Asunto: Australia Cup

How on earth does 0-7 get turned on its head to 4-4 (6-4 on pens…& what happened there with the commentary)?
I botched my orders with a trainee being only sub that kicked in & that was 29th min!! Lost one of my main defenders to injury & what’ll be sizeable time out of action.
Goes to show the 0-7 wasn’t a true reflection given shots & other stats…as was today’s result to be fair as 4-4 was a tad fortunate, but I’ll take it.
We seem to produce some weird & whacky games…& a truck load of goals to boot.

I mean I did play trainee defenders, and a trainee striker and was without Renaud so that equates for the difference. You were able to get a few more shots as your strikers could break free of my trainee defenders and even though I had about the same shots as Sunday 6 of those came from a trainee and several more came from probably my third choice striker. The rest is down to rng. Thought 7-0 on Sunday was flattering as you had a few good chances to score that match and hit the crossbar. Those shots stuck today. I was surprised I got back from 4-0 down to get back to 4-4 as I thought I was dead by halftime. I then thought I had it in the bag in ET due to fresh subs on the field but it didn’t eventuate.

Imagine if you were on the other side of the coin, leading 4-0 but the other team ended up winning in penalty kicks.

Chips = spitting

I didn't know if I'd get away with trainees and people out of position today, but looks like I did.

All but 3 first teamers who will train in position

I think whoever loses on penalties wouldn’t be happy whichever way the match went. That’s cup matches for you :)

I was expecting to be dead once the 4-4 eventuated. Subs hadn’t kicked in & the one that did was flipped to be opposite of what I intended.
Add another injury to one of my first choice back 4 & it’s not looking good for immediate matches.
As for my goalie….bought him end of 2023 & he’s never been above weak form. Serious thoughts to sell & upgrade from magical to at least unearthly.

Melbourne Mongrels - Chelsea.F.C
Cool Runnings - Achmids Soul

Things just got serious.
I'm not sure who oscar/fantum would have preferred, but I definitely got the bogey team of the two, especially with fantum's history of forgetting to set 1st team lineups :P

I mean there’s that, but there’s also been Oscar focussing more on training so cup matches got the training treatment. Whether they’ll change this given they realistically have a chance to win the thing will be an interesting question.

Looking forward to the semis. I’d have preferred to draw Chelsea in that my team matches up better then against Achmid.

I’ll play it safe and think both Chelsea and Achmid go through here but if Cool Runnings go full strength against Achmid it could make that a much closer result.

We'll be full strength for the Cup semi on Friday. Being 5 points behind in the league now, the Cup is probably our best shot (if unlikely) at a trophy this season.

Well looks like it's going to be a bit of an underwhelming game.

I'm down 2 MIDs (well one is 50:50 playing)

You are down 1 mid, 1 striker, 1 defender.

Thankfully all but 1 of those 5 above should be OK for the final

Lineup got mauled tonight. The kids will have to step up on Friday.

Jeez go easy on Burke, it's his first official game all season after being injured in a friendly.
A double yellow red by 38minutes and he's outta here. Probably thought it was bad enough I sent him out there slightly injured.

Nice work both Oscar and Fantum making it to the semis though. I'm sure next season you will be aiming to get to the final.

The final is back to the old rivalry Achmid vs Agbell. No doubt, it will be a tough clash

As in our league game, I really needed to be full strength to compete. With Turner and Sutton out, it wasn't going to happen.

Good luck in the final.

Ditto….good luck both finalists.

Unfortunately I need more than full strength to compete.

Could have done without yet another injury to Burke. That annoys me more than the loss.

Wanted to sell at the start of the season, last match prior to selling, gets a long term injury.

Comes back, first match, red carded.

Has played one game since then the following one, injured again

Congrats on the cup win agbell