Season 40

[July Fourth]

Haha, you don't say?! ... There are "better" teams then the one above in the CUP for sure. Mostly of them (T-buyers) aren't in the same league or CL and have a little "advantage", but this time we got a "tough" CL draw. There were 8 T-buying teams from the begining. One of them was eliminated in the final-eight, 3 of them in the quarter-finals. 4 left

I'm glad there's not so many on mine lol.. I don't think I could survive!

Troll City's server is a nightmare with Token Buyers as well... there was at least 6 in the Champions League this season and there is always plenty of token buyers in the Champions League every season that I can't avoid them, that's why Troll City can't seem to win it.

[Rubenito]

Extraterestrii are with one step in the CL final winning the first leg of the semifinal with 6-0 away from home

[Chris Rath]

FC Kneipenkick and "Troll FC" both got good results in the CL semi-finals. Both playing the first leg away facing 4-4-2 formations, chose 4-5-1V to counter it. "Troll FC" won 3-2 in a match watched buy no one, while FC Kneipenkick won 1-0 at an active manager, who did only one substitution, but did not change his tactical setup to avoid getting countered.

[Raykco]

Sunday. Day 22.

LEAGUE. Match 20. LONDON CITY (74.2) v DANIS FC (68.0)

Result: LONDON 2-0 DANIS
Goals: Zola 35, Lanwer 69
M.o.M: Adam Zola

This turned out to be a harder game than we would have liked, against the team in 13th place. Jeremiah Whyte had a great chance early on, but put his penalty over the bar. Eventually, Adam Zola finally broke the deadlock with a fine solo effort not long before the break. We again conspired to miss numerous chances after the interval, and all we had to show for the hard work, was a short range tap in for Bjorn Lanwer from a Percy Robins pass. Midfielder Dylan Baker was injured midway through the first half, resulting in Lucas Rogie making his first appearance as the substitute.

OTHER LEAGUE RESULTS:
Shileno 2-0 Yakuza, Legends 1-1 Tongfang, Olympiakos 0-2 Minh, Kukula 2-4 Lalas, Alcudia 7-0 Phetchana, Jeleznik 3-2 Real.



Monday. Day 23.

LEAGUE: Match 21. REAL MONTE (73.1) v LONDON CITY (74.2)

Result: REAL 0-1 LONDON
Goals: Zola 14
M.o.M: Andreas Costa

We just edged this tough encounter thanks to Adam Zola's headed goal from Andrea Costa's corner, early on. For the rest of the game, it seemed that we were defending for most of the time, with our forward players seeing little of the ball.

OTHER LEAGUE RESULTS:
Tongfang 1-1 Jeleznik, Phetchana 1-0 Olympiakos, Yakuza 1-2 Alcudia, Minh 3-1 Legends, Lalas 3-1 Shileno, Danis 0-4 Kukula.


CHAMPS LEAGUE: Semi-Final 1st Leg. YIGIDO 58 (71.2) v LONDON CITY (74.2)

Result: YIGIDO 1-0 LONDON
Goals: Torok 16
M.o.M: Stephan Lindner (Yigido)

City struggled in this first leg of our CL tie, and have left ourselves with work to do, if we are to make the final. The only goal of a dour game, came after sixteen minutes, when home player, Roland Torok took advantage of some slack defending to beat Dean Woodhouse in our goal. We hope to have Oleg Yashin fit again to start the second leg, which will be a help to us.

[Ljepoje]

Balkan Boyz - Matchday 23 (Sz.5 - lvl5)



HEADLINE: Balkan Boyz beat LS 11 in the 1th leg of their semi-final game

CL: LS 11 (Q45) Formation: 3-4-1-2/3W-4-3 >> 1 - 2 << Balkan Boyz (Q51) Formation: 4-5-1V/4-2N-2W-2
SCORERS: S.Kolašinac (1min.ass:S.Lulić), H.Salihamidžić (61min) and R.Peters (86min.ass:S.Starchak)
SUBS: M.Kovačić < > S.Jovetić L.Cana < > S.Sušić
MOTM: Hasan Salihamidžić (Rate:8)


Balkan Boyz claimed a important 1 - 2 away win and overcame the "LS 11" in their way to a 3rd consecutive Champions League final this evening at "YRA Stadium". The Balkan Boyz were making most headway with Olić and Salihamidžić on the wings, supported by Kolašinac and Vranješ on the flanks. And that’s where the first goal came from, as Kolašinac made it through the midfield and pass through the "LS 11" 3 man line-defense, assisted by Lulić. The second goal came in the 61th minute half as Salihamidžić scored from a long-distance shot and The Balkan Boyz seemed to get a grip on the game. Manager -Ljepoje- decided to make a tactical change in the 63rd and 73rd minute as Mateo Kovačić was subbed out in favour for Stevan Jovetić and Lorik Cana in favour for Safet Sušić, which meant The Balkan Boyz went from 4-5-1V to 4-2N-2W-2. The same minute as the substitution took place, LS 11 made a offensive tactical change and subbed two of their players as well, playing a hard attacking 3-4-3 formation the last quarter. Something that seemed to pay off as LS 11 began to attack bravely and in which R.Peters scored a goal in the final minutes just before the end.

Manager -Ljepoje- seemed quite satisfied with the performance of his team and in a short post-game interview he said, "Well, somebody would say that a 1 - 2 is a "good" result and some would say it's a bad one. I can't put my finger on it since I feel a sense of satisfaction and disappointment at the same time. First, we started of quite well with the 4-5-1V formation. Blocked their AMC and controlled the game, created a couple of great goal scoring opportunities and scored twice. Then the last 20minutes we switched to the 4-2N-2N-2 and our opposition to a 3N-4-3, 5 minutes after. They pushed, pushed and pushed and finally got a goal in the 86th minute, a minuter after they subbed Y.Heo for R.Peters. This means that we need to go "all-in" in the return, and play Džeko + Jovetić from the 1th minute. We could also use Mandžukić as a 3rd striker if needed since we need that CL Finals spot!"


In other news, Balkan Boyz managed to beat the Italian team "Benevento" with 0 - 3 after goals by Safet Sušić (x1), Ivica Olić (x1) and Stevan Jovetić (x1). A game in which Nenad Tomović was declared as MoM (rate:8). The win means that Balkan Boyz holds onto first place with 57 points and are 2points clear in front of The Vietnamese team "Tay Ninh FC" (55points) with FC Kula at a 3rd place (52points) and Vanspor FC at a 4th place on 38points. Balkan Boyz will play The Vietnamese team "Tay Ninh FC" tomorrow at home. The kickoff is set at 14:46CET. Later on that evening, Balkan Boyz will play the 2nd leg in the T11 CUP semi-finals against FC Köln. The kickoff is set at 23:20CET

Over&Out!

[Ljepoje]

It's like a comic book sometimes, when a player you have around for so long is gone... It doesn't take long to miss that player, but with Top Eleven, we can buy a replacement (not an exact replacement) but an almost like for like and we can rename a player to the one I just sold. Papaleo at my club is infact Papaleo II, original went from L2-L12 and the current one is L13-present. I still miss the likes of Morrow,Mendibe,Mineah,Yilmaz,Mappin,Brown,Benayoun ,McLeod,Robinson from the earlier days of when I played the game... even my pre-PT squad looked quite good... Trinios,Quero,Hernandez,Szabo,Palin,Mitranche, Lopez,Saunders,Fahad,Kim,Benoit,Maynard. How can I forget these guys!!?? They were awesome players that did awesome things!!

Haha, yeah! You seem to have great experience and a couple of players that left a good impression on you. ... Reincarnation is always a option, why not bring out the dead? ... Also, having these kind of players/names makes it more fun and interesting to play this game.

[dv8r]

Troll City's server is a nightmare with Token Buyers as well... there was at least 6 in the Champions League this season and there is always plenty of token buyers in the Champions League every season that I can't avoid them, that's why Troll City can't seem to win it.

Would you prefer if July Fourth had that kind of server? More challenging

[Raykco]

Haha, yeah! You seem to have great experience and a couple of players that left a good impression on you. ... Reincarnation is always a option, why not bring out the dead? ... Also, having these kind of players/names makes it more fun and interesting to play this game.

I think that July probably keeps all the players in Doctor Who's tardis, and just keeps regenerating them.

[July Fourth]

Would you prefer if July Fourth had that kind of server? More challenging

That's an interesting question actually, but I notice gradual changes as you move up through the levels. for the first time in 5 levels, I've had a bit of a challenge on my hands when I got my League and CL draw and saw they were teams around 3 points away from me, BUT I will soon possibly make my last token purchase this weekend and soon it will become challenging enough with just having to rely on farming again, but at least I will have about a half-dozen 'specialist' players that will be around 7* with some power training and scouts I can still bring in on farming, I just won't be able to get many 8* and 9* players any more, so I'm quite happy with the server as it is as our team is coming back to the pack slowly. There is active teams that miss promotion every so often in a while even Takis for example in my league have won 15 league titles but they have also missed promotion twice but they probably tanked it when things were going bad in those 2 seasons, erster have missed promotion 6 times since I started playing.

[July Fourth]

I think that July probably keeps all the players in Doctor Who's tardis, and just keeps regenerating them.

Yeah, I thought about bringing old great names back from my past squads I've had such as the names I mentioned in that post earlier, but sometimes I come up with a name I like to name a player and I go with it and also quite often if a player has a generated name I like I will stick with it, hence Novotny, Mensah and Ramirez of my recent team. I think a lot of names chucked into the top eleven database were actual footballers names (mostly from obscure leagues) but mixed up with random first names. But there is to be a new generation of players joining us next season since it was cancelled for this season (because of lack of availability) and we strengthened with fringe players instead.