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FC Inter Turku
Season Review - 2019

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Finnish Premier League - Winners

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Finnish Cup - Winners

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Finnish League Cup - Winners

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Champions League - Group Stages (4th in group)

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Fans Player of the Year - Taye Ameobi

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next up will be a 2019 review for Finland...

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Finland
2019

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Fixtures:

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A better year than the past couple, managing a couple of wins against Ireland and Bulgaria. Ultimately, there was still too many draws and that had a negative effect on the qualifying game. No sign of pressure on the manager though...

Euro 2020 Qualifying Group:

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4th in the group so they missed out on the playoff's. They were 4th seeds so they did as expected, but I feel there is enough quality now to be challenging for the top 3.

World Ranking - 71st

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Player of the Year - Lauri Della Valle

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Under 21 Player of the Year - Marko Byskata

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next update will be a 2020 pre-season update, there was a spoiler for our transfer activity in this post for the eagle eyed amongst you...

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FC Inter Turku
Season Preview - 2020

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Transfers:

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We had to sell our best Finnish prospect in the January window, which was a real shame. However, we did get a good deal for him as Arsenal paid us ?5,000,000 + 50% of his next transfer fee, whilst we also get him back for the season on loan to hopefully progress his development as well as possible before he moves to London. On the incomings, we made Tomi Heikkinen's loan from Leverkusen permanent for 500k, and brought in 20 year old Senegalese midfielder Ousmane Toure for ?2,000,000 to slot into our midfield.

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We've also agreed to sell Honduran striker Gody for ?2,300,000 + 50% of his next fee, a great piece of business after he's hardly played since coming in a few months back as 3rd choice striker and he's barely played.

Finnish League Cup:

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We retained our League Cup and won it for a 4th time in my reign, beating last season's Premier League runners up IFK in the final 3-0.

Squad:

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We've got a solid squad for the season, we should win the league with ease but I want us to still be in Europe come the new year so that will mean at least finishing 3rd in our Champions League group, assuming that we qualify.


Other News:

1) We are upgrading our youth and training facilities again, I feel good facilities are the key to running the small clubs in Europe as you need to develop your players quickly and efficiently.

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Next update will be a review of the opening couple of months of the season...

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Love this story so much. Keep it up. Read a similar one last year, and I think whilst your are getting great deals for your players soon it FM will do its magical thing where players values shoot up to a more accurate representation overnight, and thus you can make even more. Seeing (any) Ameobi valued that low is a farce.
 
mkempdillon said:
Love this story so much. Keep it up. Read a similar one last year, and I think whilst your are getting great deals for your players soon it FM will do its magical thing where players values shoot up to a more accurate representation overnight, and thus you can make even more. Seeing (any) Ameobi valued that low is a farce.
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Cheers mate, just a case of getting the club reputation up I think. I get awful bids constantly for most of the squad to be honest, 100-200k bids for Ameobi and 400-500k for the USA international centre back but luckily we've done well in Europe the last 3 years so money isn't really an issue.
 

FC Inter Turku
April and May 2020

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Fixtures:

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As expected in the first couple of months of the season, dropping just 2 points so far in the league and progressing to the semi final of the Finnish Cup.

Player Stats:

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League Table:

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35 goals scored in 10 games, a brilliant start to the season and good from to take into the Champions League qualifiers.

Other News:

1) We agree a deal to sign a Bulgarian goalkeeper from St Mirren for ?2,600,000. My scouts rate him at a similar level to our current keeper Foderingham but he has the potential to be quite a bit better. He'll join on August 1st of this year.

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Next up will be a June and July review, can we keep banging the goals in an stay unbeaten in the league?


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FC Inter Turku
June and July 2020

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Fixtures:

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A bit more difficult in these 2 months, drawing 2 more games and losing to a last minute penalty in an awful game against FC Lahti. Disappointing to lose and not get an unbeaten season but it doesn't really matter.

Transfer News:

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One right winger in and one right winger out over these 2 months. Firstly we brought in a Brazilian winger on a free transfer, he's very quick once he gets going and is strong technically as well. After that, I decided to move on club legend Milan Lalkovic and we managed to pick up ?4,300,000 for him. He's done a great job for the club but with Cesar and Paul Robertson for competition on the right I thought I'd move Lalkovic on as he's the oldest and the other two have potential to improve.

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Player Stats:

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The two wingers are at the top of the average ratings, striking fear in all the Finnish team's defences.

League Table:

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Bit of a resurgence from HJK as they lead the battle for the runners up. Don't see any team challenging us for the title any time soon in all honesty.

Other News:

1) Finnish PL moves up 3 places in competition rankings.

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2) We moved so close to an extra CL place for the league but missed out by one place. Hopefully another CL appearance from us next year will push us up.

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3) We're up to 48th in the club coefficient rankings.

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4) Update to facilities are complete, we now have superb training facilities and average youth facilities. Now movement on our desire for a new stadium though.

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5) Finances are looking very nice after making a profit of just over ?8,000,000 in 2020 so far, and that's without any money we could earn from qualifying for the Champions League.

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Next update will be a Champions League qualifying update. If there is anything people want to see, then just ask and I'll chuck up a SS.


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FC Inter Turku
Champions League Qualifying - 2020

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2nd Round - FC Inter Turku 9 - 1 FC Skonto Riga

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An easy victory over the Latvian champions. Honestly though, the fact they are right at the start of their pre-season and considering we were 5-0 up after 30 minutes in the first leg, I feel we should have out a few more past them!

3rd Round - FC Inter Turku 11 - 0 Sheriff Tirapsol

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A 7-0 home victory, followed by a 4-0 away victory gave us a comfortable 11-0 aggregate victory over the Moldovan champs and secured European football for the season. A tie against Slovakian champions would decide whether that would be the Champions League or Europa League.

Playoff Round - FC Inter Turku 4 - 0 Slovan Bratislava

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The Champions League group stages await for a 4th season running, after a 4-0 victory over Slovan Bratislava away from home was followed by a bore 0-0 draw at home. However, we have been put in the hardest group of the 4 seasons quite comfortably...

Group H:

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Barcelona, Monaco and Manchester United join us in group H, some would argue that we would be lucky to leave this group with a point! However, we have had some luck against the big sides in previous years so hopefully we can pull off a couple of shocks.


Next update will be a recap of the last few months of the domestic season, can we retain the Finnish League and Cup?
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FC Inter Turku
August, September and October 2020

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Fixtures:

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We were in rampant form for the last 3 months of the season, drawing just one league game and winning the rest, often playing a backup team as fixtures were placed in between European ties.

Finnish Cup:

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Domestic treble complete as a backup team defeated FC Haka in the final, with 18 year old Finnish left back Issakson putting in a man of the match performance.

Player Stats:

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Youth Intake:

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A decent intake but disappointed the two best players are strikers as we already have plenty of decent Finnish strikers in the game. I suppose a lot of them will end up filling in on the wing when I eventually get the national team job as there are very few wingers with Finnish nationality. Here's the 4 star potential striker...

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League Table:

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2 points ahead on last season, but still 3 points behind our record points total of 91.

Other News:

1) Shaquile Coutlhirst has finally gained Finnish nationality after spending 6 years in the country, and around another 3 or 4 months waiting for his paperwork to come through. He's announced in the Finnish squad for the November internationals, meaning we have 8 players in the latest Finnish squad.

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2) Yet more improvements are scheduled to our youth and training facilities, this time costing us a combined ?7,500,000!

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Next update will be a Champions League group stage review, how will we get on in our 'group of death'?

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FC Inter Turku
Champions League Group Stages - 2020

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Fixtures:

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Don't feel the need to go over each game by game, as we never really stood a chance in this group to be honest and 2 points from the 6 games reflects this. The 3-1 defeat at home to Monaco really frustrated me as we completely dominated that game, with 70% possession, 22 shots, 10 on target compared to their 30% possession and 4 shots on target. We did manage a couple of hard fought draws though, one away to Monaco and one at home to Manchester United.

Group Table:

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If we had beaten Monaco at home like we should have then we'd have snook into 3rd place, however we didn't and so we won't be in Europe come the new year!

Next up will be an end of season review...

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Finland
2020

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Fixtures:

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A great year for the national team as they pick up 9 points from their 5 qualifying games this year, including an impressive 2-1 win away to Slovenia. I feel like the FC Inter Turku progression is starting to rub off slightly on the national team!

World Cup Qualifying Group:

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We should finish at least 3rd, but maybe could sneak 2nd if they can continue the good form into the new year.

World Ranking - 51st

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A great increase after a poor few years. The highest they have been since the start of the save is 43rd so they're closing in on that...

Fans Player of the Year - Roman Eremenko

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Under 21 Player of the Year - Jorma Vilnaajen

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next up will be a 2021 season preview...

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FC Inter Turku
Season Preview - 2021

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Transfers:

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Nothing really to discuss on the incomings as we just bring in one player, a young American goalkeeper with potential that we've placed in the b team. On the outgoings, we had to let two more young Finnish players leave as they were both refusing to sign new contracts. One was left back Niklas Issakson, who only has a little bit of development left in him and he should get that at Celtic, after a ?4,200,000 + 50% of his next transfer fee deal took him to Celtic Park. Also, the youth intake striker from last year went to Napoli for ?4,000,000 and 50% of his next transfer fee as his initial contract I gave him ran out in November and he did not want to sign a new contract with us.

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Finnish League Cup:

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A nice easy cup win to start the new season!

Squad:

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Nothing much changed from last year.

Other News:

1) Conor Coady has taken up Finnish nationality after playing for us for over 6 years.

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2) Update to training and youth facilities are completed, leaving them like this...

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3) I'm finally a club legend, and I'm joined by youth academy graduate striker Jorma Villjajen.

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Next update will be of the first couple of months of the season...

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FC Inter Turku
April and May 2021
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Fixtures:

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We've been in rampant form so far in the new season, scoring goals at an ease and not conceding many either. Only disappointing aspect is not beating Jaro, and therefore making the 100% record in the league impossible for this season.

Player Stats:

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The average rating of most of these players just shows how dominant we are domestically at this point, with 7 players averaging above an 8 rating.

League Table:

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We're sitting comfortably at the top already at this early point in the season, with Teemu Taino's IFK side leading the battle to be runners up.

Next update will go over June and July.

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FC Inter Turku
June and July 2021

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Fixtures:

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A couple of draws but no defeats means that we continue our unbeaten league run to 30 odd games. We're still scoring plenty of goals and that should put us in a good position ahead of the Champions League qualifiers.

Player Stats:

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9 goals in 16 games from South African centre back Mofokeng is a great record for a defender, even if 3 of those were penalties. Viljanen is averaging above a goal a game up front and is now first choice striker ahead of Coulthirst.

League Table:

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Unbeaten in 20 league games so far and we're averaging above 3 goals a game!

Other News:

1) Conor Coady got his first Finland call up and the latest Finland squad contained 9 Inter Turku players + 2 players who came through our youth academy and have now left the club.

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2) The Finnish League rose 5 places to 19th in the competition rankings and jumped one place in the coefficient rankings up to 15th, meaning the league now has a 2nd Champions League place. We also jumped up a few places in the club coefficient rankings as well.

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3) Taye Ameobi and Paul Robertson both took part in the Confederations Cup for their respective nations, but both Nigeria and New Zealand exited in the group stages. However, there was more luck for American centre back Drew Sterling, who helped the USA to a Gold Cup victory, earning his 72nd cap at just 23 years old.

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4) We got 50% of former striker Godoy's transfer from FC Metz to Genk.

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Next update will be of our Champions League qualifying campaign...

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FC Inter Turku
Champions League Qualifying 2021

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3rd Leg - FC Inter Turku 5 - 0 Stromgodset

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A comfortable victory over the Norwegian champions, with a 3-0 victory away from home followed by a 2-0 victory at the Veritas Stadion.

Playoff Round - FC Inter Turku 3 - 0 Slovan Bratislava

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For a second year running we have met the Slovakian champions in the playoff round. The first leg in Slovakia was a much tighter affair this time around, with us just scraping a 1-0 victory. We then followed it up with a 2-0 victory in Turku to send us through to the Champions League Group stages for a 5th year running.

Group B:

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A nicer group than last year but we still are the 4th seeds and therefore we are the underdogs. Celtic have reached the knockout stages 3 years running, and more specifically have reached the semi final in the last 2 seasons. PSV have a stronger squad than us but we can definitely compete with them and hopefully we can pick up a shock result at home to Juventus.

Other News:

1) Wesley Foderingham is the latest player to take up Finnish nationality, and will be hoping to make the next Finland squad in October.

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Next update will go over the last few months of the season...
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FC Inter Turku
August, September and October 2021
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Fixtures:

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Just complete domination domestically! Another Finnish Cup win in the bag and we win every league game that we played in over the 3 months.

Player Stats:

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Every single player in the squad averaged above a 7 rating, whilst Viljanen took the Premier League top goalscorer award and Arza set a record for the highest average rating in the Premier League! You won;t recognise the name at the top of the SS, but that brings me onto...

Youth Intake:

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Forgot to SS the actual intake but this is the main player we got from it. His base stats aren't amazing but he has fantastic potential and already has 2 hatricks in the 3 league games he has started! He'll probably spend one year in the youth team next year and then be brought into the first team squad the season after, however I may just chuck him in next year! Only downside is it seems we only ever get great strikers in our intakes, we could do with a Finnish goalkeeper or winger!

League Table:

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An unbeaten season as we set a new record points total of 93 points. FC Lahti finish runners up and get the second Champions League place.
Next update will be a review of the Champions League Group Stages...

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FC Inter Tukru
Champions League Group Stages - 2021

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FC Inter Turku 2 - 1 Juventus

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Our group stage campaign got off to a fantastic start as we came back from 1-0 down to beat Italian giants Juventus 2-1 at the Veritas Stadion. Lukaku put them ahead early on but South African centre back Mofokeng drew us level on the brink of half time before Kiwi winger Robertson smashed in a winner 5 minutes from time to give us all 3 points and a famous victory.

PSV 1 - 0 FC Inter Turku

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Unfortunately we couldn't capitalize on the momentum from the opening game as we fell to a defeat against PSV in Holland. It was a pretty even game but took one of their chances whilst we didn't take ours.

Celtic 0 - 0 FC Inter Turku

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A decent away point against Celtic in our third game. It was another pretty even game with not many chances and it leaves us with 4 points from 3 games.

FC Inter Turku 3 - 0 Celtic

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2 wins from 2 home games in the group stages now as we picked apart Celtic at the Veritas Stadion and ran away 3-0 winners. 2 of the 3 goals were scored by Finnish players and I'm hoping that in another year in game the other one will be Finnish also.

Juventus 2 - 0 FC Inter Turku

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A defeat as expected in Turin as Juventus' extra class combined with home advantage was too much for us to overturn! If we get a draw in the final game we will finish at least 3rd and if we win we'll qualify from the group.

FC Inter Turku 8 - 4 PSV

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Wow, a crazy game to end the group stages sees us finish 2nd in the group and qualify for the Champions League Knockout Rounds for only the second time in our history. Hatricks from both Coulthirst and Robertson, and a brace from Sterling saw us run out 8-4 winners, whilst there was also a hatrick from one of the PSV players meaning there was 3 in one game, think it's the first time I've ever seen that!

Final Group Table:

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We finish 2nd behind Juve on h2h despite having a better goal difference to them! This leaves us facing a 2nd Knockout Round tie against Dortmund.

Next update will be an end of season review...

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FC Inter Turku
Season Review - 2021

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Finnish Premier League - Winners

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Finnis Cup and Finnish League Cup - Winners

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Champions League - 1st Knockout Round (In progress)

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Fans Player of the Year - Walter Arza

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next up will be a review of how the Finnish national team got on in 2021, and it was by far the best year for them on the save so far...​
 

Finland
2021

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Fixtures:

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An amazing year for the national team, picking up wins against Spain, Japan and Uruguay whilst only losing one game all year, albeit a poor defeat away to Albania. From their last 5 qualifying games they managed to take 10 points, but would that be enough to finish 2nd and take a playoff place?

World Cup Qualifying Group:

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They eventually missed out on the playoff place by one goal on GD to Scandanavian rivals Norway, who went on to lose their playoff against Portugal, but it was still a massive improvement on recent qualifying campaigns and leaves plenty of room for hope that they can qualify for Euro 2024.

World Ranking - 32nd:

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A new all time high of 32nd, proving that the work we are doing at Inter is having a great positive effect on the national team! Think we're going to have to wait until the current manager retires before I get the chance to apply for the job though...

Player of the Year - Lukas Hradecky

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Under 21 Player of the Year - Henri Juntunen

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Best 11:

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Overall Best 11:

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Next update will be of our Champions League 1st Knockout Round tie against Dortmund!

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