Season 41

[Morgan O'Bree]

Royal Rumble Cup, Quarter Finals, 2nd Leg


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New Team advances to semi-finals with a 5-3 aggregate.

And with this we sealed the pass to our first Cup's semifinal after Season one where we won. Basically, it was a sort of copycat of the first leg, where we started pretty good with 3 straight occasions which went missing and we got purged back at their very first chanche on a counter with Zoller (13'). But like in the first leg, we immediatly catched up them making our better plays count with Stark who got past the defense and offered an easy tap-in for Schneider (24').
At this point Kaiserslauten had already switched to 4-4-2 Flat ; point stands that the 3-5-2 that usually works good against was useless as we started to lose pressure by the end of first half. So we decided to focus our plays from flanks to mixed as we got in Johnny Blaze for J.Romer (DMC--->MC) going back to the usual 3-1-4-2. And it worked magnificently as 3 minutes later he was able to skyrocket on under the seven completing our great away comeback (48').
Sadly for us tho the game engine had already decided we should not only suffer, but have few handicaps for our possible semi-final match coming next, as in few mins practically half of our team was getting yellow cards like it was raining (despite light tackling and pressure on our favour). From one of the several fould booked (they made quite a few too, never being carded tho - and we didn't score) Kaiserslauten managed to get it leveled thanks to his FK taker E.Alushi. A result which wasn't really fair in the end, as we played absolutely better. Stark was of the same idea as well as a bunch of minutes before the end decided to go on a rush alone jumping all the defenders on his own and beating the keeper for the definitive 2-3 (84'). Tony stark sentenced again MoM, with their keeper scoring again an 8 out of the saves made in the match.

Scorers: S.Zoller, K.H.Schneider, J.Blaze, E.Alushi, T.Stark.
MoM: Tony Stark (9), New Team.


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As shown in the table, all the other opposition was hugely weaker even comparing with us. We remain the only underdogs still in and we're going against some bunch of monsters/personal trainers/rich people:

-Fc Barcelona: AVG Q: 65,2. Main Eleven Q: 65,3

-FC Koln All Stars: AVG Q: 59,8. Main Eleven Q: 62

-William Asset FC (Former Champions): AVG Q: 60,5. Main Eleven Q: 66,1

Win or lose, New Team earns at least a thropy from Cup this season!