Hull – the most interesting is ahead!

Hello, dear readers! Hull story continues and today I would like to share some interesting information regarding progress of my club in different tournaments.

Hull players and European awards

But let’s start from players and their achievements. I have some great news!

Ochoa

Ochoa is Goalkeeper of the Year in FM 2009

Suddenly Francisco Gullermo Ochoa got Goalkeeper of the Year award! He made me really proud. Now I think that I have the best keeper in the world when Ochoa makes his next save. What I can say… He is truly wonderful goalkeeper and Hull captain whose saves sometimes decide the results of the most important games (for instance, those that I had against Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United).

Rakic

My another pride is Milovan Rakic. His price became near $50M, his continental reputation has grown highly just because the guy scores goals confidently and stably independent of opponent’s strength. By the way, one of his most valuable abilities is the percentage of scored goals when Rakic comes out one-on-one with a goalkeeper! It’s always more possible that he wouldn’t fail one-on-one moment than vice versa.

Rakic got to the “substitution bench” of World Team of the Year. Moreover, he was nominated for the Best European Footballer award (Golden Ball)!

World team of the Year with Rakic in FM 2009

Team and its progress in tournaments

Currently I like the latest results and quality of football shown by the players:

Impressive series of matches from Hull

FA Cup

At first you may see that my Hull is very successive in FA Cup overcoming Arsenal (goal of Suarez and saves of Ochoa provided the victory) and Manchester United (Buonanotte – man of the match with 1 goal and 1 assist).

So now we have a nice chance to win our first trophy when the main rivals are out of the tournament. The next obstacle on the way to the trophy is Tottenham.

Champions League

The first knockout round game with Schalke was pretty complicated. Hull was loosing with 2:0 score on the 76th minute!!! But then Shakhov and Brand provided a comfortable draw with effective shots! German team is not so strong and I think my Hull will enter a quarterfinal phase. But sure it’s necessary to be very careful in the second match.

Premier League

In the previous Hull story post I described the situation when my club was in 7 points from Arsenal. Now the distance is shorter. Only 3 points!

Following Man Utd and Arsenal in FM 2009

I would like to single out important away Premier League win against Arsenal. Just look to the match stats:

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Decisive goal was scored by our best forward Milovan Rakic. Unfortunately he was injured in the next match with the Gunners in FA Cup… 3-4 months I am made to use Zeefuik and Ugbah instead of Rakic on the edge of attack:

Milovan Rakic's injury in FM 2009

 

In the end I want to tell you that I hope the battle for title will be hot and my players will show a real performance from their side!

27 comment(s):

  1. Anonymous Says:

    Well done Vitaly! You are doing very well. Good luck in the future!!!!!!

  2. Anonymous Says:

    you now now in 6th seasons at hull..
    can you give me the best tactic for away games.. and my rooney does not score in every game i played.. please help me..

  3. Anonymous Says:

    give me some advice.. between guiseppe rossi, rooney, berbatov, macheda,welbeck who's more suitable for your 4-1-4-1 formation..

  4. Steve Says:

    To anon I would go rooney, then rossi. Great post vitaliy!

  5. Anonymous Says:

    Hey Vitaliy can u do some more posts on those wonderkids !!! It's time for H I J i think ??

  6. Anonymous Says:

    about the wonderkids, remember Eden Hazard for H. Brilliant belgian AMC

  7. SherrifFromIsraelFan Says:

    i noticed u sorted out the annoying redirects thing. nice. for rakic being out u shud use ugbah becos on one of my games i signed zeefuik- 35 games, 7 goals (2 pens) gd luck- ur gunna need it!

  8. Anonymous Says:

    @ anon:

    i would use rooney and welbeck on the winger positions in the 4-1-4-1 because of their speed and dribbling...
    as for attack; rossi, then berbatov....

    hope that helps

  9. Anonymous Says:

    but i also have ronaldo, nani, marquinhos and gai assulin in winger..

  10. Anonymous Says:

    to steve

    i use rooney for almost all games but he only scores 5 goals in 40 games..

  11. Anonymous Says:

    to vitaly i use this 4-1-4-1 formations :
    rooney
    nani ronaldo

    but i only got goal from ronaldo..
    please help me..

  12. Anonymous Says:

    can u plz put ur game on so we can all play it

  13. Steve Says:

    To anon, what player settings have u got for Rooney? And what season r u in? How old are ur players? Maybe rooney and ronaldo are getting old.

  14. Anonymous Says:

    to steve..

    i only play in 2009/10 seasons..

  15. Anonymous Says:

    hey vitaly using your 4-1-4-1 tactics i have been sack in manchester united only in my second seasons..

  16. Anonymous Says:

    CAN YOU PLEASE PUT YOUR GAME ON SO WE CAN PLAY IT

  17. Vitaliy Mokosiy Says:

    Anonymous,
    one of the two next posts will be about wonderkids in my game

  18. Vitaliy Mokosiy Says:

    SherrifFromIsraelFan,
    yes, the problems with one of advertisement partners was solved by rejecting from their ads at all :)
    But it costed me five days of waiting my site to be reviewed by Google and StopBadware.org

  19. Vitaliy Mokosiy Says:

    Anonymous,
    my game is unique one. I don't want to have it played by other people because I write about it to the blog. I can only share my game when Football Manager 2010 is released.

  20. Anonymous Says:

    Vitaly, can you not even post up your game 1-2 weeks before fm 10 release?

  21. Vitaliy Mokosiy Says:

    Ok, I will post my game when FM 2010 Demo (not the full game itself) is released

  22. Anonymous Says:

    Please u try Miguel Veloso The best midfielder in my team

  23. Anonymous Says:

    When does the demo come out

  24. Anonymous Says:

    What team do u support mate? And who do u prefer Celtic or Rangers

  25. roy Says:

    hi vitaliy,
    when we can vote for your team in FM 2010??? did u ever try italian team before???
    in my game there are a few coincident that really happen in real life. such as ancelotti go to chelsea in season 2009 / 2010, lorenzo de silvestri for fiorentina :D, Mello to juventus, zirkhov to chelsea & huntelaar to milan. it was fun eh... very dissapointing why i can't see kaka or CR7 go to madrid in my game.

  26. Vitaliy Mokosiy Says:

    Anonymous, I can't choose between Celtic and Rangers just because I am not a fan of any of these teams

  27. Vitaliy Mokosiy Says:

    roy,
    nice case you described.

    Be patient about voting - I think it will be started in 1-2 weeks