Season 65

[pcmacdaniel]

Thunderous start to the cup QTRfinals. We fell behind 1:0 in the 35th minute, before equalizing a minute later, then running away to a 6:1 away win behind 5 second half goals. I'm assuming this will be enough to book at a minimum, a 3rd place cup trophy.

League was a 9:0 mauling of a bottom feeder.

Champions league resumes tomorrow, with us staked to a 4:0 aggregate advantage.

Team has round into form these last few days and seems to be peaking at the right time. For awhile it didn't feel that way as the defense didn't keep a single clean sheet in the CL group stages (we finished 2nd) and we had some struggles in the 2nd and 3rd rounds of the cup.

[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!

[tongly45]

if you remember that i said that this season, very lucky and dangerous in the last minutes. and i still have my luck in CL and Cup
take a look at top 16 round in the cup


not convinced ? now top 16 in the champion league. Hope that luck continue ...

[tongly45]

i lost the Cup 1/4 final 1st leg 1-0 away, so i would be happy if the 2nd leg we would won 3-1 at 89th minutes =))

[M Noor Iqbal]

Finally the the most difficult opponent ever faced at this season can be defeated

[reddeviljohn]

Advance in C/l 3-1 agg against rivals who knocked us out last season BOOM

[khris]

Yeeee

140 skill points in Speed that mean 12 stars of speed

Usaiiiiin Bolt Rozomashviliator on fire :3

[Steppenwolf]

Nordeus cuisine...

[Gert Funck]

Today we did it Mourinho style.. Did only what had to be done



not pretty, but enough

[Gert Funck]

Yeeee

140 skill points in Speed that mean 12 stars of speed

Usaiiiiin Bolt Rozomashviliator on fire :3

Jebus! (as Homer would say)

does he score in every match? does the commentater beresk with 'RAZO' comments? or how MIP is he?