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#260582 Celtic
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#260581 Domination
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#260579 Champions League 2014/15
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#260494 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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#260489 Very nice!
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Not much happened in the summer transfer window, mainly because I spent all our money last season. I signed two players on loan and sold another. We also loaned out about 5493 players.
Bouhriss was signed as a backup to Walker because Kike has rapidly declined over the last year.
We already have Oviedo and Gibson, but I decided to bring in Salazar as a backup left back. Gibson can also play center back and as we only have three other center backs, he'll need to play there sometimes.
As i've already said, we've loaned out a load of players, including Kike to Watford, but there was only one player sold over the summer.
Cleverley has been good for us, but he isn't really going to be getting any game time so I decided to let him go.
The season started off well with five wins in the opening six games. That included a 5-0 win in our very first Champions League game against Kobenhavn. We fielded a reserve team in the League Cup game against Tranmere because the board didn't care how well we did in the competition and I wanted to focus on progressing through the group stage in Europe. Unfortunatly we then lost our next two games to Wigan and Atletico. But after that, we managed to reach the new year after suffering just two more defeats. One of them was again to Atletico, but it didn't matter because we had already qualified for the first knockout round of the Champions League.
Our form has been much the same as last season and as a result we are in the top four once again. Chelsea have begun to pull away a little, but if we can get at least second place, then the season will be a success. The board want a title challenge though so we will of course give it our all to give the top teams a good fight.
Something missing from that top half of the league, right? I had a look to see what had happened to Man City and I found this!
#260443 Arsenal ft Bale, Neymar, Ozil, Sanchez & Messi.
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#260442 FIFA 15
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I usually find that people with teams like that are easy to bet. I played some guy with an IF/TOTS La Liga team and beat him 5-0.
#260299 The Italian Football Thread
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Doubt it, although Empoli probably will.
#260283 The Italian Football Thread
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The only reason I know that is from the trivia questions on the loading screens from Fifa 09!
#260262 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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#260077 FA Cup 2014/15
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#259927 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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Not exactly difficult to get assists when all you have to do is pass to Ronaldo.
#259918 The General Games Discussion Thread.
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Snetterton & Brands Hatch!
Also with karting circuits and lots of British tracks, I was hoping Buckmore Park would make the list just because i've raced there. Shame it didn't as it has a decent bit of history. Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button & Johnny Herbert spent a lot of time racing there when they were younger and I think John Surtees owns the place.
#259917 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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#259861 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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Don't you want to try and catch Chelsea though?
#259799 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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#259792 Very nice!
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Just had this pop up. Wayne Rooney is taking his first steps into management!
#259785 Very nice!
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Thanks! My old tactics were a bit mental, it was basically all out attack. It could only take me to about 6th/7th in the league though so i've had to create a new system which has worked wonders so far!
We got the 'easiest' group of the lot. Monchengladbach are beatable and Copenhagen will most likely finish bottom. Atletico will be the main problem but i'm confident we can progress.
#259783 The (not so) Invincible's
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#259781 Europa League 2014/2015
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#259670 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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Surely at least one of Fabregas, Rooney, Terry, Aguero or Matic are ahead of Coutinho though?
#259662 Barclays Premier League 2014/15
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Diego Costa, David de Gea, Philippe Coutinho, Eden Hazard, Harry Kane & Alexis Sanchez.
PFA Young Player of the Year nominations:
Thibaut Courtois, Philippe Coutinho, David de Gea, Eden Hazard, Harry Kane & Raheem Sterling.
Hazard for both? Also not sure why Coutinho is in there.
#259661 Very nice!
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After last seasons third place finish, we went straight into the Champions League groups stages. I was kind of hoping for a 'group of death' draw, but instead we got the kindest group of the lot. All the other groups have at least two teams that could potentially challenge for the trophy, but looking at ours, we probably just have to beat either Atletico or Monchengladbach to progress. Our fixture list has been made slightly better by the fact we play away at Atletico and Monchengladbach in the first three group games.
#259607 Very nice!
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The second half of the season started with a hectic January. Eight games in three different competitions but not a single defeat! We scraped past lower league Burnley and MK Dons by a single goal in the FA Cup but also beat Southampton 4-1 on aggregate in the League Cup to advance to the final. Middlesbrough have only ever won one piece of silverware in their entire history, also the League Cup in 2004, so the final is going to be a huge game against Spurs.
February was just as hectic as January with seven games, making it fifteen games in just two months. Our unbeaten start in 2021 came to an end when we lost to Arsenal in the FA Cup 5th round. This was the start to a nightmare week as we then lost to Spurs and Arsenal in the the league this time to make it three straight losses. Not what we wanted just one week away from a final. But I didn't go into the final with any fears as I took it the players were saving themselves for their Wembley appearence. This turned out to be true as we battered Spurs and came home with the League Cup after a convincing 4-1 victory with Salah scoring three times. Boro's second ever major trophy and my first as a manager.
After all of that, we now had to focus on the league and try to claim a place in the top four. Chelsea and Man Utd had run away and were engaged in a battle of their own for the title, That left us fighting with Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City and Spurs for the remaining two Champions League places. There has been many examples in the past of teams falling away after winning the League Cup, but we didn't join that list. Our form was possibly the best its been in my reign as manager. We hit West Ham for six in the first game after the final and then beat Liverpool in a must win game. A defeat to Man Utd wasn't too much of a big deal as we were never going to catch them. After that, we embarked on a run that saw five clean sheets in six games which is unheard of for a team of mine! The Southampton defeat didn't deal any damage because Liverpool, our closest rivals, also lost. The Spurs loss was disapointing, but they had fallen away slightly as they were still competing in the Champions League against Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
The next game was possibly the biggest in Middlesbrough's history. We needed to go to Man City and win to guarantee a top four place with one game remaining. That may sound hard, but we have gone to the Etihad and won in each of the last three seasons. This season was no different as we went there and came out with a 3-2 victory and seal our place in next seasons Champions League. All that was left now was to decide who would be third and fourth with us and Liverpool. We beat Everton on the last day to avoid the qualification round and go straight into the group stages.
Table
The glorious sight of the league table. Fourth place was the goal at the start of the season, but we have come away with third! Everton who finished in the bottom half also got a Europa League spot. That took the total of English teams in Europe to seven, but it didn't stop there....
As we had made it to the Champions League, I had a look at who had been busy winning it to figure out who we wanted to avoid in the group stages. What I found was very surprising. Only one foreign team has stopped an English team from winning the trophy, Real Madrid back in 2015. Since then Man City twice, Chelsea once and Spurs three times have brought the trophy back to England. Every final has had an English team and four of the seven have been all English. A good omen for us maybe?
#259581 La Roja
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#259505 Pentagon
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#259424 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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#259309 Champions League 2014/15
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#259266 Very nice!
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August - December
There has been quite a change this season and it started with a 2-0 defeat at Chelsea on the opening day. From my very first game at Stoke to that Chelsea game, I have used the exact same tactics in all my games. The idea was to score more than the opposition do and it worked to a point, but too often we underperformed and completely folded and conceded huge amounts of goals. We needed a change and while I kept the 4-2-3-1 formation, I completely changed our style of play. Now we are much more fluid and a bit better at the back while playing a more possession based game.
The first game with the new style was at home to Swansea which we won with ease. Since then, my decision to change the style has been justified as we went into January in third place in the league and also have a semi final against Southampton in the League Cup. We also managed to reach a winning streak of ten games before Man City beat us at the end of December.
Table
As said previously we are in third place in the table. Our goal was the same as last seasons, qualify for the Champions League. I didn't expect us to be doing this well due to the change in tactics, but we are now a serious challenger for fourth and if we can keep up our form, then maybe we could even challenge for the title. Who knows?
#259254 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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