Blue Lock presents a ratherpeculiar and radical viewof how football should and can be played. However, it does an even better job at team composition and organization, making the series an even more enjoyable watch due to its blockbuster matches. Therefore, this piece will focus on the best teams in the series in order of superiority.
These teams are formidable on paper, lacking no significant weaknesses and comprising the best players in the series. However, only one can claim the top spot where the elite are gathered in any sport. Therefore, here arethe best teamsin Blue Lock.
7Japan U-20
Japan
The Japan U-20 team, the national association team of players under the age of twenty, was created in 1979 and is controlled by the Japan Football Union. They are Japan’s representatives forthe U-20 World Cup.
While the team is filled with promising players and has no apparent weaknesses, it operates in a rather one-dimensional manner, relying only on the players' abilities, as seen during the match against the Blue Lock Eleven. With a lack of variety in both its offensive and defensive playstyles, its placement on this list is hardly surprising.
6Blue Lock Eleven
TheBlue LockProject’s lifeline, the Blue Lock Eleven, is the official Blue Lock team, which was created to defeat the Japan U-20 team in a bid to keep the project alive. Made entirely of strikers, the Blue Lock Eleven is arguably the series’s most hyper-aggressive team due to Ego’s unconventional tactics.
Tactically, the team is flawless, with no weaknesses in either defense or attack. Ego designed the team composition to take advantage of every player’s skillset to pressure opponents continuously. With a pool of 35 young strikers trying to prove their worth, Ego creates a balanced team with limitless adaptability.
5Manshine City
England
One of the best European teams, Manshine is a professional football team in the English leagues. Home to Chris Prince, the striker just behind Noel Noa, Manshine City is a team built on a foundation of physicality. The embodiment of pace and power, Manshine City plays an explosive brand of football, filled with quick and counterattacks that rely on the players’ logic-defying physicality.
Reliant on pace and power, the team thrives in transitional games. However, a slight weakness is the team’sreliance on Nagi Seishiro, who is not nearly motivated enough. Due to Nagi’s inexperience and limited creativity with the ball, the team tends to lose its lethality in attack, becoming predictable.
4FC Barcha
Spain
The free-flowing FC Barcha is one of the best European teams and a football team in the Spanish league in the series. Famous for its rhythmic and unpredictable style of play, FC Barcha mirrors the style of its coach and master striker, Lavinho.
Tactically, the team emphasizes freedom, creativity, and improvisation. With no set tactic, the team plays with unpredictable speed, accuracy, and technicality to outwit their opponents. Meguru Bachira, who is most similar to Lavinho and the one the team draws inspiration from, is the heart and brain of the team. By being a wild, unpredictable side, the team’s strength lies in constantly confusing opponentspurely by instinct.
3Ubers
Italy
According to the series, the Ubers are a professional football team in the Italian league. They are among the best European teams and are also Neo Egoist League participants. Coached by Marc Snuffy, one of the world’s best strikers, the Ubers are built around coordinated defending, strategy, and teamwork. Reflecting on the coach’s football philosophy, the Ubers play football purely as a job, and the field is their corporation.
Tactically, the team is the most versatile in the series, as it emphasizes data collection, and by doing this, the team analyzes all the attack patterns of its opponents through the coach and uses this information to create multiple sure-fire team strategies that revolve aroundits best players.The team could be better described as a military platoon rather than a football team, as every movement and pattern (attack or defense) is coordinated to the last second. Through this, the team plays a flexible and organized brand of football that can go from ultra-attacking to ultra-defensive while moving as one gigantic whole.
2Paris X Gen
France
Paris X Gen is a professional football team in the French League. It is home to the young prodigy Julian Loki, who also participates in the Neo Egoist league alongside his team as the master striker and coach. One of the best European teams in the series, Paris X Gen is a team prided on its inherent talent and high potential.
Tactically, the team is nothing extraordinary, as there is no emphasis on specific philosophies. However, by being able to play fundamental football at a high level in conjunction with itsridiculously talented players, including Ryusei Shido, Itoshi Rin, and Charles Chevalier, Paris X Gen is a virtually unstoppable team from any tactical perspective.
1Bastard Munchen
Germany
Home to the world’s current best striker, Bastard Munchen is a professional football team in the German League and also a participant of the Neo Egoist League. The team is founded on the supremacy of goal-scoring, and goals can only be made with a clear mind and a rational decision. The team embodies logic and rationality, which reflects the nature of its coach, Noel Noa.
Tactically, the team composition is flawless, and it boasts a play style of absolute rationality and unquestionable logic, which translates to high-level football efficiency. Not only is the team’s play style efficient, but it is also incredibly lethal, as most of its strength is focused on its attack, led by the young genius Micheal Kaiser and Yoichi Isagi,the genius of adaptability. By prioritizing efficiency, in combination with its highly talented and technical squad, Bastard Munchen is the team to beat in the series.
