Season 92 - Are you ready?

[pcmacdaniel]

Friday's champions league final is for our 10th triple crown.

Associations: Semi-Final draw looks like a favorable matchup, as our opponents need to pick up 39 points to avoid relegating back to Gold 3. Finals could be challenging, as a 25-3-4-1 association has been paired into the other semi-final. We're stronger than them in terms of skews and overall quality (slightly), but we faced the last weekend, and they were outstanding tactically. From a tactical perspective, they were the best group we've faced in a long time; I could tell that in the 2nd leg my opponent knew what I was doing in regards to mentality and passing style, all the way to the 60th minute. So am concerned about playing them again.

Repeated meeting with the same associations hasn't been as frequent as prior to Gold 2. The 25-3-4-1 association is the only one in more than one assoc draw this season. Before this season we repeatedly saw at least 3 associations twice in one season. I guess there is just a scarcity of 7* association below the Gold 2 league. We even encountered the same Greek association 5 times in 10 seasons, didn't see anyone else more than twice in that span. The Greeks were solid when we first met, sporting a 15-2-3-0 record, but they had a super tanker, named Panos FC whom was also manages a 2nd team in that association, whom we went a combined 15-3-2 against because we figured out his tactics. Christmas Tree (4-3w-2n-1), w/ attack or hard attacking, short passed and high press for Panos and 4-2n-3w-1 w/ presumably same tactics for his alt. Unfortunately, its not this easy to figure out the opponents tactics every weekend.