Following yesterday's dilemma regarding the fixtures and possibly being unable to change my team around, I was luckily able to push my CL fixture back to late in the evening, so that problem was solved.

Our League match was a 2-0 away victory against Real Madrid 243483598459458, which still keeps my perfect record intact in the League (we're not scoring as many as I hoped, but we have only conceded 3 goals so far). I wasn't able to watch the match at the time, so can't really report much on this. My rival also won their match and still remains 6 points behind me.

Our CL game against Kanarya 1907 at the later kick off was very stressful. Due to both my ML's being unavailable for the match (main was serving the first of a 2 game suspension while the other was on the last day of recovering from injury), Ha was forced out of position into ML. Bad move, as he had a terrible game and almost cost us the tie, as a foul by him in the 87th minute gifted Kanarya a free kick, which they scored from and took the game into extra time as they won the match 2-1. In the dying seconds of extra time, Nicholls managed to get one on one with the keeper and passed it to Arianto.............who put it over the bar. So it went to penalties, where it went to the 4th penalty taker's. Kanarya's penalty was saved by Cohen, and my 5th penalty taker scored to put us through to the next round.

Today's match is against Goatisan, the rival who is my only threat to the League title. I beat him 3-0 at their place thanks to a formation that worked wonders. Thankfully, my DMC Joe Hamlin is back in time for this match, so will likely start for me today (they play a 4-5-1 Flat, so beat them with a 3-1-4-2 woth the DMC pushed up). However, they seem to be considerably stronger than last time.

Going slightly off topic, I am beginning to wonder what to do with my ST Arianto. The guy is the highest rated ST at my club (Q44, next highest are two ST's on Q40), but he just struggles to score goals (has not scored in the league whatsoever, worrying when the opposition isn't exactly strong, and only has one goal in the CL). However, he is rotated, comes off the bench (and subbed) often and even though he is not scoring, his ratings aren't exactly terrible (one 8, one 6, the rest 7's). He has an FK SA, though I let my ML do that as his stats are slightly better and he is also has an FK SA. His morale is always high as well.

While I don't want to sell him, I'm beginning to think that a high enough offer via negotiations might just tempt me to sell him (What use is an ST if he isn't scoring, after all?).

Thoughts on this?