Re: How's Your FIFA 14 Career Mode Going?
Great work turning things around! Hopefully this can end with at the very least UCL football for you next year. Love the signing of my boy Lacazette, he is an absolute tank and will give you another strong (but very different) option up top from Bendtner.
Brighton & Hove Albion
Taking Flight
Taking Flight
Spoiler
December 2015
Brighton 1-1 Spurs
Poor draw that ought to have ended in a Brighton win.
Norwich 4-3 Brighton
Absolutely ripped apart in the rain by a clinical Norwich. Our first loss of the season.
Brighton 0-2 Chelsea
Chelsea were just too good for us. The bad form continues.
Southampton 2-1 Brighton
Hard-fought, but we managed to come away with all three points.
********************
January 2016
Brighton 3-1 Man. United
Excellent performance from us, but it needs to keep going from here.
Stoke 0-2 Brighton
Clinical win. Nothing pretty, just did what we had to do.
Brighton 5-0 S****horpe (FA Cup, Round 3)
Match simmed.
Chelsea 3-3 Brighton (Capital One Cup, Semifinal 1A)
Ridiculous. We scored, they scored. They scored, we scored. Two goals in injury time.
Brighton 3-1 Liverpool
Ravaged by injury, Liverpool were forced to play Iago Aspas and paid for it. Coutinho scored and was sold to Barcelona for £29 million a day later.
Nott'm. Forest 2-3 Brighton
Two goals we didn't need to concede, but at least we won.
Brighton 5-4 Chelsea (Capital One Cup, Semifinal 1B)
The game that almost gave me a heart attack. The ref favoured Chelsea, but we managed to win and score a late penalty to go through to the final.
Brighton 3-1 Millwall (FA Cup, Round 4)
Match simmed.
********************
February 2016
Brighton 1-0 Southampton
Clinical win. Buckley's solo effort takes him to 12 league goals for the season.
Brighton 2-0 Sunderland
Shambles from the Wearsiders, excellence from us. Hajrovic at the double.
Leeds 1-2 Brighton (FA Cup, Round 5)
Match simmed.
Brighton 2-1 United (Capital One Cup, Final)
Gut-wrenching to concede an early goal, spiriting to equalise soon after, and unbelievable to win it. Brighton's first major honour and my first trophy with them. Buckley scores the winner and gets man of the match, deserved.
********************
Indiblue's Analysis
Wow, just wow. What an absolutely belting few months for us. December was fairly poor as we picked up just 4 out of 12 possible points, but things really turned around in the new year.
Greer moved to Birmingham because he missed playing regularly, while McGovern was transfer listed and moved to Ross County. I brought in Trent Sainsbury, an Australian centre back, as a replacement. He's pacey, good in defence, and has a 4-star weak foot. Cost me £3.6 million, which was no issue as the board gave me an additional £6.5 million to qualify for Champions League.
We went from strength to strength in January, winning all four league fixtures including Manchester United and Liverpool. The two legs of the Capital One Cup semifinals against Chelsea were insane. We progressed to the final 8-7 on aggregate, with Buckley winning it with a last-minute penalty in injury time of the second leg.
I've decided to stay at Brighton, so I made preparations for next season. Maxime Gonalons and Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon, and Gregory van der Wiel from PSG were signed on pre-contract agreements using almost all my transfer money pumped into wages. A last-minute deal that would have seen Bendtner switch to Roma fell through at the last minute because Mattia Destro didn't want to leave Italy.
February was quite good. We had two league games and won them both, then beat Leeds to make the FA Cup quarterfinals against Aston Villa, who we play in the league that same week in March. But the icing on the cake was the Capital One Cup final against Manchester United.
Darren Fletcher scored in the third minute from a well-delivered corner, but we didn't lose hope. About 20 minutes later, Liam Moore popped a right-footed volley that hit the post and went in. Late in the second half, Bendtner was put through by Buckley and shot low and hard. Lindegaard saved, but Buckley chipped the rebound over him and grabbed the winner! Cue Brighton's first piece of major silverware, and my first with the Seagulls!
Buckley is a phenomenon. He's on 20 goals in all competitions, with Bendtner on 19 (with 11 assists) and Hajrovic on 14. Forster has played over 30 games and kept 19 clean sheets. We're second on the table as of February 1, a point behind City but with a game in hand, and three points ahead of Chelsea on level games. The title is very much still a possibility, but I won't be leaving even if we win it. I need to give Champions League a go with Brighton!
Oh, and a matter of pride for me as Buckley was finally called up to the England national team. Of course the man of the moment scored a hat-trick on his international debut against Romania. I will be taking an international job, either this summer after the Euros or later this year. I've been getting offers from big nations like Uruguay and France, but I'm holding out for either England or Netherlands to make an offer. Fiorentina came calling as well, but I said no thanks.
Brighton 1-1 Spurs
Poor draw that ought to have ended in a Brighton win.
Norwich 4-3 Brighton
Absolutely ripped apart in the rain by a clinical Norwich. Our first loss of the season.
Brighton 0-2 Chelsea
Chelsea were just too good for us. The bad form continues.
Southampton 2-1 Brighton
Hard-fought, but we managed to come away with all three points.
********************
January 2016
Brighton 3-1 Man. United
Excellent performance from us, but it needs to keep going from here.
Stoke 0-2 Brighton
Clinical win. Nothing pretty, just did what we had to do.
Brighton 5-0 S****horpe (FA Cup, Round 3)
Match simmed.
Chelsea 3-3 Brighton (Capital One Cup, Semifinal 1A)
Ridiculous. We scored, they scored. They scored, we scored. Two goals in injury time.
Brighton 3-1 Liverpool
Ravaged by injury, Liverpool were forced to play Iago Aspas and paid for it. Coutinho scored and was sold to Barcelona for £29 million a day later.
Nott'm. Forest 2-3 Brighton
Two goals we didn't need to concede, but at least we won.
Brighton 5-4 Chelsea (Capital One Cup, Semifinal 1B)
The game that almost gave me a heart attack. The ref favoured Chelsea, but we managed to win and score a late penalty to go through to the final.
Brighton 3-1 Millwall (FA Cup, Round 4)
Match simmed.
********************
February 2016
Brighton 1-0 Southampton
Clinical win. Buckley's solo effort takes him to 12 league goals for the season.
Brighton 2-0 Sunderland
Shambles from the Wearsiders, excellence from us. Hajrovic at the double.
Leeds 1-2 Brighton (FA Cup, Round 5)
Match simmed.
Brighton 2-1 United (Capital One Cup, Final)
Gut-wrenching to concede an early goal, spiriting to equalise soon after, and unbelievable to win it. Brighton's first major honour and my first trophy with them. Buckley scores the winner and gets man of the match, deserved.
********************
Indiblue's Analysis
Wow, just wow. What an absolutely belting few months for us. December was fairly poor as we picked up just 4 out of 12 possible points, but things really turned around in the new year.
Greer moved to Birmingham because he missed playing regularly, while McGovern was transfer listed and moved to Ross County. I brought in Trent Sainsbury, an Australian centre back, as a replacement. He's pacey, good in defence, and has a 4-star weak foot. Cost me £3.6 million, which was no issue as the board gave me an additional £6.5 million to qualify for Champions League.
We went from strength to strength in January, winning all four league fixtures including Manchester United and Liverpool. The two legs of the Capital One Cup semifinals against Chelsea were insane. We progressed to the final 8-7 on aggregate, with Buckley winning it with a last-minute penalty in injury time of the second leg.
I've decided to stay at Brighton, so I made preparations for next season. Maxime Gonalons and Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon, and Gregory van der Wiel from PSG were signed on pre-contract agreements using almost all my transfer money pumped into wages. A last-minute deal that would have seen Bendtner switch to Roma fell through at the last minute because Mattia Destro didn't want to leave Italy.
February was quite good. We had two league games and won them both, then beat Leeds to make the FA Cup quarterfinals against Aston Villa, who we play in the league that same week in March. But the icing on the cake was the Capital One Cup final against Manchester United.
Darren Fletcher scored in the third minute from a well-delivered corner, but we didn't lose hope. About 20 minutes later, Liam Moore popped a right-footed volley that hit the post and went in. Late in the second half, Bendtner was put through by Buckley and shot low and hard. Lindegaard saved, but Buckley chipped the rebound over him and grabbed the winner! Cue Brighton's first piece of major silverware, and my first with the Seagulls!
Buckley is a phenomenon. He's on 20 goals in all competitions, with Bendtner on 19 (with 11 assists) and Hajrovic on 14. Forster has played over 30 games and kept 19 clean sheets. We're second on the table as of February 1, a point behind City but with a game in hand, and three points ahead of Chelsea on level games. The title is very much still a possibility, but I won't be leaving even if we win it. I need to give Champions League a go with Brighton!
Oh, and a matter of pride for me as Buckley was finally called up to the England national team. Of course the man of the moment scored a hat-trick on his international debut against Romania. I will be taking an international job, either this summer after the Euros or later this year. I've been getting offers from big nations like Uruguay and France, but I'm holding out for either England or Netherlands to make an offer. Fiorentina came calling as well, but I said no thanks.
as well as "the dinosaur lol I really enjoyed my career with them in FIFA 13 but I had to quit it when I purchased FIFA 14. Might start it up again later. So many teams I want to do a career with I don't think I'll be able to do them all before FIFA 15! I might just buy the new game late and milk FIFA 14 as much as I can haha
Comment