Bayern Bru Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Enjoying this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 26, 2018 Author Share Posted November 26, 2018 Arranged some pre-tournament frendlies, so here's what our fixtures looks like. Wanted some moral boosting games before we start against the big boys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 26, 2018 Author Share Posted November 26, 2018 What? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Nations League draw Thats not too bad, just glad we didn't get England again Win our home games and we've a great chance of getting promoted. But not getting relegated has to be the aim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Squad for Euro 2020 That was difficult, had to leave out 5 or 6 players who have played well over the past year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Iran friendly up first in our Euros prep. Played the strongest team, with a few that needed some fitness. Disappointed to concede 2 but very happy to be scoring goals. Hopefully can continue into the tournament. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 Qatar are our final warm up game. Another big win is expected and was delivered. Although the almost perfect preparations have taken a massive blow. Our best player and star striker Griffiths got injured during the match. Might miss the whole tournament Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 27, 2018 Author Share Posted November 27, 2018 I didn't realise that we were playing all our groups game at home thats a massive advantage. Wonder if they game treats it like a home game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 England are the first opponents in the group stage. A draw would be a great result. But it wasn't to be. Taking an early lead wasn't enough. Lots of yellow cards in a tasty encounter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 Switzerland up next. The odds tell me we're the underdogs, and we can't afford another defeat so I decide to keep it tight. We absolutely battered them, but as in other games against better teams we just couldn't finish. Not having a decent striker wasn't helping either. Switzerland deserved nothing out of the game, but get a point anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 Final match against Iceland. We needed a win and for England to beat Switzerland for us to have any chance of going through to the next round. Unfortunately neither of those things happened. 58 shots in the 3 games and only 3 goals really was our downfall Here's what the final table looked liked Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 The poor showing at the Euros see us drop in the world rankings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 Looks like I'm keeping my job for now though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 England win Euro 2020 on Pens against France Reminder that we beat them in qualifying Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 We want to put the disaster of the Euros behind us, and move onto the Nations League B campaign. Serbia away is the first game. Its was like a totally different team. If we had our finishing boots on like this at the Euros we would have won the whole thing! Great start, Poland at home up next in a few days, a win here and promotion is firmly a possibility. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 I mean, seriously! Really frustrating that we didn't scoring so freely in the summer. We had played just as well. and It's pretty much the same squad. But never mind, its good to be getting really good results against better oppo. Avoid defeat in the reverse fixtures and it's league A here we come!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 5 places higher! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 Friendly match against Slovenia before our next NL match. Made wholesale changes to give fringe squad players a chance at some minutes. We played well but back to the lack of cutting edge. Hopefully it returns for our next match. But it's only a friendly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northernpilgrim Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Great start to the Nations League. KUTGW! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 U21s are doing well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 Poland and Serbia drew 1-1 to end the first round of games. We have a 5 point lead at the top of the table. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 This international malarkey is easy... Not a convincing scoreline, but is sure was a convincing performance. We didn't give Serbia a sniff. I did however almost make a massive mistake that could've cost us the game. I had forgotten that 3 players would be suspended for this match after getting 2 yellows in the first 2 games, but I still picked them for the squad. A notification would've been nice. But it didn't matter in the end. As we've been promoted to League A! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Before our next NL games against Poland we have a friendly against 11 in the world Denmark. I called up a few fringe players for the friendly and played a full rotated side from my main 11. Excepted a close match and thought a draw would be a good result. The back up boys done fantastic. Hopefully that helps to improve our own WR. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 And we finish our League B campaign with a perfect 100% record. Don't think anyone expected that! Hopefully this means we will have a higher seeding for the WC qualifiers coming up and we can look forward to who we might get in League A. Hopefully not England We had to come from behind and we weren't very good in the first half but we picked up in the second and went more attacking. Just look at that. It's lovely! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 And the 2020 season comes to an end. What a year its been. Our first tournament in a long time, albeit a poor showing, but nice to be there. And then a NL campaign that no one could have predicted. Underdogs from the start and absolutely hammered Serbia and Poland. As mentioned before the U21s are doing fantastic as well. Here is their recent qualifying table. Just like the Senior squad, a 100% record! Here are the some players who will be looking at getting into the main squad in the near future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Thought we might have moved up more but still its progress. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
karanhsingh Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 Enjoyed reading through this thread! Good luck for the future By the way, in my current save with Pompey, I have Jason Cummings who finished top scorer in the Championship and then Premiership in consecutive seasons. He has been on fire. Also now in the year 2021, Lewis Morgan has developed really well at Celtic. They are rejecting offers of 20 million. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 1 hour ago, karanhsingh said: Enjoyed reading through this thread! Good luck for the future By the way, in my current save with Pompey, I have Jason Cummings who finished top scorer in the Championship and then Premiership in consecutive seasons. He has been on fire. Also now in the year 2021, Lewis Morgan has developed really well at Celtic. They are rejecting offers of 20 million. Thanks. Cummings is my back up striker to Griffiths. Scored a couple so far. Got my eye on Morgan as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 U21s Euro Championships Group I guess we will find out how good they really are! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 World Cup 2022 Qualifying draw, and as hoped we are 2nd seeds. Got to be happy with that group. Having already dispatched of Serbia in the NL we should really be looking at the Portugal games that will determine whether we qualify or not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Our fixtures for the group are a bit strange. Serbia back to back on the same Int break Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 The Years Best 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Overall Best 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Germany asked for a friendly before our WC quals start. A nice test for us before the competitive games start A good result. Loads of players had club instructions of 45 minutes only so couldn't play the team I wanted. Did give a debut to a promising young GK. Something we've needed since I took over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Hearts Broken Portugal score with the very last kick of the game to snatch a draw. A draw was a fair result over the full game, we might have even built on our lead if we had kept 11 men on the pitch. And a draw in our hardest game is a great start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Our highest ranking since I took over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 Serbia up next. We were in total control the whole match and should've won by more, but its the 3 points that is most important. May well it continue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 As mentioned before, we have Serbia away in our very next match. Looks like we were saving our goals in the home match for this. Fantastic performance and result. Would be good if Serbia could take some points off Portugal. to have 7 points after playing 3 of our 4 hardest matches is pretty good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted November 30, 2018 Author Share Posted November 30, 2018 A friendly to finish off the summer against USA. Was allowed to name a new squad , so gave a rest to many of the regulars and tried some new faces out. Wasn't the best game ever, but the run continues. The group are full of confidence right now and we feel we can give anyone a game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 Into the top 30 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 Georgia were our next opponents, and a game we really should be winning comfortably. And it was. we had 34 shots on goal, 11 were on target. so lots of goals right? RIGHT!? Just the 2 unfortunately, it really should have been more. But 3 points in our quest for qualification. Top of the league by 3 points but Portugal have a game in hand. Hopefully they drop some pints before we meet them again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 The group whipping boys were up next. Anything but a win here would be embarrassing. Luckily we hammered them, with a pleasing debut as well. Lots of shots again, but this time we put some away. A hattrick for McDonald on his debut. Portugal are making no mistakes, winning 4-1 away to Serbia. Looks like the group will come down to our home game against them. Second highest home nation behind England. Maybe one day we will be the best ranked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 The most important match of the group is Portugal at home. The difference between winning the group or going into the playoff. We came flying out the blocks. 2 early gols before Portugal hit back. I thought the some back was on and they would batter us. But no, we held out with the 1 goal lead until half time and then hot two more early in the second half. Need 4 points from games against Georgia and Luxembourg to win the group. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 We. Just. keep. Winning! A friendly against Algeria. Changes were made after the Portugal win but the replacements played well. 7 wins in a row Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 Moved up again. The top 20 is gagging for us! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 Our penultimate group game was Georgia away. Absolutely raging! to get this far and then not kill it off when we are so close to qualifying. Luckily a win at home in our next match see us top the group Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 Luxembourg were our last match. Fully confident the lads could pull off the win needed to top the group. Never in doubt. No shots fro them as we dominated totally. And we done it. We're going to the 2022 World Cup! Another debut for a youngster in these matches and he also managed to get on the score sheet . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizzy Posted December 2, 2018 Author Share Posted December 2, 2018 Also up to 22nd in the World. Not sure if that will be good enough for a 2nd seed in the WC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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