Asunto: National Team

Well, two really good wins to finish what was a tough season. Still massively struggling with depth, massively struggling in defence, but battling on.

Nice work with the wins.

Def wise, check out the excel sheet I sent you, I'd say there are a number of Defenders either ready or coming through (not double divine unfortunately but double magical/unearthly for sure)

Looks like Selling (the SD defender I have posted about) is being trained in pace which is great

Awesome

Nice win against Ukraine. A bit rough with injuries, but a bloody good match.

Australia 3-2 Ukraina

Australia (4th seed) open up the WCQ with a win against the 3rd seed. In a game where we were out rated by 5points that's a tidy start to the campaign. In bad news, two injuries to starting defenders is really bad as that is by far our weakest position for talent and depth. Neither player will be available for our match next saturday against 6th seed Daehan Minguk.
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Ouch, ratings after the first round of WCQ. Shows the battle ahead of us!

Average individual marks:
80.8 Hrvatska
78.8 Türkiye
73.5 Ukraina
70.5 El Salvador
68.8 Australia
68.4 Daehan Minguk

Ashley Vasilevski

If I wasn't training pace I'd seriously consider picking up this guy, currently on the market.

I’m training PM so I’m all over him. Pity the finish time is too early in the morning.

I'm training pace and then tech, so he is definitely not appropriate for my training plans.

Nice player though

I bid a million over what I thought he was worth as I wasn’t going to be online to bid. Got him.

Nice one! At least he will now get a couple of seasons of training and holding his skill levels up

Feel free to send me an sk-mail of the trainee you are going to give the boot. If they fit my training plans I may be interested

I hadn’t yet replaced the mid I sold off so I’m not booting anyone.

Daehan Minguk 2-1 Australia

With seven players unavailable due to injury our depth was severely stretched and we had a disappointing show against the 6th seed. The table is a logjam and we sit in third, but with points dropped our run will be tough.

Team Matches Wins Draws Losses Goals Points
1. Hrvatska 2 1 1 0 4-2 4
2. Türkiye 2 1 1 0 4-2 4
3. Australia 2 1 0 1 4-4 3
4. El Salvador 2 1 0 1 3-3 3
5. Daehan Minguk 2 1 0 1 3-4 3
6. Ukraina 2 0 0 2 2-5 0

A much needed week off is up next to hopefully get a few more players back on board, and after that it's the big two, top twenty ranked teams Turkey and Hrvatska. Would be nice to sneak a point from that fortnight.

You were very unlucky against Korea because of the injuries. I hope that in the next game you can count on the entire squad to beat Turkey