Li Yufei's Comprehensive Score, Top Five in the World!

[Physical Data: Speed 99, Acceleration 99, Burst 96, Strength 73, Jumping 90, Hang Time 75, Stamina 72, Balance 80, Agility 78, Injury Resistance 99]

[Technical Data: Shooting 88, Dribbling 89, Ball Control 81, Short Pass 82, Long Pass 52, Crossing 67, Long Shot 70, Header 58, Shot Power 75, Set Pieces 60]

[Other Data: Mentality 80, Football IQ 75, Positioning 75, Vision 65, Anticipation 62, Creativity 72, Aggression 75, Off-the-Ball Movement 63, Tackling 40, Interception 25, Slide Tackle 20, Goalkeeping 10]

[Overall Rating: 84]

Seeing his various stats, Li Yufei let out a long breath.

His numbers were looking better and better now!

After Dribbling hit 89 and couldn't be upgraded further with Intermediate Meal Ticket points, Li Yufei dumped all 3 ability points from his last completed mission into Shooting.

Now his Shooting had reached 88, just one step shy of the 89 cap.

As for Burst, it went from 95 to 96.

Maybe 95 to 96 was a threshold, because this time the incidental Jumping boost shot up by a full 3 points, hitting the 90 mark.

That meant Li Yufei now had five attributes breaking 90.

As for the improvements in Strength, Stamina, Crossing, Long Pass, Header, Vision, Anticipation, and Off-the-Ball Movement—

Those were entirely the result of self-improvement from playing official matches during this period.

His Overall Rating had also climbed from the initial 83 to 84.

But Li Yufei knew this 84 wasn't the same concept as the player ratings on FIFA game cards.

In FIFA's player ratings, they only calculated a set of stats based on the player's position.

For example, with Messi and Ronaldo as forwards, FIFA's ratings for them only looked at attributes relevant to Forward Players.

That meant Shooting, Dribbling, Control, Speed, and the like.

Defensive attributes like Slide Tackle and Interception weren't included in FIFA's scope.

That was how Messi's 94 and Ronaldo's 92 ultra-high scores were calculated later on.

Of course, in FIFA 10, Messi's rating was only 90 for now, ranking first, while Ronaldo was 89, ranking second.

Li Yufei's database hadn't been updated yet, so his rating was still 75.

But if you converted the system's rating rules into FIFA's rating rules for estimation—

Under the system's rules, with an 84 Overall Rating, if you tossed out all the defensive stats and only evaluated him as a pure forward, Li Yufei would probably land around 87, or at least 86.

In other words, adding two or three points to the system's Overall Rating gave Li Yufei's true rating as a forward.

Whether 86 or 87, in this era, that was an undisputed world-class forward score.

There weren't many players with higher ratings than Li Yufei either.

Messi, Ronaldo, Kaka, Ibrahimović, Rooney, Iniesta, Xavi, Buffon, Casillas—at most, just over ten people.

If you only counted forwards, Li Yufei could probably break into the top five!

That was the level Li Yufei had reached now.

Every time he thought about how he'd risen to world-class forward status in such a short time—

A surge of pride welled up in Li Yufei's heart.

He'd still underestimated himself. Originally, Li Yufei thought he'd need at least a full season to truly take off.

Now it seemed half a season might be enough.

Even if there were still obvious weaknesses, as long as his strengths were long enough, he could completely dominate a match!

Because a forward was inherently a position that emphasized strengths.

Defenders were the ones who needed to cover weaknesses!

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As a forward, many times you only needed one signature move to make a living off it.

A classic example was Flying Dutchman Robben.

Why did Robben become a near-Ballon d'Or level player in his prime?

Because his speed was too fast, plus his signature cut-inside-and-shoot routine worked every time.

With just those two points, Robben became the world's second-best right winger under Messi.

Realizing this, Li Yufei suddenly felt he'd been too hard on himself in the past.

In truth, with his dual speed stats that topped the football world, he was already a near-world-class forward.

As long as his Shooting, Ball Control, and Dribbling reached the upper-middle level among top-league forwards, he'd be a solid world-class forward!

Even if the player was useless at everything else—passing a mess, playmaking ability nearly zero—

It still wouldn't affect his evaluation as a world-class forward.

Because maxed-out dual speed plus decent ball control, dribbling, and shooting was enough to guarantee a player's scoring efficiency!

As long as a forward's scoring efficiency was guaranteed and he could produce enough volume, that forward was naturally a world-class player.

Li Yufei was pretty much in that state right now.

Even though many of his offensive weapons hadn't been developed yet, relying solely on his unmatched speed and sharp finishing, he'd already pulled off the feat of seven goals in three league matches!

Sure, aside from Liverpool, the other two opponents were pushovers... no, even Liverpool could be called a pushover these days.

In other words, all three teams Li Yufei had faced in his first league games were rookies!

Those seven goals in three games were stats racked up by bullying the weak.

But in football, being good at bullying the weak is itself a plus.

After all, over a season, a strong team faces mostly weaker opponents.

If a team's striker can't consistently put away those weaker sides, wouldn't they drop a lot of points they shouldn't?

So even bullying the weak has a very high bar—it's not something just any player can do.

By scoring seven goals in three straight games against weaker teams, Li Yufei had already surpassed ninety-nine percent of strikers in the world.

Nothing unexpected happened in this match against Bolton Wanderers.

Maybe spurred on by Li Yufei's interview, Fabregas was unusually active in this game.

Clearly, he wanted to prove that, at least in this Arsenal squad, he was still the undisputed boss on the pitch!

In the 24th minute.

Fabregas assisted Koscielny with a corner kick, who headed it in from inside the box—Arsenal led 1-0.

In the 38th minute.

Fabregas pushed forward and delivered a pinpoint through ball, setting up Li Yufei to slot home—Arsenal led 2-0.

Just before halftime, Varane made a fatal mistake, clearing the ball poorly. The Korean Lee Chung-yong picked it up and threaded a through ball to the Swede Elmander, who scored.

2-1. Bolton Wanderers pulled one back just before the first half ended.

Seeing Varane's guilty expression, Li Yufei walked over, patted him on the head, and comforted him:

"It's fine. Being a defender is a position that needs constant game time to gain experience. One or two mistakes don't mean anything."

"We'll take this match easily. Don't let it get to you."

Hearing this from Li Yufei, Varane nodded, but you could tell from his face he was still pretty down.

Li Yufei knew this was something he'd have to get over on his own, so he didn't say more.