Portugal

This is how they look now. They used form training massively. Their both wingers play in one team, maybe they also trained form but noone in their team happened to get excellent form. All other 20yos received general training. Luckily form didn't go up a lot :)

Looking at low form of their forwards and the fact they play away I think they will play a very defensive lineup, with one side attack or even with no attack at all. Looking at two easy pic games we have after this one, I still think we should go rather for more sure win and better team confidence than for team spirit. Playing normal instead of pic will let us field less midfielders and get better attack thanks to this.

If this gives enough midfield, I think we can start with a 343: 3 midfielders (one towards wing), one winger off, two normal forwards and Mokrzycki as TDF. I'm not sure about defence, as there are 3 slots there and I'd like to fit 4 players into them - SP taker, normal defender, WBo and CDo :) This depends on midfield calculations :) Offensive coach of course :)

If anyone needs xls file with table above, it is at [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]

Could somebody please prepare a HRF and upload it on some non-rapidshare ;-) server?

Thank you for the update. It is good that their general didn't work that well as this way they didn't get neither good form nor training.

Now I'll have to wait for the updates of all our players(some are quite late) and see what options we have.

I think 343 with 3inners(and cdo/tdf) is not really that great of an option, especially in the new game engine. But I will certainly consider it, especially if we decide to play normal and we'll expect a ca on pic.

Both 20yo inners playing in France trained form. Davide Serino raised a level to solid, Horacio Machacaz stayed at passable.

19yo forward playing in France trained skill, his form increased from inadequate to passable.

How do their best 20 yo forwards being outside the team look like?

The best currently is Lucas Rolo (230179304). He is 20.60 years old, nasty, currently in solid form and excellent stamina, he did 7 stars last weekend. He is currently on TL, he is world class scorer with solid passing. As he is easy to remove, I think he may be called.

Simão Seixeiro (232058276) is also in top form and stamina now, doing 7 stars, he can play till 11th game of qualifiers.

Hildeberto Reis (232845346) is a nice, balanced TDF, doing 6,5 stars currently, today in passable form.

Any decent Quicks they can enroll?

Urbino Teixeira Pinto (229284610) is the best I know of, solid form and stamina today, but lacks some main skill.

With their current roster 5-4-1/4-5-1 with one side attack looks most likely. Although if going for PIN, I'd decide for 3-5-2 AIM (3 CDs) being in their shoes providing I could get excellent or higher central attack.

ps. any insight if they have a dedicated SPer?

I can't see a good one in their current roster and finding such outside of the squad is hard, I'll look through their last season's games later today, maybe I'll find him :)

I'm still thinking about the tactic for today... A 343 aim could be an interesting choice, but I am still evaluation all options....

jacek_BTL napisał:

I can't see a good one in their current roster and finding such outside of the squad is hard, I'll look through their last season's games later today, maybe I'll find him :)

What central attack level can we achieve with such lineup? Cymru had supernatural high central defence last game but played 352 last 20 minutes, Portugal has a little worse keeper and similar (maybe a little better) defenders, so I guess they may get similar ratings.

Could you send me hrf file at [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]? I'll put it on an ftp server so that people reading this thread can download it and se what can we achieve in various lineups :)

Since this week I am out of town, I couldn't get a hrf file(couldn't make ho work on my netbook).

Yes, if they play defensive and get sn-titanic defense with our brilliant, at most magnificent attack we cannot do too many things....

I strongly suspect them to play such lineup. But on the other hand I don't think they'd try (as Cymru did) 3CDs and an open wing, especially after they've seen our last week lineup. With symetric defense and 451 I think they'd get something like low supernatural central attack and low magnificent sides. Briliant attack against low supernatural defence is not that good, this may work, especially that we have nice passing in the team so our AiM will work quite well. Some subs building a side attack if the result is bad may help - something like winger instead of 4th IM and CDoff instead of some defender.

What do you plan for defence. Sowul will surely play, I don't think that we need a lot of defence today, do you plan to improve midfield from there?

Thank you very much for helping me prepare this game. I wouldn't have been able to do anything without the file and the information that I read here.

DO BOJU POLSKO!!!