Chelsea’s FIFA 23 ratings: The good, the bad and the ugly
By Tan Yi Hao
The ugly
A penny for Marcus Bettinelli and Kenedy’s thoughts on the ratings. Both players have received a one-point downgrade, despite not featuring anywhere near enough last season to provide EA with the necessary materials to produce an accurate assessment. This is quite simply outrageous in all honesty, and this writer is expecting no less than a full-out protest outside EA’s headquarters in response to this travesty. Buy your “#JusticeforBettinelli” and “#JusticeforKenedy” merchandise now, on sale at The Pride of London dot com.
On a serious note, poor Billy Gilmour’s disastrous loan move to Norwich City has clearly curtailed his development in real life. Unfortunately, this was accurately represented via his unchanged FIFA 23 rating. Having been 71-rated in FIFA 21, Gilmour has only had a positive improvement of one-point in the two seasons since he broke through at Chelsea.
While EA’s numbers can be laughably arbitrary at times (see Bettinelli and Kenedy), Gilmour’s stagnating ratings are rightly indicative of a player who has largely failed to kick on due to a variety of factors since his introduction into the first team under Frank Lampard. With a permanent move seemingly on the cards as the summer transfer window draws to a close, perhaps a transfer could provide the catalyst needed for the promising Scottish player to reignite his career.
All in all, it has to be said that these individual player ratings are largely an accurate representation of Chelsea’s 2021/22 season. For every 7-0 and 6-0 win against Norwich and Southampton, there were equally disappointing 1-1 draws to the likes of Everton and 4-1 defeats to the likes of Brentford. Last season will also, of course, be defined by the heart-wrenching defeats to Liverpool in two separate cup finals, as much as it will be remembered as the campaign that Chelsea finally “won it all” under Roman Abramovich. In truth it was a mixed campaign for the club and EA’s ratings can be seen as a manifestation of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows that the Blues went through during the course of the season.
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