Season 92 - Are you ready?

[MiddleEarth]

Am I ready for the new season? I suppose I have to be! Yet another though league draw, number six in a row and counting...
Just to illustrate, here is the league composition for this season;

Team 1;111.8% (2 seasons ago, winner)
Team 2;108.4% (last season third)
Team 3;107.0% (My Team, runner-up last season)
Team 4;106.7% (last season winner)
Team 5;103.7% (3rd 2 seasons ago)
Team 6;101.9% (4th last season)
Team 7;98.9% (5th last season)
Team 8;97.5% (4th 2 seasons ago)
Team 9;92.6% (new team)
Team 10;89.2% (new team)
Team 11;87.1% (new team)
Team 12;68.4% (new team)
Team 13;63.9% (new team)
Team 14;41.8% (new team)

Played my first league match this afternoon vs Team12, and barely won by 2-1 at home (+38.6%) with a last minute goal.

Short stats; Possession: 79%-21%, Total shots: 28-4, shots on goal 12-1, shot efficiency 9%-100%, free-kicks 5-0, corners 9-2, YC 0-6, RC 0-0

Not to mention, CL & Cup +1Lvl. as usual... League full of Russians, Putin's adjutants (5 of them this season), all of them owning token-pipelines, as their teams consist mostly of scout players. The two best teams within the Cup field already have an average quality of 131.6 respectively 125.7. CL three +1lvl. teams already over 120% quality.

I'm really not an supporter of tanking, but if that **** continues I just might be forced to tank a season for the sake of my health...

[Killroy]

Not a bad third day for both teams. Both CL matches were won easily. First team won the league match with 4-0 Marco van Basten is on a role this season. 4 games and 7 goals and 2 assists. He never played better. Lets hope he keeps this form

My second team had a bad day in the league. Faced an advisary 12% weaker then him. We owned the game. OWNED.

Him vs me
Possession 42 vs 58%
Shots 14 vs 20
On target 5 vs 13!
Saves 5 vs 0
Corners 1 vs 7
Ratings 0,5 higher for my team

End score is the logical 3-3. Oh well, it happens.

[CM-16]

Hakurei United's new recruits :




OUT :

Sonny Agustiar (DC)

[talisman]

Home Guard FC had some Recommended players from their Assistant Manager this morning, and the Management decided to shell out on a nice left wing-back...



Then, just to illustrate the perversity of the new Transfer Market, the Management managed to lighten the squad by two 3*/20Q players by selling them at a premium to their Market Values, making a mockery of the efforts of Desert Rats efforts to move on two 3* players with higher relative Quality. Thus midfielder Alban Haag and left-back Yassine Wissam have departed the team.

The new recruit wasn't needed to boost the team's Quality as they embarked upon their second League match of the season with a 46% advantage over their hosts, but he saw a real game of two halves. The visitors were three up by the break, with a brace from Ellis Wardell followed by a defensive one-two as right-back Jeffrey Knubben and DMC Juan Pablo Medina passed their way through the home defence, Medina administering the coup de grace. After the break, Home Guard went off the boil a bit and let the home side back into the match, and they eventually scored to reduce their arrears, but the Management was by then making tweaks to the formation and personnel that then maintained the status quo until the final whistle, 3-1 being the final score.

The Round of 32 of the Cup beckoned in the afternoon, and Home Guard were at home against a team -17%Q. Again they put all their efforts into the first-half, Brice Morel netting a hat-trick in the first half-hour, and Matias Rolando replying to a sneak goal by the visitors just before the break to make the score 4-1. The second-half followed the same pattern, Home Guard easing off, but not through any Management changes, and the opposition taking advantage. The score remained the same, however, until two minutes from time, when a bit of indiscipline from Jeffrey Knubben resulted in a free-kick being despatched past the previously faultless Stefan Vavala to make the final score 4-2.

[talisman]

Desert Rats FC played a Round of 32 match away against a +1 Level, +11%Q team, and, in contrast to the quiet capitulation in the Champions League match yesterday put in a bit of a fight, especially late on, to come back with a 1-1 draw. Substitute Jim Henderson scored the vital goal with a shot from outside the penalty box two minutes from the final whistle.

An easier time in their League match of the day, at home for the first time this season, and the visitors being one of the many Turkish teams in the League. With Quality equal, the match promised much and the massed supporters of the home side couldn't have been disappointed. Moritz Maiwald was given plenty of opportunity to practice his free-kicks but he was out of sorts in that respect today, but it didn't stop him scoring the opening goal from open play in the 29th minute. Patrick Tillmanns became the Rats first injury victim this season just before the break, and then 'Super-sub' Emanuele Imbimbo took over:



Final score 4-0 and Desert Rats are clear on Goal Difference at the top of the embryo table.

Thanks to madflo and Bunzo for their support today.

[Awe Imoleayo Peter]

Good game from a scout recruit and youth recruit(Hammed and Series). Really nice to see them come out and wreck havoc.

[sincity]

Am I ready for the new season? I suppose I have to be! Yet another though league draw, number six in a row and counting...
Just to illustrate, here is the league composition for this season;

Team 1;111.8% (2 seasons ago, winner)
Team 2;108.4% (last season third)
Team 3;107.0% (My Team, runner-up last season)
Team 4;106.7% (last season winner)
Team 5;103.7% (3rd 2 seasons ago)
Team 6;101.9% (4th last season)
Team 7;98.9% (5th last season)
Team 8;97.5% (4th 2 seasons ago)
Team 9;92.6% (new team)
Team 10;89.2% (new team)
Team 11;87.1% (new team)
Team 12;68.4% (new team)
Team 13;63.9% (new team)
Team 14;41.8% (new team)

Played my first league match this afternoon vs Team12, and barely won by 2-1 at home (+38.6%) with a last minute goal.

Short stats; Possession: 79%-21%, Total shots: 28-4, shots on goal 12-1, shot efficiency 9%-100%, free-kicks 5-0, corners 9-2, YC 0-6, RC 0-0

Not to mention, CL & Cup +1Lvl. as usual... League full of Russians, Putin's adjutants (5 of them this season), all of them owning token-pipelines, as their teams consist mostly of scout players. The two best teams within the Cup field already have an average quality of 131.6 respectively 125.7. CL three +1lvl. teams already over 120% quality.

I'm really not an supporter of tanking, but if that **** continues I just might be forced to tank a season for the sake of my health...

I am even worse. I got top 8 from last season back in my league again this season, plus 4 managers from 2 seasons ago and only one new manager. This is terrible. Where is the joy of playing the same managers each and every season? And no friends. League draw should be random like it was in the past before Nordeus created the current nonsense.

[brolly]

LOL
My biggest opponents this season (LVL 15):
-127,6% (Last season winner), third season in the same leage, he was 164%, last season 146%
-126,5% (Last season two), second season in the same leage, he was 148% last season
- more than 160% but focusing on the cup and asso

I have started with 120%, last games with both teams I won, seccond place lost by goal difference and one point to the leader

This season 3 trophies, I hope:P

[Killroy]

A WALK IN THE PARK (or not?): My second team is facing a low level team in the league. The quality difference is not that big. Only 53% AHEM. This should be a walk over. Right?

So the game starts. Quick yellow card for his best player, the only 5 star of the team since the rest is 3 stars. Animation for me, my 7 star strikers misses the goal. Another animation, I hit the pole. OK....... Next animation for him and of course he scores 1-0. Is it going to be this kind of game again? I get animation after animation but no score. I get a bunch of text. Free kick for my 7 star free kick specialist. Blocked and corner. Corner taken and another corner. Corner taken and intercepted. 45 minutes into the game and 1-0.......... Oh boy.

Second half start and I check the ratings. His defence is on an average of 5,5. His goalie however is at 5 savings on my 5 shots and scores 8,5. My average is somewhere around 7,5????? Nordeus what the heck. Finally at the 53rd minute I score 1-1. Maybe I am going to win this. Another shot missed. Another free kick wide. I can feel what is coming. 66th minute, I score 1-2. Finally after 20 shots and 7 at target I am in the lead. My advisary gets an animation. Nordeus, come on, you can't be that cruel. Right? Right? He passes my defense, he shoots and....... he hits the pole. Wow. That was close.

His ratings are dropping faster then a meteor in our atmosphere. Mine are rising like mad. And the score is 1-2..... Animation after animation but no score. 81th minute a new animation. I see my free kick specialist take a free kick from the side and YESSSSS 1-3. For crying out loud, about time. 88th minute my AMC breaks through and he scores 1-4. So finally a little walk in the park.

Now to get to the point. I had about 15-20 animations in this game. I had 27 shots with 11 on target. I had 80% possession, 5 free kicks and 11 corners (somehow he got 7 corners and not 1 animation for it). My rating was 2,1 points higher then the advisary. Yes, that is 2,1!!!! higher. And I only win the game in the last 10 minutes? Oh well I won but it was intense.

[nash123]

@ Killroy:
I really think, quality is just cosmetic. Today is the 5.day of the new season and I saw more curious results before:

-) two RL friend played 1.game at league against each other. difference were only 0,1%... it ended 6:1, both were watching.
-) My team played at cup against a 50% weaker team at first round, no oppo manager there, we won only 4:0.
-) My wifes account beat twice a 33% stronger team (2:1, 3:1). I played her team, because I want to try, to beat him... I don't want to know, how the opponent felt after that...

and so on.