Sweet Victory for FC Sakura

FC Sakura met today at high noon our friendly rivals FC Massimo. We have beaten this team in the CL-Final two seasons ago, but lost last season 3 times (2 x League and in the CL-Final). This year we play in different leagues and met now in the CL-Quarterfinals. Our opponents had to play their league-game just a couple of minutes before our match, which gave us of course a bit of advantage. After the experiences of last season and our farm-team Teresa FC we started very defensive and waited for the chances to counter them. In the 45th minute Massimo took the lead with a long-range-shot. Well, at halftime I brought an offensive midfielder for one defender and changed to "normal" and played now instead of the Narrow Diamond a 3-1-2MC-AML/AMR-2 system which paid off after substituting a MC with a fresh player for the MC-position. Until the 58th minute we lead 3-1, later in the game already leading 5-1. Then the 5-2 because of a free-kick, but Daniel Troyer, our AMR who was subsituted at halftime, scored in the 87th minute his third goal to an unexpected 6-2 victory. Never thought that we could manage such a result and we are now really positive to advance.

Yesterday's league-game proved to be a difficult game and we were lucky to draw 1-1. But we still lead by 5 points !!!

Berkshire Utd won against the third placed team 3-1 and took off some pressure as we are now 4 points ahead of the fifth placed team. Today an easy 6-0 victory, so we are on track to qualify for the CL next season. I see our team as favorites in tonight's CL-Quarterfinal clash.

FC Dreamhunter won their league-game convincingly and still leads by 5 points, also Teresa FC managed to win and is in the lead by 6 points. No new injuries occured, so in two days we might be able to have our midfielders ready again!