AJ's Fails - The start of a legacy

[Fail G]

Season 2 has ended, and annoyingly I never got round to getting all the various pictures from the season, since the second season started too quickly But as it was only a couple of days ago, I can remember most of it.

Firstly, the league. Above I mentioned how we were going into the match against our rival, after all his effort to try and beat me. When the game rolled around, I wasn't available to be there, but he was, further decreasing my chances of getting anything...yet I still won 2-0! I'll be honest, I did not expect that result at all, but wasn't complaining! In our 4 official games during the season therefore, I took 10 points off him, he took 1 off me.

But more importantly, this meant I was now level on points with the team in first, and we were playing each other on the penultimate day of the season! Luckily there were no slip ups from me before this match, and as we went into it he had a better goal difference by around 2 goals (don't fully remember). The game earlier in the season when I was at home was 1-1, so he had the slight advantage now, being at his place. I tried to attend the match, but I couldn't be there. He wasn't there either though, which was lucky, and the game finished the same as the first time, 1-1.

So the league title was now going down to goal difference, assuming we would both win our final match. I was at home to the team who were second bottom in the league, he was away to a mid-table side. I attended my match, knowing that I simply needed as many goals as possible...and boy did we deliver! We set a new club record win by smashing him 13-0! 5 goals coming from Niciforovic as well as 4 assists from Oliveira Costa ensured that we were in top position to grab the league! I never saw the result of his game, but I can assume that he won by less than 10 goals, meaning I won the league on goal difference! (He might have drawn/lost, I don't know, new season started too early for me to check..)

But we were league champions! For a second year running! Without yet losing a match in the league!! That is now 52 games unbeaten in the league, and it's fair to say that everyone at the club is happy with this record.


The Champions League I already described earlier; we went out in the quarter finals after a poor first leg at home which we couldn't recover from :/

And the Cup doesn't bare talking about...despite winning the first leg away 2-1 or something, we lost abysmally in the return leg at home and were dumped out in the first round.


Anyway, to sum up this season's work, lets look at the few pictures that are available!

First of all,you can see here that we did win the league last season:

Also, if you compare the all-time stats from now and the end of last season, you can see our overall record from last season:
Played: 38
Won: 29
Drew: 6
Lost: 3
Goals for: 146
Goals against: 28

Along with this, we extended our winning streak by 1 game, our unbeaten streak by 9 games, and had a new highest scoring game of 13-0: the final day of the season.

Also, Gerhardt was the league's top scorer, top assister and top overall player, with an average overall in the league of 8.33. Oliveira Costa came second in the assist chart as well (though there were still two matches played that I never saw the outcome of, but I doubt it would have affected this).

This is last years team - sort of. Will explain below:

Firstly, we had 3 players retire last season, two of which were in the starting XI. (Proof of retirement below.) Neumann was a 5* CB, Gonzalez was a 5* CM and Kang was a 4* CM; so Neumann would have been at RCB, where Van Dijk is now, and Gonzalez would have been CM, where Fernandez is now. The game just randomly put them there to fill the empty slots I guess.

Anyway; you have to imagine that everyone has an extra star quality to what it is currently showing; so we had 3 6* players, 7 5* players and 8 4* players. Not too bad, eh?

But although this line up is technically the first XI, we very rarely played like this, for a number of reasons. First, it requires all 4 attacking players to be fit and playing; with none of them being rested for the next match or being involved in squad rotation. Secondly, it is very attacking, and with only 1 CM, it often didn't feel feasible against stronger teams. Also, with the high quality available on the bench, we normally just adjusted our formation to counter the opposition; so we have played in a 3-4-2-1, 3-5-1-1, 3-5-2, 4-2-3-1 etc....
Basically we have used most of the available formations..

But yea; that's the team! I think our first target for this year will be to get a new CB to replace Neumann, and a new CM to replace Gonzalez. Other than that, I'm happy with the team and our progress!

The three unread emails there show that we had 3 players who retired last season:

(Unsure of how to prove how good they all were, the fact that they were 2 5* players and a 4*; but you'll have to take my word for it :P