The first day of FUTMAS was packed with other elements that somewhat overshadowed the solid showing of player SBCs. With that in mind, let’s lead with the Team of the Year nominees all appearing in packs through December 20.
With all of these Team of the Year nominees, the conceit is they’re all +1 overall, and a +1 in pace, shooting, passing, dribbling, defense and physical from their base cards. It does not also mean the players get a +1 in every single specific attribute category, but they do get them in most.
The players are:
- Lionel Messi
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Neymar Jr.
- Eden Hazard
- Jan Oblak
- Luka Modric
- Virgin van Dijk
- Mohamed Salah
- Marc-Andre ter Stegen
- Sergio Ramos
- Kylian Mbappe
- N’Golo Kante
- Kalidou Koulibaly
- Harry Kane
- Alisson
- Sergio Aguero
- Robert Lewandowski
- Paulo Dybala
- Marco Reus
- Aubameyang
- Christian Eriksen
- Sadio Mane
- Ederson
- David Silva
- Raheem Sterling
- Karim Benzema
- Thiago Silva
- Mats Hummels
- Jan Vertonghen
- Heung Min Son
- Aymeric Laporte
- Bernardo Silva
- Jordi Alba
- Marquinhos
- Marco Verratti
- Leonardo Bonucci
- Roberto Firmino
- Milan Skriniar
- Joshua Kimmich
- Matthijs de Ligt
- Alex Sandro
- Andrew Robertson
- Fabinho
- Jose Maria Gimenez
- Frenkie de Jong
- Hakim Ziyech
- Jadon Sancho
- Georginio Wijnaldum
- Dusan Tadic
- Kai Havertz
- Trent Alexander-Arnold
- Jordan Henderson
- Andre Onana
- Nicolas Tagliafico
The other major change that happened later in the night was that the Road to the Final cards were all updated. This includes the objectives players like Mbabu, who got a +3 overall, which equates to +2 pace, +5 shooting, +4 passing, +3 dribbling, +3 defending and +3 physical. It turns Mbabu into one of the best RBs in the game (if he wasn’t already).
The full list of players upgraded:
- Kante (91 overall) — +1 overall
- Mane (90) — +1
- Dybala (90) — +1
- Lloris (90) — +1
- Son (89) — +1
- Jordi Alba (89) — +1
- Marquinhos (88) — +1
- Allan (87) — +1
- Depay (87) — +1
- Dembele (87) — +1
- Coman (87) — +1
- Bale (87) — +1
- Sancho (87) — +1
- Goretzka (87) — +1
- Mahrez (87) — +1
- Alejandro Gomez (87) — +1
- Militao (86) — +2 (+2 pace, +2 shooting, +3 passing, +2 dribbling, +2 defending, +2 physicality)
- Gueye (86) — +1
- Partey (86) — +2 (+2 pace, +3 shooting, +2 passing, +2 dribbling, +2 defending, +2 physicality)
- Willian (86) — +2 (+2 pace, +2 shooting, +3 passing, +2 dribbling, +2 defending, +2 physicality)
- Martial (86) — +1
- Torreira (86) — +2 (+2 pace, +3 shooting, +2 passing, +2 dribbling, +2 defending, +2 physicality)
- Corona (86) — +2 (+1 pace, +2 shooting, +2 passing, +1 dribbling, +1 defending, +1 physicality)
- Joe Gomez (85) — +2 (+2 pace, +2 shooting, +3 passing, +2 dribbling, +2 defending, +2 physicality)
- Wass (85) — +2 (+2 pace, +2 shooting, +2 passing, +2 dribbling, +2 defending, +3 physicality)
- Jimenez (85) — +2 (+2 pace, +3 shooting, +2 passing, +2 dribbling, +2 defending, +2 physicality)
- Konate (84) — +2 (+2 pace, +2 shooting, +2 passing, +3 dribbling, +2 defending, +2 physicality)
- Angelino (84) — +2 (+2 pace, +3 shooting, +2 passing, +2 dribbling, +2 defending, +2 physicality)
- Mbabu (84) — +3 (+2 pace, +5 shooting, +4 passing, +3 dribbling, +3 defending and +3 physicality)
- Juan Jesus (84) — +3 (+3 pace, +3 shooting, +4 passing, +5 dribbling, +2 defending, +3 physicality)
FUTMAS-Centric
The first FUTMAS player released was a player objectives Jean-Philippe Gbamin.
Loan FUTMAS Gbamin – 10-game loan FUTMAS Gbamin
- Score 8 goals in Rivals
European Tour – Gold pack
- Score with Ligue 1, Bundesliga, EPL players in 3 Squad Battles wins (minimum Pro difficulty)
Midfield Guardian – Premium Gold pack
- Score 12 goals using players with a minimum 80 physicality rating in Rivals
Line Breaker – Premium Electrum Players pack
- Assist 5 goals with a lob through pass using EPL players in Rivals
The Ivorian Toffee – Two Rare Gold Players pack
- Score using Ivory Coast players in 4 separate Rivals wins
While we’re sadly back to needing to do Rivals to complete most of these objectives, they’re not too terrible beyond needing to win four games while scoring with Ivory Coast players. This one should be manageable and only a minor waste of time in the process.
The FUTMAS Gathering objectives are straight forward and will just involve needing to use FUTMAS cards in order to get the FUTMAS Night jersey.
And then there are the two player SBCs. These are only active until FUTMAS Day Two begins at 1 p.m. EST on Saturday. Each SBC is running around 50K in coins, which is fair value for these two cards I would say. It’s not a major deal, but both players are certainly usable.
The other SBC from day one was FUTMAS Challenge.
FUTMAS Challenge – Jumbo Premium Gold pack
- Minimum 3 nationalities
- Minimum 5 gold players
- Minimum 3 rare players
- Minimum 74 overall
- Minimum 70 team chemistry
- 4-2-3-1 formation
All in all, an easy puzzle SBC to knock out for under 4K coins.
Other Non-FUTMAS Updates
The EPL Player of the Month went up as well, and it’s yet another Sadio Mane card, which means we got three Mane cards this week (Team of the Week, Player of the Month, Player of the Year).
The SBC cost is at about 800K right now, which makes sense because the requirements are:
Liverpool – Small Rare Gold Players pack
- Minimum 1 Liverpool player
- Minimum 1 in-form player
- Minimum 85 overall rating
- Minimum 70 team chemistry
Premier League – Rare Mixed Players pack
- Minimum 1 player from EPL
- Minimum 86 overall rating
- Minimum 65 team chemistry
86-Rated Squad – Premium Gold Players pack
- Minimum 86 overall rating
- Minimum 65 team chemistry
87-Rated Squad – Mega pack
- Minimum 87 overall rating
- Minimum 60 team chemistry
88-Rated Squad – Prime Gold Players pack
- Minimum 88 overall rating
- Minimum 55 team chemistry
Lastly, we have one last week of weekly objectives before the season comes to an end.
