Season 41

[July Fourth]

LEAGUE ROUND 15 PREVIEW

Batigo United vs July Fourth

Batigo United 116.5 - July Fourth 118.9

There may still be another 11 rounds of fixtures after this game but it could come down to this very game here. The league title hangs in the balance and either of these teams I would expect will win this league, Yes nakomphatom are still in it but I don't expect them to overhaul us and Batigo points wise between now and the end of the season.

The maths are simple... Both teams go into the game level on 35 points each, with Batigo's GD superior by 4 goals, If Either side win they will go 3 points clear and should be in a great position to go on to win the league, a draw maintains status quo.

There isn't a lot to overview between these 2 teams because it's basically the same as the first game except every player involved is around 1 point quality better than the previous fixture that was a 2-2 draw with a late Batigo equaliser that has given them the slight advantage until now. For anyone still unfamiliar on the background of Batigo United, is basically they are a 500T a season scout team that just refill their line-up every season with new scouts replacing the previous seasons scouts in the line up and some drop to reserve after a season and some are sold on. They always play 4-4-2 as well, so always a high quality team but not really a tactical team, but a full scout team is always going to be difficult to beat, even if you have 7*/8* players in your starting 11.

This is the 4th meeting between the 2 teams and they have all been close encounters, Batigo won both L12 Champions League semi-final legs 2-1, while the most recent encounter on Round 2 when I played at home as I mentioned earlier ended in a 2-2 draw. So July Fourth are still looking for their first win against their fierce rivals since both managers have spent approximately around the same amount of T on their team since they began playing over a year ago. This is a good as a big rivalry you would get with both teams won many trophies and both but scout players regularly, its only in recent times July Fourth invest in power training to improve rather than buying some mediocre or rubbish older scouts that will only be any good for 2 seasons max.

Match Odds:
Batigo United 6/4, Draw 2/1, July Fourth 15/8

Goals U/O 2.5: Under 6/5, Over 4/6
Both Teams To Score: Yes 8/13 No 11/8

First Goalscorer:
Michu 11/2
Van der Hurk 11/2
Miku 7/1
Papaleo 7/1
Pena 7/1
O'Sullivan 9/1
Kartal 9/1
Toprak 9/1
Diamond 12/1
Simons 12/1
Vestergaard 14/1
Stuart 14/1
Savic 16/1
Other 10/1

[pnr8555]

LEAGUE ROUND 15 PREVIEW

Batigo United vs July Fourth

Batigo United 116.5 - July Fourth 118.9

There may still be another 11 rounds of fixtures after this game but it could come down to this very game here. The league title hangs in the balance and either of these teams I would expect will win this league, Yes nakomphatom are still in it but I don't expect them to overhaul us and Batigo points wise between now and the end of the season.

The maths are simple... Both teams go into the game level on 35 points each, with Batigo's GD superior by 4 goals, If Either side win they will go 3 points clear and should be in a great position to go on to win the league, a draw maintains status quo.

There isn't a lot to overview between these 2 teams because it's basically the same as the first game except every player involved is around 1 point quality better than the previous fixture that was a 2-2 draw with a late Batigo equaliser that has given them the slight advantage until now. For anyone still unfamiliar on the background of Batigo United, is basically they are a 500T a season scout team that just refill their line-up every season with new scouts replacing the previous seasons scouts in the line up and some drop to reserve after a season and some are sold on. They always play 4-4-2 as well, so always a high quality team but not really a tactical team, but a full scout team is always going to be difficult to beat, even if you have 7*/8* players in your starting 11.

This is the 4th meeting between the 2 teams and they have all been close encounters, Batigo won both L12 Champions League semi-final legs 2-1, while the most recent encounter on Round 2 when I played at home as I mentioned earlier ended in a 2-2 draw. So July Fourth are still looking for their first win against their fierce rivals since both managers have spent approximately around the same amount of T on their team since they began playing over a year ago. This is a good as a big rivalry you would get with both teams won many trophies and both but scout players regularly, its only in recent times July Fourth invest in power training to improve rather than buying some mediocre or rubbish older scouts that will only be any good for 2 seasons max.

Match Odds:
Batigo United 6/4, Draw 2/1, July Fourth 15/8

Goals U/O 2.5: Under 6/5, Over 4/6
Both Teams To Score: Yes 8/13 No 11/8

First Goalscorer:
Michu 11/2
Van der Hurk 11/2
Miku 7/1
Papaleo 7/1
Pena 7/1
O'Sullivan 9/1
Kartal 9/1
Toprak 9/1
Diamond 12/1
Simons 12/1
Vestergaard 14/1
Stuart 14/1
Savic 16/1
Other 10/1

My money for the 1st goalscorer goes to Michu!

[Michael Unonk]

anybody has a good tactic and order to play against 4-5-1V formation...?? lemme know if u have any tips...

[pnr8555]

4-3W-1-2...

Do you have any suggestions for beating this weird formation?

-----ST---ST------
-------AMC---AMR-
ML--------MC
---DMC------------
DL-----DC------DR

[July Fourth]

4-3W-1-2...

Do you have any suggestions for beating this weird formation?

-----ST---ST------
-------AMC---AMR-
ML--------MC
---DMC------------
DL-----DC------DR

I'd play something like 4-5-1 V... That formation just seems utter madness and confusing for other managers, possibly why such a wierd formation is used.

[Chris Rath]

FC Kneipenkick could extend its lead in the league to 5 points. While FCK (48.3) won 5-1 at Itanin FC 3-5V(inverted)-2 (39.1) [we played 3N-DMC-4-2], Malika (48.8) lost 2-1 at Natti FC (42.5). Must have been an interesting match between them, both were active, made substitutions and changed their tactics. In the CL FC Kneipenkick awaits a tough task. Jammavre (40.4) could beat us 2-1 in the first leg and we need to turn around the match at home.

On a side-note: Today was a good green booster farming day, 15 of them could be collected in the morning.

[Ljepoje]

I have a striker who is 18yo with 30Q and I tested him yesterday's match...
based on his quality I assigned him as #1 to take free kick from both right and left ... he took 2 free kicks and scored 2 goals ... so I want to add free kick as SA to him for better performance ...

now please suggest me whether I can go ahead or not ?

Hm, then I believe you will do "fine" without adding the special ability really. I mean, if he scores goals when given a FK opportunity without having the FK ability, then it's no big deal.

I have my best ST with a one-on-one ability and he takes all of my free kicks, corners and penalties (score 2 of 3 times).

[Morgan O'Bree]

Yeah cause injuries are totally random and substitutions aren't influent,

right?



That pars our statistic taking us to 27 injured in 27 matches, and raises our last min rate to 80% of injuries in the last 5 mins.

[Raykco]

Tuesday.

LEAGUE. Round 15. OZ SPOR FC (83.0) v LONDON CITY (81.4)

Result: OZ SPOR 3-2 LONDON
Goals: Rajabi 7, Yashin 39, Radu 42, Rajabi 54, Fiksdal 81
M.o.M: Omid Rajabi (Oz)

We were always second best in this disappointing game. From the moment Nobuyoshi Hori conceded a free kick in the 7th minute, from which Omid Rajabi scored, we were chasing the game. Oleg Yashin gave us some hope with an equaliser from a pass from Percy Robins, shortly before the break, but within a couple of minutes we were behind again because of a strike from Irinel Radu. Nine minutes into the second half, Rajabi struck again to make our task even harder. Mads Fiksdal did manage to grab a late consolation goal, but we fell just short by the end.

CITY: Miklosko, Costa, Fiksdal, Watts, Rabus, Andersson, Santos, Hori (Rogie), Yashin, Robins.


MADS FIKSDAL

[July Fourth]

My money for the 1st goalscorer goes to Michu!

LEAGUE ROUND 15

Batigo United 1-1 July Fourth

Batigo United 116.5 4-4-2 Classic - July Fourth 118.9 3N-1-2-3W-1 then 62 minutes 3-5-2 V

Well... Probably before the game you would of said this had draw written all over it and you would of been correct as the 90 minute battle between these 2 fierce rivals ended in another stalemale with both teams constantly cancelling each other out, The early chances fell for July Fourth with O'Sullivan and Miku but getting a clance of goal but shots were blocked, but as expected Batigo United came into the game and had a good spell from the midway point of the first half and it was Savic and Simons trying to get the ball forward to the strikers and Ramirez was in form and determined not to allow Batigo any great chances in the first half.

The second half saw the game open up a bit more and there was more chances for both teams to perhaps win the game and Batigo started the second half on the front foot, Pena's early second half shot on goal went wide before the breakthrough came from Batigo on 54 minutes when Kartal setup Toprak to fire the home side into the lead, Toprak repeated his feat of being the first goalscorer in both our fixtures this season. We then gave away a silly free-kick and specialist van der Hurk thankfully got it all wrong and fired it into the wall, July Fourth needed to change shape a little and throw a roll of the dice and we threw on Papaleo for Vestergaard and switched Miku out to the left, just as we did in the home game and we needed a goal to at least maintain status quo, Our moment of joy came when Stuart picked up the ball from midfield and ran all the way past the defence and curled it past the keeper for our equaliser, a few minutes later Miku played a pass to Stuart and his chance of grabbing a brace failed when Savic threw his body in the way, Michu had a free-kick and that also hit a defender, Then Batigo had the last few chances to win it and again it was superb defensive play from Ramirez getting the tackles and blocking everything from what van der Hurk threw at us in the closing stages. Batigo made a late change bringing off van der Hurk but that will be just to ensure he got the green pack, moments later the final whistle blew.

Goals: Toprak (54) Stuart (67) MOTM: Stuart.

Team Talk: That draw means its status quo between us and Batigo United and GD could count here since Batigo lead by a GD of 4 goals, it isn't a bad result for us since we were the away team and it will be a case of who can get the best results between now and the end of the season, outsiders nakomphatom failed to take advantage of the draw since they drew themselves.

The game finished an hour and a half ago... then my internet started pissing about while I was writing the match report.