Season 69

[Gasi]

And so I decided to tank and this was my formation:



I thought my keeper was well exposed. I didn't want to lose with plenty zeros.
Guess what? The most aggressive team in my league was struggling to score. In fact I scored before him:



Yep. It ended draw. In his own home, am sure he may have cursed Nordeous all through that night. And what where my orders?
Something I thought would give him the upper hand with a lot of free-kicks:



Moral of the story, we (managers) should learn to call it when others are bluffing.

[Gasi]

By fare the best rated I have seen/experienced to.

Yes he has had a few off days and had some 6s, only when the rest of the team has performed badly. I would say at same level when bad

How old is he?

[Gert Funck]

How old is he?

20 years

[Peter Renn]

Still hanging in there:-)

[Gasi]

Still hanging in there:-)

You will make it don't worry.

[reddeviljohn]

Won league match 9-0 and drew champs league match 2-2 et so out 4--3 last min goal by the way and did not attend

[HoofDaddy]

Fc Hoofdrop has had a profitable yet frustrating season.


Early exits of the knockout stage of both the cup and CL led me to dump some dead weight in the squad. I currently have 3 eligible and healthy subs and 6 members injured.
Mac Groeber left the club earlier than expected after his 3rd injury of the season and his nosedive in form/scoring. Sold for the first 2T offer i received.

He has scored 4 goals in 4 league games with his new lvl 7 squad.

I'm currently in a dogfight to qualify for CL next season. Playing the league leader later today.



My lvl 4 squad is having a picnic in their league tho.

[Gasi]

HoofDaddy that your stricker "Mac" is a good one. Train him if you can, such strikers are rare.

[talisman]

Palace teams report, end of Week 3...

Casuals have only lost once in the League this season, but have drawn 10 out of the other 18 matches, earning themselves the 'Draw Kings' appellation... Wednesday's match was the ninth draw of the season, Anthony Petrovski providing the goal in a 1-1 draw, midfielder Mike Christie suffering injury in the last minute of the match. Thursday saw the visit of the League basement club and they went home smarting from a 6-0 thrashing, Petrovski finding the net again; Valentin Ndjengue (2), Freddy Jones, Suhail Kamal and David Zhelev completing the scoring. A second home League game running saw another draw, Petrovski and Johan Shaqiri scoring, but the defence leaking equalisers as the visitors escaped with a point. The Management decided that enough was enough in the conceding goals department, so used their accumulated tokens in raiding the Scout list for a couple of defenders, who made their debuts in today's away game. The defence conceded again, but was much more resilient, which gave the strike force the confidence to attack more, and the result was a 5-1 win for the Casuals. Set-piece specialist Omar Hansen found his scoring boots again with a couple of direct free kicks, Petrovski keeping up his recent scoring run with another goal, Zhelev and Ben De Wree being the other contributors. Current League table:



After their exit from the Champions League, the Cup remains the only other competition for Casuals to tilt at. Carrying a slender 1-0 lead to the away Leg, Reda Mourad scored the opening goal in a 1-1 draw for a 2-1 aggregate win and progression to the Semi-Finals.

Terriers suffered a dramatic 1-3 loss, in which their entire available central midfield was injured or dismissed. Sergey Dolgoborodov scored the opening goal, before becoming the first player injured. Eko Sinegal was then injured, and Ondrej Kadlec dismissed for two yellow cards, leaving the central midfield positions in the hands of DMC Paul Hartnett and attacking midfielder Xabier Moran, while the home side scored three goals from their only three on-target shots in the entire match. Defender Aad Roemgens and midfielder Dolgoborodov were attended to by the Medical team to get them fit for the next match, a 2-1 win in which Ben Atkins and Harry Cambridge scored the goals. The same two players added goals in Friday's 3-0 win, Moran scoring the third, but striker Matt Hall was injured in this game. Saturday's game was at home, and the Terriers fell behind early on, and struggled to find an effective counter for the visitors' lop-sided formation. A couple of second-half substitutions finally did the trick and Nicky Jones and Cambridge scored late on to secure a 2-1 win. Terriers now find themselves in 3rd place with a comfortable-looking 5 point gap separating them from 4th place:



Terriers competed in the Champions League Quarter-Finals, getting a stylish 2-2 draw at a slightly more powerful team, Kadlec and Moran scoring, but suffered a 0-2 defeat in the home Leg to exit the competition 2-4 on aggregate. You know that it isn't your day when usually deadly strikers think the target is in row Z of the stand and hitherto surefooted and robust defenders are made to look like Year 1 Academy players...

Having achieved a 4-2 victory in the 1st Leg of their Cup Quarter-Final, Terriers were entitled to be a little relaxed in the home Leg, and a 1-1 draw was sufficient to progress 5-3 on aggregate, Kadlec scoring, but Aad Roemgens being injured during the match.

Desert Rats FC have run into a purple patch recently, and enjoyed four convincing victories, scoring 19 goals and conceding 2, Steve Haddou and Lorcan Ivory being the chief contributors with 4 goals, including a hat-trick, each. Francisco Pelissier scored three, Alex Woolley and Michael Attenborough two each and there were also goals from Vinnie Taylor, Sebastien Valeri, Plamen Atanasov and Matt Pierre. Current League table:



Injury Stats:
Palace Casuals - 8 injuries, 27 days
Palace Terriers - 13 injuries, 51 days
Desert Rats FC - 8 injuries, 33 days

[HoofDaddy]

he's gone, his training gains were falling off and he had 3 knee injuries this season alone. I would have loved to have kept him but i will buy a 63+ ST 18/19 next season and do it all again. His best days were behind him for me, i would have had to tank next season to get him to a workable Q. I don't tolerate strikers/amcs that don't create/score less than 1 in 2 games.