First experimental league

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Ok, it is time to create first competion. For beginning only friend Dernek and I will compete in this league. Each of us will take five teams (3 strong teams and 2 weaker teams for lower class).


Dernek choose: Manchester Utd, Barcelona, Inter, West Ham and Mainz
Dekatron choose: Real Madrid, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Udinese and Besiktas

Competition system:
First stage is group stage where our teams meets two times (home/away), second stage is knockout where first 4 teams from group stage will play semi-finals rounds. Every semi-final pair will play two times with away goal rule. Third and final stage would be Final, off course. In final there will be only one game with extra time and penalty in case of draw result.

Table standings, fixtures, results and all important statistics you can see HERE  Table standings are ranked on: Points - Won - Score for - Score difference

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Let's start

1st round

Liverpool (Dekatron) - West Ham (Dernek) 4:2


Inter (Dernek) - Bayern M. (Dekatron) 2:1


Besiktas (Dekatron) - Mainz (Dernek) 0:1 (0:1)

   

Manchester Utd. (Dernek) - Real Madrid (Dekatron) 3:2 (0:2)

   

Udinese (Dekatron) - Barcelona (Dernek) 1:3 (0:1)

 

Well, what to say. Udine receive pretty easy goals from Barca, and altough we create some very good chances, Barcelona's individual strenght come to the fore. At the dying moments of match, Torje sent tricky cross which made Xavi to score own goal and set final result.

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2nd round

Inter (Dernek) - Liverpool (Dekatron) 1:2 (0:0)

   


Mainz (Dernek) - Real Madrid (Dekatron) 3:5


 


Goal fiesta! Big difference between strength of these two clubs, but i must admit that Mainz provided an excellent game and strong resistance. I must urgently improve Real defence - in two played games we received 6 goals, intolerable! Congratulation on opponent's game with Mainz. If he continues to play like this, Mainz is candidate for play off.


Manchester Utd. (Dernek) - Besiktas (Dekatron) 1:2




My best game so far. Besiktas read a lesson to Manchester in front of full home crowd . Big away victory for turkish team, Demba Ba is unstoppable.

Bayern Munich (Dekatron) - Barcelona (Dernek) 3:3 (3:0)

Accidentally, i erase SS from post. Match was very exciting with great turnover, Barca manage to draw after losing 3:0 at half time, real derby match.

West Ham (Dernek) - Udinese (Dekatron) 1:3

[dernek]

Jedan veliki preokret, nadobudni Real Madrid se opustio posle vodstva od 0:2 u prvom poluvremenu, Mančesterovi osvetnici su pokazali ko je gazda na ostrvu.
One big turnover, oily haired Real Madrid relexed after big lead at first half loses by inspired sqaud from Manchester Utd.

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Almost another turnover, but just the same. Barsa squad losing the first half by big 3:0 from home squad in Minhen. Second half lead to equalize and last 10 minutes Bayern struggled to preserve at least draw 
BIG GAME, BIG BARSA, best player on the field Bousqets.

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All Dekatron said is true, all but Real defence, nothing they could do against Okazaki

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3rd round

West Ham (Dernek) - Bayern M. (Dekatron) 1:3 (0:2)

 

Riberry's hat-trick on Boleyn ground (aka Uptown park). Very convincing Bayern's game, we haven't allowed any suprise. West Ham is in serious crise, their manager's chair is dangerously shaken.

Udinese (Dekatron) - Mainz (Dernek) 2:1 (2:1)

   

Early Mainz's own goal probably defined match direction. In 23. minute Udinese increase lead by two goals, but Mainz didn't surrend. They managed to score two minutes before end of half time, their top scorer Sliskovic once again shows his head shot abillity. In second half tough battle was on the field, but result didn't change. Important Udine's victory which lead them to exelent 3rd place.


Inter (Dernek) - Real Madrid (Dekatron) 1:0 (1:0)



Barcelona (Dernek) - Besiktas (Dekatron) 1:3 (0:1)




Liverpool (Dekatron) - Manchester Utd. (Dernek) 5:0 (3:0)

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4th round

Bayern Munich (Dekatron) - Mainz (Dernek) 2:1 (0:0)



Real Madrid (Dekatron) - West Ham (Dernek) 3:0 (2:0)



Barcelona (Dernek) - Liverpool (Dekatron) 4:4 (2:1)



Udinese (Dekatron) - Manchester Utd. (Dernek) 2:2 (1:1)



Besiktas (Dekatron) - Inter (Dernek) 0:0

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5th round

Liverpool (Dekatron) - Mainz (Dernek) 0:2 (0:1)



Udinese (Dekatron) - Inter (Dernek) 5:1 (2:1)





West Ham (Dernek) - Besiktas (Dekatron) 4:2 (3:1)

   

Bayern Munich (Dekatron) - Manchester Utd. (Dernek) 5:1 (4:0)

  



Real Madrid (Dekatron) - Barcelona (Dernek) 3:1 (2:0)

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6th round

Bayern Munich (Dekatron) - West Ham (Dernek) 2:0 (1:0)



Inter (Dernek) - Besiktas (Dekatron) 1:2 (1:1)



Barcelona (Dernek) - Udinese (Dekatron) 1:0 (1:0)



Real Madrid (Dekatron) - Mainz (Dernek) 1:0 (0:0)



Manchester Utd. (Dernek) - Liverpool (Dekatron) 2:1 (1:0)

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7th round

West Ham (Dernek) - Liverpool (Dekatron) 2:0 (2:0)



Mainz (Dernek) - Besiktas (Dekatron) 0:1 (0:0)
 


Barcelona (Dernek) - Bayern M. (Dekatron) 0:2 (0:1)



Manchester Utd. (Dernek) - Udinese (Dekatron) 1:0 (0:0)



Real Madrid (Dekatron) - Inter (Dernek) 3:2 (2:1)

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8th round

Besiktas (Dekatron) - West Ham (Dernek) 0:3 (0:1)

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Liverpool (Dekatron) - Inter (Dernek) 2:0 (2:0)

We didn't take any SS because connection was broken several times, but we manage to finished game.
Scorrers for Liverpool were Steven Gerrard and Mario Balloteli, one Inter's goal was cancelled because of cutback goal rule. There wasn't any cards in match.

Manchester Utd. (Dernek) - Bayern M. (Dekatron) 3:1

   

Mainz (Dernek) - Udinese (Dekatron) 2:1 (1:1) 

       

Barcelona (Dernek) - Real Madrid (Dekatron) 1:4 (1:2)

   

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9th round

Bayern (Dekatron) - Inter (Dernek) 2:4 (1:0)

  

Mainz (Dernek) - Liverpool (Dekatron) 3:3 (2:2)

  

Real M. (Dekatron) - Manchester Utd. (Dernek) 2:2 (2:0)


Besiktas (Dekatron) - Barcelona (Dernek) 1:0 (1:0)

   

Udinese (Dekatron) - West Ham (Dernek) 1:2 (1:1)

   

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10th round

Besikstas (Dekatron) - Manchester Utd. (Dernek) 2:3 (1:1)

   


West Ham (Dernek) - Real Madrid (Dekatron) 4:3 (2:1)

   


Inter (Dernek) - Udinese (Dekatron) 0:2 (0:1)

 

Liverpool (Dekatron) - Barcelona (Dernek) 2:2 (0:2)



Mainz (Dernek) - Bayern M. (Dekatron) 1:5 (0:2)

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                                            Play off (final stage)

Group stage is over. It was very exciting league and tough battle for play off places. At the end, 4 teams qualified for play off stage. Three of them are my teams (Bayern, Real and Besiktas) and one Dernek's team (Manchester Utd.) For Bayern and Real things was pretty much safe. It was more and less clear trough whole league that these two teams will achieve one of first 4 places which lead to final stage. They have one or two unexcpected loses, but they have shown clearly that they are two best teams in league. 

Thriller end was for Manchester, who played crucial match against Besiktas in last round. They needed only win to progress in play off, and they had to done this in hot turkish home Besiktas field. That match justified all expectations of such important match. Only 5 minutes before last referee blow, it was 2:2, result that keep Manchester away from progress in final stage. And than, in '85 minute Van Persie manage to score for Manchester's most important win in this league. At the end, it seems that Manchester wanted win more, and they achieved it with brave game.


Semi-final pairs are:

Bayern vs Besiktas (1st and 4th placed team), and Real Madrid vs Manchester Utd. (2nd and 3rd placed teams).


Both Bayern and Besiktas are my teams, and i needed to choose which of them will represent me in final. Off course i choose Bayern - it is much stronger team, and would have been unfair that this team leave final place for Besiktas. They certainly more deserved than them. So, this semi-final ended in official result (Bayern walkover in both matches).



Other semi-final pair was Manchester Utd. vs Real M. and reviews of these two match is about to come:


Manchester Utd. (Dernek) - Real Madrid (Dekatron) 2:3 (1:0)


  


What a game, what a turnover! Manchester started in best possible way, Falcao score in first part of first half. In the half time our connection was broken, and we have to create a room again, and played only second half. After second Falcao's goal in the beginning of second half, it seemed that Manchester will achieve victory in first game, in front of their supporter. But, great Ronaldo didn't think like that. Ronaldo who played CF instead of Benzema who was in awfull form (gray pointer), show from what was it made from. He started to fill Manchester goal, and score hat-trick for awesome Real win, and made it much relaxed approach for second game. It was very important victory for another reason also - In group phase Real didn't manage to win Manchester (one defaeat, and one draw), altough in both group phase game they have lead of 2 goals. In this game everything was vice versa, and this was very important for Real confidience.

Real Madrid (Dekatron) - Manchester Utd. (Dernek) 3:2 (2:1)

 


Real was determined from the start to have offensive aproach, they didn't want to use defensive strategy for keeping a result from first game (i think they even don't know to play defensivelly). This aproach showed result already in 16. minute, when maestro Benzema score for 1:0. In last minute of first half result was 2:0 - joker from the second plan, Isco, increase lead after great fient and soft strike which put the ball in right corner of Manchester goal. After that, it was very hard for red devils to get back in game, when u consider result from first match. But, immediately in next attack Falcao manage to score for 2:1. Manchester didn't even think of surrending... First half was finished with minimal Real's lead.
Unfortunatelly for Manchester, Benzema score in first minutes of second half, after great Bale's cross. After that, i think final outcome was known. All that Manu manage to done till the end of this match was goal in 70.minute, great Rooney goal from 18-19 meters.[/size]

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                                                               F I N A L E

And here we are, final match of first experimental league! Unfortunatelly, there not gonna be competition aspect, because both teams that made it trough this final match are my teams. So, the winner is has to be done by green table
Considering Bayern achieved first spot in group phase, it was decided that Bayern is great champion.
I want to thanks my opponent Dernek for great play, and congratulation for his effort to made this league so entertaining. In some matches he had more relaxed approach than it is recommended and these matches costing him better standings.
But, this was first league, and im certain that he will learn on that mistakes Till the next league, good bye!

                                                                                                  
                                                                                           Champions
                                                                                         
                                                       Bayern Munich

                                                                                           


Best scorrer - Lewandowski (12 goals)

 
Best assistents - Sami Allagui and Arjen Robben (4 assists)


All other statistics, table standings, results ... you can see on League Republic site

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