itchycoo Activity
Haven't been in here for ages. Just read your career thread from start to finish - quite a struggle you've had. I really like the move back to DPMM to unfinish some business. Hope you can pick up some form for the second stage for, at least, a s...
A quick summary of my two months. Started off with a non-convincing win in the cup before taking a draw with Figuerense to win us the state championship. We crashed out in the cup on away goals to Serie D-side ASA. A 1-0 defeat away with a reserve squad s...
And so we start the Closing stage by a decent performance. Over to @Cymro!
Last game of the Opening phase.
Emenike only score goals in a bunch at a time. And he rather do it when the game is already over.
And again... Look at those stats! Well, we qualified for the quarter final at least.
This inefficiency is gettin the best out of me... Second place it is.
Good win in this little cup.
25 shots...
That probably gave away the first place in the Opening round.
Solid but not very impressive victory. We need to get better at finishing our chances.
Some cup match of some sort.
This wasn't fair. I put Emuneke on after 56 minutes to get him some easy goals. 15 minutes later he completed his hattrick.
Very much like the first game, but now we won...
Slow start in the league. We should of course have won. Robinho comes on as a sub and scores a penalty kick. He had another ball in the net, but it was chalked off.
Transfers, all free transfers
Back up goalkeeper.
New starting centre back to play along side Rafael Lima.
Legend. Comes in as a player/coach. No wonder if you look at who's his idol.
Free loan from Liverpool, will slot in nicely in the cen...
Let's start with this:
Santos had to pay the price for our last poor performance. Mantinucco finally scored. And I really like Rafael Bastos - my Kluk of the game.
Still top!
First versus second in the league, and the chasing team dominated from start to finish. Closer to 0-2 than 1-1.
Great win away from home. Fabinho doesn't look like much, but he sure can score goals!
Played against 10 men for almost an hour. Maybe we should have won more comfortably. Victor, right back on loan from Cruzeiro with a lovely shot from outside the box.
This match looked like the previous one, except we didn't see it through. Bastos missed a penalty just minutes before they scored. Oh, Goias is bottom at the table too...
The Maracanã echoed empty as we took all three points with us home. Firmly in control the entire game.
MARCH
Liga Sul-Minas-Rio
Quarter final
Chape - Paraná 3-0
Rafael Bastos keeps scoring, really glad Fola could find a new deal for him!
Semi final
Chape – Cruzeiros 3-1
Fantastic result for us, and well earned. Yet another free kick goal fr...
FEBRUARY
Liga Sul-Minas-Rio
Group stage
Cricluma – Chape 1-2
Abysmal first half where they also missed a penalty. Started with a 4-4-2 and changed to last season’s 4-2-3-1 at half time and brought Tressor Moreno on. Tow assists from him tur...
I started with a search for a more defensive mindes midfielder as most of them we have are more AMC or winger types. I found three! All on free transfer.
Maybe still a bit on the attacking side, but he'll go straight into the first eleven.
Coul...
Good job @Fola getting Bastos to stay. He wouldn't accept anything under 9K a week one month ago. Jefferson looks good too!
Fantastic win against league leaders Atletico Minerio to end my stint. We had most of the possession even if I played counter attack.
(Good enough for you, @Dan?)
A unconvincing win in the first leg of the quarter final of the Copa Sudamericana. @Fola will take care of the away game.
Ouch. Actually a rather even game, but the were lethal in the penalty area.
Boom! 5-0up after half an hour. But ofcourse Nivaldo let some in...
Again, one shot on target - one goal. Nivaldo, our 42 year old back up keeper is having a tough time between the sticks.
Not a bad streak we've been on.
Marcelo Boeck is injured for a couple of weeks and Nivaldo let the first two shots pass him. Great comeback in the second half.
Boring game. Neither team managed a single shot on target.
Two more years!
Tried a slighly changed formation, and the team responded fine to it. Played the ball around and clinical finishing.
Down to 10 men with more than an hour to play. Then I'll guess one point is decent.
A tough game away to Cerro Proteño in Paraguay. This is still a very winable tie.
Great but unconvincing win over rivals Figueirense, a team we have had a bit of a problem with.
Played a rotated side in the second leg of the cup. Over all a poor match, but I don't really care.
Our best youth candidate.
I would take a draw away at Cruzeiro, but it's disappointing to drop a 2-0 lead.
Dominant performance against a struggling Flamengo. Unfortunately it looks like we are going to loose Rafael Bastos at the end of the year as we can't afford to pay what he wants.
So disappointing. We were by far the better team but they scored, we didn't. Now it's up to @Fola to turn this around and then it's time to take on the big boys in the Brasileirão.
1,20 favorites to go down... This will be a challenge.
Final match of the Campionata Catarinese. Marcos Aurelio scored on his debute for the club.
That's Ronaldo for you! The defensive master mind.
As we won the opening stage and Figueirense won the closing stage we will meet in a Champions playoff...
Almost turned this cup tie around. A good result non the less.
Bounced back against a very weak Guarani team. We should have scored a few more of our 35 shots.
First loss in the league. We had three player suspended for this match and we just weren't good enough.
Crashing out of the cup...