Coruxo FM11 : End Of Season One

Hi everyone so I will now conclude my first ever season in charge on Coruxo, and show you those crucial playoff games so lets get going with the final games in May.

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Well we had a chance to seal the league when we met Vecindario away however a very late goal cost us those celebrations. Again we fell behind when Nestor opened the scoring and we could have been further behind. Super sub Zurbano headed what I thought was a late equaliser on 86 minutes but our leaky defence was broke again as Gonzalo struck an 89th minute winner!

So celebrations were on hold, we only needed a point to seal the league and we managed that against Cacereno at home but again more late goals cost us. Once again we fell behind when Sergio scored and we have been verry poor in the first half of our matches, but Germinale nicked the ball and crossed to Carlos who found the net again. Then we took the lead when a Jacobo cross was met by Raul Sanchez but again we lost concentration allowing Aaron to steal a late equaliser, despite that we secured the league title!

We finished the season on a real high with a fantastic home win against Cerro Reyes. Alberto Garcia opened the scoring with a good close range header, then Jacobo crossed again for Germinale to head in our second. Then Jacobo crossed again, the keeper fumbled and Antunez made them pay with our third. They pulled one back but no surprise that Carlos finished the scoring with another top finish.

So despite a stuttering end of season we managed to secure the title, and claim a playoff spot. We will meet the winner of division 3, Eibar who themselves secured the title with ease. The winner will seal promotion whilst the loser will fall into another round of playoffs. Its quite confusing but lets just say if we beat Eibar we are promoted. So without further ado here are those crucial playoff games :

We began at home against Eibar and to be fair we were very poor, only seven minutes a failed cross fell to Alex Garcia and he made it one zero. Then things got worse when Jacobo turned the ball into his own goal and we were two down after 20 minutes. Eibar missed a penalty but we gave ourselves a chance when Zurbano scored on 77 minutes, but we have a lot to do in the second leg.

Well we had to be a little more offensive as we needed to get back into the game but on 31 minutes we fell behind and q had a lot to do, Hadzic with the goal. However Geminale pulled one back five minutes later with a good finish. But their was only one winner and Eibar added more goasl through Garcia, and Uzerlai and they missed another penalty! Well fell into the 2nd stage of the playoffs against Atletico B!

The first game was away and we sealed a very positive result, despite giving another penalty away! Merino scored it just before half time. Zurbano equalised on 49 minutes but Atletico scored again and we were 2-1 down, but late on Germinale scored again to give us two away goals and a good chance of progression.

Amazing , is the word I will use and how we didnt win I dont know. We began well enough when Germinale fired us into a one goal lead but Atletico equalised with their first shot on target. Germinale made it 2-1 and we deserved it, but again Atletico scored with their second shot on target! Quini scored a rare goal to make it 3-2, but we failed to hang on and with their third shot on target Atletico sealed the win on away goals!

So we failed to win promotion, which is a shame as we won the league! Our form was poor going in and our poor defence let me down letting too many goals, but at least I can build on a better squad for next year.

So Carlos was the star with his goals this season but Germinale was fantastic also in helping create a host of chances for him. Jacobo was excellent aswell and Sanchez was great at the back, we just had too few players and that I believe this is what cost us promotion this season.

I will be looking for some better players next season to hopefully push for promotion again, but we will spending another season here!

At least my fans love me! I am already on the favoured personnel list which is something I guess but I will be making some changes next season and trying to get rid of my poorer players, I have found a really good scout so hopefully he can help me find some good players for next season.

Thats it I’m afraid! We won the league but didnt win promotion and not many sides can say that! So we will spend another year here and hopefully we can push again for the playoffs.

Thanks for reading and I will post the next update as soon as I can!