JANUARY
Lineup - Simon, De Marcos, Yeray, Martinez (Nunez), Yuri (Rodrigues), Dani Garcia,
Sancet* (Vencedor), N.Williams (I.Williams), Raul Garcia (Unai Lopez), Muniain, Villalibre
We werent at our best here but we got the win thanks to a Villalibre penalty which takes him up to 10 goals for the season. He also had a goal disallowed.
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Supercopa Semi-Final
Lineup - Simon, De Marcos, Yeray, Martinez, Yuri (Rodrigues), Dani Garcia, Sancet (Unai Lopez), N.Williams
(I.Williams*), Raul Garcia (Akhomach), Muniain (Cordoba), Villalibre
WOW!!!!!
We blast Barcelona away here as we score 4 past them and had 1 disallowed from Villalibre. Admittedly it was a weaker Barcelona side but we still had a job to do and we were magnificent.
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Supercopa Final
Lineup - Simon, De Marcos, Yeray, Martinez, Yuri (Rodrigues), Dani Garcia (Vesga), Sancet, I.Williams (N.Williams), Raul Garcia (Akhomach), Muniain (Berenguer), Villalibre
WE WIN THE SUPERCOPA!!!!!
Asier Villalibre was the hero as he scored both goals with a penalty and a miraculous header from 18 yards! Villalibre started the season as my backup striker and while he hasnt been amazing he does have 13 goals to his name and when everyone is fit I have a tough decision to make!
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Lineup - Simon, De Marcos, Yeray, Nunez (Nolaskoain), Rodrigues (Berenguer), Dani Garcia, Sancet, I.Williams, Raul Garcia (Unai Lopez), Muniain (Cordoba), Villalibre (N.Williams)
Pathetic. We were absolutely terrible here and not one player came out of this match with a suitable performance behind them. Maybe we celebrated the Supercopa win too much but this result ends our 11 game unbeaten run in the league.
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Copa del Rey 3rd Round
Lineup - Simon, Mosquera (De Marcos), Nolaskoain, Nunez, Rodrigues,
Vencedor*, Unai Lopez, Morcillo, Akhomach, Berenguer (Cordoba), Villalibre (Zarraga)
I played my backups here and although the scoreline wasnt really what I wanted we got the win that our play deserved thanks to a late headed goal from Akhomach.
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Lineup - Simon, De Marcos, Yeray, Martinez, Rodrigues (Berenguer), Dani Garcia, Sancet (Vesga), I.Williams, Unai Lopez (Akhomach), Muniain (Gomez), Villalibre (N.Williams)
For the 2nd league game in a row we put in a terrible performance and lose 2-0. I cannot put into words how listless we were and once again nobody put in a performance that they can be proud of. We need to snap out of this form quickly!
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Lineup -
Simon*, De Marcos, Yeray, Martinez, Rodrigues, Dani Garcia (Vencedor), Sancet, I.Williams (N.Williams), Raul Garcia (Unai Lopez) , Muniain, Villalibre (Akhomach)
We halt our mini run of defeats in the league with a win here but it came at a big cost as Inaki Williams got injured and will be out for 2-3 months. Muniain got the winner and they had a late goal disallowed fortunately.
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Copa del Rey 4th Round
Lineup - Simon, Mosquera, Yeray (Nolaskoain), Martinez, Berenguer, Dani Garcia (Vesga), Vencedor, N.Williams (Morcillo), Unai Lopez (Akhomach), Cordoba (Gomez),
Villalibre*
We sneak through here on penalties but it was far from easy against the leaders of the 2nd division. We fell behind in extra-time but managed to level quickly when Villalibre was played in and he duly finished and in the shoot-out we scored all 5 penalties while they missed their 5th.
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Lineup - Simon, De Marcos, Yeray, Martinez (Nunez), Rodrigues (Yuri), Dani Garcia (Vesga), Sancet, N.Williams (Morcillo), Raul Garcia, Muniain (Cordoba), Villalibre
Mallorca are in the relegation positions so this is certainly 2pts dropped but it could have been worse as they had 2 goals disallowed!
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SUMMARY
It is quite hard to evaluate this month. We started off by beating Girona thanks to a Villalibre penalty and then we went into the Super Cup and thrashed Barcelona 4-1 before beating Real Madrid in the final to claim my first trophy. Thereafter things went on a slight downward spiral as we lost our next 2 league games 2-0 before edging out Villarreal but drawing against relegation threatened Mallorca.
In the Copa del Rey my backups narrowly beat Alcoyano and we scraped past Eibar on penalties to set up a tie against Huesca.
Regarding transfers I tried to sign Gavi for £5.5m from Barcelona but he signed a new deal so he will never become Basque but I did bring in Ivan Martin on loan from Villarreal to cover the attacking midfield positions as with Inaki Williams being out for a few months it seemed like the sensible thing to do.
If you look at the table it seems like it is going to be a tough fight to get into the Europa League never mind the Champions League as 3rd to 10th are only separated by 4pts!
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
UNAI SIMON
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LA LIGA