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How should you upgrade your free Lionel Messi in eFootball 2025: Best Messi build

Show all the true might of the best player to touch a football since PelƩ.

In celebration of the game’s major 2025 patch, Konami has gifted all eFootball players with a free Highlight Lionel Messi card, whose rating can be taken to the skies after maxing out his training and investing in the right stats.

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But that gives birth to a vital question, after all, how should you distribute his Progression Points to get the best results? Here’s how to upgrade your free Lionel Messi card in eFootball 2025.

Best Highlight Lionel Messi build in eFootball 2025

As the most important thing for Messi, no matter if you are playing him as a secondary striker, right winger, or attacking midfielder will be his acceleration, ability to keep the ball at his feet, and scoring potential, I recommend that you build him by investing in the following:

  • Six points in Shooting
  • Four points in Passing
  • Eight points in Dribbling, Dexterity, and Lower Body Weight

Although the above won’t take your card to its highest overall rating, instead boasting a healthy 96, this build will allow Messi to excel in all of his available positions by staying lethal in mid-range while also being able to fly past defenders with or without the ball. It will also pair nicely with his innate Creative Playmaker playstyle. For a clearer look at his stats, your Messi will look like this after you finish distributing his points:

Should you play Messi as an RWF, SS, CF, or AMF?

Given his playstyle and lack of pure speed when compared to other versions of La Pulga, our Messi plays at his best as a secondary striker (SS) focused on attacking the flanks or performing one-two plays. He can also work as a central forward (CF) in formations featuring two or as an attacking midfielder (AMF), as his playstyle will allow him to work as either a classic number 10 or as a false 9 focused on orchestrating your offense.

Now that you know how to build your free Lionel Messi and so that you can make full use of his expertise, don’t forget to also check out how to score free kicks in eFootball 2025.


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