So season one with Spurs flew by, and the new season was upon as very quickly, armed with a change in kits, and having reverted back to vanilla Konami game play, after using a Holland fusion GP mod for all of season one, we were ready to get down to business.
I changed back to vanilla game play as with Data pack 6, Konami fixed a lot of really bad design choices they implemented in DP5, players were slow, clunky, unresponsive, and as a result i needed to use a GP mod to balance things out, which was superb in some ways but these mods always introduce a few unsavoury elements, and I was suffering a few abnomalies, such as player collisions, own goals, lack of awareness of lose balls etc, so I decided to eradicate those and go with the now very good, improved, DP6 core game play for season 2, the only downside being the absolute shithousery of scripting that is so evident in places its unreal.
Season 2 started with a few shrewd signings, bring in some depth after selling on a few squad players, Hugo Lloris & Lo Celso were also sold to bring in additional funds.
Denayer is a solid centre back and easily recognisable in game with his low slung socks and thick long dreads, it’s like having a prime Ruud Gullit marauding around the back line, Meret is a direct replacement for the departed Lloris and Main Signing Lorenzo Insigne, signed from Napoli can play across the centre of Midfield or on either wing, giving us skill and craft in various positions.
Our first port of call was a UEFA Champions League qualifier, a tricky tie against turkish side Fenerbache, the first leg at home, which we lost 2-1, so a 2-0 or clear 2 goal victory was needed in Turkey.
We played superbly, with Son netting this peach to give us a 3-0 win and a 4-2 aggregate victory to take us into the Champions league proper.
We eagerly awaited the draw, and was promptly placed into a very difficult group:
We did superbly to qualify, in second place, having beat Barca 2-1 at the Nou Camp and twice beating last seasons UCL winners and recent World Club Cup Champions, Bayern, who drop into the Europa League.
The Italian Old Lady wait for us in the KO round.
Home leg first, imperative to get a good result and not give Juve any away goals.
Back on the domestic front, new teams came up and a few familiar ones went down:
Glad to see Bournemouth back up, always enjoy playing at their very tight, compact and intimate small stadium.
We are through to the last 16 of the FA Cup, with Brighton awaiting us in the next round, and after the last play session we are in late December in the calendar, with an eye on January transfer signings.
Andres Iniesta will leave us at the end of the season after fulfilling a one year deal, at his ripe old age of 37, he has been superb so far, dictating midfield in the games he has played, so i was conscious of filling the void he will leave, so we have splashed out £72mil to bring in Milinkovic-Savic, an 86 OVR rated accomplished and technical CMF from Lazio.
Disappointingly, it seems we are playing for top 4 place at best already, last seasons winners Man City, are already runaway leaders this season, after drawing their first game, they have won the other 16 games they have played, to surge into a strong lead at the top of the table, unbeaten in 17 games, until yesterday, where they suffered there first defeat, 2-1 to us, which gives the rest of the chasing pack a small glimmer of hope.
Will finish off as usual with a selection of goals from this season so far:
NB: The Denayer (CB) finish towards the end, and Insigne’s skill with FK’s
(Excuse lack of sound on first few clips – Geforce Shadow recording didnt pick it up for some reason)
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That’s a ridiculous CL group – can’t imagine the scenario where those four are drawn together due to the seeding etc. Unless Spurs are considered 3rd raters and rangers the also rans. I’ve not been back to Hibs fifa campaign in weeks, simply enjoying ESO too much.
Still trying to process the terms ‘Werd’ and ‘PS5’. Like hearing that Benjamin Disraeli got to work in a Tesla.
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Paul- great goals. That patch looks so, so good. I’ve got the evoweb patch and some others but this looks miles and miles better. Did I read right that you have Holland reaching the finals? I sure hope so but I’m not as optimistic. First match up in a bit so we’ll see
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Must be that Turf – Spurs would be unseeded due to past UCL history (only one final, many years not qualifying), same for rangers, so the grouping is quite realistic, except Barca and Bayern wouldn’t be drawn together i doubt.
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#1 – The VirtuaRed v2 patch is definitely the best AIO patch ‘ve used.
Yeah I used the BBC scores predictor to predict winners of each game and had Netherlands in the Final, however after watching your game last night i think you will be in trouble if you defend like that against the better teams.
Bit of a Brazil – play great football and great attacking, but rely on scoring more than they concede.
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Paul – that’s always been a weakness for us but thought with De Vrij (and De Ligt, but he’s still injured) and others that that would’ve been shored up by now but no. Where are the days of Jaap Stam eh. I was watching with a mate and said “they’re gonna pull equal, just watch” and that they did. We do have a habit of playing better against more offensive teams so we’ll see. I do love the whole atmosphere and watching footy everyday again.
Where do you have England placing by the way? Also, that virtuared patch, does it install through an exe or….?
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Turf- looks space age in my peat hut with tin foil shed extension.
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#1 – No Doubt you are missing big Virgil too, as Liverpool did last season, he is a rock at the back and just calms everyone else down.
A VVD and de Ligt CB pairing would be pretty awesome.
The VirtuaRed does indeed install through an exe, just run it and it copies all the sider folders, modules, lua scripts etc into whatever folder you specify.
Then you install the ‘fix’ file that comes with it, and good to go.
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Ah gotcha Paul! Seems enticing. Got to get rid of this damn scabies infection first as that has been dominating my mind constantly.
We are definitely missing Virgil! De ligt injured as well so it’s a bit of a “make do” situation at the back. We’ll see what happens tonight against Austria..
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