Season 89 Are you ready?

Today I had the second leg of the cup. First leg 5-0 so I put in the reserves.
In league I was playing with one of the main competitors, same Q, and was losing 2-0 in 20 first minutes.

Given these facts I was sure that my unbeaten streak will come to an end today.
My reserves though did not let the team down and gave a 2-2 draw.
And my main team managed to turn around 2-2, and could score more and win but .. ok.

So to be continued till tomorrow (half of the league has main team in 6,5stars, so it will definitely break soon)
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Desert Rats FC welcomed their Level 8 opponents for the Cup Round of 32 2nd Leg match with the tie evenly balanced at 2-2, and yielding 5% in Quality, were expecting a tough battle to progress further in the competition. The visitors attacked from the first whistle, and for the first 20 minutes, only desperate defence and the determined acrobatics of home 'keeper Bismark Carroll kept the match goalless. In the 33rd minute, a rare attack by the Rats was completed spectacularly when Kostadin Marinov received the ball just inside the opposition half and ran down the left wing and shot home from the left side of the Penalty box. This seemed to stun the visitors and the match was more even from then on. In the second half, the Management was concerned about the performance of striker Emanuele Imbimbo, and in the end replaced him with Julien Renard. Midfielder Mashoor Ibrahim was penalised for a late tackle, the resulting free-kick was saved by Carroll, and this seemed to be a signal to the rest of the team, who raised their play another notch. Wingers Marinov and Patrick Tillmanns started terrorising the visitors defence and in the last 21 minutes, the hosts scored five times, Marinov adding another three goals, with Tillmanns and Renard each netting once. The visitors managed to get a consolation goal, but it was too little, too late, as Desert Rats won 6-1 on the day, and 8-3 on aggregate.

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Has it ever occured to any of you having to play 5 matches in 24 hours?

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The selection has begun in Gelora 10 November and the majority of the participants came from Sumatra instead of local men. Several foreign players also participated, including up to 3 players from Guangzhou, China, and several others from Cuba, Iraq, and Puerto Rico.

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Has it ever occured to any of you having to play 5 matches in 24 hours?

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How about 6 in 27?
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After a miserable scene at auction where I lost a bidding war because the game disconnects of itself, Hakurei United went on to score their biggest win so far. Riki Setyadi scored 3 goals in his already brilliant career as a U-21 player

Nice one, Muji ������

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Desert Rats FC played at home against 7th place in the League and won 4-0, with a hat-trick from Kostadin Marinov, playing AMC in a Narrow Diamond formation, and one from Emanuele Imbimbo.

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10 goals in 2 matches today for Van Basten,already 30 goals in 12 matches,he is insane lolAttachment 77369

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10 goals in 2 matches today for Van Basten,already 30 goals in 12 matches,he is insane lolAttachment 77369

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He has to stop it... because Costa wants to take him. :p

First week is over now, 14 games, 14 wins, only 5 goals conceeded - and a lot scored. :D (incl. FA)
After Costa made "only" a good last season, he is back this season. :o I'm also happy, that Kraxner scores and scores... he his ~40% weaker than Costa (because he is 30y.o. now), and at the moment, he is my 2.best scorer. :o
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FA: 1.leg was 5 a.m. - kind of bad. But... my little girl was crying at ~4:40 a.m., so I was "lucky" and played the match - our team won 4:1 vs slightly better opponent (0,5%). Only another member was there, we made 8:8.
2.leg, all of us were watching... and we made an amazing 2.leg... we won 18:0. :o Final will be against an FA, we beat two weeks ago. Let's see, if we can do it again. :)

Desert Rats FC played their latest Champions League match, at home vs another Level 8 team, but had a 28% Quality advantage. Striker Julien Renard became the second hat-trick scorer for the Rats today, running three in after the break; midfielder Ireneusz Jezierski scoring after only 2 minutes and striker Emanuele Imbimbo netting a free-kick after Jezierski was injured late in the first-half. Final score, 5-0. Champions League progress beckons, but whether the Rats will answer the call or manoevre for the Super League is yet to be decided.

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Season 14 progress report:
Played 12, Wins 9, Draws 3, Defeats 0 Scored 47, Conceded 6

Current undefeated run: 66 matches (57 wins, 9 draws; Scored 220, Conceded 29)

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Originally Posted by Cloverfield

So to be continued till tomorrow (half of the league has main team in 6,5stars, so it will definitely break soon)

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I was feeling that my unbeaten streak was coming to an end.
Engine decided to do this with emphatic way.
Goal conceded, 2'
Red card and penalty, 7'
2 more goals, before halftime
Player injured as soon as I completed my 3rd sub.

Oppo shots: 15/6 - 67% efficiency
My shots: 20/6 - 0% efficiency

Final score 4-0

Just lol.

Ps. I think I just decided to stay at same level

CL looks a bit strange

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Couldn't attend my league match. I was away and lost. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...27834fcfb8.jpg

Opp gk had 9 saves!

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Squad Rotation.
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Originally Posted by motrin

Couldn't attend my league match. I was away and lost. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...27834fcfb8.jpg

Opp gk had 9 saves!

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OMG this season gets really weird

I noticed a change in the game system this season: you are more penalised for lack of condition than before;
players with "yellow" condition (40-60%) seems much more tired

Decent game form the opponent despite huge quality difference. Goals were scored by Muji Huda (Twice) before Zekria pulled back one goal near the end of the match.

At the moment Bali FC still holds their league win streak of 6 games


Elsewhere The FA that Hakurei United joins, REOG Balbalan, has gotten their first blood this season, beating Vietnamnese Vpcp and Malaysian Ammar FC in the process.

League :

Muhammad FC 0-4 Persebaya 2014

Still using 4-3-3 formation, Persebaya continues to give chase to the league leader, Real madrid45 az. Goals were scored by Sreng Hab, Yabes Roni, Linderd Hasanuddin, and Yabes Roni again

Cup :

Johor Darul Ta'zim 1-2 Persebaya 2014

3* vs 5* yet huge efforts by the Malaysian side ensured that they will not go down without a fight. Lee Young-Jin gave the red-yellow team an early lead before Cho Kwan-Myong scored through Free Kicks, twice.

Talking about the troll result?
I have a good FK specialist and also a CK specialist...nice :)
And also a 6* GK, who had previous games rated 9-9-8...

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Desert Rats FC played away against 6th place in the league, and had everything wrapped up by half-time, with goals from Emanuele Imbimbo, Emerson de Alencar Arraes and Kostadin Marinov. Goalkeeper Kevin McKibben made a MoM performance after the break, his five saves keeping a well-earned clean sheet in a 3-0 win.

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League :

Muhammad FC 0-4 Persebaya 2014

Still using 4-3-3 formation, Persebaya continues to give chase to the league leader, Real madrid45 az. Goals were scored by Sreng Hab, Yabes Roni, Linderd Hasanuddin, and Yabes Roni again

Cup :

Johor Darul Ta'zim 1-2 Persebaya 2014

3* vs 5* yet huge efforts by the Malaysian side ensured that they will not go down without a fight. Lee Young-Jin gave the red-yellow team an early lead before Cho Kwan-Myong scored through Free Kicks, twice.

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4-3-3 tactics/orders you used?

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I was just browsing the other groups in my CL and found this mildly interesting https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b294da597e.jpg

All draws so far. Never seen that so far.

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Total 1st places in Gold 2 : 0 (If I recall correctly)

*Sigh

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Yeah my team only get 2 shots on goal vs 7 for them, but...
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Heroic underdog isn't recognized here :confused:

The award of MoM is a bit iffy.

1) Only awarded to highest rated player of the winning team;
2) Where two players are equally rated, it's given to the one who last did something 'extra-ordinary', rather than the one who had the best overall performance (e.g. player A scores a hat-trick in the first-half, rates 10 and keeps this rating to the end of the match; player B plays well, assists twice and scores a penalty towards the end of the match and rates 10 - the three-goal hero usually misses out);
3) The only time it's truly open is if there's a draw, in which case the highest-rated player overall gets the award; even then I've disagreed with that sometimes...

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I was just browsing the other groups in my CL and found this mildly interesting https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b294da597e.jpg

All draws so far. Never seen that so far.

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Get ready for the "why haven't I qualified?" Posts... :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by talisman

The award of MoM is a bit iffy.

1) Only awarded to highest rated player of the winning team;
2) Where two players are equally rated, it's given to the one who last did something 'extra-ordinary', rather than the one who had the best overall performance (e.g. player A scores a hat-trick in the first-half, rates 10 and keeps this rating to the end of the match; player B plays well, assists twice and scores a penalty towards the end of the match and rates 10 - the three-goal hero usually misses out);
3) The only time it's truly open is if there's a draw, in which case the highest-rated player overall gets the award; even then I've disagreed with that sometimes...

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Last season there was a game where I won comfortably. My striker scored 4 goals and had 1 assist but he was not MoM. I didn't keep any screenshots sadly...
But this proves that MoM award is kinda iffy as you said.

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Get ready for the "why haven't I qualified?" Posts... :rolleyes:

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These questions are only asked by people who have no idea how football is played tbh :o

My gk made 8 saves,not that he didn't got mom but his rating was 6.1[emoji33] https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c25e4bc34e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...246db3c13e.jpg

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He has to stop it... because Costa wants to take him. [emoji14]

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I told him to take it easy,he is already the legend of the team and one of the best players in top11 history 😁
..but he scored again,4 goals in the cup match,later we have the league match,he is at 34 goals now and from what I can see he wants to break all the records,to score 40 goals in 1 week lol
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You think GK-ratings are the only mad things?

Look at this... :rolleyes:
(Rating was 6,5)
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What shall he do, to have a good day? :confused:

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You think GK-ratings are the only mad things?

Look at this... :rolleyes:
(Rating was 6,5)
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What shall he do, to have a good day? :confused:

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Not concede those two goals... :rolleyes:

Desert Rats FC started their Cup Round of 16 tie with a home 1st Leg against another Level 8 countryman (all three Cup opponents so far this season have been British), and they had a 7% Quality advantage at kickoff, playing 3W-1-5-1 against 4-1(DMC)-1(MC)-3W-2. Both the opposition DMC/MC players were offset from the centreline of the pitch, so the Rats Management had a good long think about the formation he wanted to use, and with a dangerous looking AMC looming on the defence decided to go for one with a covering DMC. The first-half was a frustrating stalemate, only kept goal-less by a resolute home defence and five saves from the visitors' 'keeper. Obviously the current formation and counter-attacks weren't working so the Management decided to change to 4-4-2 classic, no counter and high press, replacing midfielder Mashoor Ibrahim with striker Emanuele Imbimbo. The crowd were still retaking their seats after the half-time break when midfielder Glenn Seynaeve finished a cross from left-winger Unal Ozdemir, so the Management felt vindicated by his half-time tweaking. Ozdemir himself got onto a through ball from Imbimbo in the 57th minute and increased the lead, and the scoring was completed when Imbimbo launched himself at a corner from Emerson de Alencar Arraes and the header beat the 'keeper and the two covering defenders. The home side win 3-0 and take a substantial advantage to the 2nd Leg in two days' time.

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I told him to take it easy,he is already the legend of the team and one of the best players in top11 history ������
..but he scored again,4 goals in the cup match,later we have the league match,he is at 34 goals now and from what I can see he wants to break all the records,to score 40 goals in 1 week lol
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Today, Costa made also 4 goals. :D
I'm really interested, if Costa is able to take him. Currently he has 641 career goals and he is 26 y.o.

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I really want to say, it was another great day... but we got a big troll at cup. We played vs 40% weaker team... only 2:2
winning streak of 32 is broken now... :mad:
(we are black)
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The "funny" thing: this weekend, we played at FA two times vs slightly stronger team. Semi: 7% stronger, 11:3 on aggregate. At final, 1% stronger, 10:3 on aggregate... 4games/4wins
That's really annoying.

What makes me wonder: I had(/have) a keeper, who made 51 clean sheets, conceeded 18 goals in 64 games. Update by Nordeus, my keeper conceeded goals, even against the weakest teams at league...
(he conceeded against 60% weaker, inactive team with illegal formation. :rolleyes: )
If this update killed my keeper again, I think about retiring, because I'm really tired of looking for a good keeper...



At FA, we played final vs FA we beat two weeks ago 24:9, today we made it slightly better: 28:7. :o

When I was playing Associations with my two previous teams, despite the reset to how they were before the match, there was always an after-effect that was taken over to the next match played, very much like your 2-2 Cup Draw. I always dreaded the Monday matches as that was when the team played out of sorts and the poor results came in...

Season of draws.... Still I can't watch all matches no matter what. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b70aea0cb4.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...67762c7dae.jpg Eggert decides to score and it was an hat trick and all goals assisted by 'Peter'https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f77299d3fc.jpg going well with another Academy Graduate for my second team named after a veteran Nigerian TE manager Chris Ohams... Just like Peter he has been wonderful...ohh Di Luca is a midfielder

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When I was playing Associations with my two previous teams, despite the reset to how they were before the match, there was always an after-effect that was taken over to the next match played, very much like your 2-2 Cup Draw. I always dreaded the Monday matches as that was when the team played out of sorts and the poor results came in...

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This season is so weird after update... my team beat evenly or stronger opponents (watched and unwatched) very high, like 1.league game 8:1 or yesterday FA 7:2, but against much weaker teams (managed or inactive doesn't matter) they made only 2:0, 3:0,... or today 2:2. And that's with 0 saves...

The 2:3 victory was the best game of my keeper since update...

It is a very weird season. I find equal opponents much more difficult. I'm beating opponents 20/30% stronger easier than equals. My current theory is that morale may be weighted more. I've noticed it's harder to keep in the green.

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I've got my most talented team ever currently, and have learned a lot during these associations tournaments. It's been a slow process, but this weekend I learned even more. The semi's wasn't the learning experience, although I picked up a pair of draws while we lost on goal difference. But in the finals I came up against the following two attacking midfielders.

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I decided to play m2m defense because of the lower speed and it worked as I picked up 3-0 and 5-1 wins. So I learned m2m w/ a huge physical and mental advantage can suffocate players w/ massive attack stats but low physical and mental. It may be important to note that this manager lost 0-1 and 0-4 in the semi's as well.

I had noticed zonal defense (or m2m with 5 defenders - I never play 5 however) + parking the bus works good against teams with superior speed as well; especially if strength is low. I made that mistake against a good friend of mine in a friendly a few seasons back and saw it on display in associations before as well. I guess, with such defensive setups plus defense/normal mentality and 4 in the back (or 5 in case of former assoc teammates) the speedsters can't run through the entire defense since someone playing zone will mark him once he beats his man, forcing the wingers to settle for long range shots from outside the box. Of course, big physical strikers might be able to unlock such defensive setups (high positioning, heading, strength?)!!!