Season 36

[Raykco]

Just the one league game today, and I'm back in with a slight chance of the championship. Started the day 4pts behind leader, but he only got a draw at home to 3rd team. I managed a win away at mid-table side to close the gap to 2pts.

LGE: Ania fc (away). Won 3-1 (Flanagan, Best, King). MOM: Seamus Flanagan.
Nervy win after seeing my rivals for the title, only draw. Level at the break, but 2 quick goals after the restart, helped settle the team. Was able to send on a couple of reserves in the last 20 minutes, to save my stars for tomorrow's Cup Final.

[VriheddMartin]

Great day for Vrihedd United.After winning the CL semi-finals 8-1 on agr.,the team secured their seventh league title in a row.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

Great day for Vrihedd United.After winning the CL semi-finals 8-1 on agr.,the team secured their seventh league title in a row.

8-1 in the semi-final is a lot, it's mean you have a great team, good luck in the final.

[Accyrover]

Ravers finally arrived home after there exhausting trip to tumultuous applause from their faithful fans celebrating last nights away win which sealed the league title, added to this the news from Iceland that they were going to the CL final again.
The crowd in full party swing and Ravers were in no mood to spoil the fun; sending Turkish side fenerBache packing with a 8-0 spanking.
A more detailed report will follow due to all concerned being pissed out their heads.
After tonight's result wee Brian Douglas moved into the golden boot spot and three Ravers players now head the rankings again after some up start rocked the boat joining a club two days ago and receiving 9's back down to earth with a bang tonight with a 6. lol

[Razz]

Rangers Report

League Match 22 at USS Sermaize, Porto, France
With the league title secured, we've focused entirely on Champions League. We went deep to our bench, trying to keep as many of our key players rested as possible. 3-1-4-1-1 easy tackling, normal, normal, normal, mixed passing against 4-5-1. Sermaize is fighting to avoid relegation and played a hard tackling, aggressive game, drawing 4 yellows for the match. Kupalang suffered a minor injury. The match ended in a nil-nil draw and we took most of the day off to rest and prepare for the second leg of the CL semi final. Vargas was MOM with two saves. MC Christie was carded.

League Match 23, Ranger Park, vs Nut FC, Bangkok, Portugal
Nut FC is an affiliate club (friends) and one of three teams fighting for second place. Again, we used easy tactics, and opened testing the legality of a formation (3-5-1-0-1, illegal). Nut FC came out with a hard attacking 5-3-1 and struck fast, DR(!) Ryan slammed a goal home two minutes into the match on the free kick after MC Christie was carded (he seems to have missed the memo about easy tackling). We switched back to a conventional formation, but maintained an easy pace. Our young striker Sasa Lucik, getting his first playing time as a Ranger, put the finish on a sweet layoff from Kupalang to equalise it at 36'. the second half played out quietly and we relaxed a bit as the match wound down, but Nut desperately wanted a win and came on strong to score the go ahead goal in the final seconds and take a 2-1 victory and three needed points, pulling them withn 5 of second place.


Champions League Semi-Final, 2nd Leg, Ranger Park, vs CF Real Madrid, Beius, Romania
Having won 2-0 in Beius in the first leg, we felt confident in advancing. Nevertheless, we were determined to take control of this match. With our best players, well-rested and in high morale, on the pitch, we played a 3-5-2V, defensive/counter, mixed passing, normal tackling against a conventional 4-4-2. The first half was .. a disappointment.

Complete domination yielded nothing! Maybe the boys were just too amped up, sending those shots into the upper deck instead of anywhere near the goal. Feeling frustrated, we slid SEO over to AMC and replaced MC Aceituno with AMR George and went to an attacking mentality. It apparently paid off, pulling some defensive bodies off Edri and Berizin who, in a beautiful piece of teamwork, sliced and diced through the defense and with 2 against 1 Edri calmly laid it off to Berezin for the wide open shot as the helpless keeper, with nothing but bad choices, went left to stop Edri. That was the only score of the game.

We're excited about advancing to our first Champions League Final. But we're very worried about the lack of goals. We will, indeed, be facing the Thai team, who have grown stronger and stronger over the season, and actually outrate us now on average.


We may have a slight advantage with our starters, but it's still quite evenly matched:


This is going to be nerve-racking. A week ago I was confident in the win, but now it seems a toss-up. Heck, I don't even know the format of the final .. is it 1 game? I assume? Who get's home advantage?

With defensive/counter slumping, I don't know what tactics to use. He plays a variety of formations, always with 4 defenders, and usually with 3 MCs and 2 strikers, with an AM in varying positions depending on the opponent. I'll be sweating this one.

[CarlTaut]

Rangers Report

League Match 22 at USS Sermaize, Porto, France
With the league title secured, we've focused entirely on Champions League. We went deep to our bench, trying to keep as many of our key players rested as possible. 3-1-4-1-1 easy tackling, normal, normal, normal, mixed passing against 4-5-1. Sermaize is fighting to avoid relegation and played a hard tackling, aggressive game, drawing 4 yellows for the match. Kupalang suffered a minor injury. The match ended in a nil-nil draw and we took most of the day off to rest and prepare for the second leg of the CL semi final. Vargas was MOM with two saves. MC Christie was carded.

League Match 23, Ranger Park, vs Nut FC, Bangkok, Portugal
Nut FC is an affiliate club (friends) and one of three teams fighting for second place. Again, we used easy tactics, and opened testing the legality of a formation (3-5-1-0-1, illegal). Nut FC came out with a hard attacking 5-3-1 and struck fast, DR(!) Ryan slammed a goal home two minutes into the match on the free kick after MC Christie was carded (he seems to have missed the memo about easy tackling). We switched back to a conventional formation, but maintained an easy pace. Our young striker Sasa Lucik, getting his first playing time as a Ranger, put the finish on a sweet layoff from Kupalang to equalise it at 36'. the second half played out quietly and we relaxed a bit as the match wound down, but Nut desperately wanted a win and came on strong to score the go ahead goal in the final seconds and take a 2-1 victory and three needed points, pulling them withn 5 of second place.


Champions League Semi-Final, 2nd Leg, Ranger Park, vs CF Real Madrid, Beius, Romania
Having won 2-0 in Beius in the first leg, we felt confident in advancing. Nevertheless, we were determined to take control of this match. With our best players, well-rested and in high morale, on the pitch, we played a 3-5-2V, defensive/counter, mixed passing, normal tackling against a conventional 4-4-2. The first half was .. a disappointment.

Complete domination yielded nothing! Maybe the boys were just too amped up, sending those shots into the upper deck instead of anywhere near the goal. Feeling frustrated, we slid SEO over to AMC and replaced MC Aceituno with AMR George and went to an attacking mentality. It apparently paid off, pulling some defensive bodies off Edri and Berizin who, in a beautiful piece of teamwork, sliced and diced through the defense and with 2 against 1 Edri calmly laid it off to Berezin for the wide open shot as the helpless keeper, with nothing but bad choices, went left to stop Edri. That was the only score of the game.

We're excited about advancing to our first Champions League Final. But we're very worried about the lack of goals. We will, indeed, be facing the Thai team, who have grown stronger and stronger over the season, and actually outrate us now on average.


We may have a slight advantage with our starters, but it's still quite evenly matched:


This is going to be nerve-racking. A week ago I was confident in the win, but now it seems a toss-up. Heck, I don't even know the format of the final .. is it 1 game? I assume? Who get's home advantage?

With defensive/counter slumping, I don't know what tactics to use. He plays a variety of formations, always with 4 defenders, and usually with 3 MCs and 2 strikers, with an AM in varying positions depending on the opponent. I'll be sweating this one.

Good luck for the final!

[Accyrover]

I tried a new formation tonight against 4-4-2 never played it before but seem to work well, could have been my night with the game engine though.
3 DC's-DML-DMR- 2 MC's- 2AMC- 1 ST very happy with the amount of attacks created playing normal mentality through the centre short passing and zonal, totally dominated MF. and 8 goals to boot.

[July Fourth]

This is going to be nerve-racking. A week ago I was confident in the win, but now it seems a toss-up. Heck, I don't even know the format of the final .. is it 1 game? I assume? Who get's home advantage?

^^ Final is 1 game, played at neutral venue.

[Adel Gamal]

In league : another win with 3/0 and it was easy match with the reserves .
In CL : so hard win away against too much strong team .. and I won away as I did in my home also to qualify with 3/1 aggregate .

Today I have only one match in league and I'm preparing for 3 friendly matches.

[July Fourth]

Its here!!! It's cup final day!!!