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If there is enough interest of everyone naming one of the players to make a UP then yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by dv8r
Is Chuck Norris universal player? I saw bunch of teams with Chuck Norris...Quote:
Originally Posted by July Fourth
3 minutes... to kick-off... COME ON ZIDANE... One last effort for the July Fourth fans!!!
S37 - Pepp Crawford (ST)Quote:
Originally Posted by pnr8555
S38 - Chuck Norris (MC)
S39 - Ivor Hardy (DMC)
S40 - No Universal Player was decided.
Thanks! ... Ah yes, but I prefer this > Željko Joksimović - Drska ženo plava - YouTube ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by pnr8555
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Originally Posted by July Fourth
LEAGUE ROUND 26
July Fourth 5-0 dersim FC
Alex Zidane Testimonial
July Fourth 113.1 3N-3W-1-3 then 63 mins 3N-4-1-2 - dersim FC 4-4-2 classic 104.9
Well we done it folks... We finished league season unbeaten... The invincibles once again after coming close last season. July Fourth had a cagey start to the game and dersim had a few chances but made nothing of it, but it was the man who missed our losing penalty shootout last night Tony Adams determined to put things right by making a run through the defence and put us into the lead but I think we can forgive Tony Adams after that glorious goal there. July Fourth begin to take full control and just before half time we had a corner and Michu crossed into Zidane who could not get his header on target. Just after the restart Michu got on a run and a solo effort to slide it past the keeper for 2-0 and Kevin Mensah did the same on 66 minutes for 3-0, There was a counter attack that brought Ramirez forward to shoot past the keeper to make it 4-0... BUT we got on the attack one last time in the match... Papaleo shows great skill! He is past the last defender! A timely pass to ZIDANE he must score! GOAL FOR JULY FOURTH!!!
That was the perfect send off for one of our greatest ever players...
And the scoreboard showed at the end of the game...
Thanks For Everything... Alex!
211 Games, 124 Goals. Not the most prolific of goalscorers but he was a player that made things happen on the patch when it mattered, except for last nights CL Final which was possibly a bit too much for him.
Goals: Adams (31) Michu (46) Mensah (66) Ramirez (72) ZIDANE (76) MOTM: Adams... Who was the idiot that gives MOTM because Zidane deserves that more than anybody on the field, It was his game and he play magnificently.
So... July Fourth come to the middle of the field to collect the league trophy and Alex Zidane with the honour lifts the league trophy in the air to all the July Fourth fans which have packed the Islington Park Stadium to watch the great mans last ever game for the club and a 5-0 emphatic win on a unbeaten league season is the perfect way to send him off as his July Fourth career comes to a close. Hopefully he can become the hero once more for his next club(s) before he retires.
My team definitely drank too much after winning the CL final, since they lost 0-5 to the league second in the last league game... well, maybe that repairs his pride a bit, being only 14 points behind now... unbeaten streak of 25 league games broken, but that doesnt really matter anyway. Its better to lose unimportant games than to lose important ones...
Finished top unbeaten :) only league 2, but still nice. Drew my last game, which allowed 3rd place to stay there, unintentionally, but I'm sure thy're happy. Onwards to league 3 and my first CL
Won the 3rd league in a row !
Before any future final I'm going to try and loose the game before that one since it seems that your team are to well fed with wins if you haven't lost in a long time.
Thats what happened to me as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kukilon
Last season. Lost league game BEFORE CL Final, Won Champions League BUT lost the unbeaten league record.
This season. Won league game BEFORE CL Final, Lost Champions League BUT finished the league unbeaten.
so thats it! just finished my last game of the season, a 3-0 victory at home to Zaid FC. 2 goals for top scorer Zganiacz takes his final tally to 29. 16-2-8 record. Coolio FC finish 4th. hopefilly ill get a generous draw in the cup tomorrow, so i dont have to rush back my injured players
for the fourth time in a row, we won the championship. here are the statistics of this season:
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so far in these four years we have never lost a game, our unbeaten run in the league is therefore of 104 matches
FC Kneipenkick league update:
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Player of the season:
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Well Folks, Its that time again...
July Fourth Season Review
July Fourth Season Summary (Game Season 40, My Season 18, My Level 18)
League
Final Position 1st Played 26 Won 22 Drawn 4 Lost 0 GF 78 GA 11 GD +67 PTS 70
We had a rather shaky and disappointing start to the league this season with registering 4 draws in the first 10 games and not scoring too many goals. We drew games against bournemouth,steauaa,FC Navoski and Thai Team but we won the main games against our early league rivals Takis and Mehmet to get at the top of the pile through "middle weekend" and then once we were into the second half of the league season we were highly consistent to end the league season by winning 16 games in a row to finish the league unbeaten, it was a sound defensive job as we only conceded 11 goals all season which was one of the main reasons we had such a successful compaign and as our rivals beat each other we won the league by 19 points.
Champions League
Final Position Runner-Up Played 13 Won 11 Drawn 1* Lost 1 GF 37 GA 7 GD +30 (* Lost Final On Penalties)
The Champions League was a decent campaign for us when you look back at it, but it was disappointing to end the way it did for us. We started with a perfect 6-0-0 record in the group stages for the 5th time in 6 seasons and won easily in the Last 16 against FC Seti, We suffered a shock 1-0 loss to Equimetal SAD before winning the 2nd leg 3-0 and then we went on to easily win both legs of the semi-final against JONCLAB, but it was all in vain after having lead 1-0 in the final, LIVERPOON FT equalised and then went onto take the title from us on penalties.
Cup
Final Position KO in Preliminary Played 2 Won 0 Drawn 1 Lost 1 GF 3 GA 7 GD -4
Another disappointing cup campaign under the new system, we were unfortunately drawn against an active strong L19 team red star(1 level higher than us) and they basically had too much quality for our team which was suffering from the problems of recruiting non-existant talent on the TM or scout list and we we soundly beaten in the first leg 5-1, before we got a respectable 2-2 draw in the second leg, the toughness of our opponents was confirmed this season as they reached the last 16 drawsheet but were eliminated then and also red star won their L19 league... how are supposed to compete here?
Total Games in all 3 competitions: Played 41 Won 33 Drawn 6 Lost 2 GF 118 GA 25 GD +93
In summary this was an average season in the end for July Fourth, we didn't score a lot of goals but our defence only leaked 18 goals in both the league and CL combined which was good, but unbeaten league season is the only plus point to take from this season. It is hugely disappointing to lose the CL on Penalties but having said that we didn't deserve to win because we didn't play that great in the final. So what was a difficult season for us, we done well to get what we could out of it.
Appearances
39 - Stacey Papaleo, Aaron Ramirez, Tony Adams
37 - Miku
36 - Michu
33 - Jet Hogan, David Seaman
31 - Ronnie O'Sullivan
30 - Ivor Hardy
28 - Igor Kareski
26 - Chuck Norris, Ludek Novotny
24 - Jonathan Aued, Kevin Mensah
22 - Leigh McNamara
18 - Alex Zidane, Kasper Petersen
Top Goalscorers
25 - Stacey Papaleo
21 - Michu
17 - Miku
7 - Ivor Hardy, Ronnie O'Sullivan
5 - Chuck Norris, Alex Zidane, Tony Adams
4 - Leigh McNamara, Aaron Ramirez, Tomas Jurc
Top Assists
20 - Michu
16 - Stacey Papaleo
6 - Alex Zidane
5 - Miku
Man Of The Match
8 - Stacey Papaleo
7 - Michu
5 - Miku
Performance of The Season
Equimetal SAD 0-3 July Fourth (Champions League Quarter-Final, Second Leg)
Trailing 1-0 from the 1st leg, July Fourth needed to get a good performance to qualify for the Semi-Final. But they didn't do a good performance, they did a great performance... slowly dragging themselves back into the match and getting on top of the tie to qualify well in the end.
Disappointments Of The Season
July Fourth 1-1 LIVERPOON FT (Champions League Final - Lost on Penalties) Pff... Say no more.
No good young players to sign at the start of the season and No good scouts all season. Early youth player on day 4 not playing the position we would of liked otherwise he would of been signed.
July Fourth Player Of The Season
In what could be described as an 'Average' season for July Fourth, there wasn't too many players that really performed. Our long serving main squad players lacked quality this season and that contributed into losing the CL. Mensah,McNamara,Zidane and Novotny were no longer good enough any more and with the exception of Zidane they all had poor seasons. 2 players Jurc and Aued are worth a mention because they were brought in for reserve players and both of these 2 players put in good performances all season and did the job that they were brought in for and both will leave at the beginning of next season. Defensive wise we were sound this season, the quartet of Seaman,Adams,Ramirez and Hogan were like a brick wall by letting in 18 goals all season in the league and CL combined, one of our lowest totals. Midfield-wise we were disappointing, with the exception of Jurc and Miku there was nobody that impressed us here and Miku keeps improving with experience and had a similar season to last season, Strikeforce was also short of goals but they had less to work with... Both of these players worked hard for the team and were both in the running for the Player of the Season... but because of one player having more quality and injuries than the other this season and both were equally productive. It was a difficult decision and it could swung both ways... but Stacey Papaleo has pipped Michu to this seasons July Fourth Player of The Season. Papaleo retains that title.
Off The Pitch Performance
With no constructions available to build no for 2 seasons with being maxed out, July Fourth had a sound financial performance off the pitch, the club broke through the £1BILLION bracket for the first time and continued to earn its money left,right and centre... they will have a massive amount of money to spend on players next season... We made a profit of £539M and have over a £1.1B in the bank.
July Fourth finished the season with a fanbase of 3,965,729.
Board Meeting
The club chairman has invested over 800T into the club this season and July Fourth will have over 1,250 Tokens ready for to train our players towards their full potiential. The club chairman is retiring soon and he wants to make his last major investment into the team for next season.
We only needed a draw in our final game to secure the first place but in the end it was a decisive 7-0 victory !!!
That means the Treble is now complete... which makes this the second season in a row we manage to win the league, the cup and the champions league!!!!!!!!!!
A great season ends but we go very confident into the next with a treasure of exactly 123 Tokens... amazing for a non-token buyer! I never had this many, don't even know what to do with all of them :))
Rest is a lot important aswell. Player ratings, despite what people say, are more than nust numbers. Expecially within your main 11, you can see when a player is getting tired by the rates he hets. I monitored my 11 all season and there never was a sudden peak in form or sudden fall. Hutton IE had 15 games rating 9 (13mom) then three on 8 where he scored less, then went on 7 for at least 5 matches without scoring. Resting him for 3 matches (2 days) sent him back to 8 rating with some goals, then two 9 with four goals and 3 assists. Same goes for my midfielders as as soon as trnma started going from 8 to 7 then 6 rating, our pressure on pitch suffered too. Each time i got him out, or whoever in the team who was decreasing in scores, suddenly the pressure bar and overall the match got a whole better. To keep an eye on that.Quote:
Originally Posted by July Fourth
Of course rest is important, and I operate a squad rotation on games, when its a dead-rubber or a game I'm clearly going to win, I will rest my most important players so everybody gets a game every so often.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morgan O'Bree
Saturday. Day 28.
LEAGUE: Match 26. LONDON CITY (74.6) v FC JELEZNIK (66.5)
Result: LONDON 4-2 JELEZNIK
Goals: Yashin 4pen, Zola 19, Robins 51, Criban 83, Damgaard 84, Damgaard 85pen
M.o.M: Percy Robins
Going into the match lying 2nd on goal difference, we knew that we had to better Alcudia's result, to win the league. Oleg Yashin got us off to a dream start, when he converted a penalty after only 4 minutes. Adam Zola doubled our lead midway through the half when he slotted home after being put through by Marius Olsen. Six minutes into the second period, Percy Robins made space for himself and calmly stroked home our third. The score remained at 3-0 until a crazy last few minutes. When Yonni Criban scored our fourth with just seven minutes on the clock, it looked all over. But straight from the restart, Simon Damgaard pulled one back for the visitors. Within a minute, Jeremiah Whyte was red carded for a foul in the box, and Damgaard added his second from the spot. It was an agonising last few minutes for us, but we hung on. Now it was just a four and a half hour wait for Alcudia to play their final match.
OTHER LEAGUE RESULTS:
Danis 3-2 Phetchana, Kukula 4-4 Legends, Yakuza 1-2 Tongfang, Shileno 5-1 Olympiakos, Lalas 1-1 Real, Alcudia 1-0 Minh.
TEAM TALK:
After winning our afternoon game, we had an anxious wait for the very last fixture in our league, between first placed Alcudia and third placed Minh Chi. A win for Alcudia would land them the title. Anything else, and the trophy would be ours. We sat round watching this match and were getting excited as the game reached the 90 minute mark, with the teams locked at 0-0. But our dreams were shattered when Alcudia grabbed a late winner, deep into stoppage time, to deny us top spot. So near, and yet so far.
FINAL TABLE
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How They Finished...
All the final days games have been played in our league now and this is how it finished in our L18 league, confirmation of July Fourth winning the league by 19 points and remaining unbeaten. The biggest shock was... Takis failing to qualify for next seasons Champions League.
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Yes but timing is important. Resting a player in amazing form (several 9 rates or more 9 than 8) might stop his amazing state, as well as letting him play after his scores decrease might let him go on a crysis.Quote:
Originally Posted by July Fourth
As for tonight, 15 minutes before the whistle:
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New Team fled towards their friends Balkan Boyz and is ready to party the recent achievements of both teams! Bakuretsu Storm and FC Nubcleric will follow the game aswell, as to even the away possession stadium's bonus and cheer on both teams! Hopefully none of both teams will reach the beer cargo right behind the showers before the match :cool:...
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Originally Posted by Morgan O'Bree
I just got home, haven't been able to write a post/report, anyway we could take it afterwards.... Everything is set for a Rumble-bumble game :cool:
Should be a good game to watch. Shame I cannot be there to watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morgan O'Bree
Race finished and I am second :D
Game today:
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League table:
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Team on the end of the season:
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Players rating:
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Season MVP:
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Best youngsters:
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Not a bad season, main gol accomplished. Main goal was to participe in CL after two season break.
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Originally Posted by July Fourth
Nothing to seee..... just the "usual"... You know - Opa Balkan Style, hop hop...:cool:
Creed for @Morgon O´Bree! Perhaps one of the most, if not the best "tactician" I played against... We (both) changed formations like 4 or 5 times ... I offer you a re-match at your turf, right now or tomorrow? :)
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Defenetly top fun and how every match should be to fully enjoy this game. I even found out that i can't join friendlies :P I'll pass another one tonight as i just got home and have still to spill out final stats, shower, and give some cuddles to my wife. Gonna take quite a bit i do think :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ljepoje
Great fun!
2 awesome teams in terms of Quality going head to head there... 2 teams that would easily give my team a good game if they had been the same level as my team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ljepoje
To be honest, despite my team having the upper hand in terms of shoots/on goal, for a good 50% of the match he had the upper hand on pressure, while 25% was perfectly equal and 25% was on New Team's side. So despite the score, it could have ended with a wider gap or a draw either. Just missin a lil couple of stars to have an even more balanced match!Quote:
Originally Posted by July Fourth
How many stars was my CL opponent missing from his team compared to my team? something like 20?... and they still turned me over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morgan O'Bree
Finished top of my league clear by 3 points.
Wins: 18
Draws: 5
Loses: 3
I'm pretty confident I could have won over 20 IF I had not been on holiday at the start of the season.
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Originally Posted by Morgan O'Bree
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Originally Posted by July Fourth
Yeah, as @Morgan O'Bree mentioned, definitely one of the best games due the entire season (even if it was a friendly)... I was surprised that your "3N-2W-2N-1-2" didn't work against the 3W-1-2N-2W-2 as I tought the first quarter... I remember using it playing against "Iztik Yan's" 4-2N2W-2 formation (beat him with 2 - 5)... Then you fooled me twice with the AMC-DMC's swaps :D But I believe that if you decided to stick with 1 or 2 formations (instead of changing all the time) you could get that equalizer or perhaps won since mostly of the games in % are decided the last quarter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morgan O'Bree
But this was fun, for once I had to use my "brain" and plan my move before making any subs or swaps around the pitch... ;)
But nothing beats my loss against TanerGS - what a joke! .... I still can't believe how the managed to score 2 goals in 2 minutes and the 3rd, 7 minutes later... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by July Fourth
Yeah thats worse... In the old cup format, you would get 1* that beats 9*, but that is very rare... The higher level manager needs to be totally inactive for anything like that to even happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ljepoje
Looks like you'll be seeing ersta Puma again... They just scraped promotionQuote:
Originally Posted by July Fourth
SEASON'S REPORT:
New Team completed the LV 5 season with probably one of the most rated performances of its history. The only blank point was the early elimination from the rumble cup which was anyways to blame on the Coach and mostly on his Vacation period. As for CL and League, New Team finished the turfs undefeated, signing a perfect roll in the League and almost doing so in CL where this time there were plenty of nasty opponents past the group stage.
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STATISTICS
League:
Matches: 26, W26, D 0, L 0, Tot.Points 78;
Goals For: 141, Goals Against: 4, Difference: +137.
Champion's League:
Matches: 13, W 12, D 1, L 0;
Goals For: 61, Goals Against: 1, Difference: +60.
Royal Rumble Cup:
Matches: 4, W3, D 0, L 1;
Goals For: 11, Goals Against: 9, Difference: +2.
TOTAL:
Matches: 43, W41, D 1, L 1;
Goals For: 213, Goals Against: 13, Difference: +200.
PLAYERS' STATISTICS, TOP 5:
Most Appereances:
1) Karl Heinze Schneider, ST, 42
2) Jasper Romer, MC, 38
3) Tom Becker, AMC - Oliver Hutton, ST, 37
5) Bob Denver, DC, 36
Top Scorers:
1) Oliver Hutton, ST, 40 Goals.
2) Karl Heinze Schneider, ST, 37 Goals
3) Tom Becker, AMC, 36 Goals
4) Jasper Romer, MC, 31 Goals
5) Mark Lenders, ST, 16 Goals.
Top Assisters:
1) Karl Heinze Schneider, 23 Assists
2) Oliver Hutton, ST, 19 Assists
3) Julian Ross, DMC, 15 Assists
4) Jasper Romer, MC, 11 Assists
5) Mark Lenders, ST, 9 Assists
Season's MVP:
This was an extremely hard choiche, as all the top 3 scorers and assisters were eligibile on this season's MVP. After much consideration, though, one man stood above the others on this turf:
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The Kaiser stands above the others, like books say. Not only he played ALL the season's matches, but his assists let Hutton score like a crazy monkey in the first half of the season, and when Hutton had to rest to recharge batteries, he kept playing and serving assists, even going to score an amazing amount of goals which almost parred New Team's Captain's record. After the first half of the League, he had scored only 9. WHat an amazing all around and all-season player!
is this the 40th season, because i thought i read someone say theyd seen like 52 levels?
Funny thing was he put an illegal formation and weaker team out for the last game to avoid promotion and he still won his game and went up lol... erster will be crap next season.Quote:
Originally Posted by dv8r
Yeah, S40 coming to an end tonight and we move on to S41 tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by fall
I thought it would fail as my DMR is the last bought player of the season and all matches he played were 5 and 6. Can't do much untill next one, cause late acquired players tend to play bad sadly. As matter of facts i set my 7* DL out to let play my 6* so i could switch back to ND immediatly, and that's when i equalized.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ljepoje
Yes i could have stuck to both ND and 3-1-4-2 as they were the setups which turned the pressure on you, but that wouldn't have been fun like changing >9000 times and watch you go nuts was :cool:
Yeah, but there is nothing I can do about it/that, and as you said - forget and move on.... Perhaps we will have much better luck next season.. After all, we beat Dynamo SWAG in the CUP - who could have predicted such a thing? I didn't to be honest. :D ... I believe this CUP trophy and the CL trophy we won last season - are the trophies I'm most proud of :)Quote:
Originally Posted by July Fourth
Haha, yeah... I was like "WTF", it was like playing "sink the boat"... Move a player from one position to a another :D ... But it was fun, much tense then I expected. Perhaps since both were eager to win :p .... Anyway, you fought well. Hopefully we could play a game later on, would be nice;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Morgan O'Bree
Anyway, I was surprised that Lorik Cana (MoM) managed to score and assist at the same time. This was perhaps his best performance ever. :p Btw, my DL/DMR (Kolašinac) gets 5 or 6 (just once he got a 7) in every game, but despite that he plays like hell and are often mentioned in the commentary. That's why I don't tend to relay on the stats for 100%.
Logging off for a hour or two, need to eat and rest until the new season is created ... See ya all!
