One Week Left This Season - Big Matches, Strategies, Routines

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Desert Rats FC are out of League contention, but are fighting their way through +1 Level Champions League and Cup competitions. Into Semi-Finals and Final respectively. Cup Final would have be a good match-up of similar Quality, if it wasn't for that pesky 1 Level difference. In the Champions League, not only is there a 1 Level difference, but the Quality of the opposition is superior, also. Playing at home 1st Leg, the Rats' priority will be to prevent the opposition getting an away goal, as these often prove crucial at his late stage in the competition. Other than that, I won't talk my tactics on an open forum





Home Guard FC are top of their League, and have three main challengers, and they have already played them all this half of the season Their remaining matches are all against teams in the bottom half of the table, so will concentrate on getting the 3pts, rather than trying to win big. The Treble is still on, as they are in the Champions League Semi-Finals and Cup Final. The Cup Final, on paper, is a formality due to the difference in Quality, but never understimate the quirks and foibles of the Match Engine. As with the Rats, the away goal will be crucial in the CL Semi-Final, but this time, playing away 1st Leg, Home Guard will be trying to get them...





At the end of the season I will be keeping as many players as possible - with a range of player Quality from 7* down to 4* (6* to 3* next season), as usual, the lower Quality ones will be replaced by higher Quality players. I've got it down to a 'conveyor-belt' approach so that only a few players need replacing every season. Unfortunately, that wil probably mean that Desert Rats' longest serving player will be leaving sometime in the first week of next season. On my principle, he's past his sell-by date now, but when they keep performing and keep scoring, you have to keep them...