Season 77 - Week 4

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Scoring one goal in two games, Orange Roughies win the League and make the CL finals in addition to the Cup finals.

Draw 5: Away League match, 0-0. Playing a strong 4th place team, we had a game plan, but got trolled out of it in a hurry. Star AML/AMC Coronel got injured in the 2nd minute and ML Orue got ejected with 2 YC in the 37th. To cover the left flank, we added a DL, and largely abandoned hopes for a decisive win. To come away with a draw, playing in front of a hostile crowd with many out-of-town supporters of the home side, was a good result. GK Dudic deservedly received the MOM honors. Curiously, the 2nd place team played the 3rd place to a draw as well, allowing us to preserve a 9 point lead with 3 games remaining. We also have a 25 better goal differential over the 2nd place team. To not win the championship would work something like this: we lose the remaining three and get outscored by about 13 goals. The 2nd place team wins all three of theirs and outscores their opponents by 13. Is this possible? I am going to say, no, not even mathematically. Well, I guess mathematically. But it's not going to happen. I guess we just took the league. Yay.

Win 41: Home CL match, 1-0. Playing with a comfortable lead (2-0 in the first away leg), we were cool, calm and collected. Do we wish we had scored more? Sure. Did we have to? No. In fact, the financial controller joked that DMC Ghighani scored a $1.6M goal, as that was the amount of the promised win bonus. AMR Willemse assisted and earned the MOM. ST Monasterski was injured, but had an amazingly swift recovery thanks to the 15 units of the secret red juice provided by the medical staff. We are looking forward to the CL finals.