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Sweden 107 - England 117

The first game of the european championship was against the host and it was a drama. Once again.
In the first half we outperformed them, thanks to Fredriksson. He was an offensive beast and scored 27 points untilt he break. Unfortunately he was cold as ice during the second half. Luke Innes who is England's best player wasn't stoppable. I switched the whole defense order and set Widerström as his direct opponent. But Innes scored like he wanted... Against our best inside defender. In the end England moved a little bit away and secured the win.
Again we missed it by a small margin. I went with more effort, the right GPD guess and the best possible line up and still... ten points made the difference.

Once again we are part of the chaos group. Russia was crunshed by Iceland. Hungary lost against Norway. So our friendly scandinavian neigbours did what they could to "help us"
The two losses of Russia and Hungary leaves us in a still good position. Both concurrents for the second place lost. The problem: we have to play against them during the next two weeks. And this leaves me with a lot of headache.

Like always I will wait until the friday update and set the line up on sunday.

Well fought mate, tremendous team you are helping to develop there. Wilderstrom is a great player, enjoying hosting him on my team, I hope I can keep his GS up for you guys, good luck in the rest of the games!

Great read sir.

Today was a harsh update... Martinsson lost four skill points because of his age. The four points are diveded into two double downs and they appeared at his main guard skills. With this, I can't let him start anymore. He will still play, but only as a back up. And from my current point of view, I doubt that he will make the cut next season. So this one looks like his last season as a NT player.

At the same time Birgersson and Säfen had each one up. Säfen finished his minimum training and has still some capspace left. His manager Ryss will get the last ups out of him. It's likely that Säfen will reach his cap at the end of this season.
Birgersson is already near his cap but his manager still trains him. Thanks to this he has the fourth highest total skill points of all swedish players.

And Wedling refuses to understand that he gets perfect minutes

Ouch... 4 downs is really tough. Had a double dip two weeks in a row (OD also) for my starting SF.. had to ship him after that.
Still Martinsson had a hell of a career regarding NT. Nice to see you got some arrows up also, don't know those players but Birgersson must be pretty good with all those tsp. Is Mazzolini still the highest skill point total (ever?). Someone needs to top that, it shouldn't be impossible to do!
Happy holidays from the arctic circle (almost) & keep up the good job

Mazzolini has still the highest TSP. But he had some downs and he has the same amount like Tjädermo now. Birgersson has two skill points less.

Game 2 and 3
After the loss against England, I had to reevaluate our situation in the group and plan the next two games. Aiming for two wins against Russia and Hungary would end up with two losses. That was my opinion on this topic. So I had to go for one win and tank the other game. Russia would be angry after their loss against Iceland and come for revenge against us. Hungary on the other side had an easier second game and they would (I hoped so) come easy on us. So I decided that we would go easy in our second game and hope for the best outcome. The real deal would be the game against Hungary.
The game against Russia was lost. According to their NT they "tore us to pieces" but okay.
Today came the real test against Hungary. And thanks to a strong team effort and individual strenghts we managed to win with 120:110 With this we are back in the concert for second place. We can't afford any further loss and have to hope that England wins every of their remaining games. Only than we will have a shot at the next round.

Next week we will face the unbeaten Austrians. They showed some great games so far and they will be a very unconfortable opponent.

Last edited by Nachtmahr at 1/2/2017 4:17:25 PM