Knocked out of Champions League
Today we had the second and home leg of the Champions League Round of 16. We faced new moreira campeao. In the away leg we had lost 2-1 to them - they played an odd 4-5-1 V / 3-5-2 V combination - take 4-5-1 V and make the AML a striker. I didnt know how to counter it, so eventually settled on an equally odd formation before the match. during the match however, it was clear that this would not work and so I changed it about to try an find a reasonable conventional formation. It looked like they were going to win 2-0 but in the 87th minute Adam Wright scored a consolation goal. His first team is close in quality to that of FC Bristbury and he did have 6 friends supporting him in addition to him watching the match, so he had +7 % possession, despite my attendance and the full stadium.
What's interesting is that he played a friendly against FC Bristbury with exactly the same formation straight after the Champions League match. That also finished 2-1 to him. As did both the legs of the Champions League match up. What's even more interesting is not only that in each of these both of the opponent's goals came first, but FC Bristbury's consolation goals all came after 80 minutes. In the first and second legs it was at 84 and 87 minutes respectively, and in the friendly it was at 89 minutes. Just seems strange that the score would be identical in all 3 matches, the goals in the same order, and all of FC Bristbury's goals after 80 minutes.