Season 74 - Are you ready?

[Gert Funck]

the league is so tight, only few points between success and failure

[Arion]

Atlético Kolkata Day 20 & 21 Report

Atlético Kolkata start the year with a perfect record — 3 wins in 3 matches. On New Year's Day we played a weak and tanking team at home, but won only 3-1. That's the problem with 4-5-1V, you can't score much. Moore and MOM Lewis twice entered the scoresheet, the first time with an assist by Andrew John.
Today I've continued by dream run in the CL, winning 2-1 away and agg progress to the semis. Here we face a quite tough team, so we'll like to take it to penalties. Andrew had pretty much sealed the deal with the opener itself, as we lead by agg and away goals 1-0 in 33'. They equalised in 50' while John again scored in 79' to take us home. It was a one man show, since other than John, the squad's performance was not quite up to the mark. But a win is a win! We also won a very crucial tie against the 6th place team, who trailed us by 3 points only. It was, I guess, trolled, since they blew up a penalty. Captain Claudio and AMC Arif (the slow, young trainer) found the net by corners from Adriano Baert, but it was James who was MOM with 8.6 rating. He stopped all 5 shots on target of the opposition, and kept a clean sheet (interestingly, his opposite number saved 6).
And thanks everyone who helped me for the CL tie! http://forum.topeleven.com/top-eleve...-3-1-2-cl.html

the league is so tight, only few points between success and failure

What about a league like this, Gert, where only a few GOALS are between success and failure?

[Joseph Sjarifudin]

the league is so tight, only few points between success and failure

Look at this table

[El Pistolero]

1-2 league victory

Jacobs 40'
Escobar 71'
(Tebily)

Went 1-0 down so subbed MC for ST and sub scored then went on to get the winner.
Started with 3n-1-3n-2w-1 changed to 3-5-2v vs narrow diamond.

[Wiesse]

CL 1/4 final match 2

A business win. We are trough the next round. Only we conceed the last few matches goals thru shots from distance.
AGG 8-2.

4' Wilshere
52' Ozil
79' James
81' Dokter

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

Another great result

[Gert Funck]

Another great result

A Danish AML?

[Joseph Sjarifudin]

CL QF 2nd Leg report

[talisman]

Day 21 - Palace Terriers Champions League report.

Palace Terriers played at home trying to overturn a 0-2 deficit from the 1st Leg of the Champions League Quarter-Final against a team who boasted +1.7Q advantage on the starting XIs. Terriers started with a 4-1-4-1 normal/flanks/counter against 4-3N-3, as in the 1st Leg, but with a few changes in personnel due to injury and replacements due to form (or lack of it), and the first half was a carbon copy of most of the previous match, Terriers defending well, being adventurous in attack but coming up against a hard defence to break down. At half-time, the Management decided that if this was their last hurrah in the CL this season, then they'd go for broke and changed the formation and orders accordingly. Out went DL Andre Forsmark, who picked up a booking in the third minute of the match, in a like-for-like swap for Thomas Denervaud; and ML Mehmet Can Kilickaya made way for AML Zdenek Krajca as the formation changed to 4-5-1V and the orders to hard attack/flanks/no counter. This brought dividends within 5 minutes as Krajca ran down the left wing and fed the ball to striker Florent Ben Dhia, who made no mistake with his attempt. With a quarter-hour to go right-winger Declan McGranaghan cruised into the box to head home another Krajca cross and Ben Dhia put the icing on the cake with a fine solo goal six minutes from time to make the final score 3-0 - Terriers progress to the Semi-Finals 3-2 on aggregate.



The rest of the competition:

[Gert Funck]

So I have reached the end of this seasons cup and cl. Next oppont is one level higher and much stronger. It is deja vu or groundhog day.

Is it just me? Picture from two different tournaments