Well folks it's that time again...
July Fourth Season Review
July Fourth Season Summary (Game Season 48, My Season 26, My Level 26)
League
Final Position 1st Played 26 Won 22 Draw 4 Lost 0 GF 90 GA 15 GD +75 PTS 70
July Fourth played a good season most of the time in the league, recording many good wins along the way, but also suffered some casual draws along the way against ZAMO VIGO,Hansa Rostock, OFI and tarsusspor. But we remained unbeaten and won the league by a comfortable 13 points.
Champions League
Final Position Winner Played 13 Won 12 Drawn 1 Lost 0 GF 46 GA 9 GD +37
This seasons Champions League turned out to be rather a straight forward ride until we reached the final, Jon Utd managed a draw against us in the group stage, before we easily beat tybur team, F.C.Aydost and PmUIAfFeH before a tough showdown against LaFruta in the final in which we won 2-1 with a Petersen winner in the 85th minute.
Cup
Final Position Winner Played 13 Won 11 Drawn 2 Lost 0 GF 49 GA 8 GD +41
July Fourth never looked troubled in the cup except the semi-final against Ottomans which was tight and the first leg was a 2-2 draw and we won the second leg 3-2 with a late winner from Kumchai, July Fourth then went onto easily beat OFI 5-0 in the final, Our other draw came at the beginning of the competition when C.A.Union managed a 0-0 draw in 2nd leg after already ensured progression from the 1st leg.
Total Games in all 3 competitions: Played 52 Won 45 Drawn 7 Lost 0 GF 185 GA 32 GD +153
Well... What you can say, A near perfect season, winning the treble and staying unbeaten are the major achievements here.
Appearances
50 - Chano Petersen
48 - Stacey Papaleo
47 - Yossi Benayoun, Ryogo Kusama
45 - Frankie Harrison, James Lamb
42 - Danny Watson
41 - Ivor Hardy, Twenty Regal, Sandy Beech
38 - Al Calavicci
33 - Angel Miku-Zidane
30 - Sachin Tendulkar
Goals
42 - Stacey Papaleo
29 - Chano Petersen
26 - Yossi Benayoun
21 - Ryogo Kusama
14 - Danny Watson
8 - Sachin Tendulkar
7 - Ivor Hardy, Angel Miku-Zidane, Charnvit Kumchai
Assists
21 - Stacey Papaleo
20 - Chano Petersen
18 - Ryogo Kusama
9 - Charnvit Kumchai
8 - Danny Watson
6 - Yossi Benayoun
Man Of The Match
13 - Stacey Papaleo
6 - Yossi Benayoun
5 - Chano Petersen
4 - Ryogo Kusama
3 - Charnvit Kumchai
Performance Of The Season
July Fourth 7-0 FC.KOYTALA (League Round 2)
This was probably our best game that we showed our class, FC.KOYTALA turned out to be one of the competitors in the league this season along with INCORRUPT that kept us honest through out the league, Petersen scored 4 goals here and we laid down a marker for the rest of the season.
Honourable Mentions: July Fourth 8-1 tybur team (CL Last 16, 2nd Leg) and July Fourth 5-0 OFI (Cup Final)
Disapointment of The Season
July Fourth 0-0 C.A.Union (RR Cup 1st Round, 2nd Leg)
Although we already lead 4-0, Our performance here was very disappointing, A team from a lower level manage to force a draw in the home leg of this fixture as we failed to hit the back of the net.
Honourable Mentions: OFI 1-1 July Fourth (League Round 21) and July Fourth 1-1 tarsusspor (League Round 24) both games were below par performances as we looked to close out the unbeaten season, we could of easily lost those.
July Fourth Young Player Of The Season
Frankie Harrison. He has basically took over from being our leading defender this season from the slump of Calavicci, Someone had to to step up to the challenge and the young Harrison was our best young performer, despite Benayouns goal contribution from midfield which 26 goals seemed like an expected total from him.
July Fourth Players Review and Player Of The Season
I'll keep this short, Our defence was magnicient this season (including an improvement from Lenoil), except from the sudden drop of form from Al Calavicci which was disappointing after his efforts over the previous 6 seasons, Midfield-wise we were good and even players like Miku-Zidane and Tendulkar performed very well, But Danny Watson has been disappointing, Striker wise we had no real problem scoring goals except from the final week of the season when the most important games came.
3RD... CHANO PETERSEN
After a slow start this season Petersen came roaring back with many goals this season and came a goal short from 30 which is amazing given he is a midfielder, He was still important in assist making but was outdone by Papaleo this season.
2ND... RYOGO KUSAMA
Kusama was back to his POTS winning season form from 2 seasons ago, Scoring many goals and assists throughout the season and being a important player between midfield and attack once again, he helped us in winning some important matches.
THE JULY FOURTH PLAYER OF THE SEASON IS...
Stacey Papaleo
AGAIN!!!??? Well don't be stupid lol... Papaleo was even better this season than last, finally getting into the 40+ goals a season club which not many players make, especially at the level July Fourth play at, Papaleo even outdone Petersen for most assists unexpectedly and also made the same number of MOTM's from last season of 13, With all those stats along with the golden boot in the league, There was only going to be one winner of POTS this season.
Off The Pitch Performance
We did take a bad hit on securing the services of our GK Sandy Beech this season by going 76 KO rounds in auction costing the club over 450M, But with playing many friendlies this season and winning all 3 competitions ment we only ended the season at a loss of 34M
July Fourth ended the season with a fan base of 8,562,854.
Board Meeting
There is 2,920T available next season for PT and a new 'project player' and we also celebrate the clubs 2nd anniversary next season. Next season is the final season of major token investment.