Real Union — 2024 Season Conclusion

Hello everyone!!

Sorry for not posting in ages, just with Spain winning the world cup (Lots of celebrations as you would expect!), my ultra busy work life and my computer having broke but now fixed havnt had any real time to play!

However I did manage to finish my season and I will now present it to you!

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La Liga Results And Table

Unfortunatly we couldnt remain unbeaten all season however we began this spell of results with great confidence.  An 8-0 thrashing over Sporting followed a 6-1 victory over Villarreal. Having beaten Atletico 2-1 away I was very confident of going all season unbeaten until the Barcelona game.

Dissaponting performance but we also lost away to Real Madrid so couldnt really make an excuse. Two really nice 5-0 wins completed our season which was very pleasing!

The Final Table

As you can see despite our dominace we only won by 4 points which was fairly close.  We were terrific but in the end just about won the league, we scored 102 goals which was brilliant and against only 23 giving us a huge difference of 80 goals.

Another title as we continue our domestic dominace over the rest of the teams.

The Champions League

We managed to comfortably beat Saint-Etienne in the quarter final to  set up a semi against Chelsea. After securing a fantastic 3-2 away win we then went on to lose our home game by the same score.

The teams couldnt be seperated after 120 minutes so a penalty shoot out it was.

Here is the result :

I knew we would lose. My record on penalties is shocking losing about 70% I think. Just one of those things but as you can see a game full of incedents and talking points.

A 90 minute goal for Chelsea was annoying to say the least but my keeper (Gauchino) made two horrendus mistakes costing two goals.

My usual penalty takers all scored (David, Vandinho, Atuxta and Flavio) but we missed our 9th when Aizpurua our home grown acadamy player blazed wide. Such a shame as Velasco would have taken one but was sent off for two bookable offences.

So we miss out on the final and my penalty curse strikes again, we tried our best to defend our trophy but all in vain. Hopefully we can win it back next year.

Spanish Cup Final

A bit of happiness at the end!

We beat Real Madid but the game was forgettable. Dont ask we why but the game was very stale and nothing really happened, but David slotted the ball past the keeper after a fantastic pass from Atuxta to seal the win.

Player Ratings End Of Season

Well David was amazing, scoring 44 times in 56 games and is catching our all time leading goals scorer Kramaric (230).  Velasco too had his best season at Real Union he was 16 when I first joined Real Union and he is now 33!

My usual rocks were also fantastic in Atutxa,  Lowe, Krystov and Castaignos. New signing Julio Cesar was also very good scoring 15 times in 25 games and forging a great partnership with David.

Zhandanovich had a really bad injury keeping him out for many months but still had a good season in my eyes.

So thats that!

All in all am delighted 5 trophies from 6 isnt too bad, even if the champions league is the one I wanted. We played well scored lots of goals and defended really well, my team is now getting older and experienced but we need a few new faces and youngers stars.

I think my golden generation of acadamy players may be over as we havnt produce a quality player in over 5 seasons. So am hoping that the new season can bring in a few, will be also looking for a few younger players to sure up the squad.

Thanks for reading and I will get the next part updated as soon as I play it!!