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Atletico Madrid 3 Lens 0
There appears to have been a communication error between the Atletico bench and the referee as the intended teamsheet somehow failed to get into the hands of the officials. It is not quite sure what went wrong but the result was a chaos with E_Pieters being drafted from water carrier for the remainder of the season into the starting eleven. The tactics being worked on all week were disposed of and the result was a close affair with a shot count of 11-7. Thankfully Atletico finally woke up and scored some goals in their worst performance of the season but best result!
Manager Simon Marsh commented "We will have to have an internal inquest into exactly what went wrong. We never send bad sheets and the second the referee reported back that Skriniar was not allowed to take to the field it was complete chaos. We didnt have time to put the players on the field we wanted to before we knew it Pieters was handing out water and the referee kicked off the game so he just took off his shirt and played the full game!".
The error has certainly cost the club a chance to earn more ability abs with a better performance and important minutes for those that need them but with a 3-0 win these negatives on the night will be swallowed up in the remainder of the season.
Next up for Atletico Madrid are Real Sociedad a real bunch of experienced wily veterans who will be lookimg to make home advantage count
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Southampton 1 - 3 Atletico Madrid
Aletico Madrid probably go in to this seasons Champions League with their strongest chance of going deep. They missed out last season on a technically despite finishing 8th but gained some valuable european experience by winning the DPT. Marsh has set his side the target of reaching the semi-finals for the first time.
The journey started with a bang.......
8 minutes in and star defender Skriniar carried off the field 24-17-13 reduced to a 16-13-5
9 minutes gone and Martinez leaves the field for the third time this season in only 6 games and the goalkeeper skills is reduced 26 to 24.
Thankfully Atletico pulled ranks and dug in to more than match the home side and then in and around the half time interval the game changed.
Muani opened the scoring on 40
Southamptons Molina was sent off on 46
Osimhen made it 0-2 and the game was as good as won.
Atletico took advantage of the extra man winning the shot count 12-22 overall.
Marsh commented "Its a great start to win away at a side that did really well in the close season to rebuild a squad who are challenging at the top of the premier league. To do is against that early adversity was great character from the lads".
Skriniar will miss 2 matches with injury
Martinez has avoided any injury but there are concerns for his health given his repeated leaving the field.
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Juventus 0 Atletico Madrid 1
The esms gods must have been drinking beverages and smoking unhealthy things as they completely forgot that Atletico Madrid were playing! With the gods busy Atletico were able to enjoy an immense amount of fortune rarely seen at the club. A shot count of 23-12 would normally get you nothing but a mixture of good goalkeeping from Martinez and poor finishing from Juve, the away side stole three points. Rumours of match referee Tek Abung walking away with a bag full of gold coins have surfaced.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "Whilst I feel for Tony somewhat we were well and truly due one and more and so we embrace and enjoy getting three points back. I am disappointed with the performance and allowing that many shots is not something we normally do but we can move on and reflect on that".
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Atletico Madrid 1 - 1 AC Milan
The FFO gods hate Atletico that much is clear. 2 point something seasons of shocking luck continue with a 1-1 draw from a 21-8 shot count playing most of the game with home advantage and tactical advantage and with a goalkeeper crying off after 39 minutes is just another chalk on the wall for this hated club.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "Im fucking clueless as to what else I can do to be honest" and walked off.
He did leave his apologies to Cheyenne for a teamsheet mistake that led to Christante swapping positions for the final third.
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Atletico Madrid 2 - 2 Barcelona
Contrasting line ups with the same tactics would give an interesting game. In the whole Atletico did enough to be victorious with a 26-18 shot count. Atletico led twice through a double from R_Sessegnon (22,40) but despite gaining tacticial advantage after both goals they ever so quickly conceded eqaulisers.Overall it has to be put down as 2 points lost for the home side.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "We are disappointed. Barce are decent but if we have any hope of finishing top-4 results need to be better. We could be sat here on 7-9 points and we have 4. Its rinse-repeat record-player but we just struggle to turn good performances into results. Perhaps we should have changed our line-up when leading and that is one to reflect on".
Next up AC Milan who have opened up with 4 points in low scoring games.
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Marseille 2 - 0 Atletico Madrid
A hugely disappointing result for Atletico. The performance was average but an 8-9 shot count should have been enough to gain a minimum point. It loos worse with Marseille scoring twice with only three shots on target despite Martinez being suped up to 26 rated. After Atletico struggled for goals in the first game this trend continued tonight and there is 0 goals from 20 shots of Muani, Havertz and Osimhen.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "We got the early tactical advantage and I was immediately very confident of our chances. Often in football first goals are the most important and when we fell behind very early we then lost the tactical advantage and that evened the two teams up. I have to say though that we were playing against a young inexperienced side who were reduced to 10-men and so very disappointed we didnt control the game better and create more chances. As for the goalkeeping we sick of saying the same old. It does not appear to matter who is in goal for us and how good they are. Too many shots just find their way in".
Atletico will face Barcelona in the Round 3 league games.
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Atletico Madrid 2 - 0 Bayer Leverkusen
B_Cristante (28), M_Odegaard (80)
A new season and one that the fans begin with renewed hope that this one can better than the last. Atletico would start at home to a side who they would be expected to win and on the night they did more than enough to take all three points.
A shot count of 26-7 proved the home side worthy winners and was it not for a great performance by 24-rated Bijlow the scoreline could have been more. For some time the game was in the balance with Atletico struggling to add a second goal until late in the game. Thankfully the defence stood tall and Martinez dealt with the few chances Leverkusen managed on target.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "Whilst a little frustrated we did not score more when we look elsewhere at both results and performances the esms gods have had a party tonight. They must have enjoyed the long off-season and let their hair down and the result is quite manic. We are very pleased therefore to get the three points and look forwards to the game at Marseille who started the season well with a win at Barcelona"
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Atletico expected to part ways with new midifeld signing S_Comesana. The player was only purchased in the close season for £13.5m. With some santa abs the player has festively gained a main skill to 19-rated and so with it his value increases to £16.0m Comesana is set to be placed up for sale in case any current clubs wish to purchase him otherwise he will be sold to a sunny-happy-nest somewhere in another dimension of esms football for a small profit of £2.5m. This will increase the bank balance to one pound short of £69m and promote the club to the 8th highest cash pile overall.
S_Comesana 27 esp 1 12 19 11 25 1 540 1 8
Manager Simon Marsh commented "The player was only ever coming here on a short term deal and it was a small project for small profits. Every million pound is becoming more valuable with every passing FFO day so we will take this small gain and run to the hills with it. £69m is a competitive bank balance at present and when you look around only two teams have large amounts of cash at present.
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Atletico Madrid manager Simon Marsh declared today that he expects Paris St Germain to win the league by 15 points
and anything less will be a failure.
Marsh commented "PSG should be winning the league every season lets be honest but with the managerial changes
that have taken place the scene is set for a long run of title successes. Hamza took Roma on a different route
deciding that they needed to reduce their average players ages. They are still a good looking team but a way off
from being title challengers. Juventus massively over-achieved last season with the luck of the gods on their side
until the back end of the season when things started to level out a little. Whoever, gets the Juve job wont be as
good as Andy Banks and the only way into title contention would be to trade young for older very quickly and very
few would be brave to break up a quality younger side. Real Madrid lost their talisman manager Steve Talbot who is
regarded as one of the very best across all of esms football. Whereas Ian came in and changed very little and won
the league Kaye has gone part-way down the Hamza route in reducing the players ages but this will likely affect
results. They also look to have a few player minute issues with Mane needing 2000 and Watai 720 and so they wont be
able to play their best eleven as often as PSG will theirs. I think one or two of the chasing pack have player
minute headaches.
Marsh continued "The consistency at PSG is there for all to see. The manager knows more about most teams than the
actual managers of the respective clubs do. They have the best team on paper, a manager who eats tactical
spreadsheets for breakfast and they do not have a player minute issue. On top of that they have monsterous bank
balance that is only smaller than its actual size because the manager has cash hidden to keep below the £300m mark.
Ed will keep spinning in the media but that evidence is there for all to see. A 15-point winning title is on the
cards.
Marsh added "We would like to be the side that stays within 15-points of PSG. I think Real Madrid will start as
strong contenders for 2nd place and Juventus 3rd but we hope to be the ones that are challenging those two teams.
I honestly think we are a little better than Bayern, Inter, Ac Milan, Barcelona and Roma. Fiorentina look likely to
join normal champions league chasing sides this time. Kirby has had a very strong off-season. Its up to us to show
up and be better this season although I am hopeful of a more favourable return from the esms gods after two seasons
of poor luck.
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Atletico Madrid 3 Lens 0
There appears to have been a communication error between the Atletico bench and the referee as the intended teamsheet somehow failed to get into the hands of the officials. It is not quite sure what went wrong but the result was a chaos with E_Pieters being drafted from water carrier for the remainder of the season into the starting eleven. The tactics being worked on all week were disposed of and the result was a close affair with a shot count of 11-7. Thankfully Atletico finally woke up and scored some goals in their worst performance of the season but best result!
Manager Simon Marsh commented "We will have to have an internal inquest into exactly what went wrong. We never send bad sheets and the second the referee reported back that Skriniar was not allowed to take to the field it was complete chaos. We didnt have time to put the players on the field we wanted to before we knew it Pieters was handing out water and the referee kicked off the game so he just took off his shirt and played the full game!".
The error has certainly cost the club a chance to earn more ability abs with a better performance and important minutes for those that need them but with a 3-0 win these negatives on the night will be swallowed up in the remainder of the season.
Next up for Atletico Madrid are Real Sociedad a real bunch of experienced wily veterans who will be lookimg to make home advantage count
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Southampton 1 - 3 Atletico Madrid
Aletico Madrid probably go in to this seasons Champions League with their strongest chance of going deep. They missed out last season on a technically despite finishing 8th but gained some valuable european experience by winning the DPT. Marsh has set his side the target of reaching the semi-finals for the first time.
The journey started with a bang.......
8 minutes in and star defender Skriniar carried off the field 24-17-13 reduced to a 16-13-5
9 minutes gone and Martinez leaves the field for the third time this season in only 6 games and the goalkeeper skills is reduced 26 to 24.
Thankfully Atletico pulled ranks and dug in to more than match the home side and then in and around the half time interval the game changed.
Muani opened the scoring on 40
Southamptons Molina was sent off on 46
Osimhen made it 0-2 and the game was as good as won.
Atletico took advantage of the extra man winning the shot count 12-22 overall.
Marsh commented "Its a great start to win away at a side that did really well in the close season to rebuild a squad who are challenging at the top of the premier league. To do is against that early adversity was great character from the lads".
Skriniar will miss 2 matches with injury
Martinez has avoided any injury but there are concerns for his health given his repeated leaving the field.
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Juventus 0 Atletico Madrid 1
The esms gods must have been drinking beverages and smoking unhealthy things as they completely forgot that Atletico Madrid were playing! With the gods busy Atletico were able to enjoy an immense amount of fortune rarely seen at the club. A shot count of 23-12 would normally get you nothing but a mixture of good goalkeeping from Martinez and poor finishing from Juve, the away side stole three points. Rumours of match referee Tek Abung walking away with a bag full of gold coins have surfaced.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "Whilst I feel for Tony somewhat we were well and truly due one and more and so we embrace and enjoy getting three points back. I am disappointed with the performance and allowing that many shots is not something we normally do but we can move on and reflect on that".
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Atletico Madrid 1 - 1 AC Milan
The FFO gods hate Atletico that much is clear. 2 point something seasons of shocking luck continue with a 1-1 draw from a 21-8 shot count playing most of the game with home advantage and tactical advantage and with a goalkeeper crying off after 39 minutes is just another chalk on the wall for this hated club.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "Im fucking clueless as to what else I can do to be honest" and walked off.
He did leave his apologies to Cheyenne for a teamsheet mistake that led to Christante swapping positions for the final third.
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Atletico Madrid 2 - 2 Barcelona
Contrasting line ups with the same tactics would give an interesting game. In the whole Atletico did enough to be victorious with a 26-18 shot count. Atletico led twice through a double from R_Sessegnon (22,40) but despite gaining tacticial advantage after both goals they ever so quickly conceded eqaulisers.Overall it has to be put down as 2 points lost for the home side.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "We are disappointed. Barce are decent but if we have any hope of finishing top-4 results need to be better. We could be sat here on 7-9 points and we have 4. Its rinse-repeat record-player but we just struggle to turn good performances into results. Perhaps we should have changed our line-up when leading and that is one to reflect on".
Next up AC Milan who have opened up with 4 points in low scoring games.
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Marseille 2 - 0 Atletico Madrid
A hugely disappointing result for Atletico. The performance was average but an 8-9 shot count should have been enough to gain a minimum point. It loos worse with Marseille scoring twice with only three shots on target despite Martinez being suped up to 26 rated. After Atletico struggled for goals in the first game this trend continued tonight and there is 0 goals from 20 shots of Muani, Havertz and Osimhen.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "We got the early tactical advantage and I was immediately very confident of our chances. Often in football first goals are the most important and when we fell behind very early we then lost the tactical advantage and that evened the two teams up. I have to say though that we were playing against a young inexperienced side who were reduced to 10-men and so very disappointed we didnt control the game better and create more chances. As for the goalkeeping we sick of saying the same old. It does not appear to matter who is in goal for us and how good they are. Too many shots just find their way in".
Atletico will face Barcelona in the Round 3 league games.
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Atletico Madrid 2 - 0 Bayer Leverkusen
B_Cristante (28), M_Odegaard (80)
A new season and one that the fans begin with renewed hope that this one can better than the last. Atletico would start at home to a side who they would be expected to win and on the night they did more than enough to take all three points.
A shot count of 26-7 proved the home side worthy winners and was it not for a great performance by 24-rated Bijlow the scoreline could have been more. For some time the game was in the balance with Atletico struggling to add a second goal until late in the game. Thankfully the defence stood tall and Martinez dealt with the few chances Leverkusen managed on target.
Manager Simon Marsh commented "Whilst a little frustrated we did not score more when we look elsewhere at both results and performances the esms gods have had a party tonight. They must have enjoyed the long off-season and let their hair down and the result is quite manic. We are very pleased therefore to get the three points and look forwards to the game at Marseille who started the season well with a win at Barcelona"
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Atletico expected to part ways with new midifeld signing S_Comesana. The player was only purchased in the close season for £13.5m. With some santa abs the player has festively gained a main skill to 19-rated and so with it his value increases to £16.0m Comesana is set to be placed up for sale in case any current clubs wish to purchase him otherwise he will be sold to a sunny-happy-nest somewhere in another dimension of esms football for a small profit of £2.5m. This will increase the bank balance to one pound short of £69m and promote the club to the 8th highest cash pile overall.
S_Comesana 27 esp 1 12 19 11 25 1 540 1 8
Manager Simon Marsh commented "The player was only ever coming here on a short term deal and it was a small project for small profits. Every million pound is becoming more valuable with every passing FFO day so we will take this small gain and run to the hills with it. £69m is a competitive bank balance at present and when you look around only two teams have large amounts of cash at present.
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Atletico Madrid manager Simon Marsh declared today that he expects Paris St Germain to win the league by 15 points
and anything less will be a failure.
Marsh commented "PSG should be winning the league every season lets be honest but with the managerial changes
that have taken place the scene is set for a long run of title successes. Hamza took Roma on a different route
deciding that they needed to reduce their average players ages. They are still a good looking team but a way off
from being title challengers. Juventus massively over-achieved last season with the luck of the gods on their side
until the back end of the season when things started to level out a little. Whoever, gets the Juve job wont be as
good as Andy Banks and the only way into title contention would be to trade young for older very quickly and very
few would be brave to break up a quality younger side. Real Madrid lost their talisman manager Steve Talbot who is
regarded as one of the very best across all of esms football. Whereas Ian came in and changed very little and won
the league Kaye has gone part-way down the Hamza route in reducing the players ages but this will likely affect
results. They also look to have a few player minute issues with Mane needing 2000 and Watai 720 and so they wont be
able to play their best eleven as often as PSG will theirs. I think one or two of the chasing pack have player
minute headaches.
Marsh continued "The consistency at PSG is there for all to see. The manager knows more about most teams than the
actual managers of the respective clubs do. They have the best team on paper, a manager who eats tactical
spreadsheets for breakfast and they do not have a player minute issue. On top of that they have monsterous bank
balance that is only smaller than its actual size because the manager has cash hidden to keep below the £300m mark.
Ed will keep spinning in the media but that evidence is there for all to see. A 15-point winning title is on the
cards.
Marsh added "We would like to be the side that stays within 15-points of PSG. I think Real Madrid will start as
strong contenders for 2nd place and Juventus 3rd but we hope to be the ones that are challenging those two teams.
I honestly think we are a little better than Bayern, Inter, Ac Milan, Barcelona and Roma. Fiorentina look likely to
join normal champions league chasing sides this time. Kirby has had a very strong off-season. Its up to us to show
up and be better this season although I am hopeful of a more favourable return from the esms gods after two seasons
of poor luck.
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