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HullHull - FA Cup winner!
The season #6 is finished and it’s time to sum up its results. Here are the latest matches of my Hull:
Premier League
Sudden losses to Aston Villa, Tottenham and Middlesbrough and awful defeat to Manchester City (0:4) made my mission of struggle for title totally impossible. Moreover, Man City got a great form and left Hull behind at the 4th position.
What were the reasons of such failure? Actually I can say that the main problem was the absence of Milovan Rakic – our leading forward – due to that damned 3-4 month injury. Genero Zeefuik was absolutely unstable and many goal moments were failed due to his poor shots and other actions. Another forward - Akeem Ugbah - was too young and inexperienced for participation in the most decisive games of the season.
Champions League
The problem of Rakic’s absence played its role in the second quarterfinal match of the Champions League against Manchester United. The Red Devils got the unconvincing win having less shots and only 61% of passes completed versus my 71%.
The first quarterfinal match on the Old Trafford gave me some hope on getting to the semi final. The game was pretty equal and we had a quite convenient 1:1 away draw. But the goal moments failed by Zeefuik in the second match played the main role in this face-off…
FA Cup
But Hull didn’t finish the season without any trophy! At first The Tigres have won FA Cup!!! It happened in easy final with Sunderland:
The easiness of the final was some kind of compensational award for very complicated opponents in the previous rounds. If you follow my Hull story you should know that Manchester United and Arsenal had been beaten in the 4th and 6th rounds.
Additionally the semi-final with Tottenham was really hard one. Don’t believe 3:1 score in the first screen shot of this post! We had been loosing with 0:1 until Ramires scored an equalizer on the 63 minute. The next two goals were made done by Shakhov and Brand during 115 and 116 minutes (extra time!).
Some emotions from fans and board about our historical victory:
Hull players
Traditionally here are some statistics of Hull players:
The best debutant of the season is Manuel Brand. He is fantastic central defender who wins headers during attacking corners very often!
Darwin Suarez and Milovan Rakic became real young leaders of the team in this season.
But the best Hull player of season #6 is certainly Diego Buonanotte. Hull old-timer became the best assister of the club, and even Darwin Suarez couldn’t compete with him (please note that Suarez was on the 1st position of best assister rating in the middle of the season).
Fans agreed with me:
Previous posts of the Hull story (season #6)
Hull – the most interesting is ahead!
Top 8 of all best championships in my game
Chasing Arsenal…
Coaches of Hull in Football Manager 2009
Champions League debut of Hull in FM2009
July and August transfers before season #6
Expectations and transfers of the upcoming season
PS The next post is going to be about my Ivory Coast national team in the World Cup 2014!
well done on your success in the FA cup...shame about your injury though
im still stuck in the championship...getting annoying now...
well, i did say bout zeefuik... witsel has a "req" by him as well. u have got 2 sign a good back up forward 4 next season, or u r screwed. Gd luck!
Vitaly, well done.
I have just one question for you though. Will this be your final season with Hull?
Well done, Vitaliy. Unlucky with the Rakic injury. The problem with regens is that they always have low natural fitness ratings.
Can you please post your game so we can play it
SherrifFromIsraelFan,
yes, you are right
Anonymous,
this is not the final season. I am going to play another one until FM 2010 demo release.
Actually I have started the 7th season and played 4 matches already. It will be quick one because I am going to find enough time for that forgeting about other things waiting for me :)
So some of my projects will be in some kind of "waiting mode" due to my desire of playing the new season.
Anonymous,
I will post my game as soon as FM 2010 comes out
you said you would post it when the demo came out
i have some ideas for you you need am experienced striker i bought james mcfadden for my hull game at the january transfer market I was at 12 but then I rocketed to 5 and he scored 24 goals in the process 6 goals under luis fabiano ((Arsenal))
Very nice Vitaly. Have read your blog for ages and would like to say it is really good. You have inspired me to create my own blog:
footballmanagerblog9.blogspot.com
I would really appreciate if some of you's can come and read my blog.
Thanks a lot
have hull had a new stadium built? i didn't think hull's ground was called the circle?
thanks
vitaliy, when r u goin 2 report bout ur new singins? i always like reading that! ps what happened to witsel? he has a req by him! did u sell him? i signed him for reading 4 £14.25m, sold him 4 £23m to barcelona! go pashaev!
Congrats on the FA cup victory. I am in season 6 with Rovers and my best finish is 3rd. Very tough to compete with Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea. They always seem to finish strong and I end up a few points out. Maybe next season...
Congrats on the FA cup victory. I've got a question here for everyone. Why is it that some players are 'finding it hard to motivate themselves to play for a manager of your standing.' when I'm World Class? I recently got hired as Man Utd manager after winning the league with Sunderland, so could this be a factor?
Anonymous,
exactly! I post my game when FM 2010 demo comes out
Anonymous,
I my game Hull stadium is called The Circle. I can post a screen shot if you want
SherrifFromIsraelFan,
Witsel is unhappy with second roles in the Hull squad. He didn't manage to prove that he is better than Buonanotte, O'Brien, Diego, Suarez and Ramirez.
Anoymous,
In every FM game, Hulls ground is called the circle becos their normal ground (KC Stadium) is where rugby league team Hull Kr play. Hull Kr dont allow the naming rights, so for some reason FM call it the civcle. hope that helps ;)
They call it the circle cause the c in kc stand fo circle
Hello Vitaliy,
Are you still looking for a new AMR/AMR/FC-AMC? If so, I would like to point out to you a very good young talent from Israel, Eyal Golasa:
http://img29.imageshack.us/i/eyal.png/
Please note that this pic is taken from a game in 2014. He was a wonderkid in my game, at the age of 20