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HullSecond season started
I have just completed the first quarter of the 2nd season. As I suspected the season start turned out rather complicated. The main reason is, of course, the squad revolution organized by me during summer transfer window. So as a result my Leeds is at the 9th position after 13 fixtures:
Matches
Two first matches were quite optimistic and I start thinking that if we can win game against Burnley than we can promote to the Premier League.
But it appeared that it’s not easy task at all. 3 next matches (MK Dons, Portsmouth, Scunthorpe) cooled my heat and sudden dreams.
Then there was totally dramatic League Cup 2nd round:
We equalized at the last minute by means of Troest’s promptness during corner. Then Watford took lead at 105th minute but another Leeds newbie Oscar Trejo manage to score twice in the very end of the extra time!
Unfortunately we couldn’t do the same in the next round against Charlton. This time opponent won with 3:2 score after extra time… 
This match was in the middle of our poor run that started on 14.09.2010 and finished in the beginning of October. 3 draws and 2 losses in 5 matches… After that I decided to improve my 3-5-2 tactics and got 3 brilliant wins against Bristol City, Ipswich and Newcastle.
Changed tactics
Well, you see I started to use non-central tactical approach! It’s not a common thing for me. I tried non-central formations only once or twice. And it was long ago – when the game was named Championship Manager.
Don’t want to talk a lot about this tactics now because I am going to describe it completely in the next post.
Players
Most of the new players live up to my expectations actually. Here are the best players of the team sorted by rating:
Regarding Jermaine Beckford I can say that his skills are not enough for the Championship…
The very best one is certainly Polish striker – Dawid Janczyk. I didn’t expect such kind of performance from him. 9 goals in 6 matches after his injury at the season start! Fantastic! I believe he will become new attack leader of Leeds United. Look at his attributes and stats:
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iv been waiting for this vitaliy thank you very much.. i am a HUGE fan of your blog...dawid janczk great player.. could you take a look at my blog if u have a chance?? thanks:):):):):):):):):):):)
How about oscar Trejo? He seems quite good aswell? Are He's States good?
Janczyk FTW! I'm really suprised with his performance, because anytime I played FM he was totally crap. Oscar Trejo also seems a good attacker. What happened to Beckford?
BTW. EURO 2012 logo is rubbish!
not bad start m8. why do u play tht tatic seems werid? :S
Forest is leading! :)
I won the Championship with them in my first season!
Great start. Shame about Beckford though it is good to see Janczyk doing so well. Keep it up!
Hi, I have to say Im a big fan of your site...by far the best there is for Football Manager. You kind of inspired me to start my own blog. I'd greatly appreciate it if you would take a look and give me any feedback its http://allthatisfootballmanager.blogspot.com/
vitaliy wot is your game speed? because mine is only half a star so runs pretty slow.. its porbably because of all the pics and logos u made me put on the game!! haha.. how cud i make the game faster? safee
you'll get to playoffs,no worries ;)
Hi, im a big fan of the blog just wondering if you could tell me what your best starting eleven is
Thanks:)
Hi mate, really enjoying your blogging I am comparing it to my own results.
In my 2nd season with Leeds, didn't win League 1 with league but was 2nd, so got promotion to the Championship.
I'm doing well, 25 games played 50 points, 2nd in the championship with 1 game in hand.
My top player is Roy Makaay with 21 goals in 27 games, so i'm very pleased with that.
Also just read about your comment on Jermaine Beckford, and for me, 16 games I had him on the bench, because i made the signing of Nwankwo Kanu and I thought he'd create and score more goals.
However beckford started scoring goals off the bench so I've changed there positions and got Beckford into the first team to see how he'd fair.
He's bagged 6 goals in 10 games which isn't too bad, I don't know if he'll be able to keep it up though.
Anyways keep it up mate, you've been a real help.
... just 4 points behind forest
it's nothing, you just need to find tactics that will work for you and you'll get up in no time
cheers from a long time reader from croatia!
hi im getting fm2010 in a few days and i was wondering if you could tell me what you did wrong like if you thought someone you bought was a waste of money so that whem i started as leeds i wouldnt make the mistake of buying that person than thanks
please could you tell me what your best starting eleven is thanks
check out my blog PLEASE PLEASE. leave a comment. :)
http://wroo10-footballmanager2010.blogspot.com/
Hi i am a big fan of ur blog ^^ keep it up.
I have a question regarding selling of players. i usually sell them by offering to clubs but sometimes there are no interest from them so how can u sell them off?
WROO10,
I looked at your blog and answered here about it
Anonymous,
Trejo is good quick but somewhat unstable forward. Though he is definetely better than Jermain Beckford!
Tomek,
I don't agree about Euro-2012 logo. It's pretty! :)
Beckford is on substitution bench because he missed huge amount of moments during last matches...
joeb93,
I will try to explain you and others in the next post that will be regarding this tactics
Anonymous,
I have half of star as well. But it doesn't influence on game speed actually. Only poor graphics - because I have integrated video card in my laptop. But game speed is high because of good modern Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU and 3GB of memory in my Sony Vaio :)
Anonymous,
I would like to get to the Premier League without nervous playoffs ;)
Anonymous,
my best 11:
GK - Walker
DC - Hubnik
DC - Troest
DC - Prieto
ML - Johnson
MLC - Teicou
MC - Basturk
MRC - Howson
AMR - Giuliano
FC - Janczyk
FC - Trejo
Good start vitaliy I am sure u will be in the premiership before long. Please can u check out my blog as it was yours that inspired me to make my own. Laxeyman-wwwfmtruelfc.com
Well done Vitaliy. Now u can check out my blog, for some reason the link doesn't work, but it works now.
Vitaliy Good Job i just won championship and lost in FA Cup from Chelsea (i was lucky to come till the final) with 50 mil that i had i make a perfect team that im having a lot success into Premiership !
So plz Take a Look to my Favorite 11:
1 - Lung jr. GK
2 - Naughton RB
3 - Radzkov CB
4 - M.Silvestre LB
5 - Sandro tooked him for 15 mil :O
6 - Micheal Johnson 5 mil
7 - Simao its very good DM
8 - Fabian Delph 9 mil i just like him
9 - Marco Verrati or Hosni Abd Rabo
( i had them from the start)
10- Etuhu or Anichebe ( for free )
11- Jermaine Beckford he is doning pretty good in Premiership xD
Hello vitaliy on si games someone had posted your football manager 2009 tactic which I have just found and was very good for me.
So do you have a date that you are going to realise your tactic, thank you very much.
hy,meybe you can sign Dudu in next transferd period..18 years old,AMR,
brazilian school..great player
and defederico also
why does it take long for you to become manager of a national after you accepted the contract ?
Janczyk is a great striker, had him once in FM 2008 and he was awesome. Just wanting to let everyone know, i got Iker Muniain from Athletic for 500k at the 3rd season, and for a great cheap, premier division class and also an Englishman goalkeeper, get Alex Smithies, he's awesome even though his stats don't show that
Beckford is doing good in Championship too, scored 19 goals in 30 matches for me.
Won CCL1 with 11 points first year, then Championship with 7 points and now I'm at place 8 in Premier League.
Still using a few of the original Leeds players, Snoddgrass had most assists in Championship last year, Kisnorbo has 7.14 after 18 Premier League matches and Jonathan Howson is my captain.
Marcus,
Beckford scored 7 goals and made 7 assists after 15(10) matches in the Championship in my game. At the current moment
i started off wit leeds too, came 2nd in league 1 first season, 2nd in championship 2nd season, 16th in premiership, 12th followin an this season i expect to qualify for europe. got good players like gignac, vela, vagner love, alex pearce.