Best Centre-Back partnership you've had?

As the title says,

Mine would be Diego Lugano + Christian Zapata at Udinese, conceding only 19 goals all season as Udinese and they're part of the reason.

So what's your best Centre-Back partnership you've had?

Federico Fazio and Juan Forlin in 2016 for Fiorentina. Conceded 15 goals on my way to winning the league.

Federico Fazio and Juan Forlin in 2016 for Fiorentina. Conceded 15 goals on my way to winning the league.

Nice one, I had Fazio in my Real Madrid save and he turns really good.

I'm in 2052 so I've had many but one of my first partnerships was pretty great, Pique and Giorgio Chiellini. But I've had many that are not worth mentioning because it's regens that no one knows.

Otamendi and Pepe at Madrid!

Nice one, I had Fazio in my Real Madrid save and he turns really good.

Seeing as he's so incredible in the air, I managed to get away with the shorter but more technical Forlin next to him.

Jan Vertonghen as ball-playing defender and Rob Wielaert as limited defender at Ajax

Jordan Spence & Danny Wilson

My longest save is MLS Colorado and my best pair has been Drew Moor and Omar Gonzalez, two pretty much no names but they get the job done. Always in the top 5 for fewest conceded.

Fazio and Geromel at inter in 2013/14, conceded 15 all season and only lost one game. Was really annoying aswell because that game was 5 games from the end

Otemendi and Carlos Gonzales in 2017-18 at At.Madrid. Only conceded 25 goals all season as I won the League and Spanish Cup, and lost in the Champions League final to Chelski

Ibrahima Sonko and Martin Skrtel in FM07 (before Skrtel was famous). Total cost: £1.7m for the pair. Both averaged over 7.8 for the season, in the days of no decimal places. Sonko won everything in the air, Skrtel covered for him.

Robert Huth and Ryan Shawcross at Stoke.

Cost me £0 as they wer eboth at the club to begin with and in my first 2 seasons I only conceded around 40 goals over the two years, mainly down to these two

At barcelona Gerard Pique and Danny Wilson

Curtis Davies and Mamadou Sakho were immence in my Leeds save. 3 league titles, 3 champions league titles, 2 FA cups, a league cup and numerous other cups over the space of the 3 years they were together. Them two with Joe Hart in goal, unbeatable most of the time!

Mathias Jorgensen and Ryan Shawcross - Joe Hart in goal. 17 goals conceded in the PL, 16 goals conceded in all cup tournaments, went away with the triple that season.

Nemanja Vidic & Simon Kjaer

Otmendai and pique. They were beasts

my best partnership was jonny evans and a regen called darren cain, their 1st season together resulted in 16 goals conceded and 26 clean sheets and the following season resulted in 13 goals conceded and 27 clean sheets

Steven Taylor and Johan Djourou were pretty immense for me.

Steven Taylor and Fabricio Coloccini. I know that's what you start off with as Newcastle, but they did me proud.

Just moved from Anderlecht to Porto in preseason, and Leandro Fernandez with Maicon/Milan Stepanov have been immense. Only conceded 6 goals in 21 league games so far, and I'm incredibly surprised with how well it's went, considering I'm playing quite an attacking style.

vidic and luiz

Felipe dal Belo and Thiago Silva in 2013 for Milan.

Titus Bramble and Calum Davenport.

Lorenzo Monti and Graeme Thomas

Aerial Domination + A brilliant all rounder and then I had my godly full backs and Alphonse Areola in goal

Lorenzo Monti and Graeme Thomas

Aerial Domination + A brilliant all rounder and then I had my godly full backs and Alphonse Areola in goal

Thomas is a world class defender, but Monti makes him look average. He's possibly the best defender I have ever seen in FM.

Heh, I take him for granted.

He has a PA of 199 though so it is understandable, wouldn't of thought he's the best defender anyone had seen though.

Federico Fazio and Andriy Rusol. At Lazio. Season 2013-2014. Won title and CL.

Sounds stupid, but Fonte and Jaidi at Southampton are far too good for League 1. Conceded about 25 goals as I stormed the league.

Rodwell and Fazio for Everton.

Hummels + Subotic at Dortmund, first season. unfortunately Subotic really wanted to leave so I sold him to Juventus for 15m.

Zapata and Fazio. God they were fantastic together! Too bad they're both way too old for regular play now

Carragher and Agger

No pictures unfortunately, but my best centre-back pairing was on FM08 and it was insanely good.

The first was an Egyptian regen Tamer Abou Zeid - my captain and quite frankly an absolute beast of a player - Jumping, Heading, Tackling, Marking, Bravery, Concentration, Positioning, Strength - all in the 18-20 range. Pace, Acceleration, Balance, Stamina, Natural Fitness - all around 17. Passing, Dribbling, Technique, Crossing, Creativity and Decisions - all in the 17 range too. He was a SW/D RC/DM and quite frankly at his peak I would have placed him as the best in the world in all those positions besides defensive midfield (where he could only really play as a defensive anchor due to his lack of flair and shooting ability, but I'm not complaining). He was near-perfect captain material too. A monster at set-pieces and stupidly good as a one-man wall at times. Unfortunately, injuries were incredibly cruel on him - in his later years (where although his pace had gone down slightly he was still an outstanding defender) he suffered two serious injuries (did his cruciate twice) - and this coupled with natural aging plunged his Pace and Acceleration into single-figures. Even worse was the fact that I played a high defensive line and didn't want to change a winning formula for him - so he was forced at the age of 30-31 to play more at right-back (where I played a slow buildup and the full-backs didn't rampage down the flanks overlapping aggressively) - but even there I had better players. So his career did have a very rubbish end and he retired "early" at 34. If he hadn't had those injuries he could easily have tripled the number of games he played in his twilight years.

The other one was a Turkish regen, Aksu Cinar playing for Austrian team Rapid Wien, signed from a young age. His development was solid to the extent I never realised I never actually loaned him out until late in his career - his progression was that natural! Captain material himself as well, but inferior to the aforementioned Egyptian, yet still amongst the best centre-backs in the world. Had a much more even career without serious injuries - however, he could only play at centre-back which somewhat curtailed which games I could play him in.

I did have a third-choice centre-back who was a more physical (if less cultured) version of Cinar - Scot Gary Cawley, signed as a promising young defender from Watford who turned out to be pretty good. Having him compete with Cinar was always a good thing.

I could shut up shop by putting Abou Zeid at right-back or defensive midfield, bringing Cawley in alongside Cinar - I don't believe I've ever conceded doing this - they were that good.