Subject: »[NT] sviktorov

No changes are against small countries especially injuries

Another unlucky game for us red card and injury just before half time was too much to bear. Despite that we were holding quite well with first tactic. I play for win with second tactic but with only one mid risk did not paid of

Chisholm is changing clubs so his thoughts were probably somewhere else. That's why the red card :D
I'll watch the match in the evening because for now I lack time. And it was a valuable sparring match.

Scotland u21 did well today. Won the match against Algeria. Scores similar and yet our advantage was strongly visible. 15 to 2 in shots, more ball possession and more play in the opponent's half. It was a u20 match but we played without our most valuable players.
It's a good thing, because I was already starting to doubt my skills....

What are their chances at NT?

Aidan Osmond, age: 25
club: Spin Of Terrible Winds, country: Scotland
value : 6 403 000 lei
wage: 89 000 lei
divine [17] form
incredible [13] tactical discipline
height: 180 cm, weight: 73.5 kg, BMI: 22.69
bookings:
formidable [11] stamina poor [3] keeper
unearthly [16] pace divine [17] defender
formidable [11] technique good [7] playmaker
good [7] passing adequate [6] striker

Alister McGeady, age: 25
club: Spin Of Terrible Winds, country: Scotland
value : 5 686 000 lei
wage: 79 400 lei
unearthly [16] form
magical [15] tactical discipline
height: 176 cm, weight: 70.1 kg, BMI: 22.63

formidable [11] stamina tragic [0] keeper
unearthly [16] pace divine [17] defender
good [7] technique very good [9] playmaker
solid [8] passing average [5] striker

First one has 9 pace trainings and will pop soon, and the second one popped at defender a few weeks ago , and I switched to pace. I might sell them after they hit 2xdivine to someone who wants to train their sideskills or take them to 2xsuperdivine. They are pretty talented.
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They have great chance to be in first team pretty soon
They need secondary skills asap

Alister McGeady is already looking very good. Nice to see a former player here :-)

Another weird game when we have 0 mids with more than 11 defs their mids and strikers walk through pas 3 4 players at time second half we turn the game around but again some funny play from defs.. their 4th goal was complete joke
Unfortunately our top strikers getting old and few players that coming from bellow are still not ready
Playing top teams it's hard and we will not advance in ranking but 3:4 will not loose much rank
We will play at euro cup
Our goal will be to remain in top 32

So 2xsuperdivine first or 2xdivine and sideskills ?

Osmond is close to pop at divine pace , he will be a bit better than Alister , plus hasnt popped at technique in a while...will probably need almost 2 more seasons to hit 2xsuperdivine

For me super divine skill is overrated if I was you will start sid skills few training after divine

For example today had defs with 16 pace and mid with 14 pace

I had players that dropped from a divine skill at 28 years old , superdivine is the only way you can still have a decent defender by 30-31, without dropping to unearthly....i will train them until divine pace, then i will make a decision. I will let you know if they will go on TL , in case somebody wants to train their sideskills.
The first defender is only a few weeks away from popping to Divine pace.

yes pace in particular starts to drop at end of age 27 but def skills drop at end of 29...
having super divine skill extends life of defs but without decent subskills they will be useless for the NT
also with secondary training you still can improve pace till end of age of 27
Unfortunately drop is random i had nt defs that drop and then regained skills at age of 31 ...
and maintain superdivine skills at age of 31 too

probably you can keep them on pace 5-6 trainigs on pace after level 17 then you can start subskills and some deff rom time to time
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Euro cup group 1

Norway
Turkey
and Welsh

only winner goes for places from 1 to 8 so tough target we will aim ...

We started with 3:1 win against Norge this will secure top32 target
Most important game in group is coming next week we will need a win against Turkey to qualify. Draw will put as in position to win with lots of goals in third game...
82 rating will be hard to overcome but we will try
It's different story when our top 3 mids are in play

Ps we did better than Polska against Romania at world cup 7:0 for ale is great achievement..

A bit of luck for us first half was all Turkey and I was praying second tactic to switch soon. Howie still got it..
Our problem is in mid Ure is 20 days injury and no mid with 11 + def in squad we lose every ball
But it was important win that almost win us the group we need draw in last game with Welsh team