Season 43

[Flinger]

Yesterday was a calm day in Braga. Securas GT managed to beat both opponents (Cup and league) by some clear 0-4 (Both games away).
Today begun with what's probably the largest score on the club's history, with an home win of 11-0, over one of the last in league.

But it was at the afternoon that the biggest challenge was to be faced, with an away match against one of the candidates to winning the CL's group. The Portuguese team was very insecure form the start, and conceded a goal on the first half. As the 2nd half was under way, and with the Portuguese coach changing the team system from 4-5-1 to 4-4-2 (same used by the opponent), another goal was conceded. The Coach didn't waste any time and switched the system again to an all offensive 3-4-3. At this point the Portuguese team had not a single shot at the adversary's goal. Amazingly, the team from Braga managed equalize, after a great shot by Dzsudzsák, and a corner by Keller, with a finishing header by Ribas. This tie allows the Portuguese team to keep on the run for a place in next phase, remaining undefeated in this competition.

As to the 35T team, yesterday they also managed to win both games, 4-1 to the league, and a default 3-0 win in the cup game.
Today they won their league match by 0-3, putting them in the top of the 35T league!!! Quite an accomplishment for such an humble team from the start.
As to the 35T cup, the team fought bravely but could not avoid a 2-1 defeat against level 4 ART Crazy Croc. As Underdogs FC beat FC Nicojean Cai, a win by the Portuguese team over the Underdogs will give them the qualification... Can they pull it off?

[Chris Rath]

It's Sakaryaspor days for FC Kneipenkick. After we have played the team already on Saturday in the CL group we played against the Turkish side in the group stage return leg and tomorrow we play it in the league. Todays result was much closer than the home leg:

CL group stage: Sakaryaspor (51.4, 4-2-2-2 hexagon) - FC Kneipenkick (55.7, 4-1-3W-1-1) 0-1
The goals was scored early by DeCesare (17.) after a nice pass by lone striker Upton.
With this win FCK collected 12 points in their CL group and already reached the next round, but we need 1 more point to top the group in order to avoid a massive scout buyer (all players 6* - 7*) in the next round.

League update: Tibonito FC (43.6, 4-5-1V) - FC Kneipenkick (55.7, 4-3-3) 1-4
Garcia (12.) and Upton (27.) brought FCK in front, but Silva Paraseto (32.) could close the gap to 1-2 before the half-time break.
But the match did not become close. Kneipenkick dominated the match with 10-2 shots on target and reached a confortable 4-1 throught goals by Upton (57.) and Ben Said (67.).

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Transfer news:
On the transfer market today morning FCK could increase the quality of the bench players by signing 23 years old Bolis, a 57* MC with penalty kick speciality. (primary target was a 59* MC with FK, but I luckily quit the bid after the knock-out round. The bidding for that guy ran up to round 32*. Crazy people, that player was 21 years old, savings some more tokens and going for a scout would a been a better choice for the bidding winner (but he was a Bayern fan, these guys have too much money). ;-)