Season 39

[Ljepoje]

In the end probably it's just us being too concerned. It is plainly true that there is no team which won't lose or draw few games in the rispective league, or we'd see serie A and Liga full of 34/0/0 scores. Basically we get pissed cause we alwais want to win.

What is the real problem here is that game engine shows that you are effectively dominating while you don't win. That is the harsh part. But i do believe anyways that at the end results are balanced out -at least in League-, where better teams takes the first 4 positions usually. You might struggle midway, but apart from the first half of season don't expect your opponents to pull out 13/0/0 in the second too.

Yeah, that´s true as well. Probably it was "ment-to-be" you know. At least I didn´t feel any pressure when I was on the 3rd place, since I keept "lurking" and just waiting for the right opportunity to overthrow the 2nd team from it´s position. Now after this win, I can look forward and at least "hope" to get a win or draw in the return. Also they have a game against the Spanish "joker" team left as well, and hopefully he can snitch a point or 3 which would give us a "push" forward. The current leader is getting wins with a goal or two margin as well, so they are feeling the pressure as well. But let´s wait and see, anything can happen

[Raykco]

Tuesday. Match day 17.

LEAGUE: Round 15.

Result: C.O.S.D 0-4 LONDON CITY
Goals: Duggan 33, Andersson 51, Brown 58, Gomez 90
M.o.M: Adam Zola

The first half of this match was all I expected it to be, against the team just 1 point behind us, in 5th place. It was a tense and tight affair, and we were grateful to lead at the break through Terry Duggan, after another fine Andreas Costa corner. The game changed dramatically after the interval, and we scored three great goals from Stig Andersson (assisted by Oleg Yashin), a long range blast from Jake Brown, and a final effort from Pablo Gomez, again from a Yashin pass. This was a very welcome result, if a little unexpected.


CHAMPS LEAGUE: Last 16, second leg.

Result: LONDON CITY 2-0 RUSTEM FC
Goals: Kennedy 76, Zola 86
M.o.M: Pierre Webo

There was a strange atmosphere in the stadium tonight as a muted crowd became frustrated at the team's inability to find the net until late in the game. Starting the game 7-0 ahead, the fans were obviously expecting another demolition job, but it just didn't materialise. With the team a mixture of first team and reserves, they never really got going against a stubborn team, fighting fot their pride. Dave Kennedy finally broke the deadlock when he converted a cross from Lukas Duran. Substitute Adam Zola added a second after a simple tap-in after a rebound shot from Pablo Gomez. We are wondering which team will turn up for the quarter-final match-up.


TEAM TALK.

Today's league win, coupled with unbeaten third place losing to 2nd, puts us 3rd now, just 1 point behind the joint leaders. This league is going to go right down to the wire.
In the CL, having progressed to the quarter final with a 9-0 aggregate victory, we await to see who our opponents will be. It looks likely to be the next highest quality team to ourselves, because they hold a 3-1 lead after their away leg. Our long time rivals, Pto Alcudia, have been eliminated after an aggregate loss of 2-5, to the team we finished 6 points ahead of in the group stage.

[Morgan O'Bree]

Yeah, that´s true as well. Probably it was "ment-to-be" you know. At least I didn´t feel any pressure when I was on the 3rd place, since I keept "lurking" and just waiting for the right opportunity to overthrow the 2nd team from it´s position. Now after this win, I can look forward and at least "hope" to get a win or draw in the return. Also they have a game against the Spanish "joker" team left as well, and hopefully he can snitch a point or 3 which would give us a "push" forward. The current leader is getting wins with a goal or two margin as well, so they are feeling the pressure as well. But let´s wait and see, anything can happen

The key will be how many matches vs avg and strong teams you both played home and away in the first leg. If he played them mostly home, and barely won, expect him to be stopped quite often in the second half of the league.

[Ljepoje]

Balkan Boyz - Matchday 17 (Sz.4 - lvl4)



HEADLINE: Balkan Boyz collecting wins at a crucial time

LEAGUE: Raul FC (Q29,1) Formation: 4-1-2-1-2 >> 2 - 4 << Balkan Boyz (Q42,5) Formation: 4-1-2-1-2
SCORERS: J.Maestro (3min.ass:R.Perez), I.Olić (29min), H.Chikboui (23min.ass:R.Perez), S.Sušić (37min.ass:E.Džeko), I.Olić (67min) and M.Kovačić (71min.ass:E.Džeko)
SUBS: No substitutions made[COLOR="#006400"]
MOTM: Ivica Olić (rate:8)


This was a crucial league victory for Balkan Boyz against the Spanish league "joker" (as I like to call him) in many aspects. First, the win itself meant that we managed to "overthrow" the 2nd team in the league "FC Kula" and are now +1p infront of them, and -6p behind the league leader "Beauteville FC". Second, the win itself was "crucial" since it came in handy for us before next week return against "Fc Kula" and "Beatueville FC". Third, the win itself means also that the 1th and 3rd team are feeling the pressure on performing and winning their upcoming games. Fourth, as both teams will have to face the Spanish team "Raul FC" the upcoming week, there could be a slightly chance that he could snitch a point or perhaps 3, which would put further pressure and heat into an already iffy Top3 battle for the T11 league trophy.

With that in mind, our chances to win the league for the 4th time in a row has suddenly increased, and hopefully the luck will shine on us a little bit more then it did in the beginning of the season.



CL: Balkan Boyz (Q42,5) Formation: 4-1-2-1-2>> 4 - 0 (AGG: 6-1) << Stra FC (Q35) Formation: 4-3-1-2
SCORERS: S.Jovetić (29min), N.Vidic (37min.ass:E.Džeko), S.Sušić (45 & 66min.ass:N.Vidić)
SUBS: I.Olić < > H.Salihamidžić, A.Halilović < > X.Shaqiri, D.Srna < > N.Tomović
MOTM: Nemanja Vidić (rate:9)


This was an crucial CL victory as well, not only because we managed to get through to the next stage (the quarter-finals), but also the fact that we played against the 2nd best top quality and overall rated team in the tournament. The Irish team "Stra FC" caused us some difficulties in the 1th leg, as they managed to hold a 1-0 lead at their home turf under 60minutes, but then we came,we saw and we conquered them the last quarter after 2 goals by our shadow striker, Ivica Olić. A 1 - 2 away win meant that we could lock, stock as two smoking barrels before the return.

And as I was hopping before the 2nd leg kick-off, we didn´t have any problems getting pass their 4-3-1-2 formation. Mostly because as their manager didn´t care to play with a DMC and therefore left our AMC and shadowstriker, Ivica Olić unmarked. Our 4-1-2-1-2 transformed into a 4-3-3 and we managed to send 4 goals past their GK, Maneul Plaztek the first 60 minutes. His 7* player, the AMC Adel Ibrahim and his 6* players Camilo Arango (MC), Marian Krepela (MC) and Nemanja Radić (DC) could just watch and learn how things should and are handled.

The last 30 minutes, we decided to make 3 substitutions and calm our horses since we already managed to secure a comfortably home-win and when the final whistle was blown, we had 6-1 on aggregate.

Our next opposition is the Israeli team "BorisRager FC" (Q34,8). A team which we shouldn´t have any problems defeating since the team/squad is quite limited (11 players on the pitch + 4 on the bench) and who also plays a 4-1-2-1-2 formation. Hopefully we could secure a ticket to the semi-finals in the 1th leg and therefore play the 2nd leg without any pressure or doubts.


NOTE: Tomorrow we are heading for England to play the 2nd leg of the T11 CUP Quarter-finals against "Villa". The first meeting ended with a 1-2 away win for the guests, but our hopes and dreams to reach a semi-final spot are still alive. A rumour also says that the montenegrin striker Stevan Jovetić is looking forward to shoot down the english team "Villa" and put himself on the newspaper headlines later on that evening!

Over&Out!

[Morgan O'Bree]

Results just in...

Champion's League, Last 16, 2nd Leg
Aka "When the dead body comes back to life it's fun"



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

Scorers: K.Schneider (18',40,51'), C.Yuma (89').
MoM: C.Yuma (9), New Team (?????).

Not much should be said for this match if not that the result didn't show the true difference in strenght. We practically spent 90' in the opponent's area (favour bar stayed what you see in the pic) and only his keeper was able to reduce damages so much refugeeing himself in corner several times. A magnificent and proficient collaboration between tonight's two tops Oliver Hutton and Karl Heinz Schneider, who after 14 days finally starts from the beginning. Three assists by Hutton are converted into goals by Schneider, who defenetly inspired tonight caused more than one problem to the defense with some nice passes through it. In the last minutes Hutton got shot down in the area (and we feared an injury) and the specialist Yuma converted the penalty.

Thoughts

- I am now 100% sure that there is a HIDDEN stat on some players made to let them perform badly no matter what. Analyzing the match, we got Hutton serving 3 assists converted in goals, Schneider doing a Hat trick with my defensive lineup never once being mentioned apart from the penalty realized by Yuma. Now, Yuma scores a 9, Hutton a 8, and Schneider a 7? I had dropped him for the whole season going in for some power training without investing many greens, since in the 4-5 matches he played he scored 5-5-6-6-7 never scoring once. Now even when scoring 3 times, can't get a 8 lol. Anyways, i noticed a dropping rating in this season compared to last one, even if results are better and goals scored/against aswell.

-We approach quarter finals with the aggregate score of 7-1. We will meet an Austrian Team which promises to be challenging: very active manager, first in his league with a 13W 1L score, good quality (28,8 - top11Q about 31) who even cheered couple of times for me in the cup. The only "bad side" is that he uses 4-4-2 flat, but if engine gets fired up his flat might cause problems to my diamond, making it much more interesting. Winning this we'll probably face the second strongest team in our CL after us with his 31 Q - Top11Q around 35, so we got for us the hardest way through final. On the other side there is really not much to look at.

[Ljepoje]

@Morgan O'Bree - Don´t relay or glare far to much on the statistics. In 1 of 3 cases (if not more), it doesn´t make any sense. Also the player ratings could be misleading at some point. An example: I bought this DR/DMR (scout) during the weekend and he keeps getting 5 or 6, but somehow he is often mentioned in the commentary field. As today, he had a great opportunity to score and had a couple of great interventions when clearing the ball away from our side of the pitch.

Also, last season my 18yr old MC played bad and got 4 or 5 in every game. But this season, he gets like 7 or 8 in every game, despite if it´s a league, cl or cup game. Don´t know if it´s beacause I placed him with my 7* playmaker or not, but he is doing well and scored a couple of times as well.

Anyway, congratz and good luck in the CL!

[mzaini_18]

Lost in CL :-(

[dv8r]

We have a tough CL opponent next... A fully 5* team but with no squad depth so it's just a standard 4-3-3...

But we have this match and it's looking ever so likely we will be playing Internazionale should we get there. Internazionale, if you haven't heard is a team who has several scout players and he likes to use counter formations so this final will not be easy!!

[July Fourth]

We have a tough CL opponent next... A fully 5* team but with no squad depth so it's just a standard 4-3-3...

But we have this match and it's looking ever so likely we will be playing Internazionale should we get there. Internazionale, if you haven't heard is a team who has several scout players and he likes to use counter formations so this final will not be easy!!

I've got our biggest remaining challengers in the CL Quarter-Finals, ST.KOOZ United, 5* team with 100.8 average but a small squad and they use formations like 4-1-3N-2, 4-3N-1-2 and... Narrow Diamond. They lost the 2nd leg last night 1-0 but still went through on away goals. The other 2 teams I pointed out as possible finalists on the other side of the draw were both eliminated last night suprisingly but there is a team called beta united that won their last 16 tie 8-1 on aggregate and they could be something to watch out for, other than ST.KOOZ United or beta united, I can't see anything else thats much in the way of resistance to us.

[PeterMeter]

After picking through my tactics I just noticed I've played with a passing focused down both flanks while playing a narrow diamond formation. Probably explains some awkward results, if it's been going on for a while, and hopefully now that I've noticed it I can turn it around. Doesn't do much for the frustration you feel though!