4 Months Played- Decent Start Continues

Hello Readers! 4 months of the season have now been played, and you can see the latest results below. It has been a good couple of months for us, going unbeaten throughout that period. Especially good were the 4-0 victory away at Man Utd, when we played fantastically, and the 3-0 win over Atletico, also away. It seems we are playing slightly better away from home, as we also beat Macabi Haifa 5-1 away, in another good performance when we were missing a few players and had a weakened team. We also got a good point at Chelsea in the last match, when we dominated but they scored a late equaliser from a corner. Overall a good couple of months, then.

Below is the current League Table, in which we are still sitting comfortably top. We do have a few tough fixtures coming up and we have to play Man City, away, Tottenham, Man Utd and Arsenal in the next couple of months.

This is the Champions League Group Table. Due to our wins over Atletico, twice, and Macabi Haifa, also twice we have qualified quite comfortably, and that now gives me the liberty of resting a few players in the last game. The Champions League is of course the target for this season, so I am awaiting the draw for the knockouts, eagerly.

These are the current player stats. I want to mention Luis Fabiano, and have special praise for him because, when Gignac broke his ankle, he has stepped up magnificently with 9 goals recently, including lots of crucial Champions League goals.

That's all for this post, have a Happy New Year and please comment. Thanks for reading.

Winning Start with England

Today's post is just a short one about my first two games as England manager. They were games I expected to win, and would have been disappointed if we hadn't won them. Below are the screenshot for the Azerbaijan game. As you can see we won 4-1 with a great performance from Gerrard, in particular, as well as Rooney, Walcott, Crouch and Lampard.


Here are the match stats for that game. We had an amazing amount of shots- 27! That is a good number, although 10 of them were Long Shots, so actually it was 17 chances created. We dominated in just about everything, as of course we should against a team like Azerbaijan.

The other match was against Austria, another match I expected to win, especially at home. The result suggests it was a very close match, but really it wasn't as we were always superior and more dangerous, and should have won by a bigger margin.

Here are the match stats, for the game. Although the possession was shared equally, you can see we had a lot more attempts and had double the amount of efforts on target.

Here are the tactics I used for the first two games. Rooney has been trained by Man Utd to play as an AMC, so I thought I would try him there and he played quite well. The Defence has my usual player settings. They are- DC- Central Defender-Defend and the Full backs are- Full Back- Support. In midfield I set Lampard as a Deep Lying Playmaker- Support and Gerrard as a Box- to- Box Midfielder, which is always Support. Rooney is AMC- Attack and Walcott and Young are Wingers- Attack. Crouch up front has the settings of Target Man- Attack.

I haven't completely settled on this tactic yet, and plan to try it more over the coming matches, so it may change once I see what it is like against better opponents.

That's all for this post, thanks for reading, and there will be another one soon.