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[Al Svanberg]

WEEKLY UPDATE 3

Hi guys! I have been travelling so I apologize for the late weekly update. The first real week of the second season has been very victorious for my two teams. To be honest, the opponents in the CL and League is almost too weak, more often than not around 2-3 stars. The Cup has been a bit harder, but even if a game or two has been a bit closer I have still had a good advantage in % over my opponents (though not like in the league/CL). No pts has been lost by either account in the league, Cup or CL

Like I mentioned last week, I joined a great association. These games has however been -- unbelievable -- battles. In both our match-ups over the weekend we drew fresh associations lead by two tremendously strong players, and 4 weaker members. With loans from giants (avg 8-9 stars), the match-ups was very tough. Our association, Manchester United SKG did however prevail in both match-ups and we are 2 for 2 so far in these tournaments (the top member of the Heiniken associ. had a whopping 160% avg):



Even if the games wasn't extremely close, the associations where special since our members had to overcome thunderstorms, poor air-port wifi connections and what not to get in order and join up for the games.

General progress
Status as of today:


The gain in value has been great for both teams. Al is up from 20.2m to 33.3m in a bit more than a week and the HFF account from 19.7m to a whopping 37m during that time-frame, meaning that the HFF account has overtaken the lead the Al account had in value. The Al account is still the better account in ability however.

The biggest reason for the sky-rocketing value of the HFF account is the two great fast trainers I picked up (18 y/o, 99%, went for around 4.2 and 4.4 respectively):


Both players are up 20-22% in a little bit over a week. Will either become my first 8 star player?

This week's high

The best part of the last week has definitely been Al's play in the association games, winning 3-1 and 6-1 in the semi's against a vastly superior opponent (having three nine star players on loan) and then 5-2 and 7-2 against an evenly matched opponent in the final. I have said it before, there is something to the "5-4-1" formation used by the Al FC account:


It has just done very well in general, and can be downright nasty late in games. Its not unusual that it completely overtakes a game and scores 4-5 goals in the last 15 minutes against lvl 50-60 players with an advantage in ability in association games. Very fun! So far it has not been hurt by AMCs (ie no need to use DMCs) and it has not been hurt by 2 players going down my right side either. The one time it stumbled a bit was against a crazy DL-DM-DR-MC-MC-AML-AMR-ST-ST-ST formation which I adjusted to but injuries forced me to keep the original formation.

This week's low

Remember the Argentine prodigy striker, Ariel Zapegol, that I picked up? Loved everything about him. My top AMC for the HFF account Portuguese Nuno Candeais, has scored 39 goals in 27 games and my star striker for the Al account, Ivkovic, has scored 39 goals in 29 games. How many wouldn't Zapegol score? Fasten your seatbelt and check out this screen dump:



1 goal in 18 games (my team is avg. maybe 4-5 goals per game during this stretch)...

I still think its interesting, why isn't this kid scoring? A few thoughts I have.

-In the League/Cup/CL, I completely pwn possession. 80 sometimes closing in on 90%. When I faced a better player in the association games, Zap scored a hat-trick. When I push a team back really deep, he is just surrounded by players.

-While he is a 7 star player, his offensive ability is still not top notch (but it should still be enough).

-Is he cold? I have really pushed him so far, but now I am resting him for a bit to see if there is any improvement.

-My tactic with the HFF account is not and have never been favorable for its strikers. I am not sold on this formation, it is strong and dominates possession against good opponents too in association games, but sometimes its a bit flat offensively. It really opens up for my AMC though.