"Yes, Very nice Simeone is getting old though ay ? "
Yes, but he did quite a solid job when he played
Carreer update:
I managed to win the Champions League with Atlético.
Road to the final (knockout stage)
Galatasaray 2-1 (home), 2-2 (away)
PSV 2-2 (away), 3-0 (home)
Lyon 4-1 (away), 1-2 (home, my only home defeat in the whole season)
In the final I met Lilleström (how on Earth could Lilleström do a CL-finals?!
). I was 2-0 up half time (Goals: Ibagaza, F. Torres), and I had the whole of the game. In the second half the Norwegians came back and equalised, but fortunately after a corner Robinho headed the winner.
The Spanish championship was a thriller: with 3 rounds to go, I was 2 points behind Depor.
Round 36: Huelva - Depor 0-5
Villarreal - Atlético Madrid 3-4 (I came back from 1-3 in the last 20 minutes...)
1. Depor 80pts
2. Atlético 78 pts
Round 37: Betis - Depor 0-0
Valencia - Atlético Madrid 2-2
1. Depor 81pts
2. Atlético 79pts
Round 38: Depor - Valencia 0-2 (big thanks to Valencia!
)
Atlético Madrid - Sevilla 4-3 (I know I had to win, and it was one of the craziest matches I've seen: 1-0,1-2,3-2,3-3, and in the 85th minute Fernando Torres scored the winner)
Final standings:
1. Atlético 82pts
2. Depor 81pts
After Atlético, I chose Inter. The squad is quite experienced (or you can say, aging), but most players I wanted to buy were not very willing to come.
So I bought some young talents for the bench instead...
Transfers in:
Oddo (RB, Atl. Madrid)
Iaquinta (ST, Udinese)
Eliakwu (ST, Ascoli, he's an Inter player loaned to Ascoli IRL)
Felipe (CB, Flamengo)
Abbate (CB, Piacenza)
Ledesma (CAM, River Plate)
Coelho (RWB, Corinthians)
Guardalben (GK, Messina)
Transfers out:
Krstajic (the replacement of Mihajlovic) - Fiorentina
Karagounis - Fiorentina
Choutos - Lecce
Davids - West Brom
Recoba - Sevilla
Cruz - Udinese
Coco - Parma
Planned transfers:
GK: Frey (Parma) or Júlio Cesar (Flamengo)
CB: Ferrari (Roma)
LB: don't know yet
RM: Mascherano (River)
CM: don't know yet, but somebody under-23
Starting 11:
Toldo
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Oddo
Burdisso
Córdoba
J. Zanetti
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Van der Meyde
Stankovic
Verón
Emre
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Adriano
Martins
So far 5-1-1 in the league (drawn Atalanta, lost to Roma), 2-0-0 in the UEFA Cup (4-0 Salzburg, 3-1 Celtic).
The aim is to win the Serie A and the UEFA Cup.