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#226642 The spartak revival
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Here are the players I brought in.
Top 3 are very much for the future.Think the azeri lad might not make it but on a free I cant complain and the scouts rated him 3.5 star potential.Galeano I think could be good.Tranberg im very confidant about.Carvalho came for a bit of money but he has 4.5 star potential according to my chief scout.Jon Flanagan will be my 1st choice rb for sure.So much better than the Russian option.Then a player I tried getting 2 years back but he went to psg instead.I now have a choice of pairing him with balanta in defence or playing balanta at lb.Alternatively zouma,balanta and Renaud would make an awesome back 3 should I decide on that.
Daniel amartey was doing well but 26m for him was a steal on my part I think.especially as I got zouma for a similar price (after addons).I alos decided to let giovinco go.Hes 30 now and I want to give youth a chance.Rekik and promes weren't going to get into my team so I let them both go on a free.Then theres just the usual youth players loaned out.Gaston gallo in particular is a very good prospect but with him playing cm he wont get much playing time yet.
I mentioned before about the odds on the Russian premier league this season.
I cant recall being such overwhelming favourites or seeing such odds but im not complaining.Were this favoured for a reason.Just hope we start this season different to how we ended last season.
Hasn't started off so well.In 120 minutes we dominated CSKA all the way through but they held on.Lost the match on penalties after jon Flanagan missed the 10th spotkick.Not the game I had in mind in terms of the result but the performance was fine.
#226617 The spartak revival
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#226609 DP91's European Glory
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#226589 The spartak revival
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That iniesta goal knocked the stuffing out of us but the trip to the nou camp was always going to be a mammoth task.
#226584 The spartak revival
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#226561 DP91's European Glory
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#226520 DP91's European Glory
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#226518 Dans Journey Around The World [FM15]
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#226517 Johno's Career
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#226509 The spartak revival
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My poor league performances carried on into may.A lucky home draw to ural came first.Gaston gallo got his first for the club before ural scored twice.They were unlucky not to continue scoring as my team couldn't handle them but lucas boye scored a screamer from 25 yards out to equalise late on.
A bore draw at lokomotiv next.Again another poor performance and it seems we were limping over the line.
Last game of the season came at home to Kuban who were struggling this season compared to usual.Tielemans and Roberts got the goals and we looked a decent side.
The league looks great.Finishing 19 points clear of closest team CSKA and 25 clear of last seasons winners zenit.Could of been much beeter but for the poor last month or so.A good season overall really.
As I mentioned earlier in the season I did pay a fair bit for Roberts and I am paying him a handsome wage but this is what I got.A complete clean sweep of the awards domestically.Cant complain one bit and I need to keep him here.
A fantastic debut season.I did just pay 12 I have to pay a bit more with add ons but not sure exactly how much more.Think im ending up paying around 30.
So now for what im sure a lot of you are waiting for.My champions league matches against Barcelona.
Wellthe first leg didn't go great.I was all over them but neymar got an early goal but we couldn't break through.Marc bartra turned the ball into his own next but andres iniesta broke our hearts with a 2nd barca goal 2 minutes later.If only we could of held on.
This was not deserved at all.After it worked well in the last group stage game against Bayern to put us top I decided it was all or nothing and got ripped apart.As you can see by the shots and possession it was a hell of a lot closer than the scoreline suggests.I feel for romero the most.He was great but our defence was terrible.Im thinking a major overhaul of my defence (fb in particular).With the rules in russiastating I must have 4 Russian players on the pitch at every minute.I have been using the fbs spot to make sure I have 2 Russians then making up the other 2 in other spots but that doesn't apply for the champions league so im going to play them Russians in the league and cup games mostly playing 2 top class fbs in Europe.Well hopefully.
Next update shouldn't be too far away.Hope you enjoyed my cl heartbreak.
#226286 Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise
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#226274 Conquering The World
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#226271 The spartak revival
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Some may see 4 wins from 5 matches.Personally I see too many goals conceded.Shocking really.First game at home to dinamo Moscow we raced into a 3 goal lead inside 17 minutes.I honestly thought we were going to win like 5 or 6-0 but they scored 2 in the 2nd half and I ended up worrying if I was going to win.In the end though we held on.
Home to a not that great Rostov side and a 3-1 win.Dzyuba with a double and balanta with the other.They did equalise to again have me worrying about the match.
With that match we had won the league with 6 games to go.Cant complain about that but im still not happy with how were conceding.
Then came a poor result.SKA Khabarovsk had just been promoted and were fighting relegation but held champions league quarter finalists spartak to a 1-1 draw and they should of won.Quincy promes got an early goal but I feel for them as they should of got 3 points here.
Terek away was next and it took a 90th minute goal to win this one for me.Denis cheryshev and artem dzyuba with the first 2 before promes late winner.
Krasnodar are on a real high and occupied 2nd place before this game.Patrick Roberts and eder alvarez balanta got our goals but again this was a tough match.
On a whole we had a good month in termes of points but like I said I look at the goals conceded and with 3 home games and trips to teams near the bottom we should of at least kept one.
So now for the big one.Chelsea in a quarter finals matchup and surely our toughest opponents to date.
What a first leg.Savitskiy got the opener with a very good turn on cahill and low drive into the corner and I was jumping literally (with the fiancé looking at me like im an idiot.They will never understand).This was a great moment for me and my spartak team.I was 1 up at Stamford bridge in the champions league quarter final.Then the attacks came.Wave after wave of attack and our lads were diving in front of shots and balanta cleared a cahill header off the line and I was on edge.Then came the equaliser.Gary cahill volleying home from a half cleared corner.The attacks continued until toby alderweireld got himself sent off for a professional foul.Then I went to contain and no more attacks seem to come.I was on the verge of the semi final.
What more could I possibly ask for?Sure fabregas was out for both legs and courtois and alderweireld were both out of this 2nd leg through injury and suspension.I had just claimed a major scalp.Patrick Roberts opened the scoring in the 70th minute with a wonder goal.Picking the ball up in his own half he beat john obi mikel twice and cesar azpilicueta and smashed it into the far corner.I wish I could share it with you all but not sure how.If anyone knows let me know and I will.Then Sebastian giovinco confirmed our massive win late on with a header.Unbeaten in the league to date and now in champions league semi finals.This is one season to remember.Now I can maybe dream of champions league glory.
Then came this...
The semi finals consist of real Madrid,barcelona,bayern munich and our spartak heroes.I now have possibly the toughest match I could ever hope for.Or not to hope for.Either way I have Barcelona.This could be the end of the line.But I did top a tough group.Then I faced a good porto team and top quality Chelsea team.Why cant I beat barca?
#226218 Conquering The World
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#226210 Ramming to Glory
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That's how they both did for me.Grealish was immense
#226206 Ramming to Glory
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#226199 Conquering The World
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#226183 DP91's European Glory
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#226164 The spartak revival
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#226159 DP91's European Glory
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#226137 The spartak revival
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#226127 Johno's Career
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#226126 The spartak revival
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So first league game back this year this happened.
Although we got a very decent draw away to our local and this season biggest rivals im gutted our run has come to an end.Conceding early on was a killer.They were dominating up until the sending off of pontus wernbloom but after we were all over them as we went all out attack.Balanta gave us a chance of continuing our run but it wasn't to be.The league lead doesn't change but we are still head and shoulders above everyone else at least.
We got back to winning ways a week later against rubin.We made them look poor in this one as boye and Roberts got a goal each and Sebastian giovinco got a double.Great recovery.
Then came a very nervy 1-0 win at anji.Quincy promes will probably be leaving at the end of the season but he pulled out a stunner to win this one for us to have me thinking should I keep him another year at least.
Krylja sovetov were my next opponents and again it was a tough one for us.The scoreline doesn't tell the story.We got a 4 goal lead in between them having a lot of chances before they scored 2 late goals to pull it back to 4-2.This score flattered me.
A poor match and my team have not been performing since the rubin game.Twice we came from behind through giovinco and cheryshev before giovinco got his 2nd of the match.
So a good month on the results even if we did lose that run but a poor end in terms of performances.
20 points clear but 2 games ahead.Still a superb looking table for me.Strange seeing Kuban all the way down there.Ill actually miss them if they get relegated.Not too sure what has happened to zenit.They have just moved into a new stadium but have been on a poor run of form recently.They might not get a champions league place even though the top 3 qualify this year.
So other than the league we also had a small matter of a 2nd leg of the champions league to think about.Heres how that went.
Not the best match for us by any means but a 4-3 aggregate lead sends us to the quarters.A bore first half came to life as we went behind through hector Herrera.Denis cheryshev equalised 5 minutes later before Jackson Martinez put porto back in front.A worrying end to the game as porto threatened again and again but we held on.I will say now that basel went through but we avoided them again.Instead we got these.
Other than real Madrid and Barcelona these are the ones we didn't want.Some quality in that Chelsea squad and im hoping we don't have injuries to any of our major players injured or banned (as we have a few on yellow cards).If we can keep up the wins maybe the morale will still be high and we might just pull off an upset.Who knows?
#226097 Ramming to Glory
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#226088 On a quest to be the best. [FM15]
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#226085 Conquering The World
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#226081 DP91's European Glory
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#226080 Ramming to Glory
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#226072 Ramming to Glory
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#226044 The spartak revival
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