A bizarre encounter.

Honestly the weirdest two fucking games I've ever played. (Warning: this may partially be down to my own incompetence)

So, I welcome Shakhtar to the Lane in the first leg, we've sent out Anderlecht with not too many problems in the first knock-outs but it's a tricky draw. Fortunately Chygrynskyi and Fernandinho were out. I wasn't expecting this, quite a nice surprise. Mandatory Kaboul corner header because I'm a cheating bastard.



We move onto the second leg, not anticipating too many problems I send out the fringe players, giving them the old "don't get complacent" just to make sure. It's not like I sent out a fucking youth team, Sow and Rondon cost me a pretty penny, and King/Gallas are hardly cripples (actually I'll give you Ledley on that).

Fifteen minutes in, 0-0, everything seems alright, we're riding our luck a bit but I can doze off, don't really mind losing by one or two. A relief, can rest a bit extra now, everything's going to be fine.



The next thirty minutes saw my team fucking eviscerated. We're fourth in the PL, just off a good 3-1 win at Old Trafford, and suddenly, what is this....? Oh, we're 5-1 down, the defence literally just stands there and let's Shakhtar rain down on them like burly Ukrainian bukkake.



The final result was a comforting defeat. Football Manager - realism since oh five.

TL; DR: I lost a game and the computer is cheeting

Also - oddly, we had a higher possession count in the away game. And Shakhtar scored every single shot on target.

this happened to me in the cap one cup with liverpool vs norwich....won the home semi final 6 -0 and lost away 7-0, with norwich scoring with every shot

Bad Luck Taz. Nuff said. Probably you didn't plug the hole left by Razvan's dismissal?

Rat was in the winning team you mongfuck