RCD Espanyol - The other side of Barcelona
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- The other side of Barcelona
This is my 4th season with RCD Espanyol.
1st season - Finished 13th - Lost 8 games in a row.
2nd season - Finished 4th & qualified for the CL group stages via Playoffs - Lost to Barcelona 8-0 in the league.
3rd season - Finished 7th - Suffered 9 injuries at the same time, which cost us a European spot.
4th Season - Ongoing.
In all these 3 previous seasons, there was something I wanted to do so badly, that was to beat our bitter rivals Barcelona at least once in the league, never happened though. They thrashed us 8-0 once, then they thrashed again in the cup a couple of times, then we got a memorable draw at home, but never beaten them.
This 4th season started well with a couple of high scoring victories. Then we suffered a couple of defeats away at Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. The bad form continued as we suffered defeats to Socieadad away and Getafe at home. Then we got Malaga at home in the cup, I decided to change the tactics, from my usual one forward system to a two forward system, and beat them 3-1, so decided to use the same system against Barcelona in our next league game at home.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
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Espanyol 2-0 Barcelona
At last we beat them and its 2 nothing. You can see the tactics I used, its a 4-4-2 variation. I hope it'll bring me more great results this season unless I face any FM "challenges" like injuries, etc.
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- The other side of Barcelona
This is my 4th season with RCD Espanyol.
1st season - Finished 13th - Lost 8 games in a row.
2nd season - Finished 4th & qualified for the CL group stages via Playoffs - Lost to Barcelona 8-0 in the league.
3rd season - Finished 7th - Suffered 9 injuries at the same time, which cost us a European spot.
4th Season - Ongoing.
In all these 3 previous seasons, there was something I wanted to do so badly, that was to beat our bitter rivals Barcelona at least once in the league, never happened though. They thrashed us 8-0 once, then they thrashed again in the cup a couple of times, then we got a memorable draw at home, but never beaten them.
This 4th season started well with a couple of high scoring victories. Then we suffered a couple of defeats away at Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. The bad form continued as we suffered defeats to Socieadad away and Getafe at home. Then we got Malaga at home in the cup, I decided to change the tactics, from my usual one forward system to a two forward system, and beat them 3-1, so decided to use the same system against Barcelona in our next league game at home.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
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Espanyol 2-0 Barcelona
At last we beat them and its 2 nothing. You can see the tactics I used, its a 4-4-2 variation. I hope it'll bring me more great results this season unless I face any FM "challenges" like injuries, etc.
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