Season 73 - Week 3

Day 5 - Palace teams report.

Up at the crack of dawn for Terriers' League match, everything played by lunchtime...

Palace Terriers travelled Indonesia early to play the best team in the League, Quality-wise, and the 'Assistant Manager' quote at the end was "To come out of this match with a point was a pleasant surprise". Yielding 2.8Q to their opponents, Terriers made them work hard for every opportunity, but were hit by the first minute after half-time sucker-punch to go one behind. Zdenek Krajca picked up an injury to further add to the visitors problems, but they kept plugging away and eventually their efforts bore fruit when Julien van der Plas hit a 30 yard effort which left the 'keeper stranded. This prompted a last 7 minute frenzy by the home side to try and bag a winner but the Terriers defence held firm.

Palace Casuals' woes go on as they capitulated easily in their away League match, losing 0-2. Central defender Rasmus Sadi made his 50th appearance for the Casuals.

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Palace Terriers continued their away-day with another match in Indonesia, this time in the Champions League. By far the better Quality side, only luck and a superb display by the home 'keeper kept the score down to sensible levels, striker Florent Ben Dhia opening the scoring and Julien van der Plas adding a double as the visitors went 3-0 up with 15 minutes to go. A foul by Ben Smith brought a booking and a free-kick for the hosts, but 'keeper Chris Lux was equal to the task for both the set-piece and the ensuing corner, but was beaten to the punch by a header from the second corner as the home side scored a late consolation.

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Originally Posted by PricopGeorgeCătălin

First goal, that passing skill +999 :D

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are you kidding ?
The last one was offside :p

Won c/l game 5-0

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I am very happy with a victory against a rival team today.

My L21 team faced this team for 5 times, including 2 CL matches and 3 league matches. Our all time record against them is 3 victories, 1 draw and 1 loss. This team rarely loss, probably 2, or 3 losses in league and CL (I have no knowledge about results of its Cup matches) in whole season. So I don't believe their manager does not remember my team.

Its quality is usually above my team's by about 6 to 7q. The difference in qualities of starters are even larger. Most of its players has SP and can play 2 or 3 positions. My 4 to 5 star team is always an underdog but still have chances to steal the matches.

Because many players out of actions for short term and I don't want to waste red packs in such situation, my team has less options. Eventually I decide to use a 3n-2(DMR,DML)-3n-1-1, a formation that I am not familiar with. As usual, my team keep patient and hard defending even if my team trailed by 1 goal early of the match. Lastly, my team got a beautiful win against them by 2-1.

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Atlético Kolkata suffered their first loss of the season against a much stronger team in CL, 3-1 at home. I'm happy that the boys scored a goal.

In the league a Hamza Azouni penalty in 78' won us the match 1-0 away against a tough and 1Q higher rival. Also improved in 1* midfield to 3 star by signing 2 4* MCs for 1T each — 25 year old Rhys Dixon (Rhys Ramsey, one of my MCs got a pal; both are Welsh) and 21-year-old Sergio Portillo. Dixon was one cone away for 5*, which he got in the league match. But we received a blow in the match as our FK specialist ST Lewis Entwhistle got injured for 6 days. Can't farm reds today (2 required for 15), so will heal him tomorrow ASAP.

As talking about tanking, should I do it? Nah. Losing evenly purposely is not in my blood. Won all 3 matches with 2 clean sheets in league. I guess I CAN win the league :rolleyes:, but still I'll be extremely disappointed if I don't win the cup. Won 2-0 at home, playing my weaker players to rest the starters tomorrow. The only crunch game is that Cup, since I'll face a team trying to tank in the league (no players on flanks).

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Originally Posted by Gert Funck

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Just don't die like Mourhino and FC United like Chelsea ;)

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Originally Posted by Gert Funck

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Who's a naughty boy then? :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by talisman

Who's a naughty boy then? :rolleyes:

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Maybe I am just tired after 30 minutes :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by nikolgiorgos

are you kidding ?
The last one was offside :p

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No he wasn't... :p:p

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