Season 37

[Kyroshill]

Cup draw update..... all chalk so far... (seedings added cuz I like em.... D'oh!)

[dv8r]

Cup draw update..... all chalk so far... (seedings added cuz I like em.... D'oh!)

At least it's clear that the draws are seeded.

[July Fourth]

At least it's clear that the draws are seeded.

Yes, You seen my cup draw earlier that gave a much better indication on the cup draw being all seeded by quality and not level.

[Accyrover]

Bali what a pace, Ravers won 1-3 but were shocked by the apparent tactics of Keith and the religious 4-5-1 which he has played since day1.
Three bookings and a red for spitting, 18 tackles and 14 fouls deserved more IMO.
The penalty for his tactics, two goals from the free kicks bent around the wall by Douglas and the third a nice header by recent PT Kissi, who has offers flooding in along with Shearer, one will go but only when the time is right.
Breakfast on the beach then flight back to UK for the CL match tomorrow afternoon.

[dv8r]

I have decided to assign the 62 SP for Petersen and 86 for Suarez ahead of tomorrow's league game against 2nd place Zardast FC. Suarez's training speed has dropped a bit now the game recognises him as a 7* player. Either that or it's just Suarez being lazy and not wanting to train properly lol...

But anyway, Suarez is on 7*49 (3) and Petersen on 7*48 (18). Number in brackets shows SP for next star

[July Fourth]

Ac Milan 0-7 July Fourth Cup Last 16, 1st Leg

July Fourth easily beat L12 Ac Milan (not the same Ac Milan I played in the league yesterday) away from home and book the place in the Quarter-Finals with a fine 7-0 win, Zidane got us off running with a superb individual move in the 3rd minute and 10 mins later it was Zidane that helped set Papaleo to curl it past the keeper, Papaleo didnt score again but still had a fantastic game setting up Novotny midway through the first half and also strangely providing our other center defender Adams just after half time, It was a day of injuries as Boccoli picked up a knock for the home team and Crawford going off just moments after Novotnys corner found P.McNamara to a six-pence to score, When Crawford was injured, Kevin Mensah put away the free-kick then in the 83rd minute L.McNamara beat the keeper to score a great goal.

Goals: Zidane (3) Papaleo (13) Novotny (24) Adams (49) P.McNamara (66) Mensah (77) L.McNamara (83) MOTM: L.McNamara.

Crawford out for 4 days... Damn. out of medics. But we may have more tokens tomorrow.

[Accyrover]

So lets see how it's panning out.

My KO stages of the Cup, as predicted on day 1 the two highest ranked are still in there.

Lets see what shocks crop in each group.

G1
L6 Q26.5 ... 0 --- 1
L5 Q31.5 ... 2 --- 2
L4 Q23.4 ... 0 --- 0
L5 Q32.7 ... 1 --- 1

G2
L4 Q28 ... 2 --- 1
L5 Q31 ... 0 --- 1

L2 Q24.6 ... 2 --- 1
L6 Q45 Rod FC ... 4 --- 4

G3
L4 Q25.8 ... 2 --- 0
L6 Q32 ... 4 --- 0
L4 Q24 ... 0 --- 0
L5 Q34.5 ... 4 --- 1

G4
L5 Q25.2 ... 1 --- 1
L4 Q31.1 ... 3 --- 1
L5 28.5 ... 1 --- 0
L6 47.8 Ravers ... 3 --- 6

My predictions to go through.

My first 11 has quality 51.

Three lower levels teams looking good.

Well not really any shocks in that round two L4 & L5 teams go through against higher levels.
5 out of 8 maybe I should do the 'pools' .

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

4 new free agents today and tomorrow I will have the new stadium

[Chris Rath]

No good news from FC Kneipenkick (German synonym for pub team). The team travelled today to the league leader Albion Addicks. As a formation Albions 4-4-2 faced Kneipenkicks 4-5V-1. The match started slow, but after half an hour the home coach reacted and moved his left winger to AML. Kneipenkick reacted way too late and the home team scored (33.). The away side switched tactics to 4-1-4-1 and could equalize by central midfielder Rasch after preparation by striker Kunz (he is my Pepp Crawford, but I prefared the name Kunz ). Albion Addicks returned to 4-4-2 and FCK to 4-5V-1. With 1-1 both teams went into half time. The Addicks had the better start and could mark the lead once again (54.). FCK coach made a sub (DC for DMC) and switched to 3-2-2-2-1 (DR/DL can also play DML/DMR), but the opponent also immediately countered with a very 4-2CM-AML-AMC-AMR-ST and could extend the lead to 3-1 (80.). Kneipenkicks changed to Hard Attacking, but it only resulted in the 3-2 by Guide Kunz (87.). After that glimmer of hope for a point Kunz got a calm strain injury (probably at celebrating his goal) and is out for 4 days. Red boosters will be applied here.

So Albion Addicks is now 9 points away of me (cudos, very good player) and 6 points on rank 2. Kneipenkick fell back on rank 4 and will concentrate on CL qualification this league season.

Player ratings:


Scape goats are Evangelos Clemens, who missed all freekicks (3, Albion 1) and defender Lindeborg, who was outperformed by opponents 6 striker Herrera (MOTM).

Statistics (home crowd plus fan advantage 7%):

[July Fourth]

Here's mine... All 8 away teams seeded won with only 1 home team (KORDELIO FC) scoring a goal.



Pretty much all scores you would expect relating to all the teams quality.