Ana, FM 2012 : Season 5 Deja Vu?

Hey everyone!!!

So having witnessed Spain lift their third tournament in a row I must admit I had a pretty good night on Sunday then a pretty bad morning after! ;)

Luckily I took the week of work to recover and as usual got a bit bored! So I decided to complete another season in my Belarus story and  will bring it to you now.

Last time we made great strides in the league finishing a record fifth in the first division of Belorussian football looking to maybe a promotion to the top league.

It will be difficult but I am more confident in my team and believe with a bit of luck we might just make , but enough of this introduction and lets see how it actually went!!

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Club Information and Start of Season Finances

So no that many changes in our club info with only are value going up by £25 thousand pounds and our prediction going up a few places from 13th to 9th, financially and things still are looking pretty good as we are still in the black and even made a good profit last season so far so good and am pleased with the bank balance at the moment.

My Current Starting Eleven

Goalkeeper — Sergey Kostyukov

Right Back — Artem Tarasenko

Center Back — Maxim Khlebnikov

Center Back — Sergey Hleb

Left Back — Alexandr Gaponenko

Right Midfield — Andrey Koval’

Center Midfield — Igor Platonov

Center Midfield — Artem Ivanov

Left Midfield — Dmitry Gavrilov

Striker — Vladimir Tyurin

Striker — Dmitriy Kuznetsov

So after five years and a lot of changes I decided to post my first eleven to show you how the squad is developing, so please feel free to click their names to see some amazing player stats! ;)

I did make a few new signings but only left midfielder Gavrilov was good enough in my eyes to become a starter, but more on my new signings below.

Transfers In and Out — First Window

So along with Gavrilov I made another three new signings so here they are :

Ivan Bubnov, Igor Volkov and Alexandr Kotlyarov I am fairly pleased with these players and I feel they will provide good cover for the season ahead.

Results and Table — First Half of the Season

So am very pleased!

Those horrible run of defeats we have be prone to getting have turned to draws so at least we are picking up points rather than losing every time.

You could say we are in a promotion race! We are currently six points behind Mogilev and four behind SKVICh but as you can see we are as good as them as we have a very good goal difference so fingers crossed I guess!! :)

Transfers In — Second Window Finally Some Genuine Quality!

So finally!

I managed to track down some real quality players and now they want to join! One player I had tracked for a while was Yury Molosh who will easily replace Tarasenko and its easy to see why!

However my next two players are just genuine talented players and I would say good players for the top teams in Belarus!

The first is Illya Fastov I mean wow!! Released from BATE in the top tier I was very surprised to see him join us and on huge money but I feel he is worth it and he is good enough for the top division where my main ambition lies and as a teaser here is a goal he scored on his debut for Livadia!

The final player bought was Pavel Evseenko, again wow! Not the quickest I admit but technically so superior to any player we have and another released by BATE must make a note to have a look at their released players more often! :)

Results and Table With Three Games to Play

Now it gets interesting!!

We only three games left to play we are in the hunt for a promotion however its so close it really could go anywhere!

So lets see if it was a celebration season for little Livadia.

Vs Slonim Promotion Chase

So we were far superior against a poor Slonim side and were helped with a seven minute hat-trick from new signing Pavel Evseenko one loss was Molosh who will miss the remainder of the season through injury.

We are still in a great position with only two games to play can we win promotion?

Vs Slavia Mozyr Promotion Chase

Phew!!

A narrow victory leaving it a little late but a win is a win I guess so was pleased.

Evseenko finally scoring after missing a lot of chances and another new signing at the start of the season Gavrilov ensured this super tight finish would continue going into the final game.

Still far to close to call with only one game to play and a possible promotion.

vs Pinsk Promotion Chase Final Game

So close!!

But second it is and my favourite a playoff game……

Credit to SKVICh they held their nerve I guess in a very close run in so we still have a shot at promotion and must play oddly our parent club Torpedo Zhodino who had a terrible season so we do have a chance.

But can we take it?…….

Playoff for Promotion — First Leg

A good game that could have went either way, but we were not outclassed in any way and I do feel we have a real chance of beating them away.

We left it late to score but I did feel we deserved at least a draw so all to play for in the return leg.

So this is it, one game for promotion.

Playoff for Promotion — Second Leg

You didn’t think I would win a playoff game did you?! ;)

Heartbroken is all I can say and hence the title of this post Deja vu, its like a written script that I must lose playoff games the scoreline was probably a fair reflection of the game in our biggest game in the clubs history my team didnt turn up or play anyway near as good as I have seen all season.

Its hard to take but take it we must and build on a great season to make sure that we can push again for promotion next season.

Stupid playoffs!! :P

End of Season Round-Up

First off a massive apology but I was so disappointed in losing that playoff final I sort of stormed onto my next season and forgot to take pictures of my players end of season stats, our team records or player records or the end of season finances!!

Lets just say we did have a good season and the majority of our players had good seasons and financially we are still looking pretty good, all is good I guess!! :)

So instead here is a funny/odd thing that happened to me during a game against Slonim in the first half of the season, talk about bad luck/poor finishing!!

Anyone ever hit the woodwork more than six times? games like those can drive you mad but I do enjoy to see strange things like that sometimes!

So am still feeling very down losing in the playoff final, as I felt we had a real good chance of winning promotion especially with the second half season arrivals but just not to be and my jinx strikes again, just as I feel like I might have broken it. I just think I will never ever get rid of it!

So that’s it I’m afraid!

Slightly different approach as you can see as I have been linking my pictures into the text so let me know if you like it or if you would like me to post like I usually do but I feel it makes it look a lot cleaner and easier to read but just let me know what you think!

As always I look forward to your thoughts and comments, and I just wonder do you have any strange jinx’s that you suffer from like me on this game and has anyone ever lost more playoffs games than me?

Just let me know in the comments and until next time take care and bye! :)