FIFA 22 is slowly coming to an end, and most players are using insane teams in Ultimate Team. A good opportunity to experiment – this time we tried out the biggest striker in the game.
The summer in Ultimate Team is always a strange time. Events like Futties or the newly started Pre-Season ensure that all players finally have really good teams. But then you quickly realize: When all footballers on the pitch have almost perfect stats, they hardly differ from each other.
That’s why we started experimenting a bit in FUT. Recently, we tried out the slowest striker in FIFA and had a lot of fun with the card. This time we will take a closer look at the biggest striker.
Who is the biggest striker in FIFA 22? That is Fejsal Mulic, a Serbian forward currently under contract with South Korean club Seongnam FC.
Mulic stands at an impressive 2.03 meters tall. He is only outdone by Tomás Holy (2.06 m), and only Andries Noppert (2.03 m) and Aaron Chapman (2.03 m) are equal to Mulic. However, all three are goalkeepers – Mulic is the tallest outfield player in FIFA 22.
Mulic scores goals – but not as you might think
That was the plan: With such a towering player, the goal was clear from the start: stand tall upfront and nod in the ball to easily overcome the puny center-backs and goalkeepers with a power header.
Dribbling, passing, crossing – that was to be taken care of by the Insignes and Riberys. Their stats suited that role much better than those on Mulic’s bronze card.
With his 75 pace, the Serbian forward is indeed noticeably more agile than Madrigal from our last experiment, but his 56 dribbling and 63 shot stats do not indicate a foot-oriented player but rather a head-oriented scorer.
At least that’s what I thought.
This is how Fejsal Mulic plays: Mulic got the spot up front in my team, surrounded by agile and ball-secure dribblers who were supposed to feed him with crosses. But it quickly became clear: the header plan didn’t work in Division Rivals.
I fired cross after cross into the box, but the ball just wouldn’t land on the striker’s forehead. And when it did, it would fly anywhere – but not towards the goal.
Instead, my opponent’s center-backs always intercepted the balls as if they couldn’t care less that Mulic was a good half a head taller than them. They jumped into the air, headed the ball and cleared the situation.
This doesn’t mean that Mulic was a complete failure. On the contrary, he surprisingly managed to score 4 goals in his very first game – just none with his head, even though I did everything I could. Instead, he coolly converted two penalties, one low shot into the corner and, cheekily, a rather complicated-looking volley shot. That went much better than expected.
Still, I personally took the last goal. The net was open, the ball was perfectly placed – but instead of using his head, Mulic slammed the ball into the top corner with his laces. A beautiful goal, but I was actually hoping for something uglier.
I have now found that while the giant striker is not a header monster, he is still not harmless. The thought was: In Rivals, there are already very strong cards in defense, so I’ll try weaker opponents and the AI in Squad Battles.
I’ll make it short: Here too, no header goals would fall. Not from corners, not from free kicks, and nothing from open play. The striker stood out on the pitch with his 2.03 meters and sometimes towered over his opponents by more than a head – but that didn’t make him any more dangerous with headers.
So far, after several games, I still haven’t managed to push Mulic towards a header goal – but that might also be my fault.
It seems to me that height in FIFA 22 is generally not the determining factor in heading. Too often, my attacker was regularly outsmarted by smaller but perhaps better-positioned or higher-jumping center-backs.
Nevertheless, this card still provided a lot of fun. Because just like with the slowest striker, I had to play more creatively than usual to put Mulic in good positions.
This is not necessarily efficient and doesn’t help much in getting closer to a victory – but it is a good exercise to learn new tricks in the offensive. And I really didn’t expect that Mulic would finish so well with his foot.
Have you ever tried out some “crazier” players in FIFA? Do you have a favorite player you can recommend? Tell us in the comments!
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