Silva is amazing, the only thing i find this year is, they have made Chiellini and Silva useless at heading the ball defensively, Chiellini especially.
I'm finding that their heading stats don't mean jack. In serie A it's Silva > Lucio > Chiellini, now that i know how to use Lucio properly, he was gash when i first used him.
But if your gash at defending then
Silva > Chiellini > Lucio
pace makes up for a lot. either way though Silva is the best CB , unless you have IF Ramos.
i played one guy with
Maicon -- Silva -- Alves
at the back, and it was the first time i had struggled against a 3 at the back, he was a really good player with a really good team, still beat him but i think it was only 1-0 and a tight game.