Season 41

[dv8r]

Champions League Group C Round 1

July Fourth 6-0 Real Palermo

July Fourth 118.2 4-1-2-1-2 ND then subbed DL for ML at HT - Real Palermo 107.8 5-3W-2

To our major surprise tonight, we decided to play a semi-weaker team, based on player fitness and looked at our opponents strategy and saw they went 5-4-1 about 30 minutes before the game, but when kick-off came and our opponent switched to 5-3W-2, think he looks like he is giving CL a miss this season, mainly possibly because of our quality. Well, My past experience was that last time I played 5-3W-2 I also played the ND and guess what? I won 6-0 that time, I did the same again tonight although I made a tweak at HT, We got off to the perfect start on 2 minutes with Michu finding space and passing it to the ever reliable Papaleo to give us the lead, it was soon 2-0 when we won a corner an Stuart crossing into Michu to knock it in, 4 minutes later again from a corner Stuart crosses in and finds Malik to get his first for the club with a header, we continue to press and just as we went into half-time Diamond scored from long range to make it 4-0, I made 3 changes and gave 3 more reserve players a run out, Our opponents enjoyed a good spell after the restart by getting the ball forward plenty of times but our defence was too strong and we soon got back on top and when we did Diamond made it a brace on 72 minutes from 25 meters, Papaleo missed a sitter, then Miku had a long range effort saved before McNamara coming in on the left midfield on the formation tweak had a shot that deflected off a defender and into the goal. Many of the game changing play came from Hardy who was able to turn defence into attack on many occasions in this game, maybe he knows that Childs/Malik are potentially forcing him out the team and he wants to fight for a starting place.

Goals: Papaleo (2) Michu (12) Malik (16) Diamond (45,72) McNamara (80) MOTM: Hardy.

Despite now only being 3rd choice striker now, Papaleo still has a key role in our clubs fortunes this season and has shown us here once again, even though the player is in decline. With Pietropaolo been PTed to 7*, Papaleo is 3Q lower than Pietropaolo and 8Q behind Michu, with rotation on games Papaleo will still feature a lot this season.

Hardy MOTM like my match lol

I'm getting confused with Pietropaolo and Papaleo lol. Did you name him that or was it like that before?

[July Fourth]

Hardy MOTM like my match lol

I'm getting confused with Pietropaolo and Papaleo lol. Did you name him that or was it like that before?

No. I changed the players name to Alessio Pietropaolo, He is off another football manager game I recently started playing once again at the beginning of the year, that games slow though, 2 games per week in the league and 2 weeks off, making a season lasts 3 months, but I'm only semi-active, I bought that Alessio Pietropaolo on that game for practically a free transfer and all he does is score goals, so I thought, why not give him a shot in T11 and see if he can come good there as well. May wind down with a couple of friendlies against my punchbag teams if it lets me and log off the game for the night. RR Cup tomorrow too, something else to look forward too as well as July Fourth vs Batigo United.

[dv8r]

There we go!


Our 8th player on 7*

[July Fourth]

There we go!


Our 8th player on 7*

Shame I couldn't get a decent ML/AML, Otherwise I would of had my entire starting dandelion line-up with all players at 7*, I could actually name a starting XI that would feature 11 players of a minimum quality of 7*, but it would be an asymmetrical formation or 1 player OOP on ML.

[Ljepoje]

INJURY COUNT BALKAN BOYZ

Day 1 - 3:

Džeko - 6 days (PT) - 15PACKS
Džeko - 3 days (PT) - 12PACKS
Džeko - 2 days (PT) - 9PACKS
Nastasić - 3 days (PT) - 12PACKS
Begović - 3 days (PT) - 12PACKS
Cana - 5 days (PT) - 15PACKS
Ljajić - 4 days (CL) - Not healed yet
Pjanić - 3 Days (CUP) - Not healed yet
Olić - 3 Days (Normal training) - Not healed yet

Injury total: 9
Total amount of packs used: 75 (60-70T)

[Morgan O'Bree]

Another idiotic match by the game engine.



Don't be fooled by the final setup. The starting lineup was me narrow diamond vs him 4-4-2 flat. What you see on his side is his best lineup. A Q 28 team clashing away against a Q 52 one, supposedly using a counter to the flat 4-4-2. For 45 mins he was a fortress and was impossible to beat.
As plus, we had offensive mentality and all it spawned during the first half was "counter attack break by new team". WTF. In the end we made it 5-0 and OFF COURSE, as i clicked my MC out as last sub, a late tackle, not EVEN ****ing carded made Hutton injured, as result of us playing in 10 and scoring FOUR goals in 10. Nonetheless, we never NEVER had a clear supremacy, there was a moment even the favour bar was for him.

As much of consideration i can make, this is the last drop i'm gonna take. I can bare losing by "luck" overwhelming an opponent and getting a counter without scoring, but i do not bare nor i won't to play at par with a 2* team even if winning 4-0. If this **** keeps piling up Nordeus can say bye to my token buying account and lick my *****. I'll do much better as free with much fun anyways.

[Chris Rath]

FC Kneipenkick - Masjid Tanah FC 6:1
After the very close 3-2 league opening FCK had only problems at the beginning with the 13 quality points less team. Masjid scored the lead after 29 minutes, but Upton (34.), Garcia (60., 84.), Campos (64.) and Monroe (81., 86.) secured a convincing win for 4-1-2-1-2 ND vs. 3N-4-1-2.

Troll F.C. also won its first matches with a 5-0 in the league and a 3-0 in the CL against inactive teams. In the cup Troll F.C. will face a slightly better team, but let's see if there's a weird system to confude the opponent.

[July Fourth]

July Fourth team presentation for this season



As you can see... This team is our best since our team we had at L13, with those 2 young players we won and PTed to 7*, We did plan to get Pietropaolo to 8* but we already over spent on our budget this season, but with who is in our league + CL, the token budget can be stretched for this season. Along with players Pted to 8* last season dropping back to 7* once again, we got them back up to 8* once again and will benefit for longer period at that time, Miku was relatively close to 9* at 128 and again our budget of tokens running out we had to stop at 131, but we planned to try and max Miku out this season, we still maybe could, if we get an mass influx of videos again between now and end season and as Miku leaves the U21 bracket at end this season if were close to 135 then Miku will get to 9* once again next season, but it will be for the very last time as training speeds tumble. Our best possible quality for the starting line-up is taken as 122.9 (11 players are at least 7*), because we can name a legal formation with our 11 most quality players but it will be asymmetrical. Our total quality is 118.2 and with natural growth plus some extra greens from videos over the season we may hit the 120 overall which will make us a 7* team once again. After Miku, It's unlikely we will have another 9* player for sometime.

If your wondering why Kareski has not been power trained is because he is only a medium trainer and it would cost too many greens. He will be sold at the beginning of next season.

[Ljepoje]

July Fourth team presentation for this season

Nicely done! Far much better squad then last season .. Quite "young" 1th line up as well, despite the 25yr old Danish (AML/ML) and Michu. About the macedonian player "Kareski", was that the player you bought last season with the "funny name"? What are the plans for Mensah + McNamara and Papaleop, sell them during the season or next?

[July Fourth]

Nicely done! Far much better squad then last season .. Quite "young" 1th line up as well, despite the 25yr old Danish (AML/ML) and Michu. About the macedonian player "Kareski", was that the player you bought last season with the "funny name"? What are the plans for Mensah + McNamara and Papaleop, sell them during the season or next?

Mensah + McNamara will be sold start of next season and Papaleo will still remain at the club next season as a high-end 5* player which is still good enough for a reserve player, the AML/ML was brought in as cover since there was no prime candidate for us for that position to PT to 7* so he will do for this season as a first team player and a reserve next season, Yeah Kareski was the player that you suggested I should rename funnily enough, but he is not really a one to train for a long period of time so he will do for reserve for this season. It was nice to clear out some old guys and have a squad once again that doesn't feature anyone 30+. I'm happy with this team and its strength it has.