[FM18] A tour of Europe - With an Icelandic beginning and a trip to Wales

[Darius1998]

Hajduk Split
Prva HNL
2031/32

November & December

Fixtures

November began with a frustrating game at Varteks as they took a 54th-minute lead. We equalised a few minutes later but it took two injury-time goals to finally break their resistance and stay within touch of Dinamo at the top. Brann put up less of a fight in the return game which ensured 3rd place at the worst for us and we picked up routine wins against Inter Zapresic and Slaven Belupo. We gave it as good a go as we could against Bayern but they went 2-0 up and despite Matkovic's second half strike, we couldn't get anything from the game. Osijek were easily beaten while Lokomotiva provided no real challenge to a rotated team in the cup.

In a change of strategy, we went at Dinamo right from the start but they took their chances while we didn't in a frustrating game. Lyon dominated in France and we could not hold on - a second half goal being the difference after Zagallo was sent off just before half time. A fine performance saw us take a come-from-behind win in the Adriatic Derby with Hrvoje Matkovic scoring all four goals after they went 1-0 up. A routine win over Istra followed to take us into the winter break.

League table

At least they've dropped points! We're well within the hunt now. Meanwhile, after thinking Osijek weren't as good anymore after they got knocked out of the EL qualifiers, they have hauled back a 10 point deficit to move ahead of Rijeka.

Went about as expected. Creditable performance at least.

[Darius1998]

Should be doable.

[Darius1998]

The choice was between Istanbul and Vienna again and I went with the latter, mostly because there's a larger selection of teams available to play friendlies against in Austria for some reason.