Season 88 - Are you ready?

[talisman]

Desert Rats FC played their Champions League Quarter-Final 1st Leg, at home, and the visitors were a bit of a surprise. Having expected the token-buyer that was favourite to win in the previous round, the minnow club won by away goals to qualify for this round. The Assistant Manager came up trumps with a cracking AMC recommendation, so the Management cleaned the bank out...



...another player with Penalty kick specialisation...

The visitors took the lead in the 13th minute of the Quarter-Final match, and the Management had second thoughts about the initial formation he fielded, changing the Butterfly formation to Narrow Diamond, facing 4-4-2 Classic, and set attacking mentality. This meant a couple of players playing out of position, but with 21% to spare on the Quality advantage over their opponents, he thought it a risk worth taking. The change bore fruit immediately; Gary Cusack crossed in from the left wing and Patrick Tillmans netted for the equaliser. The match then proceeded as an end-to-end tussle in which the attacks got creative and the defences hardened. In the 53rd minute, Glenn Seynaeve hit a speculative shot from 30 yards out and this evaded the defence and 'keeper, and the hosts had the lead. With 22 minutes to go, the Management made their first substitution, swapping the unusually ineffective Emanuele Imbimbo for Julien Renard, and the Rats took off. The newly introduced player assisted Gary Cusack for the third goal, and then Tillmans made a couple of defence splitting runs, scoring twice for a hat-trick on his debut. The 5-1 final score was a fitting end to an entertaining tie, in which the home side started shakily but got better as time went on.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

Everything is ready, if I lose this CL game I would scratch my eye ball . C'mon Top Eleven, I believe in you, no surprises for today

[Gert Funck]

Pretty good first leg...considering



and with my earlier loss against a mid-ranged opponent, it is now official Nordeus game engine hates me .. frawn

[talisman]

Desert Rats FC were at home in the League this evening in a top of the table clash against 2nd place. The Management was late arriving, and the opposition had already had one of their three strikers sent off. Having been rested for the Champions League match earlier, right-back Rodrigo Gimenez was raring to go, and he celebrated his 50th appearance for the Rats with a double and the MoM award, the first goal in the 57th minute, when he finished off a cross from left-back Alberto Casado. 12 minutes later, midfielder Glenn Seynaeve netted a cross from left-winger Gary Cusack, before the Management decided that midfielder Mashoor Ibrahim was struggling and replaced him with Ireneusz Jezierski. Gimenez ran through the middle of the visitors defence to pick up a through ball from Filip Anderson, playing DMC for the day, and finished off his brace in style. Four minutes from time, Jezierski hit a long range shot which screamed past the 'keeper into the net to complete the 4-0 win.

Tough League match again tomorrow, away at the team who have taken over 2nd place after todays results are in.

[Gert Funck]

The reserves had a good CL first leg

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

Why Top Eleven, why ... Just a 3-3 in Champions League ....

[Awe Imoleayo Peter]

Good game by us today..

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

Good game by us today..

Well done, both your attack and def. have been great!

[Awe Imoleayo Peter]

Well done, both your attack and def. have been great!

Thanks Bro

[LeManiaque]

Just steamrolled another +1 level CL opponent. I was worried because his record was straight wins with 4.0 goals for and 0.8 against average.

He was 43w12 @111 and I managed to change my lineup and do a bit of training to make 4141 @108. Debated using my preferred 4411 @ 104.

Opponent didn't attend, in the end found the weak flank and made it suffer for a 5:0 win. Normal/ defensive, short, both flanks then one, counters on; low, normal, M2M, no offside trap.

Stats were encouraging.

Brini scored a hat trick and assisted the other 2 goals. He's among Pueblo's best purchases and brightest stars (just a market Nordgen). Whoever said they wouldn't spend packs on training a CK specialist, Brini would like to differ!



Ps- up 11 pts in league, could be treble #1. Touch wood.