Teague vs Holden - El Cl?sico style

[treva]

August 2009

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Results

Real Madrid 2-1 Arsenal - Friendly
Benzema (5, 45) - Vela (89)

Beijing 1-1 Real Madrid - Friendly
Zhou (76)) - Granero (35)

Valencia 2-3 Real Madrid - Spanish Super Cup 1st Leg
Mathieu (12), Joaquin (45+2) - van Nistelrooy (10), Benzema (49), Robben (63)

Real Madrid 1-2 Valencia - Spanish Super Cup 2nd Leg
Raul (12) - Marchena (69), Fernandes (73)
Real Madrid win on away goals

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Next Five Fixtures

Sep 3: vs Barcelona @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]
Sep 14: vs Xerez @ Olimpico de Chapin, Jerez de la Frontera [League]
Sep 17: vs Slavia Prague @ Eden, Prague [Champions League]
Sep 21: vs Valencia @ Mestalla, Valencia [League]
Sep 24: vs Tenerife @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]

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Signings

Hugo Almeida
?13million
Striker

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Player Stats

Top Goalscorer: van Nistelrooy, Benzema, Robben, Raul (1)
Most Assists: Robben, Ronaldo, Raul, van Nistelrooy (1)
Man of the Match: Casillas (1)
Yellow Cards: Jiranek (2)
Red Cards: N/A
Average Rating: Casillas (7.70)

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Finances

Balance: ?145,276,776
Income: ?24,958,773
Expenditure: ?27,017,560
Transfer Budget: ?1,799,200

Manager Comments

An excellent month on and off the field - well I say off the field but that is only because we signed Hugo Almeida, but injuries and our Champs league draw haven't been great.

Our friendly win over Arsenal was pleasing, and the beijing draw didn't really matter. The big week of the month was when we came up against Valencia for the Spanish Super Cup. Away from home I fancied grabbing a draw with an away goal setting us up perfectly for a home win, but boy was the game a cracker!

On just 10 minutes van Nistelrooy opened the scoring from a corner, but Mathieu struck back for Valencia with a stunning strike. An even half saw both sides create chances, but out of nowhere Joaquin stepped up to smash a 30 yard free kick into the back of the net right on half time.

We came out the second half and equalised early, Benzema getting his first competitive goal for the club. Robben then scored a cracking volley to put us ahead. We held on despite massive pressure to claim a huge 3-2 away win.

We felt comfortable going into the home tie and Raul made things even better with an early goal to leave Valencia needing 3 goals to go through. It was plain sailing until Marchena scored on 69 minutes, and Fernandes gave them the lead moments later. Our defence held out for the remaining nerve-racking 17 minutes to give us the aggregate win on away goals.

A brilliant start to the season, but now we face Holden's Barca in our first La Liga game of the season.

Champions League Group
Arsenal
Real Madrid
Celtic
Slavia Prague

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[Ollie_H]

August 2009

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Results
Wednesday, 6.8.2009 (F)

Bunyodkor 0 - 2 Barcelona
Lionel Messi (44)
Joao Mountinho (48)

Friday, 29.8.2009 (Euro.Super Cup)

Shakhtar 1 - 3 Barcelona
Luiz Adriano (90+2) Thierry Henry(13,83)
Andres Iniesta (69)




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Next Five Fixtures
Sat. 13th September 2009, Valencia (H) (Liga BBVA)
Tue. 16th September 2009, Salzburg (H) (Champions Cup Group C)
Sun. 21st September 2009, Tenerife (A) (Liga BBVA)
Wed. 24th September 2009, Malaga (H) (Liga BBVA)
Sat. 27th September 2009, Atheltic (A) (Liga BBVA)


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Signings

In

Oscar Cardozo, Benfica, ?8 million.

Out

Bojan, Shaktar, ?7 million

Oriol Romeu, Hercules, Free


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Player Stats

Top Goalscorer: Thierry Henry (2)
Most Assists: Eric Abidal (2)
MOTM: Thierry Henry (1)
Yellow Cards: Carlos Puyol (1)
Red Cards: -
Average Rating: Thierry Henry (8.40)



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Finances

Balance: ?14.61M
Profit: ?38.98M
Season Budget: ?22.93M
Transfer Budget: ?0

Manager Comments

It's fair to say it was quite a quiet month. Nothing to report, at one point thought my whole squad was going to get injured. I have told them that if anyoneeven thinks about catching swine flu, they can forget playing till Christmas.That seemed to scare the daylights out of them, never knew I could have so much power over people, of course apart from Jack. He lied about me having to play him next! See you just shouldn't trust a guy like him, don't know what Perez was doing to be honest, maybe they should give me the title now? anyway Valencia should be hard first up, but I'm ready for the challenge! BRING IT ON! (bang a gong )

P.S I'm bummed with injuries, Valdes, Abidal and Ibrahim all out with injuries!​

Champions League Group
Spartak Moscow
Salzburg
Rangers
Barcelona
EASY, EASY, EASY?​

 

[shantanu_rooney]

What!! Bojan sold, he is one of the brightest prospects to look forward and you sold him and for only 7m? I bought Manchester United game for 16m in the first season.

Anyways the competition looks to be very tough and the first match is going to be a thriller..

 

[Ollie_H]

Just to le you know Shan, the first game isn't actually Barca vs Real. It has been postponed to late October due to International fixtures.

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Just to le you know Shan, the first game isn't actually Barca vs Real. It has been postponed to late October due to International fixtures.

I was really expecting it to be a thriller of a game

 

[Ollie_H]

didn't we all! we had something big planned for when it happened, this means we can create tension and have a much bigger build up now!

 

[Ollie_H]

September 2009​

5 Games - 5 Wins, 0 Losses, 0 Draws

September couldn't have been a much better month for me this month. If I could have changed one thing I would have liked to have had none of the injuries I had,. For a lot of the month I was playing with just one striker up front. But this may have actually come as a blessing in disguise for me and I actually won every game! Who said managing was difficult! In each of my games I scored at least 2 goals and only conceded 1 goal all month. A pretty impressive stat eh?

13.9.09

Barcelona vs. Valencia​

Well I was pretty excited going into this game, my first game in the LIGA BBVA and I wanted to make a big impression on the fans. It would have been incredible to start against Teague but this way our match will be even more anticipated. Srna and Cardozo made their debuts with Pinto in goal with Valdes Injured.
Srna made a pretty good start on his debut making a darting run into the box only to fluff a 1 on 1, I?ll let him off because he?s on debut though, he also sent a free kick inches wide, but it was shown to have deflected off the wall. From the resulting corner Srna whipped it in and Henry headed it in. I was ecstatic! The ref nearly sent me to the stands, but what did I care? I was 1 - 0 up in 15 minutes!
38 minutes in and we were 2-0 up, I think I like this job! Srna again whipped in a corner, slightly longer than usualy, Xavi headed it back in and Puyol finished it off with the ball rebounding off both posts! Thanks for coming J.
We had some other chances after that but the two major incidents afterwards were the injuries to both Alves and Henry. The skipper Carlos Puyol was named as man of the match and a deserved award at that.

Barcelona 2 - 0 Valencia​

16.9.09

Barcelona vs. Salzburg​

Just 3 days on from my stunning win against Valencia when all I wanted was something out of the game, Just a days rest and we had our first Champions League game against Salzburg. With Henry(Ibrahim also injured) out injured I had to leave Gudjohnsen up front by himself, I wasn?t too happy about this but just hoped it would pay off. I played a 4-4-1-1. My Midfield consisted of

Iniesta
Maxwell - Joao Moutinho - Xavi - Messi​

Never in a squillion days did I imagine I would be able to manage such great players, and they were mine! Srna shifted to RB with Alves injured.
The first goal came when Iniesta was blatantly fouled in the area, Messi did me proud and went on to score the resulting penalty. Not much really happened between the two goals. Maxwell slotted us 2-0 ahead in the 57th and I thought I would have a go at being Fergie. I sat there, showing no emotion just chewing my gum. Srna just poked the cross in and Maxwell at the far post just slotted it in. I make it look so easy. Maxwell was MOTM.

Barcelona 2 - 0 Salzburg​

21.9.09

Tenerife vs. Barcelona​

My first away game of the season and I nice place to go and play some football. No real changes to the last game against Salzburg. Just a few changes at the back. Gudjohnsen had the first chance of the game when he thought the keeper might move out the way if he just hit it straight at him. He didn?t and he fluffed it. On the stroke of the 30 minute mark Iniesta shot from just outside the area with the Tenerife keeper just missing it on his near post. 4 yellow cards and 50 minutes later, Messi decided to double our lead. Srna whipped in a cross to Iniesta, who pushed the ball into Messi?s path and he slotted it home for 2 - 0 with 10 minutes to go.

Messi grabbed his first MOTM of the season and Maxwell picked up an injury.

Tenerife 0 - 2 Barcelona​

24.9.09

Barcelona vs. Malaga​

Back home from our trip to Tenerife and I was on a real high having not lost a game yet, with Atheltic up after Malaga I thought this record might get troubled soon. I was still playing with one striker, this time it was Henry as Gudjohnsen had got a bit tired and I wanted to rest him.
Henry with the first goal in 10 minutes, Messi crossed the ball into the middle of the park about 10 yards in front of the half way line, Henry ran with the ball, into the box and then slotted it past the keeper. 1-0. Good start. Just 13 minutes later, Xavi played the ball to Henry on the edge of the box who swivelled with the ball and placed the ball into the top right hand corner. 2 - 0 just after 20 minutes.
In the 67th minute, Srna sent the corner in and Milito was tripped by Torres. Messi then caressed the ball into the bottom right for 3 - 0, and that?s the win. Henry wrapped up MOTM of the match with his two stunning goals.

Barcelona 2 - 0 Malaga​

27.9.09

Athletic vs. Barcelona​

My last game of the month against Athletic. Not many changes again, with my current form I really wanted to win this game and within 3 minutes Iniesta had put us ahead, It seems unbelievable but most like most of our goals this season, we had another screamer! Iniesta drove the ball into the goal from 25 yards out, a screamer. 15 minutes later and Srna scored from a free kick to double our lead and make it 2 - 1. Atheltic scored from a corner in the 35th minute to bring it back to 2-1. I was tense then as I really wanted to finish this month on a high and finish with 5 wins from 5 games.
My fears were let go in the 76th minute when Gudjohnsen who was brought on as a sub, scored to make it 3-1 and gives us our 3rd win out of 3. Srna was awarded MOTM and we finished top of the league and we finished top of the league with the same amount of points but a game in hand on 2nd.

Athletic 1 - 3 Barcelona​

Player Stats

Top Goal Scorer: Henry (5)
Most Assists: Srna (4)
MOTM: Henry (2)

 

[m_vaughan]

Good start, winning all games by 2 goal margins. I take it Real are the team second, and that they have lost one game.

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Great start for Barca to the new season, and nice to see everyone scoring goals as well as nice to see Srna blending in the team team well.

 

[Ollie_H]

Good start, winning all games by 2 goal margins. I take it Real are the team second, and that they have lost one game.

I am incredibly happy with my start, In my first game I actually said I want a point and when I came away with a win I was very happy. Hopefully October will be an excellent month as well!

Great start for Barca to the new season, and nice to see everyone scoring goals as well as nice to see Srna blending in the team team well.

Srna really has blended in well, I have had to play him at Right Back for most of the month because of the injury to Danny Alves. So he has actually provided really good cover. So glad I didn't sell Henry! Arsenal were really making a move for him and I told them I would only settle for a switch of Henry for Arshavin. Seems like a blessing in disguise that Arsenal never accepted! Gudjohnsen has also been playing well considering I haven't really expected much from him.

 

[treva]

September 2009

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Results

Xerez 1-0 Real Madrid - La Liga
Antonito (56)

Slavia Prague 0-2 Real Madrid - Champions League
Stanek (off 82) - van Nistelrooy (32, 88)

Valencia 0-0 Real Madrid - La Liga

Real Madrid 2-0 Tenerife - La Liga
Robben (3), Almeida (42)

Malaga 0-2 Real Madrid - La Liga
van Nistelrooy (46, 70)

Real Madrid 1-1 Arsenal - Champions League
Kaka (pen 43) - Eduardo (28)

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Next Five Fixtures

Oct 5: vs Athletic @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]
Oct 18: vs Osasuna @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]
Oct 21: vs Celtic @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [Champions League]
Oct 26: vs Sporting @ El Molin?n, Gij?n [League]
Oct 29: vs Barcelona @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]

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Signings

None

Outgoing

Miguel Torres
Shakhtar
?2million
14.1.2009

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Player Stats

Top Goalscorer: van Nistelrooy (5)
Most Assists: Robben (2)
Man of the Match: van Nistelrooy (2)
Yellow Cards: Jiranek (3)
Red Cards: N/A
Average Rating: Ramos (7.21)

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Finances

Balance: ?142,942,729
Income: ?11,819,446
Expenditure: ?13,490,195
Transfer Budget: ?3,783,317

Manager Comments

A rough month with points dropped against Xerez and Valencia. The loss at Xerez was poor, and they deserved to win. Valencia were tough to break down but our defence kept strong and we came away with a point. Good results in the Champions League, and we'll need to beat Celtic to cement our position.

Next month needs to see us win every game. Ollie's Barca are already racing ahead, currently unbeaten, and we will need to end that run (if it hasn't already ended) at the end of the month when we meet for the first time.

A crucial month ahead. Any more dropped points and our title hopes will start to fade rapidly. On a positive note Ruud's looked in great form and Almeida got his first of many goals to come in a Real shirt.

Injuries wise we have two major losses. Ruud will be out for 2 to 3 weeks whilst Robben is out for 4 weeks. We need Almeida, Raul and Sneijder to step up and limit the losses.

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[treva]

October 2009

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Results

Real Madrid 0-0 Athletic - La Liga

Real Madrid 1-0 Osasuna - La Liga
Raul (23) - [/U]Vad?cz (off 86)

Real Madrid 2-1 Celtic - Champions League
Raul (27), van Nistelrooy (60) - McDonald (9)

Sporting 0-2 Real Madrid - La Liga
van Nistelrooy (51), Metzelder (76)

Pontevedra 0-1 Real Madrid - Copa del Rey 4th Round, Leg 1
Metzelder (33)

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Next Five Fixtures

Nov 1: vs Almeria @ Estadio Mediterr?neo, Almeria [League]
Nov 5: vs Celtic @ Celtic Park, Glasgow [Champions League]
Nov 9: vs Getafe @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]
Nov 13: vs Pontevedra @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [Copa del Rey]
Nov 16: vs Espanyol @ Lluis Companys, Barcelona [League]

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Signings

None

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Player Stats

Top Goalscorer: van Nistelrooy (7)
Most Assists: Robben, Ramos, Sneijder, Raul, van Nistelrooy (2)
Man of the Match: van Nistelrooy (4)
Yellow Cards: Jiranek (3)
Red Cards: N/A
Average Rating: van Nistelrooy (7.33)

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Finances

Balance: ?144,928,193
Income: ?13,362,128
Expenditure: ?14,460,591
Transfer Budget: ?3,783,317

Manager Comments

An unbeaten month where we continued our sluggish start in the first two games but soon improved to our prolific best. Ruud's return from injury really lifted us and his impact against Celtic really boosted our performance in the 2nd half.

Except for Celtic's early goal we didn't concede in the month and our defence looks very compact. Injuries again plagued us but going into November we have all of our star men back fully fit.

Once again our Barcelona tie was re-scheduled due to the Cop del Rey. We know face each other on November 19, unless it gets changed for a 3rd time.

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[Ollie_H]

October 2009

Results


Wed 1.10.2009, Champions League

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Sun 5.10.2009, Liga BBVA

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Sat 18.10.2009, Liga BBVA

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Wed 22.10.2009, Champions League

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Sun 26.10.2009, Liga BBVA

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Wed 29.10.2008, Copa Del Rey

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Next Five Fixtures

Nov 1: Osasuna vs Barcelona (A) Liga BBVA
Nov 4: Barcelona vs Rangers (H) Champions League
Nov 8: Barcelona vs Espanyol (H) Liga BBVA
Nov 12: Barcelona vs Fuerteventura (H) Copa Del Rey 4th Round Leg 2
Nov 16: Atheltico Madrid vs Barcelona (A) Liga BBVA


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Player Stats

Top Goalscorer: Thierry Henry (6)
Most Assists: Xavi (5)
Man of the Match: Two Players (2)
Yellow Cards: Carlos Puyol (3)
Red Cards: Darijo Srna (1)

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Finances

Balance: ?13.43M
Profit/(Loss): ?37.81M
Season Budget: ?22.93M
Budget Remaining: ?0

Manager Comments:

Another month of win, win, win, win, win and win. It's like I can do no wrong. Once again the match against Teague's Madrid was postponed. I think he is just scared because he is doing no where near as well so he keeps getting the match pushed back un till he is in good enough form to face my formidable BARCELONAAA! Henry is still banging goals in, and I have only just at the end of the month gotten my full strike force back. Messi and Iniesta have both been injured for prolonged periods of time but my squad seem to have the depth to be able to cope. My game against Fuerteventura was in interesting one as I made 11 changes to the team overall. I thought that the men who played in close to all the games needed a break so Danny Alves ended up playing at Right Mid and the team played well but what do you expect against a team thats half way down the second division, anything less than 3-0 would probably have been an embarrassment. The board decided that we were in such good finances and doing so well they would boost my transfer budget to all of ..... ?2.6M. Flumoxed, that would barely by my a standard player. Who do they want me to get with ?2.6M? Ahh well, they are satisfied with my management. I must be a natural!​

Next month is THE MONTH! The build up into christmas I have to be top, and also the most important game of the season. Real Madrid!​

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[blake]

Looks like Barcelona are on top of this challenge.. Holden is doing a great job with them, winning everything.

Great presentation from both of you - this has been an interesting challenge.

 

[treva]

November 2009

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Results

La Liga

Champions League

La Liga

Copa del Rey 4th Round, Leg 2

La Liga

La Liga

Champions League

La Liga

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Next Five Fixtures

Dec 3: vs Barcelona @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]
Dec 6: vs Racing @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]
Dec 10: vs Arsenal @ The Emirates, London [Champions League]
Dec 13: vs Valladolid @ Nuevo Jos? Zorrilla, Valladolid [League]
Dec 20: vs Sevilla @ Santiago Bernab?u, Madrid [League]

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Signings

None

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Player Stats

Top Goalscorer: van Nistelrooy (9)
Most Assists: Sneijder (8)
Man of the Match: van Nistelrooy (4)
Yellow Cards: Jiranek (6)
Red Cards: N/A
Average Rating: van Nistelrooy (7.22)

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Finances

Balance: ?146,904,148
Income: ?15,512,269
Expenditure: ?14,077,328
Transfer Budget: ?102,114,293

Manager Comments

A brilliant month both on and off the field where we won every game and made a few deals for the next transfer window (those will be revealed when the arrive). I was given ?140mil to spend by the board, something I thank them very much for.

We had a solid league win over Atletico Madrid, who were looking good heading into our match and some gutsy Champions League victories. All in all the perfect run up to the big one. Barcelona. No more re-scheduled dates, it's happening next. A must win to put us on a level playing field in the title race.

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