League Update:

Ninjaa FC continues to dominate in league playing winning 7-0 at home against a team from the bottom of the table, while the manager wasn't watching. The strikers continue to struggle though, as all but 1 of the goals were scored by the AML, AMR and MCs.

CL Update:

Since today's CL match was only a couple hours after the league match, the starting lineup for the CL match consisted of 9 backups. Despite the weaker lineup, the opposing players on the pitch were 2 stars lower in quality on average. The opponents were using a 4-1-2-1-2 ND formation, which should normally be easily countered by my 3-5-2 V (my main formation). There were many reasons to be confident going into the game, but either the game decided to troll me, or the players decided they didn't want to play.

At half time, the score was still 0-0, so I quickly subbed in a MC and a ST that normally start. Things didn't improve as the opposing team scored the first goal of the match (erasing my clean sheet that had been kept in the CL so far). Luckily, starting DMC Giorgio Trotti decided to come forward on offense and scored a goal. The end result was a 1-1 draw, in a match where Ninjaa FC had 77% of possession. After the match, the manager was so cross that he threatened to send all of those that under-performed back to the U21 team.

The draw was still enough to clinch top spot in the group, but the recent lack of performance by the strikers has me worried. Majid Kalaei is now at just 2 goals in the past 7 matches, after 24 goals in the 12 before that. It would increase the chance of injuries, but there are some days coming up with just 1 match on them, so I may spam friendly matches on those days and hope that playing the same lineup with no changes for more matches will get the players back in form.