Liverpool April 2014

Hello everyone, welcome back! At the end of March we were nearing another league title, we were also through to the Champions League Quarter Finals, we were to face Genoa. We had a crazy schedule coming up, we had ten games to play, including three in six days! It would surely test our fitness, I was expeceting a few tired players by the end of the month. Here are our results then:

You can see that we had a great win over Genoa in the first leg of our Champions League tie. Nicolas Otamendi scored twice, Fernando Torres got yet another goal this season, and goals from Glen Johnson, David Silva and Francesco Magnanelli completed an emphatic victory, one which put us all but through to the Semis. Federico Laurito scored the consolation goal for Genoa.
The second leg was rather boring, they opened the scoring, but once Torres equalised it was all over and we were through! We later learned that we would play arch rivals Man Utd in the Semi Final, it was sure to be a big game.
The Premier League matches against West Brom, Fulham and Sheff Utd were pretty straightforward wins, the FA Cup Semi Final against Aston Villa was slightly more difficult, but we managed to pull through and we are through to the Final!
After that it was on to the first leg of our Champions League tie against Man Utd, the first leg was at Old Trafford. We were missing both Javier Mascherano and Magnanelli through injury, and as I wanted to play a five man midfield, 20 year old wonderkid Adam Brown was brought in.

 He did quite well and we played alright, but United were the better team. However Fernando Torres nicked a goal, and although they equalised we never looked like conceding more, and we came away with a very good draw.

After the victories over the above mentioned teams we needed one more win to secure the title. It was a tough one, away at Chelsea, made tougher by the fact that we had played the first leg against Man Utd just two days earlier. The game wasn't very good but once again it was Torres who scored the decisive goal for us, he terrorised Terry with his pace. Chelsea didn't play well and barely created anything, so it wasn't too difficult for us to hold on to our lead. The victory meant we had won the title once again! I was very pleased, we can now rest players for the big matches coming up.
One of the matches in which players were rested was against Newcastle, and we lost, despite playing well going forward, we were poor at the back and Newcastle punished us and we succumbed to only our second loss in the league this season.
We had to pick ourselves up quickly for the final match of the month, it was the second leg against Man Utd. Mascherano was back from injury and the fit again Jules Jourdain came in for Carragher.

We played much better in this game than the first leg, Mascherano protecting the defence made a big difference. We dominated possession and had much more attempts, but we had to wait until the stroke of half time to go ahead, Torres was played in and he doesn't miss from 8 yards. We came put after the break still playing well and it was 2-0 when Gerrard slotted in after a through ball. Torres then slotted in another with Untied powerless to resist. After this I took off the key players with the game in the bag, and it finished a comfortable 3-0 victory for us, we had beaten our main rivals and are through to the Final!
We will face Real Madrid and all their superstars in the final, it will be a tough game, but we have a good chance of victory if Torres continues his form. He has now got an incredible 49 goals in just 45 games this season, one of those as a sub!
Here is the league table then, we are confirmed as champions, so I will rest a few players ahead of the two finals we have coming up.

We have a big month ahead of us, we have two finals, one is of course against R.Madrid, the other is the FA Cup Final against Man City. We have to play them in the league before that, whoever wins that may hold a phycological advantage come the final.

That's all for now then friends, thanks for reading and please comment!

Liverpool March Results

Hello fellow FM gamers, it's time for an udpate on my Liverpool story! The biggest match of March was the game against Barcelona, we also had a trip to arch rivals Everton. I appreciate that most of you may have already read this post at http://www.footballmanagerstory.com/ , so I won't go into huge detail about this month.  

Here are the results for March at a glance.

The Everton game was won by two fantastic goals from 18 year old Giovani La Rosa, he was playing due to a series of injuries to the main strikers.

The match against Sheff Utd was disappionting, we battered them all game but, after they scored an early goal, we couldn't break them down. It took a wonder goal from Steven Gerrard to get us a replay, his goal came just five minutes from time.

In the Sheffield United game I rested quite a few players ahead of the Barcelona match. It was a pretty poor game to be honest, we managed to nick a goal just on half time when Torres' pace enabled him to beat Valdes to the ball, after doing that he poked the ball in.Barcelona were the better team after the break but the defence stood firm and we managed to hold on, we are through to the Quarter Finals! It later emerged that we will face Genoa, the current champions of Italy. They have some good players so we will have to be careful, but I'm confident we can progress.

After the Barca game we faced Blackburn away, we looked very good going forward, but for some reason the defence looked very shaky. Torres scored two good goals and Andre Pierre Gignac got one, but just as I thought the points were in the bag we conceded and ended up drawing.

Next up was the FA Cup Replay against Sheff Utd. Again we looked poor at the back, luckily we are very good at attacking. It still took us until extra time to secure the winning goal, Nicolas Otamendi stabbed in from a corner. This followed goals from Darijo Srna and Gignac and two equalisers from them. The result means that we are through to the semi final, we will face Aston Villa there.

The final game of the month was back in the Premier League, we faced Tottenham. We were on top most of the match, and we got a comfortable win thanks to an early goal from Torres and a late one from Wilshere secured another three points for us.

After that pretty good month we are now 6 points ahead of Man City with a game in hand. I am sure the title will once again be ours, the test is to try and progress in the other competitions.

Next month sees us play a very tough nine matches. The squad will be tested by the busy schedule, I hope they can cope and that we don't get too many injuries. The biggest games are obvisouly the matches against Genoa, it will be interesting to see how the players cope with the 'favourites' tag, something we didn't have in

the last round against Barca.

That's all for now then, thanks for reading, I hope you will continue to follow my career with the Reds.

I'm Back!

Hi everyone, just a short announcement, basically to say I'm back! In case you don't know, I lost my Liverpool save a short while ago and started as Oldham. My story with The Latics will continue to publish over at http://www.footballmanagerstory.com/, I hope you will follow it there. I am also continuing with my Liverpool game, I am currently nearing the end of March 2014. The posts probably won't be as frequent here as my Oldham save is the main game, but I hope to post once a week.
That's all for now, I just need to play March and then I will update you. If you need any information on my career with Liverpool, my story from May 2012 - March 2014 is on the above mentioned site, check it out there.