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rankings in U21 mean nothing. season 18 is an all too good reminder about that. English U21 was ranked 64th at the start of the season, yet went on to qualifiy for the european championship.

Each generation has a chance at making it to the top. the bigger factor i would look at is Community size. Russia has a large community, so their U21 is likely to be strong. However, it only takes 1 golden generation to be able to upset even the top teams. that is part of the appeal of the U21's aswell. if u get 15 managers to decide to all take 1 trainee and give him the royal treatment, then u'r likely to have an extremely strong team capable of challenging the top nations for a spot in the european championship ( or have an extended consolation run).

anyhow, Russia should get the top spot. 2nd spot will be a fight between Portugal, Ukraine, England and Israel.

best of luck for tomorrow! if ur able to keep the difference below a 20 point loss, then i'd say u'll have done a great job!

Last edited by AthrunZala at 1/5/2014 5:04:16 PM

I realise that rankings don't mean everything, but one look at their team should tell you that if they aren't 3rd they are very close mate. I'm looking to make a golden generation, but it's going to be hard to do that with this current crop of 21's however good they are... Our current crop of 18 and 19's however... now thats a great group, and as you say... all I need is those 15 who capture a vision!

Yes I agree, keeping that to below 20 would be my aim

Last edited by LA-Vecx at 1/5/2014 5:13:30 PM

Russian game review:

A fascinating game... as we watched the game it seemed obvious they were playing LI, the game was fast and all the shots were inside. It was some surprise to find out they were playing base offense 2-3 against us.

All in all we managed to hold a much better team down to 13 points difference which begs the question. How did we do it? Is it that game day prep boosts defense in that area? We kept their inside offense from running away with the game, which to be fair would, on any other day, totally dominate us. Likewise we managed to exploit some of their vulnerabilities. I think it was a shame we gave away so many fouls (40!), this would be to do with our gameshape and individual players and their enthusiastic desire to get the ball. We also missed two thirds of our FT's which if you factor in would have put us level with Russia!

I've learned a lot from this about the game day preparation engine, I'm actually glad I chose the predictions I did... I would note, this is a game we expected to lose by about 20. In the end we lost by 13. For us that is a brilliant result!

Please look after gameshapes for next week, I'm hoping to draft in a couple more inside men (we were only able to pick 3 from our shortlist of 8 because of poor minutes and shape). I think I've proved one thing today... give me the tools people, I'll give you the results

Congratulations on the win today, we are actually very pleased we managed to hold you down to 13 difference... I was amazed that the wrong prediction did not result in a dramatic swing in points result for you. In fact if anything it seemed to help us. I am not sure the game day preparation does what we think it does, in covering against the inside offense with our prep we avoided you being able to dominate us inside, and even though you played balanced, you only scored 22 from FG's at PF and C. It would seem the inside prediction even though it did not meet what you played, served to keep you from attacking us inside anyway and the outside defense from our guards seemed to hold you off (could this be a fault in the game engine?).

Your SF ripped us apart however and I would argue for Velling being MVP.

The big surprise of the night was the fouls, wow 40 fouls!! Incredible lol.

Anyway, I wanted to wish you all the best of luck with the rest of the league, please obliterate all your opponents for us so we can take second or third place

удача

Vecx

Thanks )
I guess we just dont have enough information about GDP for now. Watch Turkish game and Sakartvelo - Magyarország, it is realy surprising... for Turkie and Hungary for sure.
And we will surely win the rest league, so you can take 3rd place, second place i guess will take our neighbors (Ukraine).
Good luck!

Dmitriy.

Last edited by 2rap at 1/6/2014 4:07:27 PM

All in all we managed to hold a much better team down to 13 points difference which begs the question. How did we do it? Is it that game day prep boosts defense in that area?

The predictions were wrong. So the defence should therefore be weakened. Or their offence strengthened. Either way, it couldn't have helped us in the game.

I agree it was a better performance than expected against the strongest opponent on our schedule. Certainly something to build on.

I agree it should be weakened, but not inside, it would be more vulnerable outside. In the information on the game day preparation it says you will be more vulnerable the more wrong you are (aka if they run outside and you predict inside its a bigger difference). However, that said, we held their inside men to a sum total of 11 FG's... that's a team with 200k of C's and PF's against our 100k... I would suggest that it may well be that our prediction may have made us stronger in our inside defense even though it weakened our outside defense. If that is the case, I should imagine in the current season people will start predicting inside against NT's where the team is built specifically for LI.

I'm not sure that it follows that our wrong prediction weakening outside defence makes inside defence stronger but its an interesting supposition.

I wasn't sure either, but I can't figure out how on earth we held them on the inside so well when they are so obviously dominant there.

well.. if you watch the game we were basically even until that happened hehe, I would have been happy for him to stay ;)