Season 89 Are you ready?

[talisman]

Desert Rats FC played at home against 10th place and had a comfortable 3-0 victory. It was strikers day, and Emanuele Imbimbo and Julien Renard netted one apiece and late on, right-back Cipriano Elizondo scored his first goal for the club. Goalkeeper Bismark Carroll rated highly, particularly for keeping his clean sheet with a correct guess, diving to the left to keep out a visitors Penalty kick. With all but one match taking place in the small hours (the Rats match being the exception), there is an element of catch-up every day as Desert Rats can see all the other match scores before they play theirs. The Rats are still on top in what is starting to be a two-horse race...



...and a certain player is dominating the 'Top Players' tables...



Idle time this afternoon, and a couple of 2T purchases from the transfer market to replace low-Q players whose contracts are expiring at the end of this season.



Then attention turned to the Champions League Quarter-Final 1st Leg away match, and the two new recruits were on the bench but the Rats faced a formidable Level 8 opponent.



...and promptly collapsed into a heap...



The Management will be scratching around for a formation that will at least be able to get a reasonable return from the home Leg and allow Desert Rats to retire from the competition with some dignity still intact...

[czero]

@Talisman
Try 4-5-1v in the second leg, countering with long passes down the flanks.

[talisman]

Funny, I switched to that after they scored their second and after initially doing the trick, it killed off any progress my forwards were making and then seemed to make the situation worse...

It's the two AMCs that are the issue - I have two players who can play DMC but that would then put the defensive line in a bit of a state.

[Awe Imoleayo Peter]

Funny, I switched to that after they scored their second and after initially doing the trick, it killed off any progress my forwards were making and then seemed to make the situation worse...

It's the two AMCs that are the issue - I have two players who can play DMC but that would then put the defensive line in a bit of a state.

Man marking maybe and a 4 2dmc 1mc 2w 1. Long passes to the flanks.