Had an interesting day in the CL yesterday.

Playing a side with a quality that was just a tad below mine (the other two teams in the group are a good 7 or 8Q lower), so wanted to get off to a good start.

I had a midfielder sent off after 10 mins. I went to change from a 4-4-2 to a 4-4-1, but while doing that noticed that my star striker had disappeared from my team lineup. I rechecked the game and noticed that he too had been sent off in the 10th min. 2 players sent off in a min!

I decided to then go for a 4-3-1 instead as options with two sent off are pretty limited. As I had both my ML and MR intact I kept them on with the one CM in the middle.

13th min, the MC gets injured. Subbed him out with the only other fit MC in my team.

23rd min, my DL/DC goes down injured.

49th min, the subbed MC goes down unjured.

89th min, my opponent scores the wining goal, I lose 1-0.

Hard not to feel a bit like it was irrelevant what I did, as it was clear I wasn't going to win that game. Should be interesting to know how the team copes in the next two CL games with my two main players suspended. I'm also not going to use red packs on the injured players (2, 4 and 5 days respectively), so they will miss some of those games too.

Time to see if my back up and reserve players are up to the job of getting me through the next few games.