Season 66 - Week 4

[Gert Funck]

You can still be caught, you know...

I know theoretically, but tomorrow I am meeting the worst team

[pcmacdaniel]

The Slump continues: We lost 2:3, marking a 3 matches winless streak. We drew 1:1 in the league yesterday, in addition to the 2:2 CL draw that sent us home. I had all players on superb morale (not max), max condition with the win bonus at half-max today. Luckily, I clinched the league title two days ago, so it doesn't really matter. It just annoying to be seeing one poor performance after another. My 9* striker also gets like an "8" match rating every match, but its like consistant 7's from almost everybody else. I had several "8"'s for a while (and 9's from the striker), out of multiple players, so the loss of form is a little mystifying. Someone may be dragging down my form, but its difficult to identify the culprit.

Streak snapped: Opponent picked up an 88th minute injury, snapping the streak of 29 consecutive games without injurying the opponent.

League irony. The team that eliminated us (Ordu52), slipped to 6th today (whom drew us yesterday in league play). Ordu52 is now in 5th, 3 points back of 4th. They would have been 2 backs point of Rexlo, whom they face tomorrow if my team wasn't playing like Sunderland. Unfortunately they probably needed me to gets points here because 4th has a mid-table team tommorrow and last place the following day. Thing annoying thing here is I showed up, but the hard defending (w/ counters) strategy which worked so well in the first couple KO rounds and won me the Champions League last season has just all of the sudden stopped working. When down 1:2, I switched to an attacking mentality, pulled even, but then immediately conceded the eventual game winner.

Preparing for next season: Today I've been selling players to shrink my roster size for the upcoming cup draw. I have two 1 star players currently and the youth academy will be providing another one tomorrow. So that's 3 one star players for the cup draw (Q42, Q46 and Q60-64 respectively). This is my first attempt at fooling the cup draw with this team.

[cookizzz]

L22 Team

League champion is secured today!

This season is amazing. The league comprises of many teams with similar qualities. Every match is not easy. My team is ranked about 4th or 5th in terms of qualities of starters. But my players are tough and won many close matches.

In this season, I only used 27 players in league up to now (probably one new player will be arranged to play tomorrow). This is likely one of the lowest number.




L14 Team

The chance for winning the league has been becoming small, but the race has not yet been over. After the leading team defeated the 2nd place team (now 3rd), the leading team will face the new 2nd place team tomorrow.

I have high confident that my team will finish in top 4. The coming opponents will be the weakest, and my team still have advantages in goal difference.

[Steppenwolf]

[talisman]

I know theoretically, but tomorrow I am meeting the worst team

That's their problem - they have to get out of the bus to score at the other end!!

Who were the unfortunates that let them win?!?!?

[spornybol]

just a tad tight in my league

[talisman]

The top 3, possibly 4 are pretty much sewn up now, but the three 'also-ran' slots are an interesting battle...



Can't help thinking the Troll, if not been there, has at least had his influence the past couple of my games...

...and at the bottom...

[talisman]

Well, this is looking interesting - no red cases, so Muscroft isn't getting cured quickly; down to my last few blue cases, so only those with the most need will have their morale boosted; and three green cases - with another 7 arriving tomorrow, so we're hoping that all players will be fully rested by kick-off tomorrow... Who'd be a Manager with a Final to play?

[Bluebird Hewitt]

Tiny update my end.

Rhondda Rovers main team played Robert Szyman in the League at home and, despite not being available to watch the match, won without breaking a sweat again.



In the two matches, I effectively won 20-1 on aggregate.

If you remember yesterday as well, I mentioned that I put a bid for a free agent I didn't know about with some time to spare and thought I wasted a token. Turns out that I actually won it in the end as the only bidder. He's now been sold to boost the coffers. Will have 35M ready for the season and a new 13k stadium around a week after the new season kicks off.

[Buffs Mad]

League: Buffs FC beat 5th 4-1 but the Leader keeps on keeping on and we stay 3pts behind. Its going to take the mother of all trolls to shift him. >.<

Striker Jack Harper scored a hat-trick; Stephen 'The Judge' Naismith scores the other.

Harper now has 49 goals and 15 MoM but left centre back Andy Robertson is making a strong challenge for Player of the Season with an average rating of 7.51 from 49 games - 2 others have been ever-presents.

EDIT: Todays opposition parked up in a 3N-4(DM)-1-2