Season 38

[Morgan O'Bree]

Champion's League, Matchday 2

Eren FC 0 - 5 New Team

After the crucial victory against a direct opponent in the league, New Team rushed to the airport flying from the Rising Sun's country to Turkey, where Eren's team was eagerly waiting. Still at 0 Pts in the board, they lost 2-1 their first match fighting on par with the opponents.
COach Mad puts at rest few players seeing the upcoming league match of the day after, and doesn't change his beloved 4-1-2-1-2 facing a team disposed with a 4-1-3-2. The trust in the reserves gets paid very soon this time as well: after measuring the strenght, Ulusoy serves a perfect pass for Danny Mellow, which strikes downs the first goal of the match. (20') Like Mr.Mad likes to say, good manners come first and are a must in the club. Hence, Ulusoy is immediatly praised by Becker (perfect form for him), who takes a perfect pass on his right side, warps into the opponent's area in a flash and offers the striker an easy tap-in for the 0-2 (29').

The second half is turnover time, and the duo Lenders-Hutton find space in the match. Mellow goes for a shower too, under the applauses of the few supporters arrived in Turkey, Bruce harper takes his place. And he's him to follow a greatly orchestrated action following a funambolic cross by Hutton, which the defender smashes in with his head for the closing 0-3 (61'). There is still time, and New Team lately, after the first harsh matches, seems not able to control the hunger; Mark Lenders decides to have some glory as well when he resists two defenders and physically pierce the last standing Goalkeeper with a laser beam (cit. Lazer bimm) under the bar, it's 0-4 (83'). In the last mins, it's him again administrating and protecting a ball at the area's limit, descharging it for the upcoming Ross: the ball trajectory couldn't be defined as better as "principesque", sealing in the end the ultimate 0-5 (88')which leads New Team first in the tab with 2 victories, 10 goals scored, 0 against. Looking for the 3rd match against Maestro FC to get a hold onto the qualification early.

Scorers: Mellow (20), Ulusoy (29), Harper (61), Lenders (83), Ross (88).

MoM: Mark Lenders.

So far so good, the first losses turned me down a bit, but we are catching up at fast pace. Only one goal against (away match) in the last 5 matches. I'm particularly satisfied with the forwards, so far every singe one doesn't miss to score even if alternating one another every time.

-Hutton: 5 played, 4 goals, 2 assists.
-Lenders: 4 played, 4 goals, 1 assist.
-Ulusoy: 3 played, 2 goals, 2 assists.

[Ljepoje]

Balkan Boyz - Matchday 6 (Sz.3 - lvl3)

LEAGUE: ROUND 4

Opponent: DCrew (Brunei)
Result: 9 - 0(Home win)
Scorers: A.Halilović (10min, 36min), M.Pjanić (11min, 56min and 89min), L.Modrić (33min), X.Shaqiri (42min), M.Nastasić (70min) and Z.Ibrahimović (84min)
Man of the match: Miralem Pjanić (Hattrick)

1th eleven squad: A.Begović, S.Hajrović, N.Tomović, S. Bečirević (C), A.Otyrov, M.Pjanić, A.Halilović, X.Shaqiri, D.Stanković, L.Modrić and Z.Ibrahimović

Summary: In the 4th round we faced a bot-robot team (abandoned) from Brunei which we picked piece by piece and finally won by 9-0 after 90min play. Our GK, A. Begović got injured in the second half after a hard tackle and was therefore not able to continue, but we managed to play with one man short without conceiving' a goal which was quit impressive. Also, M. Pjanić scored a hattrick and was therefore honoured as "man-of-the-match", (his second this season in the league play). Tomorrow we are facing our biggest rival - FC Kula - and I´m quit optimistic that we will win this one as well, but you never know whit the T11 engine - it could fool you.

CUP: ROUND 2 (2nd leg)

Opponent: VEROFIT FC (Switzerland)
Result: 1 - 0 (Away defeat)
Scorers: K. Šabanadžović (37min)
Man of the match: E.de Oliviera

1th eleven squad: A.Begović, S.Hajrović, S.Kolašinac, S. Bečirević (C), A.Otyrov, M.Pjanić, D.Stanković, L.Modrić, A.Ljajić (X.Shaqiri) , M.Özil (A.Halilović),. and Z.Ibrahimović


Summary: So there were we, "The big game" as the FOX Deportes commentators would say, and it sure was! The first meeting ended in a dramatical draw, 2-2 and we were more or less forced to win this one if we were able to proceed to the next stage. Because of my limited squad and tactical options, I started with a 4-5-1 (flat) formation with a normal mentality against his 4-4-2 (wide - narrow diamond) attacking formation to gain some possesion in the middle and it seemd to work until the 37min when they took an surprisingly lead from nowhere. We hade like 2 or 3 quit good chances to score in the first 20min (freekick, corner and a one-on-one opportunitie) but unfortunately the ball didnt go in. In the second half, he changed to a more aggressively play and gain more ballpossesion (his friend joined as "suppport) so I decided to play a 4-3-2-1 formation (quit offensive and aggressively aswell) and recapture the possesion, something that seemed to work as we pushed them back from our half and increased our attacks and for a while he seemd to panic a little bit and played more aggressively then before. This resulted in a booking (yellow) which meant that one of his defenders will miss the next round. Unfortunately we were not able to get a equalizer and our journey in the CUP competition ended, aswell our first defeat this season. Despite the defeat and elimination in the CUP-play, I´m quit satisfied in the way we managed/played against our opponents (both heavy token buyers) and I´m quit optimistic that we will do better next time.


Over&out!