Season 36

[July Fourth]

kerem baba fc 1-2 Julio Quatro Champions League Semi-Final 1st Leg

This game turned out to be the 'ugly' in football terms for Julio Quatro, A game where needed to grind out and win to keep up our amazing winning streak up in the champions league to 24 games which we did. Zidane wasted another early opportunity to give us an early lead and then kerem baba were actually the better team in the first half, creating many chances with Bi-Li 40 goals from him this season was a potent pest, but we kept him off the score sheet, they missed about 3 chances then a run from midfield from Chinnamphong put kerem baba infront, they almost doubled the lead moments later, but Mohammed's strike ricochet off Zidane and when wide. Julio Quatro started the 2nd half well, Zidane broke clear form the defense and played it toward Papaleo to hit it past the keeper for our equaliser, Chances were even between the 2 sides at this stage, But a tactical change to 3-5-2 helped us bring the winner in the 74th minute when Papaleo miscued the shot on goal and Holvoet was there to pick it up and put it past the keeper, We tried to get a third but Papaleo this time couldn't beat the keeper and Kevin Mensah's free-kicks were always dealt with from the home side, 2-1 win keeps the tie in the balance but its an advantage we would take back to Islington Park for Wednesdays 2nd Leg. A step closer from the club making history indeed this season.

[dv8r]

Champions League semi-final, 1st leg - Perfect Tactics 4-0 Liverpool FC

A match against fierce rivals Liverpool FC was always going to have goals in it. From kick off we pressured and got rewarded with a goal, Suarez setting up Bogdany to give Perfect Tactics the lead. The game was no longer one way traffic as Liverpool FC had their fair share of chances but couldn't find the net but Yedek latched on to a long ball on the break and finished superbly for 2-0. Petersen had a chance to make it 3-0 before half time but the cross was headed out of play. Into the second half and it started the same way as the first half. Suarez grabbed a goal for 3-0 in the 51st minute and he made it 4-0, heading in from a Petersen corner. This may well be tie over now as we go into the 2nd leg keeping a clean sheet with a massive advantage.

Petersen could have had a hat trick today but their goalkeeper kept out each of his free kicks.

Goals: Bogdany (7'), Yedek (31'), Suarez (51', 66')

[NTNK]

PricopGeorgeCătălin , same game,I mean result...damn it...

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

PricopGeorgeCătălin , same game,I mean result...damn it...

Yes but I got 2 stupid goals from free kick and penalty...

[dv8r]

Hey July, as we won the league today and we are close neighbours, how about a celebratory drink with both our teams after your CL match?

I'm sure Petersen will be delighted to meet up with the likes of Zidane and Papaleo, off the pitch of course

[July Fourth]

Hey July, as we won the league today and we are close neighbours, how about a celebratory drink with both our teams after your CL match?

I'm sure Petersen will be delighted to meet up with the likes of Zidane and Papaleo, off the pitch of course

Yes, that should be great, Only thing is I still got over an hour before my Champions League Semi-Final 1st Leg.

[July Fourth]

kerem baba fc (84.2) vs Julio Quatro (94.5) Champions League Semi-Final Preview

kerem baba are the best remaining competitor left in the Competition that we have to play against in the champions league this season, They have 3 scout players in their starting XI with mostly 5* for the rest of their main playing squad, theres nothing brilliant on the bench though, 2* and 3* players, He only has 1 striker in the whole squad who is 5*87, but he is deadly, he has scored 40 goals this season, more than Papaleo, Mensah or Zidane has managed this season, It seems like they like to work the midfield balls to him, none of their other players have goalscoring records to write home about, their goalkeeper is 6*90, and they currently line up in a 3N-2W-3N-1-1 formation, which is a formation I believe that plays into the hands of a classic 4-4-2, Julio Quatro are without P.McNamara 7*98 for this game but that should not be a problem as Robbie Savage 7*95 will take his place in the starting line-up for Julio Quatro.

First Leg prediction: 1-3, Match Odds: kerem baba 8/1, Draw 3/1, Julio Quatro 2/7.

[Razz]

Rangers Report

League Match 20 at los blancos fc, Jakarta, Indonesia
Rangers had a rather pedestrian performance against a league bottom feeder.
The 3-0 victory widened the league lead by another point as the second tier teams continued to stumble over each other.

Champions League Semi-Final, away leg. Cf Real Madrid, Beius, Romania
With a home league match scheduled just 15 minutes before our trip to Romania, we had to reschedule the league game for later in the afternoon. Rangers used a 3n-0-3n-3w-1 to counter 4-4-2. Defensive set for the outer two MCs and attacking set for Kupalang in the middle. Defensive/counterattacking, mixed passing and normal tackling.

Despite a clear possession advantage, with essentially 5 players around midfield vs their 2, shots were hard to find, and their strong defense frustrated our attack. A swift counterattack by the Romanians created some tense moments, but our defense held. the speeed of their attack made me nervous, so we switched to hard defending.

Scoreless at halftime, with our defenders tiring, DC/DR Macias went in for MC Christie and we shifted Prasetya up to DMC, slid Dullah over to midfield and sent Kupalang forward alongside Seo. it quickly became obvious we'd be at a possession disadvantage though, so we moved the flankers back to MR & ML, and brought Kupalang back to midfield so we had a 3-1-4-1-1 formation. We also sent some fresh legs in on defense, with Safari replacing Glavas.

With time running out, we were beginning to fancy just getting out of there with a draw, but tried one last tactical change up - we switched to hard tackling, full-pitch, hard attacking through the middle. Finally in the 83rd minute after Kupalang's rocket shot was tipped away for a corner, he made a beautiful cross which Thanh Long headed into the top corner. Followed only seconds later by another perfect Kupalang cross which Seo just barely squeezed in and we were up 2-0.

We're very relieved to come away with the win and those very important away goals. No time to celebrate though as we have to rocket back to the States to meet the Maltese Newton heat in a league game, which, if we win, would clinch the title.

League Match 21, at Home in Ranger Park vs Newton Heat (Marsaskala, Malta)
We may have cut things a little short as I still didn't have much time to prepare, and probably took this game for granted. After swapping out our starting lineup and applying a couple boosters to a couple key players, we took some time to tidy up a bit. We decided to keep the better training of our recently acquired pair of strikers (although both had trained up to 34) and transfer listed Ratkovic. We expect to even make a nice 300k profit on him. Then off to watch my brother's CL semi-final, which he easily won 4-0. we forgot to even look at our opponent.

The Maltese came out with a 3-1-2-3-1 hard attacking formation and hard tackling, earning themselves two yellows in the first 23 minutes. The scond gave us a free kick in good position, which Berezin crossed to marzuki, who headed it into the net for a 1-0 lead. Five minutes later, however, Newton evened it up off a corner. Safari picked up a yellow giving away a dangerous free kick and RAzzopardi ( I need to get him on my team!) put them ahead 2-0.

Slightly dazed by this turn of events, we subbed out the two wingers, sending in another defender (Thanh Long) and another midfielder (Dullah). The two team leaders quickly got the Rangers motivated, and Kupalang powered in two goals before halftime to give us a 3-2 lead.

Newton Heat made a flurry of substitutions, but to no avail, as we held on throughout the second half, with Berezin adding a final exclamation point in the 89th minute to give us the 4-2 victory and clinch our second league title. Kupalang has 16 goals and 18 assists on the season, leading both categories by a comfortable margin.

We'll put the league on cruise control and focus on the Champions League. A berth in the final seems assured, with that looming match against a very strong Thai team.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

@Razz, I'm from Romania, Beius is pretty far from me but you and your team are welcome to our club, we can make a friendly game :P

[VriheddMartin]

This evening Top Eleven gave me a very nice trip to Spain and Italy.First it was a league match with number 4:

Six points advantage with just five more days to go,tomorrow we'll play against number 2.

But the most important game is yet to come-22:40

His team is stronger,but we....Well,we have watched the Last Samurai