kidthekid Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 impressive. Only a couple 1-0 defeats Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 2 hours ago, kidthekid said: impressive. Only a couple 1-0 defeats Cheers! If we'd beaten Liege just once, or not conceded late on to Fenerbache Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Season Review! Even with the added games from Europe we had a near perfect season, although Tre Penne caused us some stressful moments in the final! A much more comfortable cup defense Are there any pictures anybody would like to see? Any of our players, our tactic, any records, winners from various competitions, the Cambodian U21 squad, stuff like that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Slightly pricey, but we've got 20m in the bank after our Europa League run, and unless a Sammarinese wonderkid pops up there's nothing else we really have to spend our money on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
endtime Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Any good Sanmarinese playing abroad? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 In League 2, two teams got over 100 points and missed out on promotion! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 4 minutes ago, endtime said: Any good Sanmarinese playing abroad? Good question! Unfortunately, the only one is our old player Andrea Valli (YP20)... He's played a lot more Premiership games than I thought he would, but he's also never played for the Sammarinese NT as he's presumably rejected a callup every time in order to wait for an England one that never came If San Marino Calcio get promoted into Serie C, I'm tempted to load the Italian leagues and chuck a bit of money at them to try and help them progress, as that'll be our best chance of getting promising Sammarinese youngsters from other places. If we can become a European Group stage regular with lots of money in the bank, I'd also like to chuck money at one of the other Sammarinese teams to try and help drag them up a bit, as well. The ideal aim would be to have all 15 teams being really strong and producing lots of decent talent, but that's quite ambitious right now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Should be a relative walk in the park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidthekid Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 How is the 'chosen one's' profile now. Has he improved much or was he already close to his potential ability when he was part of the intake? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 7 minutes ago, kidthekid said: How is the 'chosen one's' profile now. Has he improved much or was he already close to his potential ability when he was part of the intake? No real improvements sadly, but he's still outrageously good for this level Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 They actually weren't as easy as the 6-2 scoreline suggests - they were probably the better team in the first leg, so I'm glad to see the back of them. We've played them once, 8 years ago, and they beat us 4-0. Let's see how much we've improved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Just about We've played them twice and they battered us both times, but it's been 12 years since our last meeting... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 This is pretty neat - San Marino have a female manager! She started at Virtus in 2019, and has bounced around the Sammarinese league for a while before getting the NT gig. From what I can tell, she's the only female international manager there is in the game currently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Win 1-0 away, completely kill the game for 90 minutes at home before Claudio Fabbri (YP32) bangs in a free kick in the 95th minute to rub it in We played Liege in the Europa Groups twice last year and had a stalemate. If we can overcome them this time, we're going into the Champions League Group Stages for the first time in our history. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidthekid Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Did Osborn declare for San Marino? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 1 minute ago, kidthekid said: Did Osborn declare for San Marino? He has! He's got 29 caps so far with one goal. I was training him to be our replacement Roaming Playmaker in case Mattia Giovagnoli (YP36) left, but he's slotted in seamlessly as our Box to Box midfielder instead Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Horror show Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 How on earth was that 3-2 to them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 That's a really interesting group... I think it's four pretty evenly matched teams. Fingers crossed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 This is the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 5 minutes ago, Rikulec said: This is the season. Here's hoping! It's looking okay after 3 games... If only Plzen hadn't stolen a win away at Kobenhavn, we'd be nearly home and dry already! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Here's the situation going into the final day... We play away at Kobenhavn on the final day. We probably can't expect anything from that game - it's the hardest one in the group - but if we can steal a draw, we'll go through regardless of the Plzen result. We beat and drew with them, so we've got the Head to Head Advantage. Actually, though, that might not be right. If Plzen win we'll all be on 9 points, and that might go down to Goal Difference rather than a 3 way Head to Head Round Robin? But we'll have the same GD as Kobenhavn, and we've scored more goals than them, so would we go through on Goals Scored? Hopefully it won't come down to that If Plzen fail to win, it doesn't matter what happens in our game anyway - we'll be through. You'd expect them to beat Legia at home, though, so we probably need something... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Captain Fantastic has only gone and won us the bloody group! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 I guess we were probably due some bad luck, but that might be our starting LB crocked, and we don't actually have another one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Not the kindest of draws, but we'll give it a shot! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 I just pray that missed penalty doesn't come back to ruin an incredible night in Portugal... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 That's our 3 best defenders all out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 Mattia Giovagnoli (YP36) with the last kick of the game!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 There were worse teams to draw, but this is almost definitely where our European journey ends. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 No away goal, but I'll take that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 Youth Intake Day! Just before the second leg, there's the small matter of our Youth Intake... It's not really a position we need, but he looks like a very good prospect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 So close! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidthekid Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Impressive Europa run!!! How do you set your team up? You seem to dominate possession most of your matches Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 1 hour ago, kidthekid said: Impressive Europa run!!! How do you set your team up? You seem to dominate possession most of your matches Thanks Kid! That's a good question! Here's our tactic for domestic games: For European games against better teams than us, we switch the mentality to Very Defensive. That sets us out to be stable at the back, and when we get the ball we move it incredibly slowly and with short passes so we don't waste possession. A lot of our European games have about 5 shots each, which is absolutely perfect for us. If we try and play an open, expansive game, we're going to get battered Normally I think possession just for possession sake is one of the biggest fallacies in football (see Spain against Russia in the World Cup), but my philosophy with this is that we have much weaker players than the opposition do, and so the longer we have the ball, the less time they have to create chances against us. Often what happens, too, is the big teams expect to be able to dominate us and so get fed up of us passing the ball around the back for 90 minutes, so start to play really high up - which is when we can ping one over the top for the 17 acceleration of Claudio Fabbri (YP32) to sprint onto and set us up on a dangerous counter attack Most of our goals - okay, maybe not most, but a large proportion of them - come from set pieces, too. Set Pieces is an area I'm incredibly passionate about in real life (you have to be as a Rotherham fan!) and I think it's a really underdeveloped source of goals - especially as a technically inferior team that has a physical advantage, like we often do. I've tweaked our corner routine a lot until I've found one that I'm happy with, I've come up with a long throw routine that tries to avoid the weird quirks in the match engine with long throws this year while still being effective, and we score quite a fair few from free kicks, too - the goal that Davide Toccaceli (YP19) scored to win us our Europa League group was a header from a free kick, and Claudio Fabbri (YP32) absolutely tonks in a few direct ones every year too. Oh, and if we're away, I'll usually turn timewasting up to 'whenever possible' too. It's not pretty - it explains why in 180 minutes of football with Zenit we drew 0-0 - but it's effective Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 Season Review! Going so deep in Europe and wanting to keep our team fresh for those games, combined with having such a small squad and quite a few injuries meant that we had a few games where we had to play with four goalkeepers on the pitch - although we did win one of those 4-0 That gave us our first loss in a while, but all that matters is we won the final to keep our Champions League run going. Another double For almost the entire squad to have over a 7.00 average despite playing 18 European games this year is pretty impressive! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 They're expensive, but I think that's the last set of upgrades we need on them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kubson Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Have the results of San Marino NT improved? Also congrats on the Europa League run, you'll get into the CL groups next year at this rate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 17 minutes ago, Kubson said: Have the results of San Marino NT improved? Also congrats on the Europa League run, you'll get into the CL groups next year at this rate Cheers! Sadly, not really We're up to about 165th in the world, but got just one point in our last Euro Qualifiers group. We lose nearly every game, with the exception of a handful of Nations League games (although we've never won our group) and a few sporadic draws/wins here and there. I'm tempted to have a crack at the job before too long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 54th Should be easy enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 We've got two new signings in for the first time in a while! Camilli probably won't play a game for us but looked like a good option as cover, but we're really weak at FB, so Benedettini is probably going to come in and start for us right away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 TNS used to be the team we didn't want to draw... I feel like that might have changed a bit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxGe1994 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Nice EL-run! Going big there We did also improve - so now we have 2 teams in CL-qualifiers So when you get in the semi finals in the league you are sure to play in Europe next season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 Revenge for all the beatings they gave us early on Oh, wow! I was expecting Steaua Bucharest but the Icelanders upset them in the last round, and without wanting to get carried away, we should be favourites here... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxGe1994 Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Now we have 1 team in the EL-groupstage every season Now the league should get enought money to improve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 How on earth did Steaua lose to them If we can beat Young Boys - which we almost definitely can't - we'll be in the Champions League groups. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 Can we hold on in Switzerland? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 San Giovanni are into the Champions League Group Stages! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted July 14, 2019 Author Share Posted July 14, 2019 We're going to get absolutely battered Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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