Season 67 - Week 4

**talisman** · 06-24-2015

Palace Casuals' interest in the Champions League has been snuffed out on the back of a 2nd leg draw against a very defensive opponent who wanted to hold on to his 3-2 1st leg advantage. With nothing to lose, Casuals threw the kitchen sink at the Diptesh's back 5 in a bid to get the one goal that would be needed to draw on aggregate and win on away goals, but the breakthrough only came in the 76th minute when ST Ramos arrived late in the area and headed a Shaqiri corner off the bar into the net. However, the answering roar from the capacity crowd was silenced a few minutes later when the visitors had the temerity to venture across the half-way line and score an equaliser...

"So now we concentrate on the league," said the exhausted Casuals Management. "We'll PM the Semi-Final games when the dust has settled and see what lessons we need to learn about dealing with an opponent who clearly doesn't want to make a game of it..."

**Paul Dahlin** · 06-24-2015

talisman best of luck for the rest of the League with the Casuals.

Jedi Knights is sitting in a Dodgy 3rd in League with 3 Games left, but I play the League Leader in the last.
No CUP, No Champs - so all for League Glory now also

My Feeder Team knocked out of Cup - but final in Semis of Champs in the morning and hanging into the League for a strong finish hopefully- Plan B!

**khris** · 06-24-2015

Well, and with a 5-0 against Thomas, we need just 1 point to win the title(coz there's no goal average^^) , we face these days Barcelona, Ghosts, and Davide FC so

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**Alexinho** · 06-24-2015

AMAZING SEASON!! (so far)

League - First with too many points ahead.

CL - All 3 matches against teams 1 level above me!!
Cup - Easy one. Final with team 3 levels below me. (Best player: 3 stars)

Despite being drawn to a CL with unbalanced level teams (most of the teams 39 level), I was able to reach the final.
Only one match left for a treble. Wish me luck.

**khris** · 06-24-2015

Well, I will change the name of Port Vale FC, The next season I will select a name between, FC Copenhague / F. C. København, Leeds United, Girona FC, or... lets say another team of our history, Bayer Leverkussen.
Port Vale will end the story with 2 League titles and a final of the Champions League.

**talisman** · 06-24-2015

Having lost the chance of the Champions League earlier, Palace Casuals turned their sights on the League. Away at FC Brandenburg, again the might of the Casuals attack fell on resilient defence, and only a long-range shot in the 77th minute by the home side found the net. So the League looks like slipping away as well, as apart from an early injury to MC Christie, ST Neagu and left winger Hansen both picked up bookings, which mean they miss the next match, which is against the league leaders...

*Head Scratching time* - the league leaders use the Narrow Diamond formation (as did today's league opponents). 4-5-1V has previously stood me in good stead but relied upon the wingers to provide the attack around the opponent's central block. I certainly have a replacement for Hansen but he's very much a second string player - what other formation could I use, or just go for broke and put the players in and let them get on with it?

**Peter Renn** · 06-24-2015

Who would've thought that 1 week ago:-) 1 point vs the 9th tomorrow and I even win with games remaining,I told my friend the season doesn't finish after 3 weeks! And safe to Say Gomez wins again the goal rating,and maybe again all 3,my friends higher 8star challenged him again,but of course not a chance. Cl second leg still to come,have a 1:2 advantage from the away game,so I go defensive and the long ball forward to Gomez will hopefully come