Season 41

[July Fourth]

League, round 4 result

Perfect Tactics 5-1 Thai Team

Perfect Tactics: 60.7, 3-2-2-2-1 (2nd half 3N-2W-3N-2 and 3-5-2 inverted v) | Thai Team: 48.3, 4-3N-2W-1

We were up against one of our favourite formations and it caused us many problems today. We thought it would be easy for us, Shlimazl in the first minute almost heading in a free kick. Then it all went pear shaped, Niedermeyer breaking free of the defence and finishing for a shock 0-1 lead. We just couldn't find a way back and we were definitely doing something wrong. They kept blocking and tackling us and had no trouble going for goal either. We needed to do something and fast. We switched to a 4-5-1v and did get something back just before half time from a Nascimento header following the corner. However the 4-5-1v was not a good counter and we had to resort to playing Petersen OOP in a 3N-2W-3N-2 formation and that's when we took the lead. Nascimento again from another corner to put us 2-1 up. There was a period in the game for at least 20 minutes when it was pretty much even and they had a few good chances to score a second goal. However Nascimento completed his hat trick with good play with substitute Pistov and to give us some daylight between the teams. Pistov got a goal himself and then Silly finished our opponents off to give us a 5-1 lead but it's not something to be happy about. I think we just about got away with this one! Ardiles was sent off late in the match and the free kick from Petersen was saved.

Goals: Niedermeyer (8'), Nascimento (42', 50, 74' HAT), Pistov (77') Silly (82')
Sent off: Ardiles

DO NOT USE BUTTERFLY FORMATION AGAINST 4-3N-2(AML/AMR)-1, IT IS USELESS

So the dv8r 4-3-2-1 counters the butterfly?

[Zeon]

at least 2.0 (getting about 20/40/60 from norm and 40/80/120 from hard, id call that a fast trainer), 2.5 if youre lucky (thats a very fast trainer). My new youth goalkeeper only has 2.0, but my DC from 2 seasons ago and some bought players had better training rates.

no token youth players usually have 1.0-1.5 which is bad for 18yo.

yeah, the no token one was crap as always, I always train them down to 0% to get the additional ~2 skillpoints and sell them. like everyone i guess

But the 21T one is interesting, the problem is i only have ~30 green packs and he is barely 4* (Q36). The plus side: he is a MC and I dont need to train a new position (at least not atm, I have enough AM* players and my defense is also solid.

So I want to give him a SA (I guess playmaker, because I have good players with corner and freekick) and then I want like 10-14 levels more. So I need to buy rest packs too.


Lets see how the guy I made an offer for his Q43 MC with good training speed (at least his price indicates good speed) decides, if he accepts my offer, I wont buy the youth. If he doesnt I will decide tomorrow.

[dv8r]

So the dv8r 4-3-2-1 counters the butterfly?

I think it does... I didn't have many chances when I used the butterfly

It seems that the butterfly is not good at defending against teams with AML/AMR... Such as 4-2-2-2 hexagon and I would imagine it being crap against 4-5-1v as well.

In these cases, you could use the 3-2-3-2 to good effect.

I need to find a counter for the 4-5-1v though, I play that tomorrow and it's quite a tough team.

[July Fourth]

I think it does... I didn't have many chances when I used the butterfly

It seems that the butterfly is not good at defending against teams with AML/AMR... Such as 4-2-2-2 hexagon and I would imagine it being crap against 4-5-1v as well.

In these cases, you could use the 3-2-3-2 to good effect.

I need to find a counter for the 4-5-1v though, I play that tomorrow and it's quite a tough team.

Some say 4-5-1 flat, 4-4-2 classic or 3(W or N)-5-2 V but they are not reliable.

[July Fourth]

LEAGUE ROUND 4

July Fourth 3-0 ceyhun

July Fourth 118.3 dandelion - ceyhun 110.4 3W-2-3W-2 defensive

Our opponents decided to try and play for a draw I think here, with setting up a formation that looks like its setup to defend and/or perhaps counter us like beta united did a long time ago. We we on the front foot in the first half creating many chances with Pietropaolo getting on goal a couple of times but what unable to finish it and it was 0-0 at HT, the second half continued like the first, Vestergaard broke clear and looked like scoring but the keeper saved it and went out for a corner... Michu crossed in the corner and... HANDBALL... Zurita made a delibrate handball and was given a red card and Michu despatched the penalty, 5 minutes later Miku put the game to bed from 25 meters, our opponents continued to defend rather well to the end but we got one last chance with Miku beating a defender and passing to substitute Papaleo for an easy goal.

Goals: Michu (49 PEN) Miku (54) Papaleo (86) MOTM: Michu.
S/O: Zurita (49)

July Fourth stay top of the table after todays important win with Batigo beating an inactive team earlier 2-0, If it comes down to GD then that 2-0 may seem like a good result for us because that game was effectively a 'gimme' for Batigo and they also play the other inactive team tomorrow so 3 points are guaranteed for them, so 3 points are a must for us tomorrow as well.

[ppturano]

We were eliminated from the cup

Today, thanks to a 3232 very offensive (DC DC DC MC MC AML AMC AMR ST ST), we almost managed to overturn the result of the first match

We played with three defenders, two midfielders, three attacking midfielders and two strikers and we dominated the game, but we won only 1 - 2 in the field of our opponent. In the first game, due to a stupid fear, we played with 5 defenders and one striker, losing ( o - 2) on our field.


What a pity! We have lost a good opportunity!

Now, we take a one week vacation, and we will leave the autopilot

goodbye, we will return the Monday June 17

[NeoWilson]

Lost 0-2 first leg away.

Was up 3-0 at home but 3 of my 5 stars players injured in the second half (WTF Nordeus???? their conditions were 99% before the game) then come minute 88" ... opponent scored the away goal and 3-3 on aggregate I couldn't believe it ..



Lesson learned, I was overconfident in the first leg because even though my opponent is 2 levels higher than me, he is an afk player so I didn't bring my best team (also didn't max the rewards) which resulted in a 2-0 lost.

[Morgan O'Bree]

The troll continues: the "goes wide day"



Left side: 1st half stats; rights side: total stats.

Another trololol day at trololol nordeus stadium where New Team hosted the second leg of cup. A match which proved how the 3-41-4-2 is the killer of 4-1-3-2, and that also proved that our bitching via support of the late days is getting compensated and retributed via game engine. Yes, because we didn't spot a single action by the other team apart from a random free kick which our Keeper deflected. For the rest, we had AT LEAST 20 opportunities which, guess what, were ALL tagged "but it goes wide". Not a single clutch by their keeper, there was no need. Those 7 shoots on goal you see, were amongst the tornado of shoots, 1VS1 CHANCHES being 4 by Hutton (1vs1 specialist), 2 by Schneider, 1 by stark (who passed to hutton and ofc went wide).



As final cherry, MoM their keeper, who didn't get even mentioned once lol. Nice to see poor ratings in all my team despite having CRUSHED them. Should i start a new account? this one seems compromised. Not that they'll see any more token buying here, ehe.

EDIT: the favour bar you see in first half kept like that the whole match.

[Keith Gaule]

Keep rollin', rollin' rollin' ...

8-1 league win, and 3-0 2nd leg cup game away, making it 8-1 on aggregate.


Early league match tomorrow at 10am - Hmmmm, Ireland are playing a WC qualifier tonight, I might have a few beers, doubtful I'll be up for that one, so I think I'll just have my team set up and let them at it.

CL match at 17:30 tomorrow, a win there will almost have me into 2nd round. As the other teams are beating and drawing against each other and I'll have beaten all 3 at least the once.

[FCB]

Today is the good day for me ... after sending out 30Q scout striker out of the team we won the game with 4-3 in away match in Cup .... there was a problem with this 30Q St that he did not mingle properly and team thought that they were far behind than him in the quality hence no unity in the team so defeat in the league and very low score wins ...but when is out and the old ST back in game who has 16Q ...they are united and beat the team who's rating is 18.4 where mine is 16.4 ....

my DL received Red card at 49th minute then team was even more aggressive and found the net 2 times with just 9 players and won match for me which put me in Playoffs ...Go CUP go ...I won the home match already with 2-1