Season 40

[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.