Leicester Tigers

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A steady first week of the season for the Tigers

Being placed in a tough league, Leicester Tigers are placed in 7th with 7 points after playing teams placed in 1st, 3rd, 4th, 8th and 14th. Tigers draw against now 8th place, which is the only draw to have taken place in the league so far, to get things underway. In round 2 Tigers hosted the now 3rd, Barclays FC and lost narrowly 0-1. Tigers then travelled to Noah FC (now 14th) and won easily 0-8. League leaders were next to visit Welford Road and Tigers suffered another defeat 1-2 but it was close and Tigers were not far away from winning. And today in round 5, Tigers played Rizky Yumu FC who at the start of the round were 4th, and beat them 0-2 away from home.

The champions league has also thrown up some surprises too, with all 4 teams on 3 points and 0 goal difference, its all to play for. Tigers picked up their 3 points on the road, 1-2, but lost to Hisingen (last years league title rivals) 0-1 at Welford Road. Tigers play Pufc Utd tonight where the men in green and red are strong favourites.

In the cup, Tigers made it though to round 3 after playing an evenly matched team from Australia. Tigers won the home leg 1-0 and then travelled all the way to Australia for just a goalless draw. This, however was enough to put them though where they will meet Tom FC. Tom FC have a rating of 34.1 (Tigers rating = 35.0) so it should be close. The home leg will be the 2nd leg.

Team manager says "Its been good, apart from the league its been good. Even in the league we have been very close to doing some damage against clubs that were positioned in the top 4. We've played some really strong teams and with a league with 7 strong teams and 7 weak teams it can only be an adavtange because in the 2nd half of the 2nd leg agaisnt teams we will be playing the weaker teams giving us an advantage for the run in. Hinsingen in the champions league, well i thought this was gunna be the 3rd time lucky but nope, we've played them 3 times and lost twice, drawing the other. Its annoying that we can't beat them, but we will give them a big crack in round 6 and do all we can to put the record right. The cup, Im also a fan of that at the moment, we are scraping results like in the other competition but we are doing enough and coming out on the right side of the result. We will continue to push and do all it takes to make the top 4, keep going in the cup and to top the group"

Tigers sign AMC star

With Lemke looking like he's past his best, Tigers manager dabbled into the transfer market to look for the Tigers specially strong position and he has found one. Gurbuzerol has taken over the Lemke position and hopes to do just as well as Lemke has done for the last 4 seasons. He is 20 years old, with a market value of £6.1 million and Tigers purchased him for around about £4.5 million. He scored on his debut. Attacking coach said "we pride ourselves with the AMC position, its downright one that we target and is what makes this club unique. We are doing all we can to make him just as good as Lemke, perhaps even better. Lemke is defiantly not leaving the club anytime soon, he will be the main midfield substitution as he can play AMC, MC and AML. As the main sub, I can tell you he's motivated as ever to add to his 130+ goal tally" Because of this addition to the squad, replacement AMC/ST has had to leave the club to make the numbers add up correctly. Topayan played 58 matches, starting 22 of those and scored 9 goals. We wish him well for the future.