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FIFA 16 Team of the Week Features Firmino, Gundogan, More

Gamers will get access to a total of 23 players

Jan 27, 2016 15:06 GMT  ·  By
Roberto Firmino leads the new FIFA 16 Team of the Week
   Roberto Firmino leads the new FIFA 16 Team of the Week

Team of the Week for the Ultimate Team mode in FIFA 16 is ready to deliver a new installment, allowing fans of the mode to get access to a number of new players who can be used to augment any first eleven, including Roberto Firmino, who led the attack for Liverpool in their entertaining 5 to 4 win against Norwich.

All of them have been selected based on their performances in matches that took part over the weekend as the football simulation tries to stay as close as possible to the action of real-world football.

The attacking line of the Team of the Week is centered on Firmino, the up and coming Brazil star, who gets support from Valencia.

The midfield is very important in FIFA 16 and the five-man line if made up of Meier, Gundogan, Candreva, Guardado and Matuidi, who offer plenty of options when it comes to both defensive and offensive phases.

When it comes to defensive action, fans of the Ultimate Team mode can get access to Rodriguez, Fabio Coentrao and Van der Wiel.

The goalkeeper selected by EA Sports is Mandanda.

The Team of the Week features seven substitutes that gamers will be able to use to plug weak spots on their team or to simply move to the transfer market to get the funds required to get access to another superstar.

Since FIFA 16 was launched, EA Sports is adding another five players to the normal package so that gamers have even more options when it comes to team building, especially in the semi-random Draft experience that this installment in the series added to Ultimate Team.

The football sim is already preparing for this year's installment

The core resources of the EA Sports team working on FIFA are already dedicated to the title that will be launched in the fall of 2016, probably September, but an actual announcement about new features will only be made at some point in late spring.

A recent rumor is saying that for the first time in years the cover will not feature Lionel Messi because the Barcelona superstar and the studio have failed to come to extend an agreement about their collaboration.

It seems that another major player will be chosen, and it seems that the Premier League, the richest championship in the world, might feature the most interesting candidates.

Until FIFA 17 is announced, EA Sports is probably watching the January transfer market very carefully to make sure that it keeps the game as close to the real world as possible.

Once all the major clubs in Europe do their business, the studio usually launches a series of updates for the title that make sure that rosters are as accurate as possible and that the stats of the most important players accurately reflect their performance in matches.

EA Sports might also deliver a new gameplay focused update for FIFA 16 in February, solving some of the issues that the player base has been talking about since the major December patch.