 Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K.A. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We're talking Road to the Finals, Upgrades, and Champions League football today because it's a big time Tuesday and your boy got a sale because I have some coins. It's a great day. Champions League today and tomorrow, I wanna talk about Road to the Finals because that is like the only interesting thing that is going on inside of FIFA right now. There's literally no content yesterday on Monday. Nothing, we had a no content day. First one in a long time, if you actually go back, I'm not sure how many days it's been since we had no content, but this is how it used to be in FIFA, man. This is how it used to be, but we're so used to having content every single day that it's now weird when we don't. We did not have content yesterday. So the market didn't even move that much, man. A lot of people just went and actually some of these Road to the Finals have gone up even further into the games coming and I wanna talk about what you should be doing with these Road to the Final Cards if you've already bought them, if you wanna try to trade with them live during the games because all of the hype and everything related to RTTFs boils down to today. And I think I sold my Jamie Vardy 547 that I bought at 500K, that's a W. I still have my Hazard right there. You can see I bought this at 720,000 coins and I think Hazard right now is 755. So I'm kinda holding that because I think Madrid are gonna do pretty well on Wednesday. But let's talk about Road to the Finals and today and what you should be doing with these cards. First off, let's take a look at the two teams because these cards are inflated a lot. They have gone up a lot in the past couple of days from the panic selling that we saw on the weekend. These guys weren't as affected. They're very rare for number one and number two, people know that their games are this week. So a lot of people have been investing in them for the upgrade and this is again, we're gonna talk a lot today about selling in the hype. I think a lot of these guys, you're gonna wanna sell in the hype. That's the safest way to go because a lot of these guys, if not all of them, are gonna be dropping later this week, after this weekend and into the new year, team of the year, timeframe 2021 because we don't have champions in the games after today and tomorrow. We don't have champions in the games until February. Long wait ahead for these cards and we see it happen every year. They drop off when the competition is kind of at its lowest point. Then they rise back up after team of the year when February is not too far away. So Davies, 627,000 coins. We're gonna look at this website today. This is the Champions League UEFA.com. We're gonna look at some of the permutations which basically means who needs what to get into the next rounds, to the knockout rounds of the group or to the knockout stage of Champions League. So we're gonna look at some of those today, some of the games that everybody's gonna be watching on Tuesday and Wednesday and some of the market movements you might see because of that. Now of course, this Davies card has just been on a slow and nice rise since he came out of packs. 627,000 coins at the moment. This is basically the highest this card has ever been. Yes, he does look cracked. Yes, with a plus two upgrade that will be coming this Friday. Yes, I do think they are gonna upgrade real to the finals this Friday if they do it like they have been in years past. But I still think that's way, way too expensive for right now in this game. Teo Hernandez, team of group stage card has very similar and honestly, I would say better stats than Alfonso Davies. Doesn't have the hype per se. This is not a live item, but this is 247,000 coins for a 96 paced French left back who has just as good of links, I would argue. As Alfonso Davies, of course, he's got the Byron links but still, I think this card's very overpriced, especially because it's a live item. He's hyped, people know that Byron are probably gonna go pretty far but I think you wanna sell this kind of card in the hype and sell a lot of these cards into the hype. Now again, let's take a look at which teams are already in because the teams that are already in, right? These guys right here, Byron, Manchester City, Porto, Liverpool, Chelsea, Sevilla, Dortmund, Barcelona and Juventus. These guys are confirmed to be going on to the knockout rounds. For those items that have rode to the finals, right? Griezmann, 600,000 coins. He is close to his highest mark ever. Salah 1.52, all of these teams that are already guaranteed to be moving on, right? J-Zoos, 800K for this card, I think's pretty high. Akangia, 237, there's a lot of center backs from the Bundesliga this year and this one doesn't get the best links. Out of all of them, he doesn't get the best links. I would be watching the cards that are in already, right? We talked about J-Zoos from City, Salah from Liverpool, Akangia, you know. Do we have Juventus? Who is our, do we have a Juventus rode to the final card? Or am I booming? We don't have a Juventus rode to the final. I don't think we have Chelsea either, that's right. Unless there was an SBC, which I'm forgetting which SBCs were out for whichever cards that were rode to the finals, except for Athletico and actor Arara. But anyways, I would sell these guys into the hype, right? J-Zoos, those guys we just mentioned, sell them into the hype honestly, either right after the game or before the game because these cards, the only hype that they have riding on them is the actual upgrade. And do you think that J-Zoos getting a plus one from an 85 to an 86 is really gonna go up to like 950 or to a million coins, a big jump in price after he gets a plus one upgrade when the market is dropped off so much? This card right now costs the exact same price as the best player in the game, and that is Neymar. Neymar is 800,000 coins, Gabriel J. Zeus is also 800,000 coins. Sell the card, even if you're on Xbox, everything, man. These cards are inflated, they are high, sell before, take your cash because a lot of these cards are only going to go lower, right? Now, we talked about those teams. Let's talk about the teams that are still possibly on the fence, right? Mochengladbach, Shakhtar, Real Madrid, Inter. Group B and Group H are gonna be big ones to watch. Ajax with Promes, Atalanta, even Atlético Salzburg and Lazio Brug. But these three teams and these four teams right here is where it's really gonna get interesting today because this is why I bought the Hazard, right? This is why I bought Hazard because I think Real Madrid are gonna come out swinging. Now, of course, I am a very casual football fan, but Madrid, they're playing against, let me find it really quick. They're playing against Mochengladbach. Now, Mochengladbach's been playing pretty well. They've been, obviously, have a lot of points in the group. All of the teams that are in Group B, I believe, are tied on nine points, and it's only coming down to the differences between the head-to-head and goal difference. Real Madrid will go through if they win, right? That's what they need to do. They're focused on winning, or if they draw and Shakhtar lose to Inter, then they also go through, but they're focused on winning, right? So that's why I have this Hazard because if Real Madrid score first, this Hazard is going to fly up. It's gonna go over 800,000 coins where he was before. He's gonna shoot up in price and then he's gonna drop back down after the selling and stuff, and then after, of course, the upgrades come. We'll talk about that a little bit later in the video, too. But what I would say is, if you wanna be risky with it today, just know that if you buy a Hazard, and if Hazard, let's say, Real Madrid go up a goal, but then Mocha Gladbach, they come back and they score two and they win. So you have Zakaria, who would be dropping after that first Real Madrid goal would be scored, right? Zakaria's like 230K right now, 224. This card would drop if Real Madrid scored in the game, but if they equalize or start coming back, this card's gonna start rising and Hazard's gonna drop because it's all about who is gonna get the upgrade because the upgrades are coming this Friday for whoever gets first or second in the group, moving on to knockout round. If the team that gets third, whatever team gets third, there will not be an upgrade coming for them going down to Europa League. They're not gonna get upgraded even to a Europa League card if they do it the same way they did last year until February when they play their first game in the round of 16 and possibly get upgraded. So that's kind of the risk reward play with cards like this today. If Zakaria and Mocha Gladbach score first against Real Madrid, this card's probably gonna go up 20, 30,000 coins, if not more. Actually, it could go up even more than that because this guy with a plus one would look pretty cracked as well. He's already a really good card, but still, I feel like this guy, he had the early game hype with his CDM card for his gold card that was in a lot of star teams. I don't feel like he's that usable or that used as much anymore. So I would honestly, all together, probably sell this guy in the hype because if you bought the Zakaria, you probably got him at like the 210 range. You're making 10K a card. If he hits 235 or 240 pre-game tomorrow, then you're chilling, right? Take the coins there with that one. But that's kind of how it works during the game, right? Whoever scores, their card's gonna go up. Whoever is losing, their cards are gonna go down. Now that could flip flop and there's a lot of risk reward potential with that kind of play. But also, after the game, the losing teams' cards are going to drop. They're gonna fall, they're gonna crash because there's still live items, yes, if they're getting to third place. Again, like Mochengladbach, if Real Madrid beat them and Shaktar, I think, I don't know what Shaktar had to do for Mochengladbach to get in. Well, Shaktar has to draw, I don't know. I'm not entirely sure on second place for that group. I'm just kind of using this as an example for the win-lose situation. This card would still drop off, right? Or maybe if we use the other example as in like Leipzig versus Manchester United, right? Leipzig will go through if they be united or if Leipzig draw and Paris lose, which I don't think PSG is gonna lose because PSG has to play to win. They have to avoid defeat against Istanbul. So, your guy like Klosterman, this guy's actually up a lot right now. Klosterman is 370,000 coins to right now. He was 330K, 340 yesterday. He's up 35 to 40,000 coins already. This card is in the hype before the games today. Now, of course, they're playing Manchester United. I think they might be favorites as well if I looked at the odds and the lines correctly. But again, it all comes down to what happens during the game. So, that's why my initial advice is to sell on the hype because you just wanna take your safe coins if you're already making coins. And especially before the upgrades come because once the upgrades come, all of these cards drop. If we take a look at last year's team, which is gonna take me just a second to pull up, if we take a look at last year's squad of the road to the final players, I believe this is a factual statement that every single card last year dropped off after the knockout rounds were over. After the knockout rounds were over, yeah, let's take a look at Shunmin Sun, right? This is Shunmin Sun's 89 rated live item last year. We'll zoom in just for viewing purposes. He went from 2.06 million right in the time that we are now, right? This is literally Tuesday, the game that they probably played last year. Tuesday, December 10th is when they most likely played and what happened, right? They won, of course, they cemented their spot. They, I don't even know where Spurs were in the group, to be honest, last year, if I'm being completely honest, I kind of forget. But you just see this drop off, right? Heading into those next couple of weeks towards team of the year and stuff bottoms out during that team of the year timeframe and then, of course, stuff kind of comes back as the games begin back up in February, right? Let's take a look at another card, maybe on more of a, you know, cheaper budget, right? Let's look at Dortmund and Sancho. Dortmund and Sancho, look at this man, first week of December, he comes back up, climbs back up to 229,000 coins and then, bang, drops off the next week to 160. So maybe you don't want to sell today on Tuesday. Maybe you want to try to ride it out and see if there's more upgrade or more, you know, potential for, you know, like this Klostermann card. Let's say Leipzig beat Man U and you're, and this guy is getting a lot of hype. He's gonna, he might have some crazy, insane looking stats. You might wait until this guy gets the upgrade on Friday or close up to that time because he might actually not drop. He might actually keep going up if they do win. Some cards, it's gonna be tough to know which ones, but some cards might be a little bit undervalued still because of their upgrade and the upgrade potential and how much that card could be valued at after it gets upgraded, right? So that's kind of the thought process. If you want to hold on, it'll be a little bit more risky even with the upgrade coming, but the upgrade should be coming Thursday night into Friday because what EA does is they wait for all the games to be played, Champions League, Europa League, all of the games, they wait for them to be played and that's where they do the upgrade. After all that's been played, they can do it one time, sweep through and do an upgrade, right? Obama Yang, 970, Arsenal's already through. He's gonna go to an 89. This guy's probably gonna drop 100K because people are gonna sell this card and again, just to my point that I said earlier, I feel like these cards have even more of a reason to drop right now because they're rare, right? They're invested in, a lot of people are holding these cards because they think the price is gonna go up when the upgrades come. Another reason to sell early, by the way, but again, this market has been sold off so much in the past two days. Name are going from 970 to 800 and Bobby going from 13 to 116. Even these Team of the Group Stage cards continue to drop because everybody in this game is not buying these players. They're not buying their teams. Some stuff did rebound a little bit today. Pogba's getting invested in for out-of-packs Team of the Week investing. Joe Gomez is up a bit. People buying some meta-golds but the rest of the market is really, really low and let's talk about this promise for a second, man. 300 and 10,000 coins. This guy's up a 100K from where he was last week. Now, a lot of this initial price boom, right? Basically this amount right here, from 200K to 250, is all because of the air-divisit objectives that came out. People are linking this card to Gravenbach, to the right wing, I forget the guy's name, to Dumfries. Dumfries is extinct on the market right now because of the links to the new air-divisit milestone players that are in the game. People are doing that objective because those cards look sick. Iax, man, I don't know what's gonna happen with Iax, dude, because it's such a close one. If we take a look at this, Atalanta will go through if they avoid defeat. So Atalanta has to avoid defeat and if Iax want to go through, they have to win. It's win and in for Iax and same thing for Atalanta, man. So this is like one of the biggest matches people are watching this week. Again, I don't know who's gonna win. A lot of people seem to think that Iax are gonna win because of the way this card is risen up. If this card does not win, if Iax do not win, this guy's gonna be like under 200K again. Maybe not quite that low because now he has the links to the new foundation players. But this will even be a card to watch because of those new links and because of people using those players. He might rebound a slight bit after a lot of panic selling. And again, these cards are very rare. They're very good to trade with. So we're gonna be taking a look at these cards even after the games are played and after the upgrades happen because these are very rare items, they're gonna fluctuate a lot and some of them are pretty desirable. People like to use them in their teams. So we'll take a watch at those. But of course, if a team does get third place and they go down to your robo league, no upgrade is happening on Friday. And yeah, I feel like I just talked a lot right there about these roads to the final cards. But I wanna try to make it clear because a lot of them are gonna be at their highest in the mass sphere of things over the next month. Today or tomorrow or Thursday into Friday. That's like, this is like the last chance if you wanna dish them out, take the coins before a lot of them are probably gonna drop lower. That's what I would do. Now really quick, at the very end of this video, I wanna say one last thing. This today is one thing that we saw on Twitter. Footwatch tweeted this out earlier today and this, I'm not gonna make a separate video on this. I'm not gonna rant about it. But I think this is wild. This is incredible. So Footwatch found some code tonight that was popup error, G-O-I-P Blacklist. FIFA Ultimate Team is currently not accessible due to a demand from the authorities of your region. Now I think from what I've heard that this is possibly going towards the Netherlands and Belgium with the issues and the lawsuits and the just kind of the way that the government in those countries is viewing EA and the gambling aspect of the game. Of course, there's been no FIFA points in Belgium. I think for like a year in FIFA now, I don't know about the Netherlands. I'm not sure about FIFA points there. But to me, what this means is EA, if your country blocks FIFA or says, hey, we want you to not have our game playable in our country because of things that go on inside your game, AKA gambling, the PAC odds, like all the stuff that is the gambling aspect, which is a lot of the laws that the countries are making are going against the gambling aspect of FIFA Ultimate Team with the PACs and the Kinder Egg, all that stuff that was in last year. That's where this is coming from, I think. But basically what this is, is a pop-up error is what EA added, G-O-I-P Blacklist, which makes me think that, let's say your country blocks FIFA or your country's government says, you can't play FIFA or we want FIFA to be turned off because of the stuff that's inside it. This message is what EA is making. They added a message into the code that would come up and say this message right here, like a pop-up inside of the game because that FIFA is basically banned in your country. And I think that it's crazy that we have gotten to this point where a football simulation game is gonna be banned in the country because of loot boxes, because of gambling, and because of what those countries think this game is promoting to underage. And to, I mean, without the proper safety and without the proper, I don't know what it exactly is, I haven't delved into all the research about it, but I just think that's crazy, all right? That's all I wanted to say about it. I think it's crazy. I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope that nothing ever has to happen with that. I hope something changes or whatever, but I just thought that was pretty wild to see that being tweeted out today. And just the fact that that has to be something that is possible in a game, a video game, a football simulation. So it sucks, but it is what it is. If you're in one of those countries, I feel for you. If that happens to be, if you're not able to play FIFA, ultimate team, because of your country, I don't think you can blame your country. I think you have to blame the game itself because it's not your country that has the problem, it is the game that is the core problem. And we kind of knew that, but that's the issue at hand. So not to end the video on a sour note because today's probably gonna be a really awesome day of football with Champions League. A lot of crazy market movements are gonna go on. So one last mention as well. These team of group stage items that are right here, they're not live, okay? Don't be buying these today. You might see them fluctuate though. You might see them fluctuate because people think that these are live. Please do not buy team of group stage cards today. They're not live items. If you wanna be risky, you might see them move because people will think that they are live. So another long video, boys, I apologize, I get rambling. I'm trying to make them a little bit shorter, you know, as you guys request, but I felt like there's a lot to talk about today and I wanted to really clearly get my point across about road to the finals. So if you enjoyed this one, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant, catch you guys later. Peace, out.