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Breaking News: the Troll is back upon us, 24 hrs from the Cup's second leg.
League:
We set up our reserve team for the occasion since for the 5th time in the season we had a double away matchup with just 2 hrs between matches. Against the second best team in terms of quality after us, we obtained a struggled victory by 1-2. Truth to be told, we didn't have many problems into defending but scoring was hard, against the usual 5-1-2-1-1 which usually bores us. We went 0-2 and took the goal at minute 88'. But the fact that we struggled it was already a bad sensation for the upcoming match.
Champion's League
FC Nantes [Q 51.3 - 3W-1-4-1-1] 2 - 4 New Team [Q 59 - 3W-1-3W-1-2]
Don't het fooled by the result: this was the classic match where Engine decides to troll heavily and whatever you do or struggle to try out doesn't have minimal impact on the match, and when it does, engine kills it preemptively.
Let's be honest: we HATE any formation with a 1-1 in the attacking side. We freakin hate it cause whenever we tried it out we ALWAIS got heavily pressured, but whenever we FACE it it plays like with 4 STs down there. Basically, we opted for the wide dandelion since we "thought" that even having one less midfielder on pitch wouldn't matter much, as our 3W defense + dmc should have taken care same time of the lone ST, their AMC, and even the two wingers. Also, he was having just a 3W+dmc aswell so we were sure a 8* AMC + two strikers would basically own him. That was true only partially. Since the start until half of first half we were HEAVILY pressured, at a point that at minute 26' we were already being forced to take out Hutton for Altun (MC), move Stark as ST, refine the defense on a 3N and designing a 3-1-4-2 that "should obviously" get ahold of the midfield. NO FKIN WAY. Ofc, our opponent was lacking in defense hence despite being pressured we went ahead thanks to Hutton, assisted by Wayne before leaving the field, and doubling it 2 minutes after the sub with Wayne alone.
In the second half we got out Blaze (DMC) for Aloui (ML) at minute 50' moving up to 3-5-2 flat. Finally, at minute 53' the game was at our hands with a rejoiced pressure and possession, as we scored the 0-3 with Kent from a series of free kicks earned due to a huge pressure over their half. Then the troll arrived. At minute 54, we had 5 STRAIGHT LATE ENTRANCES against us, the last one (54') taking out Wayne. Having no more STs to field, we were forced to change the working formation into a 4-5-1 flat (FLanagan in). Course, the late entrances stopped the moment Wayne got injured. But Troll wasn't satisfied. And so, after those fouls, we had (I'M NOT KIDDING) 5 CONSECUTIVE DOUBLE CORNERS which brought during the last one to the 1-3 (73'). Here we thought it was fine since 3 minutes later we scored the 1-4 with Becker. But again, Troll decided to...well, troll: minute 90, a long range shoot from midfield gives them the 2-4.
We dodged a HUGE bullet here, and we think to be almost safely into the final. On the other side, our main opponents got their troll aswell managing to draw only at minute 89' against an incredibly weaker team (Q56.5 VS Q47.7); an eye for an eye then. All of New Team's players got rated 7,8,9, to add further troll.
