Why did they change it ?
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They wan't to try and make all teams roughly equal and base it on manager skill, ok I understand what they were trying to achieve but for anyone thats got an OP team on their level (EG Token Buyers) are put on a disadvantage, It's a controversal change, some people liked, some didn't, I certainly didn't. I wanted to see an end to L2 vs L16 in the early stages but I didn't want insane preliminary matches, thats why I came up with this Level Banded format which was voted the most popular format under the unofficial poll, even the old format had more support than this new format.
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Cup, 1st round - Mercenaries FC (L7, 44.6) 1-0 Perfect Tactics (L5, 45.6)
We look to be heading out of the cup after a poor performance by us and failing to score an away goal.
Our first defeat in 30 games and the first time in 3 seasons that we were beaten without scoring. We will have to play at our very best in the return leg if we want any chance of qualifying. We opted for a 4-1-4-1 which in all honesty was useless against this bunch as we didn't get that many attacks in. We had chances, Suarez's shot went wide in the first half and then Petersen's free kick was way off target. Sutha from Mercenaries FC got the only and winning goal after a counter attack.
Goals: Sutha (67')
MOTM: Sutha
I need to come up with an effective formation for my team. Lately we have been a mess and been getting many poor results, today im playing against 4-4-2 classic, so I shouldn't have too much problem getting Miku into some space to score a goal. Papaleo and Zidane are both on the bench believe it or not.
League: At this moment 4th place.
Champions League: First place after three games two home win and one away draw.
Cup: Currently in the third round today played away game and won 2:0.
Expectations for this season:
In league aiming top 3. No chance to win first place cause token buyer has whole team pimped with tokens. 22 players all 9*. He spend about 8000T during one season amazing what personal trainer can do.
In Cl I xpect semifinal maybe more depends from many factors.
Yesterday I played the most interesting game ever with a token buyer :D
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Even game but I have to be satisfied cause he has about 7-8Q stronger team :D
Exactly July hard games are all waiting for you :cool:
July Fourth 3-1 BATKIN SPOR League Round 6
July Fourth 103.3 3N1-4-1-1 Orthodox - BATKIN SPOR 96.5 4-4-2 Classic
Still an average performance by July Fourth in todays game but at least it was better than yesterday and it was also the right result for our team, this result puts one of our potential challengers if we could say potential out of it already, they are 1-2-3 at this stage despite being the 2nd strongest team in the league after us, league leaders ALDEAS FC are our main threats to us in the league after a good start from the Spanish outfit although their manager does not seem to watch the games, I think ALDEAS will soon to start get a few indifferent results and eventually we will start to make headway on winning the league again.
The game started relatively even with both sides getting a few early attacks and Michu is definately showing his quality he has, The only player out of the 4 signings we made this season that we have been impressed with, Miku is still a bit indifferent but I'm sure Miku will start to shine soon. After 2 attacks from the away side the moment of breakthrough fell the away sides way after Peter (not Petersen) played a cross towards Zdravkovic to curl it in past Seaman, this would of got our fans worried that we could be in for another bad result in the league, Norris and Miku both had shots blocked for us before a foul by Jrindou gave Mensah a free-kick which he crossed into the box and Michu was able to get the header on it to get us the equaliser, Mensah had an effort charged down by Peter and we head into HT at 1-1, Second half begun and BATKIN SPOR were on the front foot with Peter and Zdravkovic both getting shots on target, we brought off Rocastle and Miku and brought on the more Reliable Zidane and Papaleo and the game changed as we switched to 3N-5-2 V, L.McNamara quiet on the Left-side of midfield found a curler to put us infront and with a nervy finish, we won a corner after a saved Mensah free kick, Michu crossed it in and Tony Adams made sure of the win for July Fourth.
Goals: Zdravkovic (19) Michu (36), L.McNamara (57), Adams (84) MOTM: Michu.
Damn we have really late both games and they are in row... I hope I will win in cup..
I'm basically gotta try and win whatever I can before I play closer to level 24 in about 6 months time, also I'm done buying tokens and I'm bone dry for funds anyways if I wanted some more in the near future, I'll probably buy a package of 500T one more time but this will be to make sure I have the funds to bring in a few scouts every season, there will be no more power training for sometime, because I will need to save up greens for an difficult league I may face in the near future.
Yesterday we had 2 important games.
First one was against 1 of the 2 oppenents that were at the top of the league with me.
Kuden has a quality of 33.4 (mine is 47.3) it's around the average of the league. It turned out to be an easy home game with a 6 - 0 victory.
Second game was in the CL with a match against the guy currently ranked first in our group due to having scored 2 goals more.
Vadim has a quality of 35.2 and turned out be a much thougher opponent than expected. In the 10th minute they came 1 - 0 ahead. We were in process of changing our formation as ballpossession was 50/50. After that possesion turned out a bit better. In minute 42 we tied the score to 1 - 1. In the second half chances were on both sides but there was no more goal. Judging the game and how our opponent played the draw seems fair.
On of the challengers in CL is in my group but he turns out not playing that well. With the 41.6 quality Lutetia is ranked 3th in our group with 3 points. Checking all groups in CL a second challenger is also in 3th place so that leagues 1 other challenger in knock out rounds so far. Chanllengers have 40+ quality while average rating is 35 quality in CL.
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For today we should have an easy league game against the rank 11 in the league. After that game we have about a 30 minute window to makes changes for the cup game. Having the away game first in cup we should have s slight advantage. We are hoping for a win but you can never tell. 2 - 3 goals away are always a nice boost. We only lost 1 time at home this season 0 - 1. Lets see what the nordeus game engine has in store for us today.
Balkan Boyz - Matchday 8 (Sz.3 - lvl3)
LEAGUE: ROUND 6
Opponent: MatiasFC (Chile)
Result: 5 - 1 (Home win)
Scorers: X.Shaqiri (30min), Z.Ibrahimović (58min), M.Pjanić (60min), J.Guerra (73min) and A.Kovačević (74min, 79min)
Man of the match: R.Rodriguez
1th eleven squad: A.Begović, S.Hajrović, N.Tomović, S. Kolašinac (S. Bečirević-C), A.Otyrov, M.Pjanić, A.Halilović, X.Shaqiri, D.Stanković, L.Modrić and Z.Ibrahimović
Summary: In the 6th round we faced a quit poor and boring Chileanian team playing with a 4-4-2 classic formation, which we countered with a flat 4-5-1 formation (normal > attacking mentality). The game ended 5 - 1 in our favour and we didnt put to much effort or thought in the tactical work because it seemed to be a "easy win" after all. This win was also our 6th league win (in a row) and our quality, performance and form is beyond any doubt.
Note: Tomorrow we are facing a Thai- team (HaJung FC) in the league which we hope to take down quit easy and 30minutes later we will be playing the return against FC KULA in the CL, so I will have to re-boost my players condition+morale before the game (AGAIN). But this time I hope we will be the ones that will be leaving the pitch with a smile on our faces :p
Over&out!
Miku is supposed to be the thing, the legend, but currently the game doesn't want it to happen, so If we get more rubbish performances then it's not a real Miku.
10 minutes until Harrogate Town have the 1st leg of the battle royale cup against level 6 GergerFC
I have encountered my first real obstacle that stems from a manager actually being really good I think. He is a league above me but we face off in the royal rumble cup. Almost the same quality. Todays game was on my turf.
He lined up with a 433 but I could see from earlier games that he has been playing quite a few different lineups. The 433 probably gives him the best qualitywise team. I put out a 3N-1-3N-2W-1 to combat this. He shows up for the game. The possesion was in my corner though I played counter attacking football down the flanks. Could hardly say I really dominated but I produced a few chances more than him but not my much. I'm lucky and get a goal before half time. He removes one of his striker and one of his cms for two wide AMs. I'm lucky and score on a freekick but he also had a few more chances... I didn't realize the switch in players or tactics after halftime since I was playing on the phone. I almost got a shock=) and sort of panicked and withdrew one of my cms and replaced him with a defender. For a short time I was playing 4-1-2n-2w-1 against a 4-2-2-2 hexagon he scores almost directly afterwards. I quickly move back my dcm who is also a dc for five in the backline to play a 5-2n-2w-1 and changed to defending instead of normal. He now removes a defender so he plays 3w-1-2n-2w-2. Nothing more happens except it seems that I met my overlord. What should I have done in all these instances?
statistics wise possesion ended 57% in my favour. I had 10 shots and 6 on goals he had 13 shots and four on goal. I had 3 free kicks and he one. We commited 22 fouls each. He has 8 corners in his favour which amazes me for such a short time playing with the wings I had one. One yellow card each. I guess we are both playing with hard tackling.