Ligue Game #37 – Away vs Rennes – Santana is back. I begin defensively.

Goals

HALF
Besnard to Machacek in the 47th
Them in the 78th
Fevgas to Besnard in the 83rd

We win 2-1, MOM is Besnard

Ligue Game #38 – Home vs FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. I begin standard. This is Lerager, Jens and Isimat-Mirin’s last game with us and I’ll sub them in today.


Goals

Solanke to Lorenzo, 1st minute
Them in the 4th
Santana crosses to Lorenzo, goal , 22nd minute
Solanke sinks a PK in the 29th
HALF
Santana to Besnard, goal, 52th minute
Santana to Lorenzo, goal, 68th minute
Besnard to Solanke 77th minute


Do you want to see my last game of the season, probably my last game in France with Bordeaux and likely my last game in this dynasty?

Sure thing!



Here you go! They had a solid 17 shots and 8 on target but we only allowed one goal. MOM is Lorenzo’s hat trick. I sent in all three of my intended subs. We just have a lot of quality.

Besnard went from a 3 star hot prospect to the dominant force in the ligue in just two years.

Here’s the Ligue




We finished in front 11 points over PSG and 13 over OL. OL made the champion’s league. Good job archenemy! You can see our lethal GD. We scored a lot of goals.

My Goals for Bordeaux

1. Get them back to EURO this year in year one. COMPLETED Year One
2. Do some damage in the EURO. COMPLETED Year Two
3. Get them high enough to qualify for the Champion’s League. COMPLETED Year Two
4. Win Ligue 1. COMPLETED Year Three.
5. Win a Cup. COMPLETED Year Two


I finished all of my goals as well as super secret goal #6 – do some damage in the Champion’s League. We knocked out Real Madrid, Barcelona, Benfica, and showed up against At. Madrid. I only lost one game in the Group Stage - away at Bayern.

Roster

GK Rico – 3. He is locked in for now as he didn’t lose momentum as the season wore on and he showed up for big matches.

DC Holding – 2- My 2nd worst starter these days but he’s my captain. Can’t pull him too quickly.

DC Joao – 2 – Solid but have we grown past him?

DC Nielsen – 4. Locked in and a rock at DC

DMC Bell- 3. Locked in

MC Machacek – 4. Locked in and a rock at box to box. Runs it well.

MR Santana – 3. Love him and he’s my 2nd best player.

ML Lorzeno – 3. Locked in.

AMC Marchi – 3. Locked in as well.

ST Besnard – 4. My best player

ST Solanke 2 – My worst player but he broke the Ligue in the latter half of the year and finished very very very strongly.

Stats

We allowed 31 goals. 3rd fewest
We score 103 goals, the most over PSG at 2nd with 69

Wow

MOM – Solanke led with 10; Besnard 2nd with 9; Santana 3rd with 8.

Distance Covered – Marchi was 2nd; Santana 9th

Rating – Besnard 1st; Santana 2nd; Solanke 3rd; Lorenzo 4th

Headers Won – Holding 1st; Solanke 11th

Goals – Besnard 1st with 34; Solanke 2nd with 32, the 3rd was 17; also high goals – Santana 10 goals. Solanke only had 9 goals in the first half of the season and came alive in the latter half.

Avg Minutes Per Goal – Besnard 1st; Solanke 2nd

Shots – Besnard 171 in 1st; 2nd was all the way back at 127. Solanke was 5th with 121

Shots on Target – Besnard was first, Solanke 2nd

% Shots on Target – Santana 1st; Solanke 6th

PKs – Solanke 1st with 5

Assists – 1st Besnard with 19; Santana 2nd with 16; Solanke 3rd with 13; Marchi tied for 7th with 10; Lorenzo tied for 9th with 9;

Key Passes – Santana 3rd; Besnard 5th, Marchi 6th; Solanke 12th

Chances Created – Santana 1st; Marchi 2nd, Solanke 6th; Besnard 7th

Pass % - Bell 3rd

Cross Completion % - Marchi 1st;

Drib/Game – Santana 3rd; Lorenzo 8th; Besnard 9th

Key Headers – Solanke 8th

Picks – Holding 8th

Header Won Ratio – Bell 1st; Nielsen 3rd;

Shutouts – Rico 4th with 15. He didn’t play the entire year remember

Saves Held – Rico was 10th

Saves Parried – Rico was 19th

Our D and Rico allowed fewer shots on target this year than last.

We remain the House that Vincent Besnard built.

The big question….

Now what?

1. Play another year. I earned this! See if we can win the Champions League!
2. Move to another team and repeat the Bordeaux experience.
3. Retire. I’ve already done one more full year than ever before! I can retire having won the Fortuna twice, the Ligue once, and doing serious damage in both Slovakia and France and Europe.

Hmm…

What teams are open right now?

Luton
Proleter in Serbia
Radnicki in Serbia

Greece national team. Rev. Pavol Masaryk speaks Greek from his seminary…

Should I apply to run Greece?





This is a good place to retire! Having taken a nationals squad to push yourself in the type of football run.

Keep it going! :)

Any of the options sound fun...

As of right now, nope. We've retired.