oneteaminglasgow Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 April & May 2049 Bit of a mixed end to the season - 4-0 flattered Sheriff somewhat, but other than that all a bit meh to be honest. And the final table looks like this as we secure fifth. We're going to need to make up 60 points of Petrocub if we're going to have any chance of winning the league any time soon. A fairly tall order. That said, they'll need to do worse than that at some point, so hopefully we can be in a position to take advantage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 Transfers 2049 Load of players out, none of them will be missed particularly. Turns out the club is fucked financially, so had to send a load of the loanees out to try and make sure I stay within the wage budget. The aforementioned 'being financially fucked' thing also meant that I couldn't sign nearly as many players as I wanted, but I still managed to get a few in. We'll start with Mark Barr, a Northern Irish goalkeeper who has spent his entire career in Moldova. He's pretty good, without any glaring deficiencies, and should be an upgrade for us. I tried to sign him at Spartanii, and he wouldn't entertain talking to me, so shows the difference in the clubs stature. Spoiler Prokhorov joins from Sheriff, and is a central midfielder. A good technical player, he should be able to dictate play - although he's very poor defensively. Still, pleased with him. Spoiler Dusan Viskovic joins as an experienced centre half. Solid at the back, and should improve us. He's getting on a bit, so may only get a season out of him, and his aggression suggests that he's a complete nutter, but f**k it. Spoiler Visnjic is here as a right winger. He's not great, but not terrible either and I'm getting him for free, so should be fine. Spoiler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 August 2049 Tough start to the season, with three of last season's top four, and we've come through it unbeaten. We should have won against both Sfintul and Milsami, but couldn't take out chances. Sheriff completely outplayed us, but we managed to get a draw out of them as well. Petrocub having a shocker of a start, already dropped more points than they did last season, but Sheriff remain very good. We're looking good so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 September 2049 Mixed month - we should have beaten Zimbru, and a disappointing if predictable loss against Petrocub. Very convincing wins in the other two though. We're clear in fourth after the first round of games. I'd take that at the end of the season - think we're a couple of player short of a title challenge. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 October 2049 We lost against Petrocub again, but the rest of the month was good. We missed a great chance in the last minute against Sfintul, and the win against Milsami was very good. Sheriff are running away with it a bit, but we're comfortably in fourth at the minute. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 How are Spartanii getting on after being relegated? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 4 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: How are Spartanii getting on after being relegated? On course to go into the playoffs, so not too badly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 November 2049 Pleased with that, although we should have been more comfortable in the three wins. I'll take any wins though, and another draw with Sheriff is a good result, all things considered. We're still in the cup, although we're likely to be playing Sheriff in the next round, so that's a big ask. Apparently we're behind Sfintul on head to head despite drawing twice because they scored goals at our stadium. Still in fourth, and we've managed to close the gap above us as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 Just went to try and sign him and noticed that he'd retired. Won 4 league titles with me, goodnight sweet prince. GBNF. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 December 2049 Pretty decent. Will definitely take that. We're into third place now, which is lovely and with a comfortable ten point gap over fifth. No chance of actually winning the league this season, but I'll take European football and hope that the prize money can help sort out the club finances a bit so we can sign the few players I think we need for a proper challenge. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 January 2050 Two big disappointments this month - going out the cup, and not beating Sfintul which could have put us very, very firmly in control in the race for third. Still, the rest of the month went well and the 4-0 against Victoria Bardar is the first time in a few months that I've seen us win a game really comfortably. We're six clear of Sfintul, but it could be 12 if we'd won that game against them. Still, we're in the driving seat to get third and the European spot that comes with it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 February 2050 An absolute horrorshow against Sheriff, and then we nearly contrived not to beat Real Succes by missing a ton of chances. Got the goal though, and that spurred us on to excellent results against Zimbru and Sfintul - Sfintul in particular is a huge result for us. I'd like to hope that's us all but secured in third. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 March 2050 Dreadul. Not much else I can say really. Fortunately Sfintul have had an even worse month than we have. We're now one win away from securing third, I think. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 April 2050 We got what we needed, but we seem to have really run out of steam in the last few months of the season. But it sees us into a third placed finish, and we're going into the Europa Conference League. I'm hopeful we can have a wee run in that, but I wouldn't be surprised if we get pumped out immediately. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 Europa Conference League 2050/51 - First Qualifying Round We head into the first qualifying round of the Europa Conference League, and we're taking on FK Sileks Kratovo from North Macedonia. A decent shot at getting through there. Spoiler Good solid start to the tie, although that away goal is a bit of a pain in the arse. We were definitely a better side than them though, I'll be very annoyed if we go out to them. Spoiler Straightforward stuff in the away leg though, couple of goals for my new players too. Into the next round we head... Croatian opposition - they'll be a step up from Sileks. We'll see how it goes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blootoon87 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 The Europa Conference League league path second qualifying round. Catchy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 Europa Conference League 2050/51 - Second Qualifying Round Spoiler That's a fantastic result, and puts us in a good position to go through if we can avoid making a complete arse of it at home. I expected them to be better than they were to be honest, they really didn't create any chances and, while we only created one, we were actually fairly comfortable throughout. Savchenkov now has 2 in his 3 games as a Dinamo player, which is no bad from centre mid. Spoiler And we have the same result again in the second leg! This time they were by far the better team for the first 53 minutes of the game, but just couldn't get the goal. The red card totally finished them off though, and we scored from a corner not long after that. From the media afterwards, it would seem that to some viewers the red card was fairly questionable, but I'm adamant that the referee definitely got it right. Ah, that'll be tough. While Vaduz are Liechtenstein's representative in the competition, they're a Swiss top flight regular and I would think will have too much for us. Mind you, I thought that about Lokomotiva so let's give it a go. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 Europa Conference League 2050/51 - Third Qualifying Round Spoiler Disappointing, but not surprising. Turns out that they're just a better team than we are. We did ok enough, and had one half chance but the game was basically over after 18 minutes when the first goal went in. Spoiler Unsurprisingly, we're out of the competition, but to be honest I'll take that. We did pretty well against a very good side, and that bodes well for the rest of the season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 Transfers 2050/51 A couple of guys who were in and around the first team away, like Malakhov and Papi, but mostly it's just guys I'm not bothered about. A couple of guys out on loan tom try and save some wages, but f**k it. Plenty of guys in, some of them for the first 11, some of them just as squad filler. Graham Huxley joined right at the end of last season, and comes in as our first choice right winger. He's quick and hard working - technically alright, but not amazing. He's good for this level though. Spoiler Petrut Ionescu joins from Codru Lovoza. He had a great season in the second tier last season, 16 goals in 25 games, but his record in the top flight is pretty poor. Hoping that he can turn that around though, as he looks decent enough on paper. Spoiler Ratko Peric is a left back, he's fast and he's ok defensively. Quite poor going forward, but almost any left backs at this level are like that. Should be fine. Spoiler Savchenkov is pretty good, joins as a centre midfielder/attacking midfielder. He's going to be one of my first choice in midfield, and has already got a couple of goals in the european qualifiers. Spoiler Valerijs Dubra is here to be my back up goalkeeper. He's cheap and alright. Spoiler Vladislav Kiss, Dejan Mugosa and Vladimir Rogac are all here to provide depth to the squad, but aren't likely to be playing very often. Spoiler Billy Cuthbert is also a striker, he's spent most of his career in the Scottish League One and done fine there. He's good, and I think once he's settled in he should do well and get plenty of goals. I fucking hope so, because I'm paying him far too much. Spoiler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 August 2050 Well, apart from an absolute horror show on the opening day, that's an outstanding first month of the season. We took a bit of a pumping off Sheriff, but they just couldn't score. Very much a smash and grab effort. Other than that, we've looked very comfortable against everyone bar Petrocub, with one obvious exception. Well well well. Granted Sheriff and Petrocub will go ahead of us if they win games in hand, but I'll take that so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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