Season 71 - Week 4

[cookizzz]

Half season:

Level 27 team

Performance in league is satisfactory. After starting with 1 loss and 1 draw, the team won all league matches except two weird losses:
(1) Loss to a a team which lost all league matches until defeating my team and then win 4 matches in a row.
(2) Loss to the current league leader today. During the match, after one of my MC was ejected at 53min, another MC was also ejected at 89min. Then my team conceded a goal, the matched ended, and the opponent took over the league leading position.



For CL, my team luckily grouped with low level teams. So there is nothing worth for review except it suffered a loss to a level 26 team.


Level 19 team

I am happy that this team is no longer weirdly inconsistent. It has some good or bad days but generally the performance is reasonable. I am happy that it can always defeated the much higher quality teams. These may be its weirdest performances.



In CL, the opponents at group stage are at same level as my team but are weak. In top 16 first match, my team is currently leading by 2-0 with 2 away goals.

[Teda]

Today Teda played two matches in 3 hours and we won both.

The first league match was nerve wrecking. We played on road and conceded a goal at 32 min and then I made some adjustments by changing 451V to 4222 Hexagon and started playing hard attacking. We then scored twice and brought a win back home. The best winger of mine scored the decisive goal and won the MOM, the ST got a 7 rating.

The next CL match started 3 hours later, I did not make major changes because I wanted to make something good in the first leg. The opponent is very weak so we won 4:0, and again on road. The best winger got a rating 10 and again he won the MOM in 3 hours.

What bothers me now is my second best winger who doesn't perform stably at all; his rating is always 7 and sometimes he got a 10! The ST is OK, in the live animation I can always see he draws back and makes one touch with other players and made assists for others to score, so this is what a single ST always does; although his rating is always waving between 7 and 8 as long as I can win I think I am OK. But I know he is not an ideal ST for 451V.

[talisman]

Palace teams report, Sunday...

Palace Terriers, League



Desert Rats FC Champions League 'Top 16' Round 1st Leg, home. Left-winger Chris Passmore scored in the 70th minute to equalise the visitors' first-half opener. The Rats will have to play much better that this to progress... Markus Hammes made his 50th appearance.

Palace Casuals, League



Desert Rats FC, League, Home. Albert O'Toole (2), Francisco Pelissier, Vinnie Taylor and Markus Hammes score to report a 5-0 win and stay in 2nd place.

[Kylos]

2 draws and a loss in the CL. Guess Im out of the CL, facing opponent away. Is there now level higher teams in the CL?

[Kylos]

Newly signed mc, only 1 token and 84.9M...

[Gert Funck]

Newly signed mc, only 1 token and 84.9M...

and with 17 skillpoints, nice

[munchen]

Won a league game 2-1 !!!



Table, tomorrow against 2nd.

[talisman]

Palace teams report, Monday...

Desert Rats FC started off the days' play and were in action at home against the 3rd place team. All was well, striker Steve Haddou having put the Rats ahead in the 7th minute, until early in the second half, when the visitors scored two goals in quick succession. Despite all their efforts, the Rats couldn't break through again and they ended up 1-2 losers and in 3rd place in the table.

Palace Casuals were next up and were also playing at home, against 5th place. Right-winger Johan Shaqiri put the Casuals ahead in the 7th minute (spot the common theme) but there the match for the hosts ended, as the visitors scored two in each half to inflict a 1-4 defeat.

The Management has been perusing the Transfer market again, and put a couple of speculative bids on strikers. Got the first after a short fight, and the second insurance bid went through without competition...

3T/$102M



1T/$98.4M



Yuri Boccardo, DMC, (age 19, 4*/142, 30 appearances-1 goal-1 assist), was released for $99.7M.

Palace Terriers played late afternoon and were away at the League leaders. Zdenek Krajca and Alex Bailey scored in the 50th and 55th minutes, respectively, and Terriers took over the League top spot after a 2-0 win. When things are going well, don't relax, as Nordeus always puts a sting in the tail...



The Terriers player concerned hadn't even had a booking previously this season...

[Teda]

Teda won a league match today 1:0. The match was very close although we are much better than the opponent in terms of quality.

Again I stick with 451V, but all my attacking guys were so so today, they all got 7 ratings. The only goal came from one MC.

I am thinking that I might need to make decisions here after tonight. If I am lucky and can get s good ST, I might keep trying 451V otherwise I might need to change my main formation to narrow diamond. I used this formation a lot in my earlier seasons but then I used 442 for couple of seasons then changed to 451V.

Tonight I will see if I can get something good from the auction, who knows... The more you expect the more frustrated you feel...

[pcmacdaniel]

Last couple days have produced 3 wins and 1 loss.

CL: Won 2-0 away, using 4-5-1V against opponents 2w-1-4-1-2. Not really a surprise, just a workmanlike result against a team w/o a DC.

League: Lost 1-2 to 10th which reduced our advantage to 2 points atop the table.

League: Todays league match was a rematch against Saleh FC, whom beat us 1-0 on opening day. This game saw a reversal of fortunes as the boys thoroughly dominated to the tune of 8-1, dropping Saleh FC to 5th on goal differential. Definitely didn't expect to see a 8 spot, as the boys previous season high was 5 (twice in league, once in CL) and Saleh began the day in CL spot, was in Round of 16 and only had conceded 16 goals through 13 league fixtures.

Cup: Was back to the usual, low scoring defensive struggle as the boys picked up a 2-1 home victory. Looked to be going for an easy win with 11th and 29th minute goals, but the opposition defense dug-in, then pulled back an all-important away goal in the 84th minute. Formations were 3-5-2V for me and 4-3n-3 for him.