Alcoyano

By: Tom B | July 23rd, 2009

Well, I think the pre-match says it all:

However, we did manage to give a good account of ourselves, without ever really threatening their control of proceedings. They approached the game with two deep lying DMCs, which freaked me out a bit as I didn’t really know what to do. These guys sat deep, but would burst forward (eg for the second goal I conceded) and didn’t have a defensive mindset at all. If anyone knows (or has a theory) how to deal with this let me know). I decided not to start my new recruit, as he was severely lacking in match fitness, so I cottoned wooled him, so I lined up like this:

It didn’t start well, they’d had 3 shots in the first 2 mintues, and it only took them X minutes to break the deadlock. They doubled their lead all to easily in nearly the same manner with a cross and a header from 7 yards. We never threatened their lead, which was a shame, but I had no idea how to kill the 2 deep midfielders (if anyone knows how please let me know)

All things being equal they were pretty soft goals, but they could have had 3 or 4 more. The stats tell the story, and I was just outplayed. The new recruit Lozano didn’t have much impact, but he wasn’t alone in that regard, with a solid 6.8 after playing the entire second half. Once I get him match fit he’ll be a star, I hope.

I imagine results like this will happen from time to time when you’re predicted to finish 20th and are playing against better teams, but if anyone out there in cyber FM land would like to give tips as to how to neutralise these two attack minded DMCs of the opposition please let me know.