Färnebofjärdens (Swedish team)

[Färnebofjärdens]

Going into season two with this tactics:



Thanks to Memer and his memer style, I believe Hard attacking combined with force counter on can work. But, during this season I will try to find out what works best, counter on or off.

During season 1 the long ball style improved my defense. As if a short ball get intercepted the oppponent has the ability to start a counter attack much more easy. So I go for long ball to improve defense. That is also why I want my four midfielders to have forward arrows to support attack. As of now, only one of my midfielders has the AM role - if possible I will try to pick up midfielders during the season.

I have been undecided wether to play 5-4-1 or 4-5-1 - Memer has proved that 5 flat defense work with attacking mode - but I managed to pick up a DMC Nordgren, gave him playmaker role, and he has played well in the first few games (weak opponents). He gained between 35-55 every training on 30 % mode so it didn't take too long go give him special ability. Now I hope that my defense line will allways give him the ball so he can hit the long ball to one of the five guys in front of him. The oppo will of course mark him, but if he is somewhat like Xavi, Pirlo or Marcos Senna, he will find space.

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*Update day 5*

Lost the first leg of the Cup against inferior team in terms of quality. 13 vs 18,8. One of the reasons might be instability in the team due to many player transfers. My goal going into the season was to sign 3-4 veteran players of good quality. The first batch of veterans just played poorly and I decided to sell them. It has been hard to find the right players though. Have spent a lot of tokens on failed auctions, but also managed to sign some.

DMC Niedzielski 3.65M (5*) - given special ability playmaker - renamed Luka Modric and sold for 6.83M
S Igor Molle 383K (5*) - sold for 454K
LD Dalibor Marovic 541K (5*)
CM Nicolai Schürg 499K (5*) - sold for 536K
LM Di Biasi 454K (5*)
MR Sobotka 563K (5*) - renamed David Beckham sold for 588K
RD Gul 1.03M (3*)
RM Vilca 890K (3*)
S Petukhov 1.07M (3*) - trained to 24q (4*) - renamed Robert Lewandowski and sold for 2.69M
CM Kakkavas 1.27M with corner kick specialist (3*) - trained to 24q (4*) - renamed David Silva and sold for 4.65M
LD Schirra 718K (3*)

Have also sold 5 players form season 1.





I have a feeling that hasty impatient manager decisions is ruining the team - the tokens and packs are disappearing fast now. To replace some of the above players we have signed two scouts at the cost of 54 and 69 tokens.

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Wanted to give my back-up defenders a chance to play, the second leg of the Champoins League semi-final. But seems two stars are not enough:



Swopped two def at half-time, changed also from defensive counter to hard attacking:



The team has let in goals early in other games to this season, but not two goals. The second was a free kick. I will keep my eyes on this to see if a def-line, contrary to my theory, of lesser stars just is not enough.

Another thing I want to mention is that my low quality players from season 1 are developing too fast! I want them at a lesser quality, but I am not willing to stop training them, they deserve to reach their potential so I train them but do not spend green packs on them. Two of them are already on three stars, and most of them soon have three positions and special ability. They train so fast!

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WON THE CUP



8-0, 6-0, 1-3, 4-1 extra time, 6-1, 6-3, 4-2, 4-0, 3-0, 5-1, 3-0, 6-0, 2-1.
Toughest opponent Jhonatan, losing 1-3 in the first leg and the final opponent, den336 FC who played ultra defensive and kept our team from winning easy.

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Runner up in Champions League - lost to my new friend:



Asked my players to play man-to-man marking for the first time this season. It did not go well as my reliable AMR first caused the penalty kick and then got sent off in the 41st minute. After that Fighter played very solid and was close to score more goals. My Gk saved 7 times but still got a very bad rating. Since being renamed Laudrup has not been up to his game as well.

Congratulations to Hongkong! As for us, we'll make another attempt next season

All the games: 2-0, 3-0, 1-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 3-0, 5-0, 4-1, 3-0, 7-1, 7-2, 1-2

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SEASON SUMMARY

The most valuable player on the transfer market I saw was 4.17. I think it was hard to find good players. The team i finally put together with 5* and 6-7* players did not perform as well as they should have, considering the quality of the competition in all three tournaments. I keep my 10 trusted substitutes, four of the best and sell the rest.



The last day of the league season I played 1-1 - my first lost points in the league. Did not have any oppos with players out of position ( well, maybe 1 player in 2-3 teams most, but no outfield playing gk) so did not give room for to many mistakes. Only missed 2 games the whole season both 1-0 victories.



And this is how my players trained the last day of the season.



And the player perfomances of the 14 chosen players: