[FM18] 3 Lions on the shirt but 11 apes on the pitch, life as the England manager

[Makoto Nakamura]

And here is the 30 man preliminary squad, now who to cut.

[Makoto Nakamura]

We meet France again in the International League.

And the 23 man squad for the Euro's.

[Makoto Nakamura]

3rd June 2020

England vs Armenia

International Friendly

Wembley

[Makoto Nakamura]

Solid and now we're ready, I'd like to make the quarter finals.

[Makoto Nakamura]

16th June 2020

England vs Austria

European Championship Group Stage - Matchday 1

San Mames

[Makoto Nakamura]

Would have been better if we didn't concede but we're top of the group early on.

[Makoto Nakamura]

19th June 2020

Hungary vs England

European Championship Group Stage - Matchday 2

Stadio Olimpico

[Makoto Nakamura]

Oh.

[Makoto Nakamura]

19th June 2020

England vs Bulgaria

European Championship Group Stage - Matchday 3

San Mames

[Makoto Nakamura]

We're through and we did it the English way, by making bloody hard work of it.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Not a single nation qualified with a perfect record Spain only just qualified and France and Germany failed to top their groups, who do we face? Oh. Portugal.

[Makoto Nakamura]

30th June 2020

Portugal vs England

European Championship 2nd Round

Puskas Ferenc Stadion

[Makoto Nakamura]

Heartbreak, absolutely gutted. 

[Makoto Nakamura]

And then Portugal went and lost to blooming Croatia...

[Fer Fuchs Ake]

18 minutes ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Heartbreak, absolutely gutted. 

Last minute equaliser in the last minute of normal time, last minute winner in the last minute of extra time.

Devastating.

[Wavelberry]

Hey @Makoto Nakamura. How's your tactic familiarity looking?  Mine doesn't look like going anyway and since you've played on a few years further does it go up to a good level or is it worth reporting as a bug?

[Makoto Nakamura]

Just now, Wavelberry said:

Hey @Makoto Nakamura. How's your tactic familiarity looking?  Mine doesn't look like going anyway and since you've played on a few years further does it go up to a good level or is it worth reporting as a bug?

Absolute minimum familiarity even though I haven't changed it in ages now, I feel like this was the same back in FM17 as well though.

[WilsonJuve]

24 minutes ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Absolute minimum familiarity even though I haven't changed it in ages now, I feel like this was the same back in FM17 as well though.

Feel like this is whats hindering you against the bigger nations. AI managers learn your tactic if its constantly used.

[DavidBeckham]

Ronaldo's still haunting England in 2020. Unbelievable :**(

[deltablue]

Ouch, that was tough

[Makoto Nakamura]

16 hours ago, WilsonJuve said:

Feel like this is whats hindering you against the bigger nations. AI managers learn your tactic if its constantly used.

Maybe, but we've also had some of our best results using it, I'll stick with it for now.

13 hours ago, DavidBeckham said:

Ronaldo's still haunting England in 2020. Unbelievable :**(

I know.

4 hours ago, deltablue said:

Ouch, that was tough

Very, I was close to resigning and I probably would have if I'd have carried on playing last night, but I didn't and now I feel better about it so it's time to look to the International League.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Potential debutantes in Rob Holding, Charlie Taylor, Junior Stanislas and Jadon Sancho for the home match against Denmark and away to France.

[Makoto Nakamura]

4th September 2020

England vs Denmark

European International League Division A - Matchday 1

Wembley

[Makoto Nakamura]

We didn't play for the first 45 minutes, we made up for it in the second 45.

[Makoto Nakamura]

8th September 2020

France vs England

European International League Division A - Matchday 2

Groupama Stadium

[Makoto Nakamura]

Moving on.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Here's the squad for a friendly away to USA and away to Denmark.

[Makoto Nakamura]

7th October 2020

USA vs England

International Friendly

Sports Authority Field at Mile High

[Makoto Nakamura]

Solid win and a clean sheet, also debuts for Sam Byram, Josh Tymon and Craig Dawson with Danny Ings getting his first goal!

[Makoto Nakamura]

13th October 2020

Denmark vs England

European International League Division A - Matchday 3

Telia Parken

Installed the new facepack, Reiss Nelson now has a face!

[Makoto Nakamura]

That was way too close for comfort.

[Makoto Nakamura]

 

No potential debuts for a friendly at home to Lithuania as well as the home match against France.

[Makoto Nakamura]

11th November 2020

England vs Lithuania

International Friendly

Wembley

[Makoto Nakamura]

That was terrible.

[Makoto Nakamura]

17th November 2020

England vs France

European International League Division A - Matchday 4

Wembley

[Makoto Nakamura]

I went to overload with 10 minutes to go and it didn't pay off, another defeat against France.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2020 Year in Review

Our worst year so far with 4 defeats and 3 draws...

Still in the top 10 of the world.

2020 Best XI

Overall Best XI

[Makoto Nakamura]

Only Wes Foderingham is uncapped, and he'll most likely remain uncapped for matches against Northern Ireland and Slovenia.

[Makoto Nakamura]

27th March 2021

England vs Northern Ireland

World Cup Qualifiers - Matchday 1

Wembley

[Makoto Nakamura]

Nice to finally have an easy win, can we keep this up?

[Makoto Nakamura]

30th March 2021

Slovenia vs England

World Cup Qualifiers - Matchday 2

Sportni park Stozice

[Fer Fuchs Ake]

France have become quite the bogey team.

[Makoto Nakamura]

No. We couldn't keep it up.

[Makoto Nakamura]

4 minutes ago, Fer Fuchs Ake said:

France have become quite the bogey team.

Think we're 1-0-4 against them so far...

[Makoto Nakamura]

With it being the end of the league season I decided to add Championship players to the national pool and it leads to 6 uncapped players being called up.

[Makoto Nakamura]

10th June 2021

Poland vs England

World Cup Qualifiers - Matchday 3

Narodowy Stadion

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

Horrendous.

[Makoto Nakamura]

13th June 2021

England vs Malta

World Cup Qualifying - Matchday 4

Wembley

We've been poor. We're going for goals.

[Makoto Nakamura]

There we frickin' go.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Rob Austin and Calum Steel become the first regens in the England squad for the friendly against Malta and World Cup Qualifiers against Northern Ireland and Moldova.