Got one of my two ****ty teeth’s pulled out, so no real desire to update this thread. Now, with fresh room
in between 6 and 7 on the right, let's summarize the last seven matches.
The "big" clash for the league title was everything else than big. In fact, it was one of the most humiliating
defeats, as my team didn't stand a **** of a chance, being completely overrun and outplayed by our
opponent, which probably showed his best performance this season. A 3-1 away loss may sound normal,
but it was a lucky escape from a real slap. Between the posts was DC.3, with a solid performance, "killing"
5 of the total 8 shots on target. But solid for the management, isn't "solid" enough for Nordeus. The later
gave him just an 5.0 overall rate...
Close and forget that league game was the motto ahead of the first leg within the 1st CL knockout-round.
The frustration about the league defeat was wreaked on those poor fellas coming to visit our team.
A cut and clear 5-0 home win to seal the 1/4 finals deal already after the first leg. Nothing to do for DC.1,
zero, nada, zilch, zip shots on target and the usual 7.6 rate while doing nothing...
Next, two straight-forward league matches, which had been won by 6-1 and 3-1 respectively. In both matches,
the central defenders had two of three saves, but slightly curious rates, the first with a 6.8, the 2nd defenders
just got a 6.2 for the same performance. But, hell yeah, I won't even try to get an idea behind that logic...
The 2nd leg of the CL match was another clear 4-0 away win, at least one shot from the opponent this time around,
didn't improve the rate compared to no saves at all. Hence, a 7.6 for DC.1...
A hard home league match against the 3rd placed league team, which considerably strengthened his team compared
to the first leg (0-4 away win) was on the horizon... With the quality gap just being 5.6% in favour of my squad, the
management wasn't exactly surprised that the matchup ended in a boring goalless draw. The league is out of reach, and
out of our own hands anyway (-3 pts, -18 GD to the 1st placed), so the concentration of the management and the team itself is mainly
on getting their hands on that damn Champions league trophy... However, at least DC.2 could be completely satisfied,
as his 4 of 4 in saves, proved to be enough to get a 8.9 rate and with that also the "Man of the ****ing match" award.
Well done!
In absence of the management, with a kick-off time far beyond any reasonable "good-night sleep logic", the team
just did their job against the 10th placed league team, pulling in a lousy 2-0 away win. From a total of 28 shots, just
twelve of them found the target, hence, a miserable 17% shot-efficiency for the history books... After getting up, the
management unleashed their frustration with special training treatments; you guys now do 4 additional training sessions
on top of the usually needed ones to get to the 10% bonus. With the team showing a condition well below 15%, it was
time to spend some accumulated greens and blues to lift their moral and condition into usual numbers.
As always, a screen-shot of the so far accumulated stats, before moving on with the 1st leg within the CL (at home), against
an opponent which shouldn't be a really hard nut to crack, displaying a -14.5% gap in quality taking into account only the first eleven.
Those matches are far easier to win, than matches against 30% + underdogs...
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