Season 40

[Raykco]

Season 11. Day 3 (Tuesday).

LEAGUE: Round 1.PHETCHANA FC (59.3) v LONDON CITY (70.0)

Result: PHETCHANA 0-3 LONDON
Goals: Brown 33, Lanwer 39, Andersson 50
M.o.M: Oleg Yashin

Our tricky first league match, eventually ended positively in our favour. The first half hour was nervy for us against the weakest side in the league. Relief was obvious once Jake Brown had conjured a goal from nothing. Within a few minutes, Oleg Yashin set up Bjorn Lanwer to make it 2-0. Five minutes after the break, the match was won after Yashin again played an accurate through ball for Stig Andersson to finish. Three points from this opening game was definitely needed, after our dismal start to the season with elimination from the cup.

Other league results:
Alcudia 3-0 Olympiakos, Danis 0-0 Real Monte, Yakuzaz 0-3 Minh Chi, Shileno 6-2 L.Legends, Lalas 2-0 Tongfang, Kukula 3-0 Jeleznik


CHAMPS LEAGUE: Round 1. LONDON CITY (70.4) v SAYAN FC 65.8)

Result: LONDON 2-1 SAYAN
Goals: Perrot 10, Robins 48, Andersson 54
M.o.M: Andreas Costa

Another slow start for City in this opening group H match. Rudy Perrot gave our visitors an early lead, which they held on to until halftime. Within ten minutes of the restart, we had turned the game around. Percy Robins headed home an Andreas Costa corner, just after the resumption, and Stig Andersson added our second from a free kick, just six minutes later. We had a few chances after that, but couldn't find the net for a third time.

[Chris Rath]

After the harsh beating in the cup FCK redeems itself, 5-0 in the league (me 4-4-2 vs. 3N-2W-3N-2ST) and 7-0 in the CL (opponent was active, but did not know about illegal formations, me chose DC-DC-DC-DR-DMR-MC-MC-3ST).

@Ljepoje's question about the cup tactics: Yes, that was my manager mistake. I chose 3W-2N-3-1-1 vs. 4-1-2-1-2 ND, which worked in the past, but the opponent probably motivated his AMC, so it was 3 strikers vs. a 3W defense and that is punished by the game engine. I corrected it after 15 minutes (0-1 at that time) to 4-1-4-1, but the match engine did not react, the opponent got chance after chance and at the end was a 0-4 home defeat. Bitter loss, but I don't mind too much about the cup. Everyone uses hard tackling there, there are higher level player with 12 more quality than me (hello Nordeus, how about performance based cup). So it is a pain in the a** each year and this way I can concentrate on league, CL and friendlies to improve the squad.

[Ljepoje]

After the harsh beating in the cup FCK redeems itself, 5-0 in the league (me 4-4-2 vs. 3N-2W-3N-2ST) and 7-0 in the CL (opponent was active, but did not know about illegal formations, me chose DC-DC-DC-DR-DMR-MC-MC-3ST).

@Ljepoje's question about the cup tactics: Yes, that was my manager mistake. I chose 3W-2N-3-1-1 vs. 4-1-2-1-2 ND, which worked in the past, but the opponent probably motivated his AMC, so it was 3 strikers vs. a 3W defense and that is punished by the game engine. I corrected it after 15 minutes (0-1 at that time) to 4-1-4-1, but the match engine did not react, the opponent got chance after chance and at the end was a 0-4 home defeat. Bitter loss, but I don't mind too much about the cup. Everyone uses hard tackling there, there are higher level player with 12 more quality than me (hello Nordeus, how about performance based cup). So it is a pain in the a** each year and this way I can concentrate on league, CL and friendlies to improve the squad.

Aha, that was "it" then. I used to play formations/tactics, using the "through the middle" logic (diamond etc), but then I changed and adapted the 4-2N-3W-2 "butterfly" formation instead. This helped me alot, especially against "stronger" opposition. Sometimes, "fire with fire" is the best solution when your out of ideas.

And yeah, the 3W is more or less sh*t, but not if you use 2x DMC'´s to back them up. You could go with a 3N instead + 1 DMC (3-1-4-2 or 3-1-3-1-2). But it's up to you, you know your players and the way they perform in curtain situations.

I use hard tackling since season 3 and so far - all good... .. The "key" behind it is to NOT change your settings (from easy, normal to hard etc), then the engine could strike at you. I don't get so many injuries anymore, all of them come from PT more or less.

Then again and as I said, players at the old server are struggling against better opposition while players on the new (like myself) are playing against equal opposition (all lvl5). That's why I might have a advantage.

[July Fourth]

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP E ROUND 1

July Fourth 2-0 THUNYABURI FC

July Fourth 111.1 3N-1-3W-1-2 - THUNYABURI FC 102.3 4-1-4-1

Another game where July Fourth struggled to break down our opposition, after a first boring 45 where Papaleo could beat their defenders and our opponents cancelling us out in the first half, we got things going just after half-time with O'Sullivan scoring from 25 meters with a fine struck shot and Our new signing Jurc got our second after Papaleo crossed it in to him. After a couple of average games for July Fourth Jurc seems to be enjoying playing alongside our stars in our team. The rest of the game was just as bad with nothing happening once we made it 2-0 with our attention now turned towards our rivals for the league title Takis tomorrow evening.

Goals: O'Sullivan (51) Jurc (54) MOTM: Michu.

[dv8r]

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP E ROUND 1

July Fourth 2-0 THUNYABURI FC

July Fourth 111.1 3N-1-3W-1-2 - THUNYABURI FC 102.3 4-1-4-1

Another game where July Fourth struggled to break down our opposition, after a first boring 45 where Papaleo could beat their defenders and our opponents cancelling us out in the first half, we got things going just after half-time with O'Sullivan scoring from 25 meters with a fine struck shot and Our new signing Jurc got our second after Papaleo crossed it in to him. After a couple of average games for July Fourth Jurc seems to be enjoying playing alongside our stars in our team. The rest of the game was just as bad with nothing happening once we made it 2-0 with our attention now turned towards our rivals for the league title Takis tomorrow evening.

Goals: O'Sullivan (51) Jurc (54) MOTM: Michu.

2-0 like me today.. it's 3 points nevertheless

[Raykco]

Where can I buy a good hard hat?

I say this because I currently have several 5* players that are within 20 points of becoming scouts, and when this happens, I will then have 10 scouts in my squad. Will then be waiting for all the "Tommy Token" complaints from my opponents.

[dv8r]

Where can I buy a good hard hat?

I say this because I currently have several 5* players that are within 20 points of becoming scouts, and when this happens, I will then have 10 scouts in my squad. Will then be waiting for all the "Tommy Token" complaints from my opponents.

I have 7* players in my team... If anyone in my CL/league complains about me on here I'll just sit back and enjoy the laugh lol

[July Fourth]

I have 7* players in my team... If anyone in my CL/league complains about me on here I'll just sit back and enjoy the laugh lol

Yeah same here with my team and when they see Miku's quality they might think... F@@K!!! lol...

I'd love someone on my server to come on here and create a topic of 'how to beat that team' and in the thread they end up posting my squad LOL... It would be quite respectful to me to be honest!

[Raykco]

Yeah same here with my team and when they see Miku's quality they might think... F@@K!!! lol...

I'd love someone on my server to come on here and create a topic of 'how to beat that team' and in the thread they end up posting my squad LOL... It would be quite respectful to me to be honest!

If that did happen, and they didn't know it was you, you could have some real fun, giving them formations that you could beat, even with players OOP.

[Ljepoje]

Not sure if stupid, or just dumb? .... I just couldn't let him have the player for 2 reasons: Kind of player that I needed since day 1 and then he was from the Balkans as well (Croatia) and probably dumb/stupid as myself... Both tried with some "scare tactics", but nobody had the courage to step down.....The price? 58T + 44,9M! Now I'm in debt, -30M!

History: (approx)
KO.round: 1 - 5: 11 players
KO.round: 5 - 10: 7 players
KO.round: 10 - 15: 5 players
KO.round: 15 - 20: 4 players
KO.round: 20 - 25: 3 players
KO.round: 25 - 58: 2 players





After this, no one will ever bid against me....