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Draft CL Draft - Last 12 - Iftarsenal FC vs. Oxeki United

Rex Stone

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Iftarsenal FC
Best player so far: Although a lot of their 31 goals were shared around when it really counted for Iftarsenal it was Yaya Toure who'd step up big time for them. Bagging all of his goals and assists on the road.

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Best performance:

4 goals on the road in a dominant win over the Sapient Hawks with all their exciting front 3 getting on the scoresheet.

Only a late charge from the Hawks made it respectable.

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Rex Stone

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Oxeki Utd

Best player so far:
Hard to choose for @Oxeki with his in form strike partnership of Milito and Morientes, dubbed in the press as "M&M" who got a combined 13 goals. Give it to Milito though as some penalties propped up Morientes' numbers.

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Best peformance: Not a win but still a second half 2 goal come back against the eventual ranking league winners is still an incredible achievement. Of course their main man Milito was on the scoresheet that day...

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Rex Stone

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So first leg of the quarter final in the books. Let's get into what happened.

A lot had been made of how @albakos and @jones would bounce back from a derby day smashing from Farzad Wanderers. Rumours of an unhappy squad and a managerial suspension cast a long shadow over their trip to @Oxeki Field.

That wasn't all they had to worry about. Focus pre-match was on how fired up Ilkay Gundogan was for the game against Iftarsenal FC. Long rumoured on draft night to be taken by the perfect team for him, his phone never rang and he ended up as a late round pick for Oxeki Utd.

When game day finally arrived the teams walked out into a frenzied atmosphere, as Baresi gathered his troops the camera panned to Patrice Evra, himself the subject of a massive draft controversy as he was illegally picked by Oxeki Utd and was then scooped up for their opponents.

The game started at a crazed pace, two chances falling early to Morientes but both times he drew top class saves out of Keylor Navas in the Iftarsenal goal. 10 minutes in and at the other end, a good early ball out from Iniesta to Mo Salah found him in space before wide midfielder Salihamidzic (another Iftarsenal snub) could get back.

Salah runs at an exposed Stefan Savic and lofts a beautiful cross to the back post from the angle of the box and Karim Benzema drifts away from Wes Brown to nod it home, he checks the offside flag and with no signal runs away with his arms outspread. 1-0

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albakos

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Evra vs. Maicon 😭

Maicon better be killing his demons here
 

Rex Stone

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The Oxeki Field crowd silenced, Iftarsenal start to get the ball down and play. They've pushed the wide midfielders of Utd so far back they have a back 5 and have almost no ball out. Shots from Salah and Benzema again blaze just wide and it seems it's a matter of time before they get a second.

One thing you should never do though is count out Marco Reus, getting the ball on the half turn he rolls a pressing Yaya Toure and with Mendieta failing to fill the space in behind he can run at the exposed Iftarsenal back line, Baresi steps out to meet him but before he can get there the ball is played behind Maicon who's caught square and Salihamidzic pulls it back from the left hand side of the box and who else is running onto it but Ilkay Gundogan.

Salihamidzic and Gundogan run away celebrating together and the camera catches the stony stare of @jones and @albakos as they look on at the two players they could've had.

The stadium now is rocking and the momentum totally span on it's head. Utd are flying and 5 minutes later have a corner. Ball comes over where it's knocked down by Sol Campbell, there's a falling shot from Morientes which draws a smart save from Navas, it rebounds off the heel of Evra and it's poked home from 5 yards by that man again Gundogan for 2-1.

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Iftarsenal are all at sea now and it's all they can do to keep it to one at half time. In the second half the game slows down and while there's a few chances for both sides and some late pressing from Oxeki Utd, it's a good result for Iftarsenal as they take a precious away goal back to Santiago Iftarnabru for the second leg.

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Note that the line up for @Oxeki unlike the opening post was actually...

Cech
Wes Brown - Sol - Savic
Bale - Gundogan - Alonso - Salihamidzic
Reus
Morientes - Milito
 
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albakos

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Return leg after Iftar please, the whole team is drained of energy from all the running.
 

albakos

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Did the SIM make any substitutions, cane you share them ?
 

albakos

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Essien for Maicon after half time (guess you switched formation to something) then Diego Costa for Baresi in the final minutes.
What about suspensions, do yellow cards from previous games carry on and accumulate, or it's reset :)
 

Rex Stone

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What about suspensions, do yellow cards from previous games carry on and accumulate, or it's reset :)

So here’s the issue… you can’t set a 12 team bracket up on the simulator.

What I’m doing is two seperate tournaments for the first round now and then another for the quarter finals with the bye teams added.
 

Rex Stone

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Santiago Iftarnabeu maybe? Rather there than play at OT, why not send us to Haramford Bridge and be done with it 😭

Changed.

Also had a chuckle when the sim threw up the Gundogan and Salihamidzic revenge game.

Couldn’t write it tbh :lol:
 

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Changed.

Also had a chuckle when the sim threw up the Gundogan and Salihamidzic revenge game.

Couldn’t write it tbh :lol:
Yeah crazy but never really wanted Gündogan not for the bench anyway. Watch him score another three now lol

Also incredible that frontline of ours couldn't score more than one against a team that has just three defenders overall 😭 probably wouldn't have even if Ox had Evra in goal like he originally planned to.
 

Rex Stone

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Yeah crazy but never really wanted Gündogan not for the bench anyway. Watch him score another three now lol

Also incredible that frontline of ours couldn't score more than one against a team that has just three defenders overall 😭 probably wouldn't have even if Ox had Evra in goal like he originally planned to.

Yeah ngl my eyebrow was raised when Wes Brown kept Karim and Salah to one goal.

Guess that Bale - Salihamidzic wing back combo truly put in the hard yards :lol:
 
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