Season 38

[Morgan O'Bree]

I am out of the CL. 1-3 home loss vs. Toshi FC after a 0-0 away.

I started my FCK with 4-1-2-1-2 narrow diamond (pressing whole pitch, attacking, short passing, throught the middle) against his 4-4-2. My FC Kneipenkick made the 1-0 lead by Sutter, but Toshi could equalize until half-time by a freekick. I barely got chances, he defended very well. I waited up to minute 70 to go full attack, changed the system to 4-5-1 V-style motivated DL, DR, DMC, AML, AMR and switched to passing throught the wings and hard attacking, rest remained the same. But instead of going for the goal, he countered me with two late goals. Well played by Toshi. 3 points less quality, but his team made it.

At least FC Kneipenkick could win the league today, but this loss hurts.

My alt account on auto-run did pretty much the same: it lost 0-3 home (i had wrong tactics, play on sides with 4-1-2-1-2), but since the opponent was defenetly weaker i thought i might overcome the second leg), so i went 4-1-2-1-2 with right orders VS his 4-4-2 flat.
To my surprise, i lost 3-1 again. And on top of that, he practically dominated my alt account even supposing 4-1-2-1-2 is the natural counter. Kinda weird, game engine might have changed denying the ND as counter to 4-4-2 flat. such a pity.

[Zeon]

second draw in this season, again vs a not that great team. 61-39 possession, 17-10 shots, 4-2 shots on goal, but 1-1. Must have been nice for him, he logs in and like a second later he equals the score (at '81). And he gets the MotM for a guy whos name i didnt read once in the reports.

But i guess 24-2-0 is also ok... (except its not, my team is so much better than theirs^^)


And the best part: after the match in training my DMC broke his leg, he is out for 19days. I guess i sell him, cause he plays bad almost every game anyways (5-8-6-5-5 in league, 5-6 in CL). But i dont know if i should sell him now or after the season. He has 25 quality, so i guess there wont be a huge biding war for him, so i guess i can try to sell him for 90% of his value now?

[Kukilon]

Lost at home with the correct lineup against 1-2 FC Barcelona "sort of a game friend". He totally dominated me. He has a good team but mine is a little bit better. Today I hade totally forgot about the game and ran a totally faulty lineup, the players had bad moral and no condition. I dominated everything and won 0-2 so I'm through to the final. The engine is so weird these days.

I'm probably not going to keep playing since the game is so random with **** like this.

[Morgan O'Bree]

Results are in, and not much of a surprise, apart from the score.



This time again, FC Gembird was more incisive and shooted a lot more than Murcie, but still, succumbed (even not 4-0 like first Leg). We are trying to actually understand if the guy plays defensive or whatever else. This match was Murcie 3-1-4-2 vs Gembird 4-1-3-1-1.

Champions League, Final Match Preview:



We are welcoming any advice to counter 4-1-4-1 and 3-1-4-2 before we decide which formation go with :]

[iamdjw]

July Fourth 5-0 Ttrabzonspor Champions League Semi-Final 2nd Leg (July Fourth Win 10-0 on Aggregate)
July Fourth 104.5 3N-1-3W-1-2 - Ttrabzonspor 94.5 4-4-2 Classic

Tonights match against Ttrabzonspor was a mirror image of the first leg and we won by the same scoreline by 5-0 which confirms our place in the final against GALATASARAY, 2 real named turkish teams for the Semi-Final and Final this season. We were classy and got out the blocks quickly, Papaleo early shot put us infront on the night in the 2nd minute, Mensah then hit the wall with a free-kick, then L.McNamara made it 2-0 with a shot that their keeper couldn't do anything about, Then Mensah hit the bar with another free-kick, 10 minutes played and it could of been 4-0 already, Mensah had a shot blocked on 23 minutes then Oliphant saw red on 45 minutes and Mensah this time got his bearings right with the free-kick, we made the same tactical change in the 1st Leg midway through the 2nd half by putting L.McNamara and Zidane to AMR/AML again then we had the same effect, 2 more goals for us, Papaleo chipping the keeper on 68 minutes and then a R.McNamara header straight from a Michu corner. Zidane could of made it 6-0 to us right at the end but the shot was blocked.

Goals: Papaleo (2,68) L.McNamara (7) Mensah (45) R.McNamara (68) MOTM: Papaleo.
Sent-Off: Oliphant

Well done. Now to destroy galatasary

[dv8r]

Champions League semi-final, 2nd leg - Kabol FC (1) 0-3 Perfect Tactics (4)
Kabol FC: 41.8, 5-3-2
Perfect Tactics: 47.5, 3-4-1-2

Perfect Tactics win 7-1 on aggregate. We will play Sparta Ackaya in the final.

There was no desperation to win this match as a 4-1 lead in the first leg secured our place in the final. It was a fairly dull first half as both sides cancelled each other out but we sparked to life in the second half and we went 1-0 up after Petersen curled a free kick into the top corner. Minutes later we were awarded a penalty after Suarez was brought down in the box and Pique was lucky to be given a yellow card and not red as Suarez was in a clear goalscoring opportunity. Petersen stepped up and drilled home the penalty for 2-0. It was soon 3-0 and it came from the most unlikely of sources, Marshall Law in only his 3rd appearance of the season saw his shot deflected into the goal and that wrapped up a convincing win as Kabol FC were parking the bus and hardly got any attacks out.

Goals: Petersen (50', 57' PEN), Law (64')
MOTM: Law

[iamdjw]

Champions League semi-final, 2nd leg - Kabol FC (1) 0-3 Perfect Tactics (4)
Kabol FC: 41.8, 5-3-2
Perfect Tactics: 47.5, 3-4-1-2

Perfect Tactics win 7-1 on aggregate. We will play Sparta Ackaya in the final.

There was no desperation to win this match as a 4-1 lead in the first leg secured our place in the final. It was a fairly dull first half as both sides cancelled each other out but we sparked to life in the second half and we went 1-0 up after Petersen curled a free kick into the top corner. Minutes later we were awarded a penalty after Suarez was brought down in the box and Pique was lucky to be given a yellow card and not red as Suarez was in a clear goalscoring opportunity. Petersen stepped up and drilled home the penalty for 2-0. It was soon 3-0 and it came from the most unlikely of sources, Marshall Law in only his 3rd appearance of the season saw his shot deflected into the goal and that wrapped up a convincing win as Kabol FC were parking the bus and hardly got any attacks out.

Goals: Petersen (50', 57' PEN), Law (64')
MOTM: Law

Well done mate good luck in the final

[Ljepoje]

This match was Murcie 3-1-4-2 vs Gembird 4-1-3-1-1.

Champions League, Final Match Preview:



We are welcoming any advice to counter 4-1-4-1 and 3-1-4-2 before we decide which formation go with :]

My guess: Offensive, through the middle or mixed, mixed passings and normal tackling. Now he could have a red or blue arrow on the DMC (depends on his skill stats).

I normally play 3(N)-4(W)-1-2 or 4(W)-3(w)-1-2 if offensive. But will probably test the 3(N)-1-4(w)-2 next season.

[Morgan O'Bree]

Last season's PT results for New Team: Hutton reaches the 7th star and Diamond finishes his Playmaker SA. With this, we are set for this season and have achieved the basis for the next season with a 19 yo avg age main team which will stay put. Few reinforcements only will arrive.

[July Fourth]

Transfer News Just In...

July Fourth have just sold 25 years old 5*98 DC/DMC Free-Kick Taker Petr Vasko for $70.5M which is slightly higher than his market value, meaning he would of went around 10 KO rounds on auction, The new buyer wil be pleased with the purchase as he is 9th in L16 and with no chance of winning promotion this season meaning he is possibly strengthening his team for next season and also for the new manager that means Vasko will not lose a star, the reasons given from July Fourth were the player is not in our plans for next season and we expect to replace the player at the beginning of next season anyways, Vasko's last game for July Fourth saw him pick up a yellow card which ruled him out of Fridays Champions League Final through suspension, so it made sense for us to sell the play this evening. He was a good hardworking DMC who put in good performances when we played a formation that made use of a DMC and most of his goals came from free-kicks when Mensah did not play.

Petr Vasko - July Fourth Career in Numbers:

S16/L16 P25 M2 G1 A1
S15/L15 P51 M4 G7 A1
S14/L14 P33 M3 G6 A1

TOTAL P109 M9 G14 A3