Best FIFA defenders

You dedicate a lot of play sessions to FIFA , the well-known football title from Electronic Arts, and you have a lot of fun trying to build a team that can win against the opponents. However, you have noticed that your defense often fails to keep up with the opponents’ offensive actions, letting the other team pass and allowing your challengers to score valuable goals. So you intend to improve this department of your team, but you really don’t know where to start. That’s the way it is, right? Well then I’d say you’ve come to the right place!

In today’s tutorial, in fact, I will explain which are the best defenders in FIFA . In case you were wondering, I will show you everything you need: from the fundamental parameters to understand which players are right for you to the Electronic Arts rankings, passing through the most valid methods to be able to bring home the players to the lowest possible price. All this obviously without using any kind of trick: the procedures in the guide are in fact official and allowed by the developers.

Courage: why are you still standing there staring at the screen? Are you going to go ahead and find out who are the best defenders for your team on FIFA? In my opinion, yes, since you have come this far and are reading this tutorial with interest. Come on then, you just have to take a few minutes of free time and follow the quick instructions below. I assure you that you will be able to understand which are the most valid players for your team in a short time. Having said that, there is nothing left for me to do, other than wish you good reading, good fun and good luck in your football negotiations!

Index

• Preliminary information
• Ranking of the best defenders in FIFA
• Best low cost FIFA defenders

Preliminary information

Before explaining in detail which are the best defenders in FIFA , I believe it is of fundamental importance to know the parameters to distinguish a good player from the others.

When we talk about defenders , it means that we are looking for players who are able to stop the opponent’s offensive actions , perhaps making decisive interventions at the last moment, restarting the team and contributing to the  victories . In short, this role is very delicate and for this reason it is good to analyze all the relevant statistics properly .

Clearly, the most important parameter to take into consideration is that relating to defense , which certifies the skills of the player involved when it comes to stopping opponents. Not surprisingly, all the defenders considered more valid have rather high values ​​in this sense.

To give you some concrete examples, in FIFA 20 Virgil Van Dijk has 90 defense, Sergio Ramos has 87 , Giorgio Chiellini has 90 , Kalidou Koulibaly has 89 and Gerard Piqué has 88 . Usually a good defender has a value above 85 from this point of view.

Another feature of fundamental importance for a footballer of this type is that of the physique . In fact, a defender must be able to impose himself on his opponents and make it clear who is “in charge”, perhaps trying to win as many “shoulder to shoulder” as possible.

Again, in FIFA 20 all the best defenders have a high value in this regard. Virgil Van Dijk has 86 , Sergio Ramos has 85 , Giorgio Chiellini has 82 , Kalidou Koulibaly has 87 and Gerard Piqué has 80 . Generally speaking, a good value is 80 and up .

Otherwise, defenders usually don’t have high stats. However, there are parameters that can make a difference and it is therefore good to know them. In particular, the speed statistics can be important to get the team going again, perhaps running with the player on the wing.

To give you a concrete example, Jordi Alba has 90 of speed in FIFA 20 and may therefore be particularly useful to catch by surprise the opposing team. Not to mention that the aforementioned player also has 83 of dribbling , so it can be a very good compromise in many respects.

Another feature that could be useful for you to make your choice is that relating to the passage . In fact, having a defender with a good value in this sense can allow you to make the ball turn as it should, avoiding unnecessary mistakes. In FIFA 20, Jordi Alba has 81 passing, so it could be interesting for your team.

In short, now you are aware of the fundamental parameters that you need to keep an eye on when you want to buy a good defender in FIFA. However, I remind you that the ratings of the players can be changed at any moment, depending on the decisions made by Electronic Arts , and therefore I invite you to take the information reported as purely indicative.

Ranking of the best defenders in FIFA

FIFA developers usually publish interesting rankings of the best players in the game every year . Clearly, Electronic Arts knows the most valid players well and I therefore advise you to take particular account of the information disclosed directly by the company.

To access the rankings, just connect to the official EA website using any web browser and choose the correct section of the portal , that is the one linked to the edition of the game in your possession (eg FIFA 20 or FIFA 19 ).

Now, you have to select the FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM / ULTIMATE TEAM item at the top and look for the Player Ratings / Ratings Hub link or something similar: the writings may be different depending on the FIFA series game you own. I cannot therefore be more precise with my indications, but I can assure you that it is not at all difficult to find the rankings, as the procedure is always similar.

To give you a concrete example, if you own FIFA 20 , all you have to do is connect to this section of the official Electronic Arts website and scroll down the page, in order to find the myriads of rankings made by the developers. These include particulars of the best strikers , the best midfielders , the best footballers of punishments , the most skilled players in the passages and so on. The subdivisions by league are also interesting : there are rankings related to the Premier League , Bundesliga and LaLiga Santander. I recommend that you also take a look at the ranking of the 100 best players overall .

In short, certainly the information provided directly by the developers is not lacking. In your case, the most interesting indications are obviously those relating to the best defenders in FIFA Ultimate Team , accessible through this page of the official EA website .

To give you concrete examples, in FIFA 20 the developers have decided to reward Virgil Van Dijk (Liverpool), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Giorgio Chiellini (Piemonte Calcio, or Juventus), Kalidou Koulibaly (Naples), Gerard Piqué (Barcelona) , Diego Godín (Inter), Jordi Alba (Barcelona), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur), Aymeric Laporte (Manchester City), Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain), Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham Hotspur), Joshua Kimmich(Bayern Munich), Marquinhos (Paris Saint-Germain), Leonardo Bonucci (Piemonte Calcio, aka Juventus), Milan Škriniar (Inter), Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Raphaël Varane (Real Madrid) and Andrew Robertson (Liverpool).

Clearly, you can leverage this information depending on your needs. For example, if you are looking for the best young defenders in FIFA , all you need to do is see which players are the lowest in the league table. You can do the same for the best central defenders in FIFA or for the best Serie A defenders in FIFA , in case you are interested in breakdowns by position or by league.

Best low cost FIFA defenders

One of the considerations that come naturally when looking at the rankings mentioned in the previous chapter is that relating to the cost of the players , which could often be too high. You don’t have to worry: I will show you immediately which procedure the FIFA experts put in place to be able to buy players at the most affordable price possible.

Well, the most common technique is certainly that of sniping . The latter consists in analyzing the market of the Ultimate Team mode in search of players offered for sale by users who are not aware of the real market cost and who therefore make mistakes , allowing people like you to take the players home. at a negligible cost , resell them immediately at the right price and quickly earn credits .

The platforms most used to “sniper”, this is the term used by fans to describe the technique, are consoles and PCs , but also the FUT Web App can have its advantages (some users claim that footballers appear first on the market using this “platform”).

In any case, you can put the basics of sniping in place by simply setting a Buy Now price that is both advantageous and likely compared to the player’s current market cost and entering a high value (e.g. 11,000,000) as the maximum price , increasing it with each search . By doing so, you will allow the page to refresh in a short time and you will be able to get your hands on the players entered at advantageous prices before other users.

For detailed information on this method, I recommend that you take a look at my guide on how to sniper on FIFA . There are several “theories” on how to make this technique more effective and Electronic Arts football fans are constantly looking for ways to be able to take the players home at low cost . I therefore advise you to use the information I have given you as a “base”, experimenting with the technique that you consider most valid .

Since you are interested in FIFA, I would like to recommend some guides that may interest you. In particular, I invite you to consult my tutorials on how to get free coins on FIFA and on how to buy expiring players on FIFA (Career mode).