Season 65

[Krishna Sadhana]

League: Bali United ZAFT are back....sort of. After suffering two humiliating league defeats and an away draw in the Champions League against weaker teams that left me fuming and furious, Bali United slowly started to show signs of recovering from their form slump with a hard-fought victory at 7th placed M150 FC. Going 2-1 down until the 76th minute, a quick tactic change earns the Tridatu Soldiers a 2-3 comeback victory. Comebacks are sweet and stuff, but conceding two goals (one by a striker deceiving my defenders and the other one by an ML scoring a long range screamer) against a team that we should have destroyed easier leaves me with a size-able homework.

After apparently Nordeus decided that my usual attacking through the flanks strategy is totally obsolete, I deployed a 5-3-2 formation for this match, utilizing hard attacking and mixed passing, blue arrows on the defenders, red arrows on the MCs and STs, as seen on this thread: The Power of 5-3-2 memer style.

After drawing 0-0 for most of the 1st half (the opponent's GK even got himself injured in one point), we took the lead thanks to a strike from Le Huu "Largo" Hoang Anh, to make it 1-0 at HT. But M150 FC rallied back with two quick goals from Paul Holt and Wicharn Panyachan. Refusing to be humiliated yet again, I decided to switch my passing route towards the middle, with only the middle MC (Captain Lee Noriega) given the red arrow, as well as changing the passing style from mixed to long. Lord Bendtner is introduced in, replacing the under-performing Aila Jyrkiäinen. As a result, we managed to mount a quick rally that saw Largo scoring his second on the 76th minute, before Karin Kikuhara wrapped up the winner on the 87th minute! Finally, a victory! And for his winning goal Karin got the Man of the Match award today.

Thinking that I'm going to stick with this 5-3-2 for a while apparently my hunch was right, my flanks has completely lost its magic and has costed me my last three games!




Looks like Kansakar's getting the bench for the next match We will play Dream Team of Albania at home for the 2nd leg of the Champions League next, aggregate's tied at 1-1. The match will be on 4.46am Japan Standard Time, which makes me wonder if the Gods of Scheduling at Nordeus has gone bonkers

On transfer news, we bid farewell to two of the club's longest serving players - defender Handoyo Hendrawidjaja has moved to ady putra fc of Indonesia's Tanjung Pandan, while our all time top scorer and top assist maker, Mongolian Onja Batsukh, has moved to Thailand's Sarayut FC. We also signed Dedi Suprayogi from our youth academy, and sold him for the sizable fee of $860K.

We also welcome Handoyo's replacement in the defense, 21 year old Thai defender Onjira Uttaponkarndee!