Season 132 - Are you ready?

[Arphaxad]

New day and new intensive schedule. We had four games ahead of us today; league, cup and association x2. Unfortunately, I think we suffered our first troll result today.

Our opponent in the association games played 4-2-1-3 (AML/AMR). We were 15 % stronger. In the first game, we countered with a formation we're used to; 4-5-1v but with a false 9 instead of an ST. We went into halftime with the lead. But the second half was a trolling one. The opponent had 3 free kicks and scored on all 3 of them. In the 70th min we substituted our DMC for an AMC. For some reason, the substitution didn't register until the 86th min. So we played with a DMC in an AMC role for 16 mins and lost eventually.

Going into the second leg, we changed formation to 3-1-2-3-1 to better counter the opponent's strengths. After taking the lead with 1-0 early on, we noticed that their DL didn't have a good game. We took measures accordingly and focused the play on our right flank and managed to score 3 more goals. Maksim Baldazhanov (AMR) had a great game with 1 goal and 3 assists.

Unfortunately, the troll result costed the association the first place in the final, so we ended the event as runner ups. Live and learn, I guess.

The cup game was played with our second team, so we're satisfied with a 2-0 win on away turf. The league game was standard procedure; 9-0, Manuel Marcusson MoM, 3 goals, 2 assists.