Season 66 - Week 4

[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.