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errr. I posted this on my forum, but not a lot of people there are into Euro football games (Yanks).
So, I will post what I posted there, how I managed to not qualify in the group stage of the Champions Cup. One thing I am not sure of is the name of the Portugese club in the group with me. Anyways, here it goes my pain:
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So I started a game managing Juventus (Italy Serie A).
In Serie A play I am about halfway through the season with a commanding 10 point lead over the second place team. Barring a total collapse, I stand to win the league.
I placed third in the friendly cup after a disheartening loss to Barcelona.
In the Italian Cup I defeated Atalatan (sp?) to advance to the second round.
The real problem was in the Champions Cup. In the group stage I was matched up with Arsenal (England), SP Sporting (Portugal) and M. Haifa (Israel).
To start play I gained a resounding victory over the Israeli club. Next up was the Portugese whom I also defeated.
Third matchup in the group was Arsenal, the only team I considered a threat from stopping me from winning the group. First game was at Arsenal and my club came out on fire, jumping out to a 2-0 lead in front of the Arsenal home crowd. The half time score was still 2-0. The second half was a different story, by the 60th minute Arsenal had cut the lead to a single goal, 2-1, and then came back 10 minutes later to even the match.
In the 80th minute, Arsenal defender Ashley Cole beat the Juventus goalie with a 30 yard chip shot, which even I was impressed with. The clock ran out and Arsenal celebrated an amazing comeback victory over the favored Juventus club.
I was not pleased.
A couple weeks later we had our shot at revenge. Arsenal was now due to travel to Turin to take on my club. The game was different, but the results the same, Arsenal wins a hard fought defensive battle 1-0 to take a commanding lead in group F.
Sporting had passed me in the standings as well, so I now found myself in third in the group, needing to most likely win my last two games to have any hope of advancing out of the group stage.
Next up was M. Haifa, who I again outclassed 4-0 in Israel.
The final game was against Sporting. They were tied with Arsenal at 10 points a piece, I was sitting at 9 points. A victory over Sporting insured my qualification for the next round. A tie against sporting would leave me needing an M. Haifa upset of Arsenal to have any shot.
Arsenal was, of course, not upset.
But my club was playing well against Sporting, carrying a 1-0 lead late into the second half when a Sporting midfielder broke Juventus' heart with a chip shot goal (yet again). We couldn't rally and the game ended a tie.
The stunning upset was complete, Sporting grabbed a spot in the next round which almost everyone thought would go my way.
It was a bad setback, but now we just play through the Italian Cup (next opponent Milan) and hopefully continue to dominate Serie A.
05-02-2006, 10:01 PM
How Juventus choked Group F, Champions Cup Post #2
It could be classed as a short story, certainly better than a lot of the sh*te that has been posted in recent weeks, but probably would have been better in the anecdotes thread
05-02-2006, 11:30 PM
How Juventus choked Group F, Champions Cup Post #5
How Juventus choked Group F, Champions Cup 
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