Liverpool Set to Dominate in FIFA 21 as Rankings Revealed

Nobody has more players in FIFA 21’s top 100 than Jürgen Klopp’s
Premier League winning Reds.

The new season kicks off on Saturday, and fans will have to wait
a little longer than that for release of FIFA 21. But with football
of both the real and virtual variety drawing near, today brings
with it an annual tradition: the first look at the new FIFA player
rankings.

And for Liverpool, as you might expect for a squad that just
earned 99 points and won the Premier League a year after getting 97
points while winning the Champions
League, the rankings are good. Probably even better than most
people would have guessed.

In fact, with FIFA’s top 100 revealed today with ten Reds in it,
nobody is better represented than Jürgen Klopp’s Premier League
champions—not Bayern Munich or Real Madrid or Manchester City. Though chaos-stricken
Barcelona do manage to get ten as well.

Liverpool will have four 90-rated players in the new edition
game: defender Virgil van Dijk, attackers Mohamed Salah

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Roberto Firmino, Andrew Robertson, and Fabinho are then all
rated 87 at 37th, 41st, 43rd, and 44th overall in the game
respectively. Then comes Jordan Henderson, rated 86 and 54th best,
followed by Gini Wijnaldum at 85 and 76th best.

Meanwhile, those dreaming of Bayern Munich’s Thiago Alcantara
showing up at Anfield—both in real and virtual life—will be
interested to know that FIFA 21 has downgraded him to 85, putting
him level with Wijnaldum and behind Fabinho and Henderson.