Cup Matches Round 4

[Dell19]

quote:40000 spectators arrived at Dushku Dungeon of Dangerous Danger, where weather conditions were pretty good for football. Wartham had chosen a strategic 3-4-3 formation. The following players had been chosen: Fuentes - Feyko, Mazo, Koštunica - Laporte, Gabriel, Donner, Vendelø - Rowan, Ryan, Nouwen.

Athletic tactics involved an interesting 3-5-2 combination. The following players had been chosen: Hilali - Rahman, Paepke, Vandoorne - Murner, Ruth, Ordowski, Barthelmes, Olofsson - Anderskog, Lanoue.

Wartham showed off their creative tactics. Milan Feyko gave his Wartham the lead with 1 - 0, as he successfully challenged both the guests central defenders, then placed the ball unreachably at the goaltenders right post. 30 minutes into the game Luc Nouwen had to leave the pitch due to a knee injury. In came Isto Hyväri. The visitors didn´t give in and after 34 minutes Anders Anderskog got through the home sides central line of defense, rolling in the levelling goal to make it 1 - 1. The referee showed Athletic's Anders Anderskog the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. Warthams Dave Ryan gave, after 40 minutes, the home team a 2 - 1 lead after an attack coming in from the right. After 41 minutes, a couple of quick and successful challenges, followed by a shot from just outside the penalty area by Tony Rowan might have resulted in another goal for Wartham. However, Durhan Hilali made a spectacular save. Tony Rowan of Wartham received a yellow card in the 41th minute for unsportsmanlike behaviour. The teams went for a half-time break at 2 - 1. Wartham held the ball, with a clear 61 percent possession rate.

In the 53rd minute of the match the visitors central line of defence had to look on as Tony Rowan dashed through, knocking home 3 - 1 for Wartham. Stephan Barthelmes caught everyone off guard with an opening pass - but unfortunately Markus Murner was as surprised by the move as anybody else, and managed to miss the extraordinary opportunity. Things were going to get worse for the visitors. Felix Donner squirmed himself through the central defense line in the 65th minute, asserting the lead to 4 - 1. The structure of the game started to change as Wartham decided to pull back and meet their opponents in the defensive zone. In the 74th minute Wartham put themselves up 5 - 1. The visitors defenders lost the ball to Dave Ryan coming up from the left, who proceeded to cooly round the goaltender and knock the ball home. Unsportsmanlike behaviour by Tony Rowan rendered him his second booking of the match, and Wartham had to finish the game with a reduced squad. Stephan Barthelmes made several blunders at the end of the game, causing a good deal of unrest in the defensive line. Wartham held the ball, with a clear 67 percent possession rate.

The most dominating Wartham player was without a doubt Pedro Fuentes. However, Isto Hyväri made a disastrous appearance. The most dominating Athletic player was without a doubt Achim Paepke. Markus Murner was a disappointment, however. The match ends 5 - 1.

Full house and into the fifth round. Bit of a shame about the injury since its a trainee. Will be interesting to see who I play in the next round since I may be able to MOTS.

[ProPain]

Playing my match this afternoon, pretty sure I won't advance to fifth round however

[Swingue]

playing my match today, i'll pic with my second team. My guess is 0-10
Anything better I consider a victory

[Kemal]

Me too, I'm also playing no A-team players at all, so I'm wondering what I'll end up with vs a 3rd div team.

Hopefully I can score on a SE goal, that should help a bit with supps' mood.

[ProPain]

I'm playing my normal team with my lesser trainees. Fielded my best trainees in the league, couldnt afford to slack around in the league with Fabian hurt. Bought a 21 year old brilliant central midfielder yesterday, hopefully he'll be able to limit my losses in this game and keep s&s (sups and sponsors) happy. I wont PIC, just normal attitude. next week Fabian should be able to play and together with my new guy I expect my team to take apart all my league opponents from then on.

[Kemal]

Aarghhh! I decided to field 3 solid PMs with weak form and PIC, and he only gets 55% of the possession...

Oh well, halftime score 0-5, so game over nevertheless.

[ProPain]

And of course the pillar of my defensive line gets kicked off the field. What did I do to deserve this.....

Just hoping he wont be out for the usual 4-6 weeks. I need him badly to increase his exp, he's my future coach....

[Kemal]

Fortunately, he is already at solid exp, even if the injury turns out to your usual +5. Still, it sucks of course.

edit: unless of course you're aiming for an excellent coach?

[ProPain]

I'm aiming for excellent, he has 2/3 seasons to go so excellent should be possible.

[ProPain]

Very weird. My arena didnt sell out...

Maybe my sups are expecting a loss and dont even bother to show up but more likely it's the heavy rain....