Season 44

[reddeviljohn]

Playing against 4-3W-1-2 in league today any recommendations? I always have trouble against wide mids! Was thinking 4-1-4-1 or 4-5-1V

[Ljepoje]

QUICK UPDATE

Balkan Boyz

League: After 13 rounds, the team remains still unbeaten and we top the league table with 39p and a goal difference by 52-3. We are perhaps one of the best, if not the best lvl 7 team on this server. Yesterdays friendlies against the lvl 9 teams: Orchard Utd and Arsenal FC in which we celebrated with 3-1 resp 2-1 shows that Balkan Boyz have the capacity and knowledge to beat and overcome bigger and better teams on lvl 9, despite the Q handicap. Also, I have adopted a new formation which I call "PAOK" (Spider).


Balkan United

League: After 12 rounds, the team remains still unbeaten and we top the league table with 36p.
CUP: We managed to overcome perhaps one of the better teams in the last sixteen, "FC 1". The 1th leg ended in a 1-1 draw, but the 2nd leg ended in a 3-0 and we are therefore playing in the quarterfinals against "Ludwig FC". I don't expect getting into any difficulties since the remaining teams are quite weak and inactive. Hopefully we will reach all the way and take our 2nd CUP trophy. A "treble" would be nice.
CL: We won group C after beating the Spanish "Franmedi .CF" in the last round and ended at 16points. We face "Gothik FC" in the final eight. A CL final spot and CL trophy is desirable.
SQUAD There has been some changes in the squad due injuries and suspensions. I sold the 18yr old MC (Evans) + the 19yr old ML/AML (Bahroui) and bought the 18yr old MC (Perez) and the ML/AML (Dinanich) instead. Made a good deal and are now +7M.


Balkan City

League: The team is currently 2nd, 7points behind Balkan United. FK Vojvodina and Montepellier HSC are 3rd resp 4th and are our biggest "threat". My intention is too keep City as 2nd and United as 1th and therefore win the 1th and 2nd place trophy. Both United and City are 5-6* teams, so it shouldnt be any problem defending and keep the opposition away.
CUP: The team is playing in the last sixteen after beating "Queralt FC" with 0-1 and 2-0 in the 1th resp 2nd leg. The team will be playing against "Eduardo FC" in the quarterfinals. The goal is to take a final spot and hopefully win our first CUP trophy.
CL: We ended as group B winners with 18points and a 6-0-0 record. We face "FC Dunabe" in the final-eight. The goal is to reach the finals and play against Balkan United.


That's all for this week

[Wiesse]

League round 12

Yesterday we had no time to update. So we do it today.
Not much to say about the match. Only we must score the many chances.

Scoreline

37' Prodan after assist Fraile
50' Ovcin assist Zivkovic
64' Fraile assist Zivkovic
73' Grill assist Prodan

[Shadow]

Definitely a season that I need to forget.

[Chris Rath]

Definitely a season that I need to forget.

Me, too. I lost today my first match in the league though I used a counter vs. 3W-1-3W-1-2 with 3W-2N-3N-1-1.
Well, with already 3 draws I am 4 points behind the first, who I could trash 4-0, but he sadly does not loose points against the other teams.

Later today in the CL waits a difficult 4-4-2 team, who is overpowered this season from my experience.

And the transfer market is dead. I offer this player already for the 3rd time today on my transfer market.



Not enjoying playing the game currently.

[July Fourth]

Champions League Last 16, 1st Leg

Lonchas 0-3 July Fourth

Lonchas 129.2 4-3N-1-2 - July Fourth 136.0 3N-5-2 V 1st half, 3N-1-4-2 2nd half

A very tricky encounter for us indeed with Lonchas' manager being present at the game and they made a bright start in the first half applying all the pressure early, It wasn't until 17 minutes we had an effort on goal from Papaleo putting a shot wide, We were not getting too many balls forward as Lonchas seemed to have won the midfield exchanges in the 1st half and we pushed back our wingers to make a flat midfield 4, this worked much better for us in the second half as Watson put us ahead on 50 minutes with a dribble round a defender and the keeper to score, Kusama should of made it 2-0 straight afterwards when he was through on goal and blasted it over. Beckett however did make it 2-0 from 20 meters and July Fourth were now looking like progressing to the quarter-finals with ease, We did find the back of the net once more through Petersen on 79 minutes with a long range effort after we had to do a bit of defending from Calavicci and Ramirez, Petersen had one more chance before FT but the keeper saved it.

Goals: Watson (50) Beckett (58) Petersen (79) MOTM: Watson.

Team Talk: A fabulous way to get the KO stages underway with a fine 3-0 win here over a decent Lonchas side that gave us problems early on, but we were too strong for them in the end and we will qualify for the Quarter-Finals in which we will most likely face our biggest long term rivals Batigo United.

[Phil Scrivener]

through to QF of the cup last night thanks to a very late goal won 2-1 at home , drawn against level 7 team in QF

Won league game 6-0 away to bottom team this morning to make it 13 wins out of 13 for the 1st time in my club history

Away in CL later hoping to get in QF's of CL too

[FCB]

Champions League Round 16 Match - 1 Away

(35.3) FenerBahce 0 - 5 FCB (43.7)

4-2-2-2 Hexagon till 63', 3w-2-2-3 | 3n-4-1-2

Kuppens (13')
Master (51', 73')
Petrescu (56')
Belmonte (86')

MOTM: Master

Match Report: We faced the good opponent in the CL round 16 1st match. We got early break through from Kuppens long range goal at 13'. After this goal we did not score any more goal till half time.

After half time Master scored his first goal of the match at 51' when he was with 1v1 with keeper. After few minutes Petrescu scored his first ever goal of the season when he was also 1v1 with keeper at 56'.

Opposite manager was present after the half time and changed the formation but there was no use and we scored 2 more goals. Master scored his 2nd when he was again 1v1 with keeper at 73'. Belmonte scored the last goal of the match just few minutes before the end of the match by a corner from Carrillo at 86'.


Team Talk: Easy win and one sided game.

[July Fourth]

Champions League Last 16 Draw

This is not an easy last 16 draw for us by any means, With our 3-0 win earlier against Lonchas, It's highly likely that we will face long term rivals Batigo United and if thats not enough, There is a chance we may face other scout buyers Supap FC in the Semi-Finals and our most likely final opponents this season will be vigo teis futbol who have an easier half of the draw to us. Not only that vigo teis futbol have 7* and 8* players on their team this season, they are a L22 team playing in a L23 league meaning they have access to better quality scouts, if they strengthen further then this could be a tough final for us this season.



Champions League Winner Odds
July Fourth 2/1
vigo teis futbol 3/1
Batigo United 6/1
Supap FC 10/1
Deejing United 20/1
Priprema 20/1
33/1 BAR

[taharstark]

League Day 13
LIBINHO FC 1-8 ESMK FC

An easy win make us lead with 4 points clear

Before teh match started we were lead the league with 1 point clear, so this was a must win match, we did a great job there in Brazil with an confortable win before the match of the night, our players show a great performance like they always do but two of our players got injured and its about Cengo in the 9' and Otero in the 76', Bednarek scored a hat-trick which made him the man of the match, Trigidia 2 goals also Otero, Rápó, Milosavljevic with one goal for each and there goal was in the last minute, so this will make us lead the first half of the league.

Goals: Otero 1', Rápó 9', Trigidia 11' 36', Bednarek 15' 27' 77', Milosavljevic 58' & ibrahimovic 90'
Man Of The Match: Bednarek.