Season 37

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Besiktas 2-2 July Fourth League Round 25
Besiktas 90.3 4-1-2-1-2 Narrow Diamond - July Fourth 100.1 3W-1-4-2

We had a lucky, lucky escape here in the league round 25, overall a poor performance from us and we really deserved to lose this game, Besiktas started the stronger with Marco van Basten breaking our weak makeshift defence and passing it along the ground square for Ponomarenko to tap-in and give the lead for Besiktas, July Fourth responded though as expected with Stefan Zhekov getting the equaliser after connecting to a Papaleo cross and Vasko shooting from long range to make it 2-1, Then in the second half Kevin Mensah missed an easy chance to make it 3-1 by putting it wide and this is where the trouble started, A besiktas counter attack was launched by van Basten and he easily got by our defence and put it past our keeper to equalise, Then substitute P.McNamara on for Mensah got himself booked for a silly challenge, Zidane came on for Rocky and tried to kill the game off and Crawford's cross was cut out, Then in the last few minute's Papaleo gives it away and Arslan broke forward to besiktas and was through on goal, Then P.McNamara's challenge cought Arslan and he was off for a second yellow and Besiktas has a 90th minute penalty to end our 75 game league unbeaten run and unbeaten season in the league... OVER THE BAR!!!

Goals: Ponomarenko (7) Zhekov (23) Vasko (41) Van Basten (50) MOTM: El Mourabit
S/O: P.McNamara (90) Missed Pen: van Basten (90)

Wow, dramatic end to the season! Would have been worse if you were 24-0-0 up to now... Just the CL final to go now!

[July Fourth]

Wow, dramatic end to the season! Would have been worse if you were 24-0-0 up to now... Just the CL final to go now!

I think the mistake was playing 3W-1-4-2 instead of 3N-1-4-2 but one of my defenders is DR only so I played Ramirez at DL. Ramirez is brilliant, he is DL/DC/DR and 7*100 18 years old. almost the perfect defender to have for your team.

CL win is more important than a unbeaten league season, we have done 'the invincibles' 4 times already at our club. But I would of traded the treble for a 26-0-0 season in the league.