Season 54

[Dreamhunter]

Major Upset for Sakura

Last night, some minutes past midnight, FC Sakura had a major upset. We faced in the Cup the Italian team from Bari and after a 1-1 and halftime our midfielder Berghuis received two yellow cards and was sent off. The last twenty minutes were one of the most horrible in my carreer as manager and we were crushed 1-5... So also this season there won't be a second Cup-Title for this team. Our GK had a terrible performance and was rated "3"..... The fact that we now lead our league with four points does not really heal this wound.

Teresa FC had also a really strange game. We were down 0-1 after 19 minutes. In the 30th minute one of the opponents was sent off with a straight red card and we could score twice. Suddenly, between the 81st and 83rd minute we conceded two goals and were down 2-3. Finally in the last minute Teresa was awarded a penalty and the game ended 3-3. This was really nerve-wrecking!

Berkshire Utd won its league-game 2-0, but the performance was not really overwhelming, we had expected a higher score. Anyway, the team has a 10-0-0 recored so far and leads with 10 points ahead of our arch-rivals Brixton Stars (which we had beaten away with a last minute-goal 3-2).

FC Dreamhunter played away against Birmingham and it was the expected difficult game. Birmingham was slightly higher in quality in the starting line-up, but we managed to get a 1-1 draw which keeps Dreamhunter unbeaten on second place. Same points and same goal-difference like the leader. We are having now a showdown with this team on the weekend. Earlier yesterday in the Cup we managed to win 1-0 although the manager was not present while the opponent was and also had some support. We will face a difficult away-game tomorrow in order to advance. Today the management bought a new 6* Midfielder as we sold yesterday a weaker player to another Franchise-Team and one midfielder only produces average results the last couple of days.

Today Sakura has to win against Realmadrid to become first in the CL-Group (I really hope that the players are not too shocked because of the loss in the Cup) while Teresa has no chance to advance and will rest the best players in CL to have them ready for the league. Dreamhunter needs a draw in the CL to stay on top of the table while Berkshire needs a win and has to hope that the leader of the group draws in order to win the group.

[Dreamhunter]

Excellent Morning Session

Well, the Dreamhunter Franchise had three games in the morning and all of them were successful. Terese FC won easily 4-0 while playing all the substitutes against the weakest team in the Champions League. So with 3 wins and 3 losses the squad finished in third place and has now more time and energy to advance in the Cup and focus on the league where they are currently 6th. We hope to qualify for next season's CL as well - as we need the money :-)

FC Sakura overcame the shock of last night's Cup-defeat and also won 4-0 in the league which means that we maintain our lead. Berkshire Utd played the most impressive first halftime in the history of the franchise, leading 7-0 after 45 minutes. After an eight goal we had to concede one goal, but the match ended 8-1 in favor of Berkshire. Now we depend on another team to end on top of the table in the CL-Group. The really interesting fact is that 8 different players scored the goals!

Well, we hope that the afternoon/evening games will continue this way :-)

[Buffs Mad]

Champions League: Buffs FC avenge their Round 2 troll defeat thrashing GalataSaray A.S. 9-0. Mols grabbed a hat-trick in the first 24 mins. Unfortunately star defender Alex McLeish picked up a booking and will be suspended for the next match.

Celtic Rangers squeezed through to the next round too after a 4-0 win against the bottom feeder. CRs rival needed a win against the group leader to put them out on count-back but could only draw.
Earlier CR drew 3-3 in the league. Either the other side trolled a 3-0 half-time lead or CR trolled a 3 goal second half comeback OR......we file this under 'A game of two halves.' Manager, Midas McGonnigal, fainted at full-time on finding out that there were no injuries today.
Shangalang FC have an evening CL match but are out of contention so we'll ignore and leave them to experiment with counter-attacking the superior quality group leaders.

[Chris Rath]

2nd loss in the league for Kentucky FC this season - 1-3 at home vs. the third. I sadly missed the match and he responded very well on my tactics, congrats. With the loss I stayed on rank 4.

[Buffs Mad]

League: Dream Team's visit to Buffs Park turns into a nightmare. Buffs FC, returning to a 4-5-1V against the visitors ND, win 9-0 for the second game in succession: Baxter scored twice; McLeish, Souness, Mols, McStay, Gough, Gemmell and Johnstone all added 1 each.

Buffs stay in second and meet the bottom side next.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

Tomorrow we will have a hard game in Cup, we lost 3-2 home so will be very hard....

2 victories today! (league and Cl)

[Tommy Vernersson]

Update

So, after 24 games of the season, we are 22-1-1 and a goal difference of 100-12.
We lead our league with 1 point only. We are done for the CL playoff after totaly trashed our opponents apart.
And we won the 1st leg away with 0-3 in the top 16 of the cup.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the ultimate captain of our team. Man of The match almost in every game! and his just quality 33.

How it Goes


Champions League: GROUP G


League


Cup

[Brian Dang]

Nice start for a new player...hope u will do well for the coming seasons..

[Gery Tryenasya]

CUP 16 Round

[Buffs Mad]

Cup: Celtic Rangers win 2-1 at home, which, with the 2-2 away draw, is enough to progress. Unfortunately they picked up 2 more injuries (another 8 days) although fortunately the Manager watched cos its not easy for Assistant, Otto Team to pick subs from this squad.

The visitors Quankana went ahead in 14 mins, CR striker Lucero was stretchered off in 22 mins, Hay DC replaced him to go 5-4-1 with 4 flankers motivated forward, Bustreau was hacked down and stretchered off in 37 mins but Higgins scored from the free-kick to level it. That would be enough but Ebrahimpour made sure with a fine solo effort in 75 mins. The visitors picked up 2 yellows late on as they tried to hack their way back into the tie.