How's this? No, of course, well done mate! As long as there wasn't under-handed genius involved, with Mazzola pretending to be injured so that Bican could suddenly cause havoc in our back 3! You won the grudge match on aggregate we could say I guess, and your fans will be happy! Although you are a Feyenoord fan so must have mixed feelings! Second place is still up for grabs for us (I guess we can't inadvertently hand it to Juventus as it'd need a really really big defeat I think!). Pele probably had the better assist out of the 3 of him and Piksi to be fair, but nothing that Dragan couldn't do in real life anyway. We need to work out why Pele was better in pre-season so far, but maybe he's saving himself for the knockout games. Maybe we shouldn't have left out Rummenigge who has done much better in the group stage than pre-season but to be fair that was more my call than Puck's for this game. Denis Law had a few chances but Schmeichel was in great form!
I'm putting my whole team into cryo-stasis. So all of them will "be back!" for the knockout tournament.
What!? You guys are not changing your signatures because of this epic clash of faith?? Lol, I might just change it myself, absolutely nothing personaI. I still had several scores to settle with O Rei in fictive form. And how am I a Feyenoord fan? That's sacrilege! The way you murdered Mazzola reminded me of Henk Fraser Anyway, I agree that it was like Brøndby vs Hvidovre allover. Although it was Schmeichel who prevailed this time.
I think Mazzola will be out of the first second phase game actually won't he, as Ajax have played all games in the group now? Might be a blessing in disguise if Bican is in score for fun mode though! https://challonge.com/bigsoccerfmdraft Which reminds me that me and Puck shouldn't completely give up on first place yet, if msioux did us a favour (and we'd be doing him one in return!). Although maybe we should if head to head scores with Ennatz decide it before goal difference (he won 5-4 on aggregate against us didn't he). We pretty much should anyway, as the goal swing even considering msioux potentially reducing it a bit seems too big to achieve in all likelihood.
If we meet again, our fans are instructed to say "O Rei" instead of "Ole" if we are ahead in the closing minutes and passing the ball around. And he might try to nutmeg Stojkovic he tells us. I'll have to go back and see how Mazzola got injured as I haven't spotted it yet. It wasn't Lilian's fault was it? Puck can do the come-back on Henk Fraser as I guess he knows the back-story! I understand the Brondby-Hvidovre reference though I think - Schmeichel played for Hvidovre including in a Danish Cup Final against Laudrup's Brondby I guess? Laudrup did manage to get one past him but yeah I think Schmeichel deserves his Team of the Week place (in general I liked the ratings on Championship Manager better as they seemed a bit less swayed by goals/assists by default as now on Football Manager, so player could do nothing much apart from score the winning goal and get a 6 out of 10 or something). The Falcao in deep midfield experiment was my responsibility too (or maybe it was Hidalgo). His passing % was great but not sure now whether we might as well just have gone for it and given him support duty rather than defend, given Ajax scored 4 anyway! Stojkovic did well though, and the annoyedbyneedoflogin genius claims (and freedom of Amsterdam) do seem a step closer presently than before the game.
Even, I'm last, all my tournament matches were very tight in scoreline. So, I hope I fixed my defensive line to win the next game
Sorry I've disappeared in the last month. Well, it's official. I am officially out of a job in a month. Everyone in the company has been working at least 12-hours/day 7 days/week for the past month (I literally only had one day off the entire August) in an attempt to save it, but it was made official on Friday that the company is definitely closing. This month is our last month, and it'll probably mostly be HR stuff as the office gets cleared. Sorry this whole thing got off track due to all this. Maybe next time it'll go more smoothly. Cheerss.
Best of luck mate with things. Speaking for myself, if you ever (next week, next month, before Christmas....) wanted to re-start the game from where we left it, I'd be willing and able to carry on submitting line-ups (in conjunction with Puck if he feels the same which I guess he would). But don't feel obligated obviously if you didn't actually want to get it going again yourself (if it would be more of a chore than pleasure, or you will be too busy job searching or whatever), and it depends on the other drafters too of course.
Thanks a lot man. Unfortunately, I think it has lost it's momentum. I might do another tournament in the future when I'm in a better place. Thank you all for participating!