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HullIvory Coast in African Cup 2014
I was already reporting about African Cup 2012. That cup was won by my Ivory Coast team in the very hard final against Senegal. In 2014 another competition awaited national team I manage.
We had no problems at the group stage getting the first position in our group:
Then there were 2 confident victories against Togo (quarterfinal) and Cameroon (semifinal). But suddenly my guys were unable to overcome Nigeria in the final.
Look to the short report of the final:
Now look to the match stats:
Well you see Ivory Coast had some advantage in shots and possession. But it was very hard to implement that advantage.
“What is the secret of such poor accuracy of shots?”, you would probably ask. The main problem that caused the loss in the final is injuries. I had the following first squad players injured:
- Drogba
- Sanogo
- Salomon Kalou
- Baky Kone
All enumerated players are attacking ones and those who usually score most of goals in my team. So I had certainly weakened attacking line during matches of African Cup 2014.
That is the reason why Yaya Toure (MC) and Christian Romaric (AMC) were made to score goals with their power shots. As a result they became the best goals scorers of the tournament:
After the tournament Kolo Toure and Didier Drogba suddenly rejected from being captain and vice-captain… I choose my second main central defender Diomande and Romaric for this team roles.
P.S. By the way you probably have just paid attention at the members of my group in the upcoming World Cup 2014. Yes, Ivory Coast has a great group to pass through: Sweden, Iran and Columbia! Hope there will not be injury problem during the World Cup.
how to manage club and national team at the same time..
Very unlucky with injuries Vitaly. I hope that you do not get such an injury crisis in the world cup. I am looking forward to read about your Hull team as well.
Good Luck!!!
Unlucky with injuries. U would have won it if they had all been fit.
Hi all,
I have a problem with "Team Selection" for the second phase of the Champions League, I cannot continue my saved game :
- In the summer I'd selected 17 players for the group phase (8 places remained free for "home-grown" players). The list contains 25 players.
- In february I should select only 20 players for the Final phases of UCL. I have already 17 players selected (from last summer) but no one is "home-grown" player. But now the rule is the same, 4 players should be "trained by club" and 8 "home-grown" players.
From my initial list of 17 players I can remove 3 players (this is "the rule") so I can select 6 "home-grown" players now but not 8 !!
I cannot continue the game because of this problem, can someone give me an advice ?
Vitalyi ? Anyone ?
PS Sorry for off-topic...
Anon
just go on holiday for a day and you skip past it.
Vitaliy, I have a problem. Have just gone into adminastration, with Liverpool. Any tips on what i should do?
Excuses Excuses you lost fair and square take it like a man
Syakir,
if you manage club, you can always apply for manager position of any national team being without manager.
Anonymous,
next post is going to be about Hull!
Anonymous,
yes, here was fine advice - just go on holiday
Steve,
what do you mean?
Vitaliy, I mean is there any way I can get out of administrastion?
Dear readers,
I removed banners from one advertisement partner supplying me with some malware. Now you have just wait a bit until my site is reviewed by Google. And then malware warning will disappear.
Vitaliy, why does it say on google that this site may harm your computer?
Go Iran in WC 2014!
You used to make a lot more posts in the past, now people have to wait 4-5 days for something new to be added here, too bad ...
Anon I agree with u. The posts used to come alot quicker.
mabe he is to busy :d
maybe I mean sorry