Season 33 Week 11 processing...

Welcome to Week 11 the halfway point of the season.

The reset is underway...

Last turn ( week 10 ) was the last week of the free Special Action promotion that has been running since the beginning of the season so the turns you receive this week will not include the free reports any more.

The promotion covered the Special Action reports listed on your Order sheet, some of which will have gone back to costing 30pence depending on the type of turn you have requested.

No orders this week from Real Madrid everybody else is in...

WATFORD

Watford played a tight game Vs Plymouth last week, with the 500million man coming on to score a crucial goal to bring the game to a draw. Plenty of twists and turns in the season to come. This weeks opponents are Burnley who managed to get a Draw vs the Hornets last time out. With the manager playing cautious CAT last time. However, a return to PEB and some sort of form, manger is more hopeful of a positive result. Into the starting XI comes Cancelo to replace Ward-Prowse at RB, Gabriel makes his debut at CL for Mings and Nketiah comes in at RW to keep the team understanding up. Martinelli and Paqueta make the bench and straight into the reserves to build team understanding. Manager looking to exploit the wingers Vs Charlie Taylor & Aziz Deen-Conteh. While POTS Rice will be tasked with controlling Josh Cullen and Grealish aiming to get the better of Josh Mceachran. 

New indestruct Vitabio Centre constructed to help boost the recovery of the players, also a Medical Centre Manager hired to help efficiency at the clubs medical centre. 

GENK

The Belgian league comes down to two games usually... Home & Away Vs Anderlecht. This week is the second game Vs Anderlecht this season with Genk running out winners last time. Home advantage on the side of the De Smurfen. Only change to the league side is Brian Brobbey leads the line, having held his own in the CUP. Individual training regime put in place to help boost his fitness and sharpness. Bit of a shakeup at Genk in recent weeks after the departure of Adam Hlozek, this week see's Ryan Gravenberch and Amadou Onana swap sister clubs. With the belgian deserving of much more game time and Gravenberch desire to play in the extremely competitive Bundesliga! Genk have always thrived from developing players and moving on and no doubt the manager will be able to navigate the next wave of talent. 

LEVERKUSEN 

Leverkusen in sensational form last week, putting 4 past Gladbach! Looks like Leverkusen signed the Real Madrid Eden Hazard, second injury since his arrival stuttering his start to life in Germany. Manager checks notes to ensure no big game... *Sigh* Schalke... Who rumours on the grapevine is going all out to Inspire his team this week..... Efrain Alvarez comes in at LW, who had a sublime game last time out and Lewandowski returns from injury to lead the line! Sesko and Hlozek on the bench with instructions to come on and try to turn the game should things not go to plan... 
"The ref Wolfgang Topmoller from Germany is pretty fair. " = Aggression set to 9... If i can't win, will be taking some players down with me! Season could completely unravel this week in Germany. But the manager has identified issues to address ahead of next season. 

BOTAFOGO 

Not broken, why change.... 6 wins on the bounce for Botafogo, need to stop  complacency settling in and continue the march! This weeks opponents are formerly managed by self Cruzeiro. Who certainly doing better under Matthew Moore. the Botafogo defence will be looking to contain Henrique and Elekson this week. Only 9 goals conceded all season so far and could prove Key in the race for the title, with Santos matching the side each game! Who will blink first?!

Good luck to all this week!

Schalke

Big match away v Leverkusen this week. The teams shared a 2-2 draw at Schalke in week 1, and Schalke were lucky to get that! A few tweaks this week to rectify a couple of problems identified from that game - Klostermann comes in for the injured Pau Torres, ahead of Schlotterbeck who just needs a bit more fine tuning. Sane also in to partner the impressive Goretzka in midfield. PEBvFAP is a decent match up in my experience.

Ferran makes a move to Plymouth in exchange for Nunez, who should dovetail nicely with Mbappe - in theory. The board are also staffing-up the med centre. Haidara goes onto the transfer list.

Thanks for the reviews guys, good luck to both of you in the big Bundesliga game this week, brides are now being accepted   only joking.

Friendly games are underway and if the storms hold off the league games will kickoff Wednesday morning at 1000 hours...

Just calling out that Paul has said ‘brides’ accepted. Really hopeful that’s a typo ……..

Was just digging out my wedding dress...

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Just calling out that Paul has said ‘brides’ accepted. Really hopeful that’s a typo ……..

     

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Just calling out that Paul has said ‘brides’ accepted. Really hopeful that’s a typo ……..

What am I gonna do with the Russian bride I ordered? Can she go on transfer list?

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Thanks for the reviews guys, good luck to both of you in the big Bundesliga game this week, brides are now being accepted   only joking.

Friendly games are underway and if the storms hold off the league games will kickoff Wednesday morning at 1000 hours...

Hi Paul.... 

Did you receive the Aegis Avenger Titan i sent via Star Citizen ? 

World Cup results - Match Day Three - final group games

Brazil 4 Russia 0
France 4 Poland 2

Argentina 6 USA 3
Germany 3 Belgium 2

Italy 4 Croatia 3
Spain 2 Holland 1

England 3 NIreland 0
Portugal 5 Uruguay 4

Semi-Final draw 
Brazil vs Germany at Wembley
Spain vs England at Wembley

France’s defeat by Brazil a killer in going through - oh well, next year…

Gold Cup results

Sweden 4 Egypt 2
Ghana 5 Japan 2

Denmark 1 Eire 2
Peru 1 Norway 3

Greece 5 Nigeria 3
Morocco 2 South Korea 4

Mexico 5 Ivory Coast 2
Australia 1 Colombia 1

Semi-Final Draw

Ghana vs Norway at the Seoul Stadium
Greece vs Mexico at the Seoul Stadium

Andy@Schalke wrote:

Schalke

Big match away v Leverkusen this week. The teams shared a 2-2 draw at Schalke in week 1, and Schalke were lucky to get that! A few tweaks this week to rectify a couple of problems identified from that game - Klostermann comes in for the injured Pau Torres, ahead of Schlotterbeck who just needs a bit more fine tuning. Sane also in to partner the impressive Goretzka in midfield. PEBvFAP is a decent match up in my experience.

Ferran makes a move to Plymouth in exchange for Nunez, who should dovetail nicely with Mbappe - in theory. The board are also staffing-up the med centre. Haidara goes onto the transfer list.

The signing of Haaland, combined with need for another LW at Plymouth meant a good deal all round for Nunez. Sad to see him leave but hopefully Ferran can help free up Bernardo Silva to move into midfield.

Plymouth travel to Newcastle with Haaland making his full debut and Independiente have River in another game they need to win. Twente need to keep marching forward and massive changes for Atletico - including a new tactic - means they come into the game against Jonny’s Seville as second favourites…

World Youth Cup results

Spain 3 Scotland 1
Holland 4 Portugal 2

Germany 4 Eire 0
Argentina 5 Denmark 1

Italy 1 Wales 0
Belgium 0 England 4

France 3 NIreland 0
Russia 0 Brazil 4

Semi-Final Draw

Spain vs Germany at Wembley
England vs Brazil at Wembley

I'm sensing a pattern here, congratulations to those managers who made it to the semi-finals.

League games kickoff at 1000 hours this morning...

Chelsea face a tough one today at home to Charlton , a settled side with no changes is probably our only hope of gaining a victory in an inconsistent season , too good to go down but not quite good enough to lay a glove on the top sides.

Pulisic plays in the friendlies to help settle into the squad.

Good luck guys.

The fans are ready the players are ready and the ref checks his watch...

The ref blows for the start of the game, good luck to everybody this week...

Botafogo 1 Cruzeiro 0 Neymar on 2 minutes.

Palace 0 Man United 1 Dallas on 3 minutes.
Everton 1 Wednesday 0 Gervinho.
Atletico 1 Sevilla 0 Borre.

Lazio 0 Milan 1 Locatelli on 4 minutes.

Rangers 0 Inverness 1 Fountas on 5 minutes.