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River Dragons Roll Over BazBs
This is Hal Rosh of the FNN reporting live from Bazalonia where the River Dragons were in action against the host squad BazB.
The River Dragons were looking to make a statement early in AOCAF XV to prove to everyone involved that ASMV could be competitive here. And that is just what they did today.
Defense has always been a way of life for ASMV football. The question was who would step up to lead the defense of the River Dragons. The answer came very early in this match. Dana Obensheim. The left back seemed to be present every time Bazalonia managed a decent thrust forward. But Dana, along with her defensive mates Rob Hoeckman and Fidel Berte refused to allow any decent shots on keeper Georgeanne Mellet. That was until Berte fouled Richard Elete in the 35th minute. Fortunately the penalty shot sailed well over the net. Unfortunately the ball did cause damage to one of the fans.
Broderick Wallenstein would give ASMV a 1-0 lead in the 49th minute as he easily beat the BazB keeper. Then injury would strike Bazalonia. Michaela Dent had to be taken from the pitch by stretcher following a botched tackle of Virgen Sacayanam that left her with major damage to a calf muscle. That injury seemed to take all life from the BazB play.
Kabe Tribby would add a goal in the 78th minute to give the River Dragons a 2-0 win over Bazalonia.
Next up is the second of the so-called “Killer B” squads. Bedistan dropped their match to Bettia 1-2 today and will be looking to gain some points from our match. If ASMV can somehow manage to garner a second straight victory, they might just shed that “Choke Artist” tag they wear around their necks - Nah. Not until after the final day. |
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GRAHAM CITY SUN - Sports Section: AOCAF Coverage
Stars-B Open Up AOCAF With Revenge On Oliverry
BAZALONIA - Casey Dellet and the Stars-B answered the call of many Stargazers to stick everything they had at the Oliverry team, whose A-team absolutely rampaged its way through their qualifying group, going undefeated in fourteen matches. Plus after an incredibly tough loss against Magnus Valerius in the Cup of Harmony, Stargazers were looking for some good news to close out the international footballing week. And boy, did they ever get it. Relative newcomers to AOCAF competition, Oliverry looked slow, disjointed and very uncoordinated throughout the game. They sturggled to hold possession and their passes were horrendous.
One of the clearest examples of this was the first goal of the match, where Aiden Hunt horrendously misplayed a pass back to his defence sending into open space, allowing Yusi Irileneev to use his speed to burst past the stunned defence, and blast one from about twelve yeards out, placing it perfectly in the top right corner, putting the Stars-B up just four minutes in. Then ten minutes later, the Stars again capitalized on an Oliverry mistake, and letting both Geraldo and Jerald Hansi to burst away from the midfield unmarked, and a beautiful pass out to Geraldo from Nathan Berthome, then the cross to Hansi, who buried it in the back of the net with a diving header.
The crowd went wild, with the large contingent of Stargazers making their presence known, chanting the names of the players and bursting forth with great chants and songs. Before halftime with the Stars-B completely dominating, the crowd help edge them on, with Geraldo scoring off of an absolutely beautiful corner, as the ball curved wickedly past the outstretched hands of the Olliverian keeper, and into the back of the net. Things settled down after halftime, but the Stars continued their impressive domination, controlling 67% of possession, and making the once formidable Oliverry look like Abysmalitan. Dellet brought in Houth and MacDeague off the bench to provide the Stars-B with some fresh legs in the second half, and they were used to great effectiveness.
Throughout the whole game, Oliverry's dangerous attacking formation refused to gel as the Stars dominated the midfield and possession, allowing Geraldo and Hansi to make long runs up the wing without much consequence or defensive trouble, and the fourth goal came of another one of those dangerous runs, with this time Hansi crossing it into Irileneev, who turned beautifully past a rushing Alexis Levert, and touched a beautiful score off his left foot and into the goal. The defence really shut down the Oliverrian strikers, not allowing them to handle the ball without significant pressure in the box.
The final goal came in the ninetieth minute, with Hansi putting the figurative chery on the cake as he took an excellent midair cross from Berthome, and bicycled it over the Oliverrian keeper and into the next, sending the Stargazers and neutrals in the stands into absolute rejoicing and jubilation. So could the Stars repeat their amazing run to the quarterfinals of two AOCAFs ago? Well, they certainly opened the tournament showing that they could.
THE LOWLAND CLANS - 5
Irileneev (4, 68), Hansi (14, 90) Geraldo (45+2)
OLIVERRY - 0
Stars-B face tough test aganst Hypocria
BAZALONIA - The Stars-B face a tough test tomorrow, one that could decide the race for the top spot. With the Hyppos vicotry over Krytenia and the dominating form of the Stars-B today, a victory here could really throw the group into disarray. Elsewhere in the AOCAF, Starbalydia dominated Pacitalia 6-0, and in the Stars-B group, Hypocria upset Krytenia with a 2-1 victory. Other games of note tomorrow include Bedistan v. ASMV, Dorian & Sonia v. Bettia, and Hiiraan v. Krytenia. |
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Dasha Smashes Scoring Record
Poor Pacitalia crushed 6-0 by Champions
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, may I proudly present the greatest goalscorer in Starblaydi history: Dasha Tolkacheva. The thirty-one year-old World Champion lifted the World Cup trophy four years ago in New Montreal States and stood behind the combined efforts of the great Zhorin Tumunzahar and the legendary Simeone Di Bradini in the race to be Starblaydoa's greatest ever striker.
43 goals she had scored, the record of 44 being shared by the 'scoringest Dwarf ever' and the former World Cup President. In the first match of what could well prove to be her final tournament, 'Dash' didn't just equal that record, didn't just break it: she completely smashed it. A hat-trick against the Blue Foxes - one of the rising powers in the world's premier regional footballing tournament - took just under an hour, but by the end of the first half she was already Starblaydia's greatest of all time. Forty-six goals she has to her name with three group games left, Dash may break the incredible barrier of 50 international goals.
Don't forget, of course, that she also has ten goals for the Women's team, as well as six for the Under-21s. Cumulatively she now has 62 in her entire international career, equalling the 44 senior and 18 Under-21 goal haul set by Zhorin Tumunzahar. Statistics-wise she'd take the Number Ten shirt away from Simeone Di Bradini in an All-Time Starblaydi XI, but is she really the greatest ever? It's a debate that could rage all the way until World Cup 40, but by then who knows what kind of Starblaydi scoring sensations could have come along? Johan Keifner and Jacqueline Maitland will certainly have things to say about that, but as for the future? There's the hereditary gene-genius of Kaza Matranga, young Stracinho at the Spirits or maybe even a currently pre-pubescent fellow called Julio Cruz.
The only thing that's certain now is that Starblaydia have three points, six goals and none conceeded. Plus they have arguably the greatest striker in the world playing in the AOCAF.
Starblaydia 6 - 0 Pacitalia
(Tolkacheva 22 & 34 & 55, Asante 64, Bazrimar 70, Prizzoni 82) - (None) |
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Full time on matchday one, and the good folks of Bettia were cheering a hard-fought win against northern neighbours Bedistan. The thousands who had clustered around ultra-screens in the streets of every major town and city were jubilant and preparing to party into the night. Even the token comedy tumbleweed who normally makes his/her/its appearance during these games, bouncing down the deserted streets and shopping centres, was in bouyant mood today.
As ever, the throngs of Bettian fans who had packed into the Pie and Pixie, Pifton's premier sports café, were in good spirits as they broke into an impromtu chorus of 'We love you Bettia, we do'. In amoungst the festivities, a polyphonic rendition of 'Brothers of Bettia' makes itself heard, announcing to its owner George that his son was calling all the way from Parkford, Bazalonia.
"Ringo? Ringo my boy! Did you see it? Did you see the game?"
"Sure did dad, even managed to get tickets!"
"No way! How did you manage that?"
"I won 'em in a local radio competition. It was so easy. All I had to do was to belch the national anthem."
"Belch the national anthem? What, even the 'dadada, dadada, dadada da da da da' bit in the middle?"
"Yes, even that bit. You wanna hear?"
"NO!" George shouted in a slight panic before regaining his composure in front of the myriad of staring eyes pointing in his direction. "No thanks son, I've just eaten a shedload of scones. So, how was it?"
"Oh, it was awesome. The opening goal was something special, I tell ya. Fourteen minutes, some Bedistani defender was faffing around with the ball near the halfway line without noticing Hutton lurking behind him, he nicks the ball off him, notices the keeper off his line and lobs him from all of forty yards. I couldn't believe it went in. I mean, Latif Hunter's more of a long-shot specialist, Hutton's more of a poacher. I tell ya, we were going absolutely gwallgof in the north stand."
"Ah, the north stand? The one behind the goal, right? I thought I saw you. I definately saw your flag - PIFTON ROVERS FC... PIE & PIXIE BOYZ. You do realise you spelt 'BOYS' wrong, don't you?"
"Oh Dad, you're so behind. Get with it, will you?"
"Eh? Get with what? I don't understand."
"Tsch. Anyway, it gets to half-time, we're still one-nil up, so we goes to the tea-bar to get ourselves some food and a cup of generic beef-flavoured drink. So nice of them to stock some halal generic beef-flavoured drink for us. Bloody lovely it was too. Anyways, the second half begins, our boys are napping and Bedistan equalise from a corner - one-one, and the half ain't even five minutes old. Bloody dissapointing that was."
"I'll say. Old Ali was cursing a blue streak over here. 'Harris you bloody donkey', he was yelling, 'Cut your bloody hair, then you'll able to see the ball!' Heh, we all had a chuckle at that. He don't half get worked up sometimes."
"Yeah, so were we. We all went a bit silent for a while, but we soon perked up. The lads picked up their game, forced a few saves, won a few corners. That got us singing again - a few bursts of Brothers of Bettia and the Aroras were back to their best. About fifteen minutes to go, we got a corner. Warlow floats one towards the penalty spot, and we couldn't believe who's come steaming in to thump the ball home? Ali Ap Tegryn, that's who! I had no idea he could head a ball that hard. Bloody amazing it was, almost tore straight through the net!"
"I know, we were going nuts over here. I even spilled my tea! Tell you what though, the last five minutes weren't for the faint-hearted - when that Bedistani hit the post, I nearly choked on my sponge cake! So, what are you'r plans now?"
"We're gonna see if we can hitch a ride up to Woolgolga, and who knows, maybe I can get us some more tickets. I hope it's its another belching contest. I suppose I'd better practice the Dorian & Sonya anthem... how does it go again?"
Fixtures / Results:
MD1: BETTIA 2-1 Bedistan (Via Voleta Dome, Parkford)
MD2: BETTIA vs. Dorian & Sonya (CBBC Dome, Woolgolga)
MD3: BETTIA vs. Bazalonia (TeleBaz Stadium, Fauxham)
MD4: BETTIA vs. Andossa Se Mitrin Vega (Drago Soccer Field, Drago)
MD5: Cheerio, bye bye, ta ta |
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Hit The Road Jacks . . .
Stephen Murtagh reporting from Woolgolga, Bazalonia
The blue and white army have had to wait a long time since the last Hyppos fixture but it was well worth it. Without the pressures of a world cup campaign to contend with the Autocracy’s finest looked composed and confident against a second string Krytenia side, who are nevertheless the group’s top seeds.
But old habits die hard so naturally the Hyppos had to make things difficult for themselves. The ball was played forward from midfield, the Hypocrian defence stepped up but the flag stayed down and a Jacks’ striker kept his cool to beat Lomaia with a well placed low drive. Twenty minutes on the clock and Krytenia led 1 - 0. It was a lead they would hold on to until deep into the second half.
It was a second half in which the Hyppos peppered the Jacks goal but couldn’t find a way through. Molinari put an effort inches wide while Sousa cracked a shot against the bar before and minutes later was denied by an excellent save from the keeper. But the resistance couldn’t last for ever and with fifteen minutes left to play veteran Robert Bercali whipped in a left wing corner which was headed firmly past the keeper by Drago. And one point became three when Carlo Molinari showed wonderful skill to control a lofted ball into the box. He sidestepped a defender a side footed a shot into the bottom corner to send the thousands of Hyppo fans packed into the vast CBBC Dome back to their hotels happy.
Hypocria 2 - 1 Krytenia
Drago
Molinari
“In tournament football it’s crucial to get points on the board as soon as possible”, coach Santoro told reporters. “So to win our opening match is very pleasing. Particularly against the top seeds.”
“The performance was great”, striker Rafael Dudamel added. “But not as great as this Cute Bunny Burger. Hmm, hmmm. That’s a tasty burger.”
The HyperSport Upset of the Round
Group Verona - Stayblaydia 6 - 0 Pacitalia
Four years ago these sides finished first and third respectively and the Blue Foxes were billed as the closet challengers to the Purple Peril in Group 2. But the alarming ease with which the champions brushed aside their opponents is an ominous warning to any nation making eyes at their title.
Next . . .
Hypocria (10) v The Lowland Clans (12)
TLC may be the very epitome of sleeping giant but they’ve started this competition like a runaway train. The Clansmen hammered a lacklustre Oliverry side by five goals to zip on the opening day and will be brimming with confidence. Just two places separate the sides in the rankings ahead of a match that could go either way. But whoever wins will have a firm foothold in the last sixteen.
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Lamoni loses by one
You could tell that this was going to be a fairly relaxed match, by AOCAF standards. After the national anthems and opening pleasantries were finished with, both teams were smiling, and waving that those that they knew on the other side. Relations between Nedalia and the Free Republic had never been anything but amicable, and it showed.
Once the game got underway, there was a change on both sides. Both knew that this match could well determine who got first place in the group, and both sides wanted it. In fact, two goals were scored within the first thirty minutes. Nedalia scored at 27 minutes in, and Lamonian forward Ted Menz replied three minutes later. It wouldn't be until thirty minutes later that someone would score a second goal in this match, however; and it wasn't a Hawk. Nedalia had managed to get it past the Lamonian keeper at 60 minutes in, winning the match, and quite likely taking first place in the group for the entire group stage.
While both Lamoni and Nedalia are virtually garunteed a spot in the knockouts from this group, it was part of a friendly rivalry to see who would end up with first place in the group at the end of the group stages. Now, it is likely that Nedalia has that honor, unless they lose to one of the other teams in the group. With their second seed AOCAF rating, that will not be likely; but the same could be said for the Hawks with their eighth seed AOCAF ranking. The real excitement in group 1 would be how the other teams in the group faired.
Lamoni will be a force to be reckoned with by the time that they play their next match, and you can watch here with the Hawk's army on LBC.
Lamoni - 1 Ted Menz (30)
Nedalia - 2 (27, 60)
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Bye Day = Hard Work and Matchday 2 Predictions
BAZALONIA - As the Dryads have Day 2 off, they're spending the day practicing more intensely than ever in preparation for Matchday 3. A date with the Purple Peril is anything but enviable, but the Dryads intend to give it the old college try. Nothing's impossible, right? The practices were a clandestine, high secrecy affair, as the Myrtannian side makes preparations for the Starblaydia match.
So, while they're gearing up for their toughest opponent in the whole group, here are AIR 4's predictions for matchday 2:
Manhattan Prime (0-0-0) VS Nedalia (1-0-0, last match: W 2-1 v. LAM)
Manhattan Prime makes its AOCAF debut against the side we feel is the strongest in Group TeleBaz right now. The Lions are coming off a 2-1 win against the defending runner-up Hawks, and look to be a lock to run circles around the AOCAF newcomer.
The line: MP 0 - 3 NED
Lamoni (0-0-1, last match: L 1-2 v. NED) VS Nojika (0-1-0, last match: D 0-0 v. LEG)
Though they lost a closely contested match to Nedalia, the Hawks will be looking to do well against Nojika. The Nojikans are coming off a scoreless tie against Legalese, and who knows how they'll do today? For now, let's take the known quantity of the Hawks from Lamoni.
The line: LAM 2 - 1 NOJ
Islands of Qutar (0-0-0) VS Starblaydia (1-0-0, last match: W 6-0 v. PAC)
This one is easy as pie. Islands of Qutar are new to the competition, Starblaydia are the defending champions and pounded the arguably second best team in the group. Purple Peril triumphs again.
The line: IQU 0 - 5 STR
Pacitalia (0-0-1, last match: L 0-6 v. STR) VS Milchama (0-1-0, last match: D 2-2 v. MYR)
The Warriors are coming into this one off a draw against the Dryads, while the Blue Foxes were RAWRCRUSHED on Day One. Normally, the Blue Foxes would be pegged to win this one pretty comfortably, but after that beating, things might be closer than normal. However, we don't know that Milchama can capitalize on the previous days' results well, so this is a toss up.
The line: PAC 1 - 1 MIL
Dorian & Sonya (0-0-0) VS Bettia (1-0-0, last match: W 2-1 v. BED)
Dorian & Sonya joined the AOCAF competition the same year Myrtannia did, and have improved since their first outing by quite a bit. They made the knockouts for the first time in AOCAF XIV, before being eliminated in the second round. As much as they've improved, though, the Aroras' attacking offense will probably just be too much for them.
The line: D&S 1 - 4 BET
Bedistan (0-0-1, LM: L 1-2 v. BET) VS ASMV (1-0-0, LM: W 2-0 v. BAZ)
A matchup of two teams that made the knockouts last AOCAF should be a pretty entertaining matchup. The River Dragons may be more empowered after their solid win over the host Bazalonians, and that we feel gives them the edge in this match.
The line: BED 0 - 1 ASMV
Hiiraan (0-0-0) VS Krytenia (0-0-1, LM: L 1-2 v. HYP)
Once again, we have a matchup of AOCAF newbie (Hiiraan) against AOCAF veteran (Krytenia). Once again, we like the veteran to show the new guy how it's done.
The line: HIR 0 - 2 KRY
Hypocria (1-0-0, LM: W 2-1 v. KRY) VS The Lowland Clans (1-0-0, LM: W 5-0 v. Oliverry)
This could prove to be the match of the day, featuring two unbeaten sides who picked up confidence-boosting wins on Day One. After struggling in the last AOCAF, the Hyprocrians look to be getting their act together once again. The Clans have underachieved in AOCAF, but had a superbly strong showing against Oliverry on the first day of action. Hard to pick a winner, but Hypocria seems to have a slight edge.
The line: HYP 2 - 1 TLC |
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OOC: RP Cut OFF for MD 2 |
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OOC: Scores posted in the Scores and fixtures thread
Mrytannia, I have not counted your last RP this match, considering it was obviously meant to be added before MD3 scorination (you if it was counted the RP would have virtually been useless) as your RP of the MD1 match was counted. However, please wait until the scores have been posted (or until after the RP cutoff) before you make abother post. Next time it will count for the day it was posted in not the one it was meant for.
N.B. C'n'p tables like I am about to do in this RP will not count towards the quantity portion of the RP, but comments in between like the ones I am doing are valid
IC:
Not Quite halfway through and let's look at the current tables. We'll start with Group TeleBaz
| CODE | Group TeleBaz
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Nedalia 2 2 0 0 8 1 7 6
2 Nojika 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2
3 Legalese 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
4 Lamoni 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1
5 Manhattan Prime 1 0 0 1 0 6 -6 0
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The Group is pretty much expected apart from Lamoni's 4th placing, The 2-1 loss to Nedalia and draw against Nojika putting Lamoni way out of position, but as since their next 2 opponents are Manhattan Prime and Legalese. They should be able to recover a decent spot on the ladder, probably 2nd.
Manhattan Prime suffered a serious setback today a 6-0 loss to Nedalia, but going up against a region as good as Nedalia can cause problems such as these, Total and utter humiliation.
| CODE | Group Verona
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Starblaydia 2 2 0 0 10 0 10 6
2 Milchama 2 0 2 0 5 5 0 2
3 Mrytannia 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
4 Pacitalia 2 0 1 1 3 9 -6 1
5 Islands of Qutar 1 0 0 1 0 4 -4 0
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The Blue Foxes loss to Starblaydia had caused some major problems for the Pacitalians and with their 3-all draw against Milchama they are sitting 4th on the table above Islands of Qutar who suffered a rollicking by Starblaydia. Not as much as Manahatten Prime had but still a 4-0 loss is keeping at the bottom.
Starblaydia is the only team to have won and has won twice, thus cementing the purple team's dominance over group Verona. All the other results have pretty much been as expected with a total of 2 draws over the 2 matchdays
| CODE | Group BazAir
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Bettia 2 2 0 0 5 2 3 6
2 Andossa Se Mitrin Vega 2 1 0 1 4 3 1 3
3 Bedistan 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 3
4 Dorian & Sonya 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
5 Bazalonia 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
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Dorian & Sonya had not chance against the goal powerhouse of Bettia, but they did well restricting the team to 3 goals while scoring one themselves. They managed the best out of all 5th seed teams that faced their 1st seeds and a loss would be expected by all. I just hope that all these 5th seeds do not get overwhlemed with their first loss.
The only place that on paper is what it should be is Bettia, Andossa Se Mitrin Vega, the 3rd seed is ahead of the 2nd seed Bedistan and Dorian & Sonya is ahead of 4th Seed Bazalonia but only because of Goals For.
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Group Baza Publishing
Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Hypocria 2 2 0 0 5 2 3 6
2 The Lowland Clans 2 1 0 1 6 3 3 3
3 Krytenia 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 3
4 Hiiraan 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
5 Oliverry 1 0 0 1 0 5 -5 0
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Group Baza Publishing seems to be suffering the same disease as Group BazAir since the Hypocrians, the first seeds in the group have won both of their games but seed 2 & 3 are swapped around and 4 & 5 are swapped around as Ollivery suffered a humiliating 5 nil defeat in their first match.
Hiiraan is to be respected keeping the Hypocrians to 2 goals, however Dorian and Sonya beat them as best 5th seed due to the Goal against Bettia they received.
However this is still just after the 2nd matchday and there are 3 more matches to go before the final rankings. Though it is very possible that the BazaB's for the first time in Bazalonia's history fail to make it through to the next round.
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Scoreless draw and 4th!?!?! 
Fourth place and a scoreless draw to Nojika was not what Lamoni had in mind at the beginning of AOCAF XV, but that is where they are. However, with matches against Legalese and Manhattan Prime, Lamoni will be able to make second if they can whip themselves into shape.
Coach Boldman was not happy with the performance. "We just haven't brought our own level of intensity to this AOCAF so far, and that has cost us. We are lucky that we have matches against two teams who we really should be able to defeat in this group coming up. This should give us the chance we need to snap out of the funk that we seem to be in, and become the dominating force that we really are."
Lamoni faces Manhattan Prime and Legalese next, both teams who should fall to Lamonian footballing prowess. If the Hawks win these next two matches, then they should be able to gain second place in the group standings at the end of the group stage. You can be sure that Coach Boldman is going to be ruthlessly whipping the Hawks into shape on Lamoni's bye date.
Maybe Nojika had a good day, and we had a bad one. Regardless, Lamoni can't just drop games like this if they expect a finals rematch against the Purple Peril.
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Qutar Smashed
Starblaydia march on
Though Starblaydia just beat The Islands of Qutar 3-0 in the World Cup's Second Round, this victory was far more deserved. Whereas Starblaydia's performance in that match was more deserving of a one-all draw than a three-nil win, this display was just what Geraint Evans was after.
Starblaydia dominated all over the field, evident by their list of goalscorers - a right-back, left-midfielder, central defender and a striker. Georges Blanc's side have scored ten goals in their two games so far, without conceeding a single one yet. The experience gained from the World Cup-winning Captain and Antonis 'the Bull' Kouvas in the heart of defence are proving invaluable to Starblaydia's cause.
Up front, Lawrence Asante is learning his trade well from his partnership with Tolkacheva - who raised the bar yet again with her 47th international goal with two minutes to go. Starblaydia sit - already - four points clear of second-placed Milchama in the Verona-named Group B, and they play the Myrtannians in their next match. Myrtannia, as is well known, were the only team to defeat Starblaydia on the way to their record-breaking AOCAF14 title, though Starblaydia took timely revenge in the Semi-Finals by destroying Myrtannia 4-1 with a pair of goals from Cherry Garcia and also one from the World Cup's current scoring sensation Jacqueline Maitland.
Myrtannia's Dryads will be well-rested, but Starblaydia's AOCAF team are just plain better. Best in the region, best in the world.
It's just like watching Starblaydia.
The Islands of Qutar 0 - 4 Starblaydia
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Crikey, what's happening?
A second disappointing result as Blue Foxes draw Warriors
BAZALONIA (PSN) -- You can't have it both ways.
That seems to be the main issue with the Blue Foxes at AOCAF15 as their continuously lacklustre performances are causing fans to turn up their noses in disgust. This time the offence showed up but the defence was still out trying to get high... or at least Angelo was. After being shellacked 6-0 by the Starblaydi in a match most expected to be a lot closer, the Blue Foxes came out and once again showed the weakness in their defensive core with Angelo Bordellatta at centre back. The Blue Foxes held a 3-1 lead but allowed the Warriors of Milchama to come right back, earning a draw with a final 3-3 score.
It is no surprise that most did not want Bordellatta back on the national squad - his drug abuse was an embarrassment to the country and thus he was banned from international play for good reason. So why is he back? That's a very good question and one manager Lindifeu Zentrescu will have to own up to in the coming days as the team prepares to face the Myrtannians and the Islands of Qutar in two must-win matches. Zentrescu has already hinted he will bench Bordellatta in favour of substitute centre-back Sergio San' Cristobal, a younger, more athletic and agile player with quick legs and feet. And there is good reason for the switch - Bordo, as he was once called when the fans actually liked him, has been nothing short of awful at AOCAF15, responsible for seven of the nine goals Pacitalia has conceded in just two matches.
Needless to say, the Pacitalian squad will need to score more, do the right thing by either subbing on San' Cristobal over Bordellatta for match three and then, if necessary, moving Francesco Manzanotti to the anchoring centre-back spot to try and right the sinking ship that is the Blue Foxes at AOCAF15. The Blue Foxes need massive and resounding victories in the next two matches if they wish to end up with, first off, a positive goal differential, and second off and most important, a knockouts berth.
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Pacitalia 3 : 3 Milchama
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Hyppos Take The High Road
Stephen Murtagh reporting from Cantinople, Bazalonia
During the last AOCAF tournament rumours circulated about Hypocria’s possible withdrawal from all international tournaments. Rumours became fact when the HFA pulled the Hyppos from both the senior and Under-21 World Cups and all afflicted competitions. But we couldn’t live without international football entirely. Which explains the Autocracy’s continued participation in the AOCAF. That participation has delighted the fans back home. Those fans were even more delighted after the Hyppos won their second game to top Group Baza Publishing.
Four years ago in Bettia the Hyppos faced the Clansmen and came away with a comfortable 3 - 0 win. This time it was expected to be much closer, particularly after the second string Star’s hammered Oliverry on the opening day. Inconsistence is something Hyppo fans are more than familiar with and it seems that the men from the Lowland suffer from that same condition.
An early goal always helps too and it was the blue and white army that were cheering after just four minutes when Carlo Molinari opened the scoring. There was a huge slice of luck involved with the second as Sousa tumbled over in the penalty area after a challenge from Menhamner. Replays showed that, although there was contact with the player, the defender clearly took the ball. Regardless, the referee signalled a penalty and Molinari doubled the advantage with his second of the game and third of the tournament. But some element of justice was restored when Irileneev clawed a goal back just before the interval.
The second half kept the fans packed into the SeaBazalope Arena on the edge of their seats and both sides surged forward, one looking for the equaliser and the other for a killer third. There would eventually be another goal and it would go to Hypocria. As the Clansmen pushed forward teenage starlet Alex Sousa caught them out at the back, beat two defenders and fired an unstoppable shot past Evillianovich.
Hypocria 3 - 1 The Lowland Clans
Molinari (2)
Sousa
In the other group game Krytenia bagged their first points of the campaign with a 2 - 0 win over lowly Hiiraan.
The HyperSport Upset of the Round
Group TeleBaz - Lamoni 0 - 0 Nojika
Four years ago the Hawks were walking out at the Stadiwm Bettia ready to contest the final of AOCAF XIV. The final of this tournament must seem an awfully long way away for followers of Lamoni after this hugely disappointing draw against minnows Nojika. The Hawks were comfortably favourites to win but it was the Panthers that’s came away with a moral victory.
Next . . .
Hypocria (10) v Hiiraan (37)
It’s tough to know whether we’ve played Hiiraan before after the Hall of Sporting Records mysteriously burnt down shortly after being labelled a national embarrassment. So it could well be our first meeting. Hiiraan are the lowest ranked team in the group and currently have no points. With that in mind the Hyppos should win comfortably. Although it never seems to work out like that.
This post has been edited by Hypocria on Jul 18 2006, 03:14 PM |
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OOC: So I'm sposed to RP my nation's reactions right? Sorry, I'm new to this... |
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OOC: You can RP the reaction to the match, you can RP how you figure the match went. You can RP how your players reacted... you can even RP storylines that have some relation to the AOCAF.
As long as you can relate it to the AOCAF, you can RP it (I'll be very lenient in this determination, but if I can't see why I'll TG you.
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