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July 1, 2012
Woking @ Kelantan - Friendly
I'm not going to spend much time on friendlies at all. I do set up my initial/ideal lineup, at least until I pull some loaners in:
GK: Lynch
DEF: Nikolaou, Fenton, Williams, Ricketts
MC: O'Sullivan, Pulis
AML: Sloma, Ademola
ST: Harsanyi, Subotic
Harsanyi is a deep lying forward, that's where I had him set for about 2/3 of last season. Subotic is an Advanced Forward. I tried last year w/ German to be an Inside Foward, but had better results with all my AM's being Wingers. O'Sullivan an attacking Advanced Playmaker, Pulis a defending Central midfielder. Those roles stayed fairly static for me once I got settled into last season.
Kelantan 1 : 1 Woking
We give up a first half goal when our back line falls asleep in a long free kick by their keeper, an attacker runs by the defense, Fenton/Williams don't try to stay with him, he's onsides by a mile and scores easy. In the second half Anane controls the attack, crosses the ball into the box, there's some confusion and Sole strikes a loose ball in.
European Championships
The single elimination stuff took awhile, I waited for it to finish to report so I could do it all at once:
Quarterfinals
France 3 : 2 Ukraine
Russia 3 : 1 Belgium
Italy 2 : 0 Spain
England 3 : 2 Bosnia & Herzegovina
Semifinals
France 3 : 0 England
Italy 1 : 0 Russia
Finals
France 2 : Italy 1
France scores in the 20th minute, Italy ties in the 62nd, France's Samir Nasri scores in the 72nd minute for the game winner.
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