FIFA 16 News Roundup #28

Welcome back folks to our 28th FIFA 16 news roundup post! Let’s jump straight in this week’s news with the new FUT 16 TOTW:

STARTING XI

GK: Ralf Fährmann, Schalke 04 – 82 > 84
RB: Héctor Bellerín, Arsenal – 77 > 80
CB: Bruno Ecuélé Manga, Cardiff City – 78 > 80
LB: Faouzi Ghoulam, Napoli – 78 > 81
LM(CAM): Adam Lallana, Liverpool – 80 > 81
CAM: Gastón Ramírez, Middlesbrough – 78 > 80
CAM(LM): Ja Cheol Koo, FC Augsburg – 75 > 78
RW: Lionel Messi, Barcelona – 94 > 96
LW: Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid – 93 > 97
ST: Aritz Aduriz, Athletic Bilbao – 82 > 85
ST(LM): André Schürrle, VFL Wolfsburg – 80 > 81

SUBS

GK: Laurent Pionnier, Montpellier HSC – 70 > 74
CB: Georg Niedermeier, VfB Stuttgart – 72 > 74
RM: Jonas Kamper, Viborg FF – 65 > 72
RW(CAM): Rachid Ghezzal, Olympique Lyonnais – 70 > 74
ST: Bruno Fornaroli, Melbourne City – 71 > 74
ST(RM): Flavio Paixão, Lechia Gdańsk – 70 > 74
ST: Guillaume Hoarau, BSC Young Boys – 74 > 74

RESERVES

LB(LM): Maciej Rybus, Terek Grozny – 75 > 80
RB: Oscar De Marcos, Athletic Bilbao – 80 > 81
CAM: Ignacio Piatti, Montreal Impact – 77 > 80
ST: Diego Milito, Racing Club – 79 > 80
ST: Mauro Icardi, Internazionale – 79 > 81

These IFs are available in packs from 9th March – 16th March. You can view the team more detailed at FUTHead or FUTWiz.

Three new MOTM cards have been released as well this week featuring Reus, Bakambu and Ibrahimovic:

FIFA Mobile users had a very big surprise this week from EA Sports with the release of “Stars of Europe” cards in FUT16 and FUT15 NS. The big surprise came from the FUT15 NS version which featured for the first time in the history of FUT 100+ rated cards:

For this week’s FUT tournaments, console and PC players can participate in the “Three Star Cup” while mobile players can take part in the “European Challenge”:

Three Star Cup (Console & PC)

Requirements: Max. 3 Star Rating Team with 100 Chemistry
Rewards: Offline – 2.000 Coins | Online – 6.000 Coins
Offline Difficulty: Professional

European Challenge (Mobile)

Requirements: 8 Players from the same club in Starting XI
Rewards: 3 Rare Gold Players (85+ OVR)
Offline Difficulty: Professional

The winners of the second FUT 16 United event have been announced via twitter a few days ago and you can check bellow to see if you’re one of the winners:

Patrick Herrmann, Julian Korb, Granit Xhaka, Lars Stindl, Marvin Schulz, Nico Elvedi, Mahmoud Dahoud and Jonas Hofmann from Borussia Mönchengladbach were challenged by EA Sports in the latest FIFA 16 Ultimate Team Player Tournament to show off which one of them was the best FIFA 16 player:

And let’s not forget about Round 21 of GOTW which features the best FIFA 16 goals of the week according to EA Sports:

As always, we thank you for checking out this week’s news post and stay tuned because the first FIFA 17 news will be out soon on our website!