Season 39

[CameraLagg]

Watching Italian Serie A football makes me go to sleep much easier. La Liga in Spain is going the same way too.

Italian football's much more tactical than English football.. Maybe there aren't as many chances but you can appreciate the intelligence needed to get a result in the Serie A. Italian managers are the some of the best in the world IMO even if the games can get boring.

[Ljepoje]

I'm watching it too. Not a bad game only we're playing like it's a friendly. We're still doing well and we're having most of the occasions with Pogba playing amazing as usual

Watching Italian Serie A football makes me go to sleep much easier. La Liga in Spain is going the same way too.

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Yeah, Juveeee! Think the title is secured after this win, since there is no possibility for Napoli to pressure/overturn Juventus with only 4 rounds left. The 1th was quite poor and Milan to pail and tardy, the 2nd half was quite interesting, especially the last half hour. I actually thought that the Milan keeper Amelia would get a red, imagine Mexes between the posts? Haha!

Well, usually I don´t follow every game in the Serie A, La Liga or the Premier League. Only the local derbies/el classico ("top-games/clashes") etc. Like today, Tottenham - City, Liverpool-Chelsea and then Juve-Milan.

[Bermudo]

Today was an ok day...

2-0 victory in CL last 16 away game, this one should be in the bag.

League was 4-0 against a mediocre team, thus maintaining my 3 points lead and keeping up the much higher goal difference.

Unfortunately, I had one injury in each match, my 2nd striker in the first game (I switched to 4-5-1 V for the 2nd so I didnt need the striker) and my dmc in the last minutes of the 2nd game. Both injuries are fortunately only 2 days, and tomorrow is only a league game against a weak team, so Im considering to sit the injuries out. The problem is that this might eat into my green packs.

Injury count for the season: 12

[PeterMeter]

Just had one of those ridiculous results in the league. 0-0 to a team about 15* average below me, dominated the match with possession 80-20 inspite of him not playing an illegal formation, 14-7 in shots and 7-3 in shots on goal even though none of his registered in the commentary. I played the 2nd half with three strikers and all three of them, together with the AMC who played the first half had several chances where they were through on goal but everything went outside or over the bar and all free kicks hit the wall inspite of them having no SAs of the kind or something like that.

Lets hope the CL-game in about an hour sees a vast improvement because this was a huge disappointment!

[CameraLagg]

Yay 2 more injuries

[July Fourth]

Yay 2 more injuries

Quarter-Finals to look forward to with that result though.

[CameraLagg]

Quarter-Finals to look forward to with that result though.

Yeah at least one good thing. We'll be playing against the second best team quality-wise in the CL in the quarters so it'll be the toughest round of the CL..

[Raykco]

Sunday. (Match day 15).

LEAGUE: Round 13.

Result: LONDON CITY 3-0 MA FC
Goals: Criban 31, Duggan 74, Gomez 83
M.o.M: Andreas Costa

This was a "no-frills", workman like performance against one of the league's lower teams. New DR, Yonni Criban made his first appearance and immediately became a hit with the fans, after opening the scoring with a header from a cross by Stig Andersson. Further goals came after the break, through a solo effort from Terry Duggan, and another header, this time from Pablo Gomez, following Andreas Costa's corner. We still remain 4th though.


CHAMPS LEAGUE: Last 16, First Leg.

Result: RUSTEM FC 0-7 LONDON CITY
Goals: Andersson 7, Gomez 20, Duggan 59, Brown 61, Brown 72, Webo 79, Costa 84
M.o.M: Andreas Costa

Five second half goals has made the second leg of this tie, almost a formality for City. We had the better of the first half and went into the dressing room with a two goal lead through individual efforts from Stig Andersson and Pablo Gomez. The second half started in the same vein, but when Terry Duggan added a third, our opponents heads seemed to drop and the goals really started to flow. Jake Brown then scored two in quick succession. We sent on, new signing, Pierre Webo for the last twelve minutes, and he quickly grabbed a goal, after a pass through by Gomez. Man of the match, Andreas Costa added a seventh with six minutes left.


TRANSFER NEWS.

Long time servant, Teddy King left the club today to join a level 8 team. We wish him well. We also signed our second player in two days, when 20 yo striker, Pierre Webo joined us from a level 12 club.

[dv8r]

Champions League QF, 1st leg - Vieri FC 0-5 Perfect Tactics
Vieri FC: 41.6, 4-1-3N-2
Perfect Tactics: 52.0, 3N-1-3N-2W-1 (30 mins 4-3N-2-1)

A comfortable win books us the place in the next round. Our 3N-1-3N-2W-1 not as effective as the 4-3N-2-1 and on 33 minutes, Mata was brought down in the box giving us a penalty which Petersen put away with ease. Vittalone made it 2-0 from a corner before Mata's strike 4 minutes later put an end to this tie and killed off any chance of a fight back. We were awarded a 2nd penalty on 64 minutes and Can was sent off for a badly timed tackle. Petersen stepped up to convert the penalty, making it 4-0 and the red card rubbing salt into the wounds. We got a 5th when Petersen's pass found Mata who side footed it into the goal. A routine win and we go marching on!


Goals: Petersen (33' PEN, 64' PEN), Vittalone (37'), Mata (41', 86')
MOTM: Petersen
Sent off: Can (64')

So Petersen, a non-PK specialist goes and scores 3 penalties today, not too shabby.

[July Fourth]

F.C. Tiki Taka 2-7 July Fourth Champions League Last 16, 1st Leg.
F.C. Tiki Taka 96.9 4-3N-1-2 - July Fourth 108.0 4-3W-1-2

I normally do a preview on the CL K.O. Stages but thinking this is a straight forward tie for us, I decided there was not much point. I stuck with my 4-3W-1-2 with Hardy out through suspension even though we revived him after the league game for 15 reds. It took a while for us to get the break through with shots missed from Miku, Michu and Papaleo before a wonder striker from knowhere from O'Sullivan put us into the lead. We doubled our lead when Papaleo was on goal but squaring off to Michu and then Michu's corner found Ramirez to make it 3-0. The home side showed some fight just before and after half time by getting a goal on either side of HT from both their strikers Adesanya and Stegaru but July Fourth found another gear immediately and a 25 meters shot from Miku put us back in control and our substitutions freshened things up. Papaleo's 20th goal of the season arrived on 67 minutes after turning past defender to knock it by the keeper. Miku got another brace today on 84 minutes after a low shot just inside the area this time and Zidane's magic saw him beat a defender before knocking it to Mensah to finish it just as the game ended.

Goals: O'Sullivan (21) Michu (29) Ramirez (39) Adesanya (43) Stegaru (46) Miku (50,84) Papaleo (67) Mensah (90) MOTM: Michu.