Hello! Welcome back to my Bury story.
At the end of December, we had a great run of form which lead us to a healthy position in the league. We were also in the semi-finals of the League cup. In the Euro Cup we would play Stade Rennais in the first knockout round. Lets see how we did!
I also explained that a lot of clubs were interested in our players. Suprisingly no offers were given for any of these players! The only player that left was Ren Jun for 3.9m. He was signed for 130k a few seasons ago. A nice profit :D The cash will also be paid in installments which is good as we get etra income in the month :D
Two news players were signed, both from Valencia and both for a combined fee of 3m :D
Sofiane Feghouli
He should provide good cover for both sides of the midfield as SWP is too weak now for this league.
Javier Vergara
Premier League Results
So, a pretty difficult set of fixtures. Adebayor has shown signs of coming back to his best. The month started with a 4-1 demolishing of West Brom. Then we got demolished ourselves by Man City! We should have won the Burnley game, but didn’t :( United game, we never looked like winning. Finally! A victory against Blackburn. Then another defeat! Grr! then another demolishing, this time Arsenal, suprisingly as they are league run away leaders!
GREAT VICTORY VS ARSENAL!
League Cup
We wern’t troubled at all in the first leg of the semi-final as we came with a 2-0 victory with one hand on a place in the final. Emmanuel Adebayor and Ze Carlos gave us a two goal advantage. We suffered a scare in the second leg with a 3-2 defeat but we won on aggregate with a 4-3 victory. We were in the final! :D
THE FINAL!
We had a clean bill of health in our squad, no injuries at all, so I had plenty of options to pick from. These are the teams that were picked:
The result:
We won the cup! :D Emmanuel Adebayor, you legend! He is finding his form just at the right time. It’s pretty suprising we kept a clean sheet. If it wasn’t for my goalkeeper, we would have lost this game. He made some outstanding saves! Liverpool had 17 shots! And 5 clear cut chances! But didn’t score. OMG!
I was very pleased with the whole team performance:
Oh yeah, the league table of the premier League, If i showed you earlier, it would have given it away as we have automatically qualified for the Euro Cup.
Top 4 is 7 points away now, I doubt we will get it, the teams are much stronger than us.
Euro Cup
So our Euro Cup campaign ended very early :( In the first knockout round! Stade Rennais were much better than I expected.
FA Cup
After beating Colchester in the third round of the cup, we then faced Liverpool. This match was before the League Cup final. We beat them 4-3! This victory gave me an advantage for the League Cup final as I knew what tactics to play them with.
I’m sure you have noticed that our defenders score a lot goals. I finally made a good corner routine which seems to be working. I promised Sears that I will show a screenshot of my corner routine so here it is:
As you can see, only one player is set on far post duty. This means in a match he is almost alone with a player marking him. I order my corner taker, Petr Lastuvka, to cross it to the far post and usually we come very close to scoring. Since the player on the far post is one on one with the player marking him, it isn’t as hard for him to beat him. I hope this makes sense :D I also have noticed you need a good corner taker, when Lastuvka isn’t on the pitch, we don’t come close to scoring as the ball delivered isn’t as good, therefore it is dealt with easily. Oh yeah, credit to Darren who gave me some advice regarding his corner tactic on his old website.
Thanks for reading :D
vikingmarius
25 апреля, 2011 at 16:05
Very Good job against Arsenal and Liverpool and your signings look very good especially Vergara looks a talent. Unlucky against Stade Rennais, wouldn’t expect them to beat you twice
Sayam Khan
26 апреля, 2011 at 16:41
Thanks Mate :-)
vaibhavc
25 апреля, 2011 at 16:22
Hey Sayam
Great job with winning the League Cup, now you get automatic qualification to the Europa League. Adebayor seems to be doing amazing for you, let’s hope he continues his form.
Laxeyman
25 апреля, 2011 at 16:26
Vegara looks like a talented player Sayam, and well done on the League Cup win. You’ve had some tough games but got some good results, the top 4 is probably beyond you, but hopefully you can finish 6th or 5th. Good luck!
Johnny Karp
25 апреля, 2011 at 17:10
Congrats on the League Cup win, well done! Too bad about the Europa League exit, I wasn’t expecting that to be honest, but you will have a shot at it next season. A top four finish could still be possible though, good luck!
Sears
25 апреля, 2011 at 17:24
That was a tremendous cup win Sayam! Shame you beat my fav club though :-D
Good luck for the reminder of the campaign
Darren Smith
25 апреля, 2011 at 19:29
Excellent achievement Sayam, to win the League Cup and still in the FA Cup is great. You should have given more credit to new signing Vergara though, he looks talented and a bargain at under £2m. Glad I could help with the corners, but your set up looks better than mine tbh!! I never thought of leaving someone alone on the back post, it makes so much sense if the opponents are man marking. I think I’ll be adjusting my set pieces so thanks for sharing. :)
Lye
26 апреля, 2011 at 02:16
Hi Sayam,
Congratulations on the league cup. The first of many to come. Sorry that you have exited from Europe but i know you will come back stronger next season. With 10 games left, you still have a good chance to catch up the top four but your team have to perform far better. Hopefully you can do that. Good luck.
Alex
26 апреля, 2011 at 03:22
Hey Sayam,
Well done on your League Cup win! Good to see you have some great news after losing to Rennais. They are much tougher than you would expect, aren’t they? Top 4 is possible, but it will be tricky and will require a great run of form. No matter what you are in Europe next season so you have nothing to lose! If you can’t get into the top 4 then you will surely get 5th, meaning a lot of money for your position! Good luck, I’m sure next post will be a happy one!
CsAtlantis
26 апреля, 2011 at 06:51
Hi Sayam,
Poor Liverpool, they lost twice to you in cup finals, great job getting the double, too bad you lost out to Rennais, Alex knows how hard it is to beat them
You’re not that far behind top four, give it a go and see where you end up, you don’t have any other competitions to distract your team :D
Kevin
26 апреля, 2011 at 09:18
Hi Sayam
Too bad on exiting Europe so early but well done on qualifying again by winning the League Cup.I think you might win the FA Cup as well :) Javier Vergara looks like an excellent signing.
Ana Garcia
26 апреля, 2011 at 13:16
Congrats on the league cup!
Your going really well in the league also and your new signings look good.
Good luck on the rest of your season!
hils
26 апреля, 2011 at 15:39
Hi Sayam,good months there!!!!!!!!! Poor old Liverpool!!!!!!!!! Good luck!!!!!!!!!
Sayam Khan
26 апреля, 2011 at 16:45
Thanks Everyone :-)
@Sears
haha lol
@Darren
I think I did go slightly lazy on Vergara. There is a lot of players in front of him, so he will have to prove himself! Also, happy to help :D
@Alex
Yes, they are much harder to beat than you expect.