Not for me it isn't... :)
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NIK is back in action after four inactive seasons
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now it's NIK ORANJE as a future plan to have players from Netherlands.
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The team was ready from previous season anyway
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The goal of the season is only the League as in cup I 'm playing in a tough +1 lv
League: Tied for 1st in the mini-competition. It's really odd that we benefit more from winning the mini-competition than winning the league. Anyways, its a great add so have to give Nordeus kudos for that.
Champions: Group stages, passage of the round of 16 looks secure.
Cup: I don't care!!!
Associations: Up 10-7 after the 1st leg of the final. I let the team down in my match as I managed like an idiot. I loan out Carvanho yesterday for assoc, and adjusted the set-piece takers to account for it, but forgot to change them back and didn't notice it until the 60' minute. I also changed tactic but for some reason forgot to change focused passing to "through the middle", leaving it as "mixed" despite running a 4-3n-1-2, and didn't notice until the 30' minute. I also changed to defense + counters midway through the 2nd half, when I thought I had a feel for what the opponent was doing, but to his credit he noticed what I was doing and adjusted his tactics to account for and scored a couple goals to put the match away. In the semi's we won 4-0 and 3-0; 27-6 overall.
Edit: Ended up winning 23-11 in assoc. My game was tough as nails, as we trailed 0-1 at intermission, but made a change at intermission, and rallied to win 3-2.
Learning a lot about the current game engine (until now) this season:
- DML/DMR positions does not seems to be much effective anymore .. Against strong AML/AMR I now prefer to field 5 defenders; against strong ML/MR I prefer to field MR/ML in the same position, or even AML/AMR to annoy them ..
- ML/MR effectiveness goes down like a rocket when the opponent has an AMR/AML on field.
- Defensive schemes: both 3N-DML-DMR-... and 4-1-4-1 suffer a lot when there are AML or AMR on field .. I now prefer to field 5-1DMC-3MC-1 against formation with less than 3 MC; this season I haven't meet any team with 3MC-AML-AMR-ST to get a referral point
- Never adopted this kind of schemas, but I'm happy when an opponent comes with 3 ST against me; a single DMC is usually enough to keep them calm ... From my experience schemas like 4-3N-3, 4-3W-3, 3N-4-3, 3W-4-3 are pretty ineffective in the current game engine (while in reality are widely used)
Costa scored his 1.000 goal. :o
(and Meiringer does really well - especially, he's a ST)
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Some giant killing that handed me second place in the challenge.. 5-1-3-1 worked majeoustly against his 3N-1-3W-1-2
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Another legend left the building...
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Holy shiet I turned this around!
Check the penalties lost from both sides lol
At first game I could not be active that game and I had set a completely wrong formation.
Statistics were balanced, but he scored I did not.
At this game things turned around, although I was way too better in stats.
Oppo did not attend, mysteriously.
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