Season 40

[Bermudo]

I had a draw in my league game against 3rd place (was scheduled during my worktime) and need only one more point out of 5 games to secure the league. Ive got games against 2nd, 4th and 5th still but the other 2 teams are trash so should be easy 6 points there.

Today is a very difficult CL semi, away without 3 suspended players (my 3rd and 5th best quality players among them) and an injured 2nd striker, but I hope I can pull of a draw or low difference loss somehow and make up for it at home. Im playing a 3n-2w defense since I dont have enough good defenders left for 4-1, so I can only hope the opponent doesnt field an AMC and plays through the middle. If I catch too many goals, I might give up on the 2nd game altogether and start hoarding packs for next season.

any good idea for orders with a defensive butterfly formation? Ill either play butterfly or 3n-2w-2n-1-2 (id call id ribbon formation)

[Zeon]

7 goals and not MotM? lol

[dv8r]

7 goals and not MotM? lol

MOTM is silly to be honest... It's not usually accurate

[July Fourth]

LEAGUE ROUND 21 PREVIEW

F.C. Navoski vs July Fourth

F.C. Navoski 103.1 - July Fourth 112.9

IF JULY FOURTH WIN - THEY WILL BE CROWNED CHAMPIONS TODAY

July Fourth play away to F.C. Navoski who managed to get a draw against July Fourth earlier in the season at Islington Park. But July Fourth know that the Mehmet result means they can win the league today. However despite that, July Fourth are expected to start with a weaker team with putting sub/reserve players in for some of the first team players to concentrate on the CL game away at JONCLAB that they play in 2 hours time.

"Of course we would like to finish the job of winning the league this afternoon away at Navoski, but it's not a necessity, since we still have 5 games remaining after today in which we only require 1 win (or 3 draws) to be mathematically certain of winning the title should the nearest challengers finish the season with all wins in their remaining games but the important focus has to be the Champions League since its in the business end in the competition. We almost crashed out in the Quarter-Finals but a tremendous effort from our players saw us win well in the end."

Players like Zidane, Aued, Jurc, Novotny, Baikie, Kareski and Petersen returning from a long injury are all expected to start the game. Some of the first team players will feature but they are all not expected to play 90 minutes this afternoon. Papaleo will play and captain the team.

Match Odds: Navoski 7/2, Draw 9/4, July Fourth 5/6.

[dv8r]

LEAGUE ROUND 21 PREVIEW

F.C. Navoski vs July Fourth

F.C. Navoski 103.1 - July Fourth 112.9

IF JULY FOURTH WIN - THEY WILL BE CROWNED CHAMPIONS TODAY

July Fourth play away to F.C. Navoski who managed to get a draw against July Fourth earlier in the season at Islington Park. But July Fourth know that the Mehmet result means they can win the league today. However despite that, July Fourth are expected to start with a weaker team with putting sub/reserve players in for some of the first team players to concentrate on the CL game away at JONCLAB that they play in 2 hours time.

"Of course we would like to finish the job of winning the league this afternoon away at Navoski, but it's not a necessity, since we still have 5 games remaining after today in which we only require 1 win (or 3 draws) to be mathematically certain of winning the title should the nearest challengers finish the season with all wins in their remaining games but the important focus has to be the Champions League since its in the business end in the competition. We almost crashed out in the Quarter-Finals but a tremendous effort from our players saw us win well in the end."

Players like Zidane, Aued, Jurc, Novotny, Baikie, Kareski and Petersen returning from a long injury are all expected to start the game. Some of the first team players will feature but they are all not expected to play 90 minutes this afternoon. Papaleo will play and captain the team.

Match Odds: Navoski 7/2, Draw 9/4, July Fourth 5/6.

5/6 for the away win? Decent price considering the form July Fourth are in

[July Fourth]

5/6 for the away win? Decent price considering the form July Fourth are in

Playing a weaker team. (leaving most of my best players OUT the league game to play in the CL Semi-Final 1st leg.) and they did get a DRAW at Islington Park 2 weeks ago.

[Bluebird Hewitt]

Apologies for the longish post, amount of screenshots and any repeats in advance, as I can't remember if I left an update or not after last week. Anyway, a quick screenshot update with some additional comments, starting with my match against my closest rival, AC LaPili.



I was unable to watch this match, but him and a supporter gave him a 5% possession bonus. Decent enough result I guess.




As you can, it was not the most exciting of matches against Blood Elf United in the 2nd leg, but after winning 5-0 away in the 1st leg beforehand, it didn't need to be. Quarter finals was secured.




A poor result for us here, seeing as we beat them 3-0 at home earlier in the season. Their only strength is that they have two very strong strikers (A 5* and 6*) but not much else. Without the two striker's, they would struggle badly.




A very frustrating match up to the point where we FINALLY got a goal after battering an illegal formation team from pillar to post in the whole match. The quick second helped as well. The downer came when we lost Sanchez in the final minute or so of the game due to injury (my first for some time) for 6 days. After spending 3 days in the treatment room, he was quick healed for 2 days and left to recover for the final one. He has returned today to play my league game.




A good start for us in the 1st leg of the CL quarter final, where the last minute goal from Urth proved to be quite useful.




After dropping my first points in around 30 games against these at the beginning of the season and having no other games today, we took no chances and fielded our strongest available team. A handsome win was the reward, though Dos Santos got injured in this match for about 4 days (Ha replaced him). Dos Santos was rested for 2 days and quick healed for 1 day. He has returned today.




In the most exciting match of the lot, we pretty much sealed our passage into the semi finals with two early goals, giving us a 4-0 advantage and two away goals. However, they did not go without a fight and managed to pull a goal back shortly after, before Jorgensen scored to get another away goal and retain our handsome lead. Still, they pushed and pushed, scoring two goals in the process, but the previous match and early two gaols in this effectively put them out, as it was too much to ask.

Final score after two legs - Rhondda Rovers 5 - 3 Mike FC




An infuriating game against FCB, considering we beat them 4-0 earlier on in the season. We didn't carve that many chances and they scored from pretty much their only real chance on goal. The only consolation from this was that my rival lost his match, so the draw opened up the gap slightly between me and him.




The final match update was against Atletico Alberto, the only team to beat me this season. This time however, revenge was served good and proper. I was unable to watch the majority of the match, but caught the final 15 minutes of the match (so saw Sutcu's goal).

With these matches, we are currently 3 points ahead of second with a superior goal difference and a game in hand later tonight and in the CL semi final (1st leg tonight).

The next matches are against Marko FC, who will play against my backup team, and a Thai team (name are all square's) who are a little weaker than me, but have not lost a league game this season. I expect a close game, though it would be great to get an away goal or two tonight.

On the player front, we have been kind of busy, selling three players and signing one.

Steigelmann, as you may remember, was sold in the end for £7.63m in the hope that there may be a little rush for him. He was pretty much sold at market value, so nothing special there. We also sold our crap youth player Sean Kelly, who was sold for £2.46m, and earlier this morning, even though the selling price was not met at £4.32m and 7T, we accepted an offer for Van Ryckegem for £4.02m (£700k over the market value) and 5T on the assumption that no one was going to offer that much again this season. We currently have an offer on the table for Attila Szabo for £4.63m and 3T (£600k over the market value). I have set the selling price at £5.08m and 6T, but will likely consider accepting it if there is no increase.

In the last 4 days, we signed our token youth player due to needing a DC better than Van Ryckegem and the DMC is something we were missing:



He will be handy as a squad player and, importantly, for playing in matches where a DMC might be needed.

That's my big update from me, and hopefully I will never do this size update again.

[PricopGeorgeCătălin]

A good victory for us in the morning, 4-1 away against good team, now we are waiting for our CL game, this should be a really hard one.

[ppturano]

after winning a tough war of the offers against the Spanish team Azkor Fc,

TRIPLETE FC announces that it has put under contract the eighteen year old Argentine defender SERGIO CLERICI (Q 39, Areal Defender , DC/DL)

to buy Mr. Clerici, the team is indebted ( we spent the appalling sum of 22 million + 51 token) and now we are forced to sell

Brandon Anderson (Canadian) 28 MC dribbler Q 39 5 stars

it is our intention to wait another two days, before returning to the market, it will be useful to understand what we give our youth (is expected the arrival of two young people in two days)

in the meantime, the team is preparing for the Champions League semifinal

[dv8r]

CL semi-final preview - Perfect Tactics vs izzraildahlan FC

We take on one of the weaker sides in this CL. It is a bit of a shock seeing them this far in the CL considering their quality. They are semi-active and have a semi-strong team of 3*-5* players. They went through on away goals in the last round to a stronger team so they are no pushovers. However the odds are in our favour to qualify and we are on the back of a 13-0 win in the league and are looking to kill off the tie in the first leg. Our opponents are currently 1st in the league and came 3rd last season. They have only won the CL once in their history and is unlikely they will this season.

To qualify:
Perfect Tactics: 1/10
izzraildahlan FC: 19/4

Top Perfect Tactics scorer (both legs):
Pistov: 4/6
Nascimento: 8/11
Petersen: 3/4
Silly: 5/1
Blomqvist: 7/1

First goalscorer tonight:
Pistov: 5/4
Petersen: 7/4
Nascimento: 2/1
Thomas (izzraildahlan): 6/1
Torres (izzraildahlan): 7/1
Silly: 8/1
Blomqvist 10/1

Specials:
Silly to score and Perfect Tactics to win: 2/1
Petersen to score the first goal and Perfect Tactics to win 4-0: 7/1