Okay, let's start with the Europa League 2, we were drawn in a easy group with Vitesse, Rostov and AGF.
It was quite an easy group and as to be expected, we eased through it and finished top, thanks to a 3-1 victory away at Rostov.
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We were drawn with OB, who we also got past comfortably, beating them 7-3 on aggregate, but let's see how we did after that.
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SO SO CLOSE to our first European final, the second leg against Ajax was easily one of the best matches I've been in charge of on Football manager. The first leg, we were a bit tired - this summer, I will be buying a few quality squad players and lost 1-0 late on due to a late goal by David Neres. Danny Van De Beek got an early goal in the 2nd leg and I thought that would be that, but we weathered the storm. I went 4-2-4 and we got two late goals to put us through to the semi-final where we faced Hertha Berlin.
Once again, the damage was done in the first leg, we were the better team, they scored 2 goals from only 3 on target and we couldn't put away the rest of our chances. We scored in the first half of the 2nd leg, but we just couldn't get that crucial 2nd. Hertha Berlin went through, and lost to Arsenal on penalties in the final.
Okay time for the Scottish Cup
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A brilliant run, including even beating Hearts which was one of the key things I wanted to do this season. We were drawn to play Rangers in the final, a little bit harder than our last final against Hamilton, but fingers crossed we can do just as good against them...
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Completely and utterly dominant, absolutely everything came together perfectly, and shows that we are finally developing the right blend at the club. This means that it is our 4th cup that we've won since my time at the club. In the coming years we need to add a league title, or you never know even a European title, but we are fast becoming one of the best teams in Scotland.
I am not going to do an update on our league form after the split, because to put it bluntly, there's no point, we lost to Celtic in the first game of the split, meaning we had no chance of a league title or finishing second, we had fourth wrapped up and you get the same thing for finishing 3rd as 4th so I rested my players for our final Europa Cup games and for the final of the Cup final.
So long story short, we lost 4 of our last 5 games, and drew 1 of them, against Ross County and we stayed 4th, but we won a cup, got to the semi-finals of the Europa League, and we finished with 2 more points than we did last season. So a really good season all in all.
It was quite an easy group and as to be expected, we eased through it and finished top, thanks to a 3-1 victory away at Rostov.
We were drawn with OB, who we also got past comfortably, beating them 7-3 on aggregate, but let's see how we did after that.
SO SO CLOSE to our first European final, the second leg against Ajax was easily one of the best matches I've been in charge of on Football manager. The first leg, we were a bit tired - this summer, I will be buying a few quality squad players and lost 1-0 late on due to a late goal by David Neres. Danny Van De Beek got an early goal in the 2nd leg and I thought that would be that, but we weathered the storm. I went 4-2-4 and we got two late goals to put us through to the semi-final where we faced Hertha Berlin.
Once again, the damage was done in the first leg, we were the better team, they scored 2 goals from only 3 on target and we couldn't put away the rest of our chances. We scored in the first half of the 2nd leg, but we just couldn't get that crucial 2nd. Hertha Berlin went through, and lost to Arsenal on penalties in the final.
Okay time for the Scottish Cup
A brilliant run, including even beating Hearts which was one of the key things I wanted to do this season. We were drawn to play Rangers in the final, a little bit harder than our last final against Hamilton, but fingers crossed we can do just as good against them...
Completely and utterly dominant, absolutely everything came together perfectly, and shows that we are finally developing the right blend at the club. This means that it is our 4th cup that we've won since my time at the club. In the coming years we need to add a league title, or you never know even a European title, but we are fast becoming one of the best teams in Scotland.
I am not going to do an update on our league form after the split, because to put it bluntly, there's no point, we lost to Celtic in the first game of the split, meaning we had no chance of a league title or finishing second, we had fourth wrapped up and you get the same thing for finishing 3rd as 4th so I rested my players for our final Europa Cup games and for the final of the Cup final.
So long story short, we lost 4 of our last 5 games, and drew 1 of them, against Ross County and we stayed 4th, but we won a cup, got to the semi-finals of the Europa League, and we finished with 2 more points than we did last season. So a really good season all in all.
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