Season 41

[Morgan O'Bree]

Royal Rumble Cup, Playoff, 1st Leg



On Field: New Team Q 53.2 - Salvatore FC Q 52.9

We had a really hard and fun time in this match where the other manager was active and changing shape to its team frequently. Even tho, there wasn't much of a match and the final result, despite the victory, is kinda reducing what effectively was seen on the pitch. A one side match where the absolutely never were dangerous apart from a early counter (1') stopped by our MC Tenma. For the rest we widely domitated both possession and field pressure and, despite (AGAIN) the usual Injury (but this time he had one too), we couldn't score once from free kick (Romer had a bad foot today) and their keeper saved their ass and kinda kept them "alive" for the second leg. As soon as he went under when Johnny Blaze got one from 25 mts he let his other ST on the field. That was the key of the match as we could switch to 3-1-4-2 which is the formation giving out our best soccer atm. From there on it was a dominance and, as stats show, they weren't able to do jack apart one shoot from 30 mts blocked by Flanagan. We doubled the score in no time and we wanted one more in the second half by getting the 3-4-1-2 on, but with Stark's Inury (4sps away from 7*)we lacked a MR in the end and shaped it into 3-1-4-1-1 which worked fine but didn't bring the safe 3-0. The return match will be though in the lion's nest.

MoM: Johnny Blaze (8), New Team.

[Fragman]

In round 6 of the league we finally managed to take the leader position with the last remaining strong competitors finally taking their first defeat. Ranks 1-3 all have 15 points and we lead with a GD of +26 against +11 from the other two. Things are starting to look good in CL as well after winning 3/3 matches in the group phase and thus leading with 5 points difference to the second group member.

Only managing to get a 2:2 at home in the cup playoffs against a clearly weaker team might be nasty at first but I don't really care if I am kicked out of the cup, would give my players more time to rest anyway.

Also the league's top players are part of my team, top scorer and top rating being shared with a rival club while top passers #1 and 2 are both my players.