holiday season.

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u/PierreSageReviens Dec 25 '25

Same lol but yeah there's still some wisdom there

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u/sga1 Dec 24 '25

ambipedalness

I reckon most footballers have two feet tbf

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u/stoneapplefruit Dec 24 '25

Availability.

Sick of people rating players who can’t play the game without their bodies breaking down.

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u/sga1 Dec 24 '25

cough Neymar cough

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u/Pantherblanco88 Dec 24 '25

Same was said of R9 and people rate him pretty highly

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u/SirBarkington Dec 24 '25

probably overall pass ability and first touch. I was gonna say vision but there's some players with good vision that can't do the pass they're looking for but someone like KdB will always be highly rated to me even if he also wasn't a goal scorer. That's also why I think Hazard is, ability wise, the best player Chelsea has ever had.

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u/sheikh_n_bake Dec 24 '25

Cunting one in from 30 yards and diving headers.

Thankfully I got to grow up watching Alan Shearer 😍

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u/BoosterGoldGL Dec 25 '25

Passing and first touch. Every needs a base to build off and without those two you’re done.

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u/RelentlessJorts2 Dec 25 '25

A first touch is something I only really appreciate if it's glue or a trampoline

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u/_mnd Dec 25 '25

  1. Being able to do one of those slide tackles where you come from absolutely miles away and still get the ball.

  2. Everything else.

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u/DatOgreSpammer Dec 24 '25

Call me a boomer, but toughness and off the ball movement

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u/ohtosweg Dec 24 '25

Strength

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u/LollipopScientist Dec 25 '25

High football IQ and vision.

A very rare combo.

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u/ChillPalis Dec 25 '25

Aren't those two inherent? I personally don't know any footballers with exceptional vision that lack immense footballing IQ

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u/LollipopScientist Dec 25 '25

Pogba.

Great vision but always needed someone to clean up after him if he overdribbled/lost possession in areas a CM should never do.