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.

[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.

[Morgan O'Bree]

League, Matchday 13

Coybig FC [3-5-2 V] 0 - 3 New Team [3-2-2-2-1 Butterfly/4-1-2-1-2]

We totally forgot and didn't notice we were facing the newly 2nd on board's team today. Nonetheless we had already prepared the setup which led is to victory. What we didn't know was that today was elected as TROLL DAY for New Team, hence our matches would be full of unexplanable and shocking happening. Today was also M.Stein debut, the new AML/ML recently bought. And it was him in the early minutes panicking out his marking forcing him to foul inside the area for a penalty. After the yellow card we had our 7* PK specialit Clifford Yuma going for it, and we found out it was trollday when it wasn't the keeper saving it but Yuma himself kicking it wide. We kept our 70% ball possession and managed to fail about 5 clen chanches, untill H.Strauss, our DL (?), decided to shoot a missile from far which converted into 0-1 (32'). For the second half we decided to troll back the game engine choosing a setup which should be countered by the 3-5-2 V, being the usual Narrow Diamond. The tactic seemed to work as our pressure raised and we scored another one with James Derrick from a corner kick. We managed to fail couple more occasions untill Strauss being a good German fellow skyrocketed again a shoot ended up in the final 0-3.

Scorers: H.Strauss (2), Jason Derrick.
MoM: Tom Becker (8), New Team.

League standings at half season:



Champion's League, Last 16


FC Bayern City [4-3-1-2] 1 - 3 New Team [3-1-4-2/4-1-2-1-2]



We already knew this match would attempt to troll us aswell, but we managed to avoid the bullet here. There isn't really much to comment on this one as the opponents practically managed to be dangerous TWO TIMES in all the match, being them at 66' and 85' (both times 1 minute after our goal, how coincidential), scoring once. We largely dominated and created several occasions in which ALL THE TIMES our one on one striker passed the ball in front of the keeper...to our BLUE ARROWED DC!! How could it happen, will remain a mistery, but story tells Clifford Yuma was in a bad mood today, failingthe league's penalty and at least 4 goals without keeper in CL! Anyways, Mason was in top form like alwais, and gave us the lead after just 4 minutes (4'), doubling the score in the second half (65'). As we were playing ND in the second part of the match, being more covered, Yuma failed another occasion right after the goal (66'): the very next sentence we read was "reus with a thundering strike" (or some **** like this) and then the 1-2 goal (66'). How in 10 seconds they took the free kick, reached our area, and scored, will too remain a mistery. Luckily for us the eternal Prince Julian Ross (entering field for Hardy in the second half) thundered back at them setting the score to a more just 1-3.

Scorers: J.Mason (2), M.Reuss J.Ross.
MoM: J.Mason (9), New Team.

We have one foot in the quarters unless another troll day comes. But we are ready to dodge arrows to the knees!

[dv8r]

At the halfway point here are our top performers..

Most appearances
Chano Petersen - 24 (ALL)
Luigi de Mafia -24 (ALL)
Lee Vittalone - 24 (ALL)
Luke Warmwater - 24 (ALL)
Ivor Hardy - 23

Top scorers
Chano Petersen - 30 goals
Antonio Nascimento - 15 goals
Juan Mata - 14 goals
Jonathan Eastgate - 9 goals
Lee Vittalone - 7 goals

Top assisters
Chano Petersen - 33 assists
Juan Mata - 10 assists
Antonio Nascimento - 10 assists
Santi Cazorla - 4 assists
Luis Suarez - 4 assists

So as you can see, Petersen dominating the goalscoring charts. Assists are very skewed, with 2 sub players appearing in the top 5. Our 3 playmakers have 1 assist shared between them. Quite poor.