FIFA 18 Best Free Kick Takers - Set Piece Specialists

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Guide by Tom Orry Editorial Director, Gamer Network

Updated on June 29, 2018

Set pieces are one of the trickiest parts of FIFA 18 to get good at. While you might find yourself scoring endless goals from free kick training, in a match it’s a different story altogether. In this guide to FIFA 18’s best free kick takers, we list the 10 best dead ball specialists in FIFA 18, for use in either career mode or FIFA 18 Ultimate Team.

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Best Free Kick Takers in FIFA 18 Career Mode and Ultimate Team

A free kick specialist can be an important member of your team. It helps to have someone who would make the starting 11 anyway, but thankfully many of the players listed below in our guide to the best free kick takers in FIFA 18 would walk into a lot of teams.

Memphis Depay

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 5,000 FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 88
Long Shots: 81
Curve: 85

Shunsuke Nakamura

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 250 - 500 FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 88
Long Shots: 77
Curve: 87

Gylfi Sigurðsson

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 3,500 - 4,000 FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 89
Long Shots: 84
Curve: 87

Marvin Plattenhardt

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 1,600 - 2,000 FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 89
Long Shots: 55
Curve: 85

Lionel Messi

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 1,400,000 + FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 90
Long Shots: 88
Curve: 89

Daniel Parejo

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 1,500 FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 90
Long Shots: 80
Curve: 87

Dimitri Payet

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 4,500
Free Kick Accuracy: 91
Long Shots: 83
Curve: 90

Miralem Pjanic

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 15,000 + FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 91
Long Shots: 82
Curve: 86

Hakan Çalhano?lu

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 2,000 FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 93
Long Shots: 88
Curve: 92

Andrea Pirlo

Ultimate Team Cost: Approx 1,000 FIFA Coins
Free Kick Accuracy: 93
Long Shots: 65
Curve: 92

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