World Premier League - Round Two - Matches Posted

[treva]

Madhur, you can take your pick from these three players:

Josip Colina:

Kay Voser:

Veroljub Salatic:

Note that in the January transfer window I will allow a team to use any of its players (I will post up screenies) and will be allowed to make offers for other players using the ?200mil transfer budget.

Games will be played tonight, and I hope to have Saturday's game up by tonight as well.

 

[treva]

New York Fighters vs Madrid FC @ The Fighter Dome

New York 1 | Walcott 47'
Madrid 1 | Berbatov 20'
Attendance: 100,000
HT Score: 0-1

New York recorded their second draw of the season in a tightly fought contest with Madrid in New York. Madrid dominated the early chances and were rewarded when Dimitar Berbatov latched onto Danny Murphy's chipped pass and slotted in the easy finish. It stayed that way until just after half time. Alessandro Del Piero and DeMarcus Beasley worked well together down the left before Del Piero's cross was met by the head of Theo Walcott who headed past a stranded Iker Casillas to level the score. Both teams had their chances but saved the best for the final moments. First substitute Hulk charged past Victor Vald?s only for the goalkeeper to react quickly to push Hulk's shot from a tight angle out for a corner. The resulting corner saw Philippe Mex?s head the ball against the bar. On the break New York could have easily snatched all three points. Roman Pavlyuchenko broke through one-on-one only to see his shot parried wide by Casillas.

MotM: Gianluca Zambrotta

 

[treva]

To rattle through this I'm not going to be posting my fairly length paragraph's anymore. Just the scores and goalscorers, plus any other information of note. So here are the remaining four Round Two games:

---Paris 2 - 3 Rome
Aguero (5) - Toni (40)
Meireles (89) - Tevez (66)
- - - - - - --- - Kaka (72)

--------Sydney 1 - 1 Johannesburg
Adebayor (63) - Inzaghi (53)
- - - - -- - - - -- - - - -- - - --- - Arshavin missed penalty (82)

Destroyers------ Tokyo 0 - 1 Buenos Aires
Alonso sent off (46) - Lucio (9)
- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - -- - - --------- - Mascherano sent off (71)
(Tokyo had a goal ruled out for offside)

London 2 - 0 Berlin
Rooney (46) - ----------
Gerrard (77) - ----------

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The fixtures for Round 3 and an updated injury list will be up soon.

 

[Ollie_H]

Nice little win to re ignite my campaign!

 

[treva]

The League Table

[B]Pos.  Teams                    P   W   D   L   GD   PTS[/B]
1.    London                   2   1   1   0   +2     4
2.    Madrid                   2   1   1   0   +1     4 
3.    Rome                     2   1   1   0   +1     4
4.    Paris                    2   1   0   1   +1     3
5.    Tokyo                    2   1   0   1   +1     3
6.    Buenos Aires             2   1   0   1    0     3
7.    New York                 2   0   2   0    0     2
8.    Sydney                   2   0   2   0    0     2
9.    Johannesburg             2   0   1   1   -2     1
10.   Berlin                   2   0   0   2   -4     0

 

[hedger_14]

fearsome tweak Arshavin. How could you miss that penalty which cost us a win.

 

[iridescentt]

W00t w00t. Pretty unlucky to get the draw though. Still, 2nd on the ladder is still pretty good so far.

 

[treva]

Round Three matches are as follows:

Wednesday 22nd July
Berlin vs Sydney
Buenos Aires vs New York
Johannesburg vs Paris
Rome vs Tokyo

New injuries:
Lucio (Buenos Aires) - Thigh Strain - 11 days - 2 weeks
Ashley Cole (Sydney) - Bruised Rib - 2-4 days

Players back from injury:
David Villa (Buenos Aires)

Suspended players:
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Madrid) (2 Matches)
Cristoph Metzelder (Tokyo) (2 Matches)
Xabi Alonso (Tokyo) (1 Match)
Javier Mascherano (Buenos Aires) (1 Match)

Note: Terry and Evra are available for selection once again.

Full Injury List (Updated: 22/7/09):

Samir Nasri (Paris) - Broken leg (lower) - 4 weeks - 2 months
David Dunn (Paris) - Damaged achilles tendon - 4-8 weeks
Joe Cole (Paris) - Damaged cruciate ligaments - 6-13 days

Daniele de Rossi (Johannesburg) - Twisted knee - 4-8 days
Benni McCarthy (Johannesburg) - Damaged foot - 8 days - 2 weeks
Roque Santa Cruz (Johannesburg) - Damaged knee cartilage - 7 weeks - 3 months
Edwin van der Sar (Johannesburg) - Broken finger - 8 weeks - 3 months

Sergio Ramos (Sydney) - Damaged achilles tendon - 2-7 weeks
Tomas Rosicky (Sydney) - Pulled hamstring - 3-6 weeks
Ashley Cole (Sydney) - Bruised Rib - 2-4 days

Lucio (Buenos Aires) - Thigh Strain - 11 days - 2 weeks

Hugo Lloris (Berlin) - Back strain - 3-7 days
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Berlin) - Damaged cruciate ligaments - 11 days - 3 weeks

Nemanja Vidic (New York) - Strained ankle ligaments - 2-5 weeks
Andr?s Iniesta (New York) - Damaged knee cartilage - 3-7 weeks

Fernando Torres (Madrid) - Back strain - 3-8 days
Martin Skrtel (Madrid) - Pulled hamstring - 13 days - 4 weeks
David James (Madrid) - Damaged shoulder - 13 days - 4 weeks

Gabriel Milito (Tokyo) - Damaged cruciate ligaments - 6 weeks - 3 months

Mikel Arteta (London) - Damaged cruciate ligaments - 5-6 months

Please select your teams ASAP.

 

[hedger_14]

de Rossi only has a few more days until he could be back. I'll just go with the same lineup until de Rossi is back.

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Same lineups as last match..

 

[treva]

You aren't playing until round four Shan.

Following my last update I realise you will need more information to pick your sides. Hence when I post each result I will post each players' ratings to help you decide who should keep their place and who should move to the bench.

 

[Ollie_H]

Buenos Aires vs New York
Formation: 3-2-1-2-2
GK: Toldo

DC: Cordoba
DC: Gallas
DC: Marquez

DMC: Lampard
DMC: Barry

MC: Riquelme

AMR: Messi
AML: Nani

ST: Henry
ST: Villa

SUBS:
Podolski
Defoe
Forlan
Stankovic
Ze Roberto
Coupet (GK).

Target Man: Villa
Target Man Supply (Feet/Head/Run Onto Ball): Feet

Can you do the Lampard/Barry/Riquelme the way it works best? I'm fairly sure that's how it should be, if possible, Riquelme should be a distributor as he doesn't have great secondaries. Bring it on New York!

 

[AbhishekS]

I am sure that my team will bounce back in its third match

 

[Ollie_H]

I am sure that my team will bounce back in its third match

wanna post a line up then?

 

[iridescentt]

Fielding the same team as last game. Except this time move Maxi Rodriguez into his more favoured position, ML - so swap Maxi around with Tiago.