Season 41

[Morgan O'Bree]

Yesterday Tenma injured during the CL, out 4 days.
Today:

minute 70: i order my 3rd and last sub
minute 71: Becker injures
Minute 73: the automated sub gets done, leaving me in 10.

This **** has to be fixed, both the riddicolous number of injuries AND the real time subs (is that hard to put a big round button with "undo last sub" written on it? ALso, i love how the IA recognizes your last sub and immediatly injuries one of your players. WOuld the SIMULATION engine be that effective, we'd talk about a marvellous game here.

In the end, we won 4-1 conceding at 90'.

Becker out for 6 days, and many ****s to our nice well grown clinic. Another couple of ****s here and there to devs, and we'll end this ****ty day with the cup's match which i'm 99% sure would be another major troll.

out.

[pnr8555]

Match Preview - AEPRE FC v. Hwasung FC (South Korean Team)
Type: League
Location: Home
Kick-off: 20:57 ICT
Referee: Asamoah Mareye

Team Comparison



Status: Inactive
Formation: 5-2MC/MR-2AML/AMC-1
Position in League: 10th (13 points)

AEPRE FC looking very confident as they will be facing a very inferior team, Hwasung FC.

Hwasung FC, who's been in-form recently, is set to face a challenge aganist the 100% league leader. AEPRE FC will be trashing them with 4-1-3-1-2 featuring their best starting 11. Frank Lampard, who is out for 3 days will be replaced by returning Matt van Hart, who seems to be mentioned a lot recently, as they wanted to score 10+ goals this match. AEPRE FC's manager says "this is our best era in AEPRE FC's history, we'll need to keep it up".

Also in this match, three staffs from Nordeus Safety Programme will be coming to approve the new Balton Stand, which is just completed.

[July Fourth]

ROYAL RUMBLE CUP - QUARTER FINAL PREVIEW

Benca FC vs July Fourth Today
July Fourth vs Benca FC Wednesday

Benca 117.7 - July Fourth 118.8

A RR Cup Quarter-Final for July Fourth??? We would of snapped someone's hand off for this... But it's true and we are still in the RR Cup after knocking out FOUR L20 teams and our opponents are no other than a very active L20 Benca FC and they have a very active manager who believes in a quite defensive style of play, so it could be very difficult for us to overcome this tie. Based on current form and the 2 squads in comparison, July Fourth are slight favourites to qualify over the 2 legs, but we will be happy enough whatever happens in the remaining stages of the RR Cup. July Fourth are currently 8-0-0 this season in the RR Cup so it would be an amazing feat if we were continue this in the RR Cup this season.

Benca FC are mainly a 6* team with a few players developed to 7* (a star less on his level) and have some good players. I've watched a number of Benca's matches this season, Scarpelli and Tortora are the main attacking players for Benca and have notched up a decent amount of goals between them in a tough L20 league. Dominic Somerville is a very talented midfielder but will need to improve his form to give us problems and David Mendiola is their number 1 GK and at 7* he is expected to keep the scoreline low for us, They also have a young Colombian in Carlos Ortiz who is 6*119 and a bright future ahead of him at only 18 years old. If Benca have any weakness its their defence, where they don't have any 7* in that area. But their strengths are a 21-man squad and plenty of flexibility to change formations at any point in the match, their prefered formations are 4-4-2 classic and the dreaded 4-1-3W-2.

Both teams have plenty of options available for their starting XI, but July Fourth have Pietropaolo and Hardy out injured, Pietropaolo is expected to be available for the 2nd leg, Ramirez was treated for his injury by the July Fourth medic team and is available for the first leg.

Marc Vestergaard is a July Fourth player that formerly played for Benca FC and was bought from negotiations and is expected to start the game against his former employers, mainly the reason why both managers have a lot of respect for each other.

Odds: To Qualify: July Fourth 4/7, Benca FC 11/8

1st Leg: Benca 6/4, Draw 2/1, July Fourth 15/8
2nd Leg: July Fourth 4/6, Draw 5/2, Benca 3/1

SPECIAL BET: Vestergaard to score in either game: 5/6, To score in both games 6/1, Vestergaard RED CARD in either leg 50/1.

[Ljepoje]

[CENTER]ROYAL RUMBLE CUP - QUARTER FINAL PREVIEW

Benca FC vs July Fourth Today
July Fourth vs Benca FC Wednesday

Good luck @July! Hope you get through and win that bloody CUP trophy, I will cross my fingers!

[July Fourth]

Good luck @July! Hope you get through and win that bloody CUP trophy, I will cross my fingers!

Oh its been difficult, but I've enjoyed the cup run as I expected to go out at the beginning as usual, This is a tough Quarter-Final, but I expect another good performance from my team and hopefully get us a good lead going into the 2nd leg. I'd happily take a draw or even a high-scoring 1 goal loss like 3-2 or 4-3.

[July Fourth]

Oh its been difficult, but I've enjoyed the cup run as I expected to go out at the beginning as usual, This is a tough Quarter-Final, but I expect another good performance from my team and hopefully get us a good lead going into the 2nd leg. I'd happily take a draw or even a high-scoring 1 goal loss like 3-2 or 4-3.

ROYAL RUMBLE CUP - QUARTER-FINAL, 1ST LEG

FC Benca 1-4 July Fourth

FC Benca 117.7 4-1-3W-2 - July Fourth 118.8 3N-1-2-3W-1

We were ready and waiting for this game and after many games of study of our opponents, we used it to our advantage and players like Miku and O'Sullivan were the shining lights and our defence did a good job of Bencas attacks, The first real chance of the game fell for the home team and when the dangerous Scarpelli setup Rottine and he tapped in for an early advantage for Benca, But July Fourth woke up and were up for the challenge this afternoon and found our game, Miku from 25 meters almost immediately put us level and we had to wait until just after midway point of the first half for Stuart to score from 30 meters to give us a useful 2 away goals, this came after we defended well against Scarpelli and Ortiz who both got a shot in from Benca. Orbech, Scarpelli and Ortiz then tried to breakthrough for Benca in search of the equaliser and Hogan and Ramirez read the timings well.

The second half was more good stuff from July Fourth as we begun to take full control of the game, Michu broke clear and was 1v1 against Mendiola and used his option to pass to Miku to make it 3-1, Our next chance saw O'Sullivan break clear and pass to Miku who shot passed the post in an attempt for a wonderful hatrick, Vestergaard had a opportunity and tried to go alone but Donninelli cut out the former Benca's player attempts at goal, Then O'Sullivan made the move of the game and this time he had more space and time to direct his effort on goal to give the keeper no chance and send July Fourth into a 4-1 lead when his shot went in off the post, Even substitutes Petersen and Papaleo were creating chances after we replaced Michu, O'Sullivan and Vestergaard with our eyes on tonights re-arranged league game which got put back 6 1/2 hours for to recover some rest after this game, there was a late chance for Benca to grab themselves some hope for the 2nd leg on Wednesday when Petkov played it to Tortora and his shot was blocked by Hogan.

Goals: Rottine (5) Miku (10,57) Stuart (33) O'Sullivan (65) MOTM: Michu.

Team Talk: We are absolutely delighted to win this difficult game on paper very well and we have just about won the tie already in the 1st leg, so it looks like we are going to be presented with some sort of reward for our efforts in this RR Cup, Of course I think Benca will come out and throw the kitchen sink at us in the 2nd leg, but I believe we have more than enough quality to withstand any sort of Benca comeback. We expect to face a similar quality team in the Semi-Finals in "Wardley Massive" as they are firm favourites to progress against "Thai Team".

Our odds of Winning the RR Cup have tumbled down to just 3/1.

[Ljepoje]

Oh its been difficult, but I've enjoyed the cup run as I expected to go out at the beginning as usual, This is a tough Quarter-Final, but I expect another good performance from my team and hopefully get us a good lead going into the 2nd leg. I'd happily take a draw or even a high-scoring 1 goal loss like 3-2 or 4-3.

Yeah, it's tough. But the CUP's should be tough and rough, that's why it becomes a relief and joy when you win it (or get 2nd or 3rd)... It's the feeling of satisfaction

ROYAL RUMBLE CUP - QUARTER-FINAL, 1ST LEG

FC Benca 1-4 July Fourth

FC Benca 117.7 4-1-3W-2 - July Fourth 118.8 3N-1-2-3W-1

I never doubted you for a second, Wonderful!

[Ljepoje]

MATCHREPORT (DAY 16) - BALKAN BOYZ (Sz. 6 / Lvl6)

LEAGUE: We played one of the better teams today, the Spanish "El Circo" (scout team) and managed to get a 1-1 draw. Unfortunately I've missed out mostly of the game, managed to login in at the 75th minute and realized that we where 1 goal down. Made a offensive switch and managed to equalize in the 83rd minute as Stevan Jovetić scored. His 4-4-2 N-diamond seemed to penetrate our 3W-2N-2N-2W-1 formation pretty damn well. He scored through a FK in 51th minute.

The draw against "El Circo" means that we hold on to the 1th place with 38 points after 14 rounds and with a record of 12W-2D-0L. "Ekranas FC" is 2nd with 35 points, "RYY HO" 3rd and "PUTOV" 4th, both at 29points. We are playing the Moroccan team "Royal Academy" away tomorrow. The Kick off is scheduled for 19:19CET.

TEAM TALK: Well, we continue to play pretty damn good, both offensivly and defensivly. Don't have anything to add really. The 18yr old youngster, Miroslav Stevanović is probably one of our best youth players in the Clubs history. The guy plays (rates:8-9-9-8) and scores as hell, both in the league and CL.

I've started to test out the 3-4-1-2 and the 3-1-4-2 formation as well, will probably use it tomorrow in our league game against "Royal Academy" and in the CL return against "Waterschei FC".

INJURY LIST/SUSPENSION: No injuries to report. No suspensions to report.


Over&Out

[pnr8555]

Match Report - AEPRE FC 5-0 Hwasung FC (South Korean Team)

A very good effort from AEPRE FC, despit they didn't bury them 10+ goals as they expected to be. All players were doing exceptionally well today, especially Florent Malouda, who managed to created lots of efforts into the match. Man of the Match should have go to Hwasung FC's Gregor Sipos. Great effort from the Slovene goalkeeper as he pulled out 4 saves this match, but however he could have let 5 shots from AEPRE FC to go into the net. I think that the best player of today is Malouda, scoring two goals and create lots of chances today. After the match, Falcao have received a skill point which added another star to him, making him a 40-rated scout player.

Formation used: 4-1-3W-1-2, 4-1-2-1-2 wide diamond, 4-3W-1-2, 4-4-2 classic
(Formation in bold means the most effective formation)



NGE Man of the Match July Fourth (8)

NGE Rating



Manager Points This Match
3pts-Malouda
2pts-July Fourth
1pt-Bale

Manager Points Rankings
July Fourth-21
Falcao-20
Kovacevic-12
Hazard-11
Lampard-7
Malouda-6
Bale-6
Pricop Catalin-3
Y.Abouret-3
D.Andersson-3
Terry-3
Turnbull-2
A.Cole-2
David Luiz-2
Ljepoje-2
van Hart-1

FROM NEXT SUNDAY, THE MANAGER POINTS GIVEN ON EACH MATCH WILL NOT BE REVEALED. THEY WILL BE REVEALED AT THE END OF THE SEASON.

ALSO FROM THIS THURSDAY, LIVE MATCHES THAT HAS NOT BEEN WATCHED WILL EARN 1 MANAGER POINT FOR NGE MAN OF THE MATCH.

League Standings

[Shadow]

League game yesterday:



In 30 minutes I play with 10th:




CL:



I believe we can go to the next round