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Congrats on reaching the final! It's true that it is perhaps a bit premature for you, but you never know when this is gonna happen again. There are so many cases of teams that reached the B3 rounds (and even won B3!) when they had young players and did not get there again when their rosters were supposed to be stronger a better prepared.

The good thing for you is that you have nothing to lose and DLR carries on his shoulders the weight of tough losses from the previous seasons. He has an absolutely awesome team and has been great in the last 4-5 seasons, but he has struggled with key B3 matches. S35 quarterfinals, S36 semifinals, S56 round of 16, S57 final, S58 semifinals. I know from my own experience how tough it is to turn things around when it seems that no matter what you do you're not gonna achieve the glory. This can make you take worse decisions, more based on fear than on a rational thinking process. However, Dolar is a very good manager and I'm sure he can deal with that.

For this reason, I'm very curious to see how you both deal with tactical decisions and how much risk you take.

Good luck and no injuries!!


Last edited by Darkonako at 1/27/2023 5:03:56 AM

Great job mate, it deserves respect what you make with your team and Finnish players. Keep the hard work and good luck in the final ;)

Loss for words. The guys were better than the manager. Congratulations to Poland for an amazing season.

Push the ball is one of the worst neutral systems, especially against 3-2 if you dont have adequate passing. DLR extremely lucky, if he chose BO he would have won more convincingly


congrats to the finnish guy for such a strong team , its a bummer to lose because of bad luck, but it is what it is Also congrats to DLR for clinching the trophy after many tough losses

Last edited by Cobra Kai at 2/1/2023 3:14:24 PM

yes, but I dont think the enthusiasm levels are the same, plus the home advantage is there. Also joe faced patient which means much less shot for both teams. 3-2 is a great defense but BO imho can break it u just need to invest on passing. Push the ball has far less quality shots. I dont consider myself a tactics expert, but its what I see overall in top level games

Also I just saw that Hupipalloilijat played with SB players, shot blocking and shot altering or forced miss because of SB is not depicted in the pp100, which anyway is not to be taken too seriously, in theory someone wrote that DLR could have won 121-83, which if far far far away from the factual truth and how the game engine really works .PP100 and game ratings are highly misleading, especially in top level games

Last edited by Cobra Kai at 2/1/2023 3:22:28 PM