retired_blondie_524

good read :thup:

KUTGW

Davey

Cheers lads, I'm going to see if I can get some screenshots up at some point too.

Davey

| Pos | Inf | Team | | Pld | Won | Drn | Lst | For | Ag | G.D. | Pts |
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| 1st | | Universidad Católica | | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 18 |
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| 2nd | | Everton (CHI) | | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 18 |
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| 3rd | | Colo Colo | | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | +11 | 17 |
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| 4th | | Unión San Felipe | | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 11 | +5 | 15 |
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| 5th | | Cobreloa | | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 14 |
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| 6th | | Unión Española | | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 14 |
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| 7th | | Huachipato | | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 13 |
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| 8th | | Santiago Wanderers | | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | +3 | 11 |
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| 9th | | Coquimbo Unido | | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 11 |
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| 10th | | Cobresal | | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 11 |
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| 11th | | La Serena | | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 11 |
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| 12th | | Concepción | | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 21 | -4 | 11 |
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| 13th | | Universidad de Chile | | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 13 | +2 | 10 |
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| 14th | | Palestino | | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 15 | -1 | 10 |
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| 15th | | Universidad de Concepción | | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 8 |
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| 16th | | Rangers (CHI) | | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 16 | -2 | 8 |
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| 17th | | Temuco | | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 17 | -6 | 7 |
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| 18th | | Audax Italiano | | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -8 | 4 |
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| 19th | | Puerto Montt | | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 20 | -10 | 4 |
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| 20th | | Melipilla | | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 20 | -16 | 3 |
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Davey

Union San Felipe, notice how our media prediction has recently changed!

That historic night earlier in the season at Municipal de San Felipe!

Davey

Omar Riquelme becomes my first signing since joining Union San Felipe. A late call from his representitives confirms that he will offically join us from Union Espinola when the tranfer window re-opens in July.

Despite not lacking in the left back area, I feel Omar has great talent and by bringing him in we are ensuring that we will have a quality left back for many seasons.

Due the clubs limited finances, any attempt to make Fierro's loan permanent will now have to wait until the end of the season.

As far as other potential signings are concerend, we are keeping a close eye on striker Paul Cominges who plays for Atletico Universidad in Peru. With the Peruvian season kicking off this week it will be interesting to see how he does.

Any move for him though is still some way off but I fear our current forwards do not have enough about them to ensure we can maintain the same sort of form throughout the rest of the season.

Davey

Despite last night's delight at signing Riquelme we needed to focus on todays game with La Serena.

I decided to start with 4-4-2 which would allow Reyes someone to play alongside. I droped Fierro to the bench, as he had played almost every minute of our season so far from the left wing. He was replaced with our second choice striker Amijo who has mainly been restricted to late subsitute appearances. I would also allow me to put the young Sebastion Calderon on the bench and hopefully give him a run out. He hadn't featured for us since our defeat at Universidad Catolica.

We started well and in front our biggest crowd to date (4,115) we went ahead with a goal from Reyes early in the first half, and Reyes again doubled his tally with a neat finish from a cross coming in from the right.

The second half saw us lose some of the dominace we had during the first 45 minutes but La Serena were lacking quality up front as they were unable to manage a shot on target in the entire game.

Our second consecutive 2-0 win saw us rise to third in the league table but still some way off undefeated Colo Colo, we're definatly making progress though and despite my growing fears about the strength we have up front we're scoring goals and not conceeding either. Our place in the next round of the league looks secure as we have built up a 7 point game over third placed Rangers in our sub-group, we will surely qualify unless something drastic happens.

The TV cameras will be at Municipal de San Felipe for our next game in six days time against Santiago outfit Union Espinola. Espinola arrive at San Felipe having won their last two matches and it also appears that Omar Riquelme has been promoted from the U20's to the senior squad.

Davey

Alot of news this week as the build to the Union Espinola game continues.

Unfortunatly ever present goalkeeper is ruled out for 2-4 weeks with a pulled hamstring, 23 year old reserve keeper Gonzalo Mancilla will deputise.

Union Espanola manager Fernando Carvalho has spoken to the media warning us that we have to beat the big teams if we're to continue our winning run. I then warned him saying we'd do whatever it takes to beat them.

It was a big enough game for us already but with the hype thats gone on this week, there seems to be even more at stake.

On the transfer front, Paul Cominges, the Peruvian striker we having been watching has demanded to move to a bigger club. I immeadiatly declared my interest in him and made the best bid we could possible make of around £100,000. His club have to told him to stay put but Cominges has refused to back down. Several clubs are now monitoring the situation and Deportivo Wanka and San Jose Earthquakes have also made firm bids for him. Both of which are stronger than ours.

It appears that we will lose out on him now and I will have to look elsewhere.

Davey

The game with Union Espanola turned out to be just as difficult as expected and in front of a healthy crowd of 4089 both teams were happy to take a point each as the game finished 1-1.

We reverted back to our 4-5-1 for this one, particularly to strengthen our midfield with the knowledge that the brilliant AMC Sierra would be playing for Espanola. The first half was very tight and both teams were edgy and were restricted to half chances. This was until the end of the first half where our deputy keeper Mancilla was forced to pull of some fantastic reaction saves. At half time I was happy to be going in level.

The second half began the same as the first with neither team looking to take the lead, this was until a cross from the far side was headed in by a Union Espanola forward giving them the lead.

The goal they scored was probably the best thing that happened to us as from then on, we dominated possesion pinning Espanola right back into their own half for long periods. AMC Celedon came off for AMC/FC Luiz Nunez who was making just his second appearance due to injury and we reverted to a more attacking 4-4-2. The Nunez subsitution worked a treat as he should from a tight angle with the ball clipping their defender as it went past the line! 1-1 all even!!

We continued to stamp our authority on the game as Union Espanola made changes in an attempt to freshen up their side. This failed to work and after using all the subs, one of the players they brought on got himself injured meaning they'd have to play out the last 10 mins with 10 men. We attacked more and more but couldn't break down their reslient defence and the game finished 1-1.

I told the players I was very pleased with the result, particularly as we dominated the game for such a long time. This was the game which would tell us how far we've come. Espanola are a very good side and I felt we more than matched them.

As I was speaking to the players after the game, I was given an urgent message to speak to Rodrigo Oliver (our chairman) straight away. I left the dressing room and went up to his office where he told me he'd just recieved news from Peru where Atletico Universidad had agreed to accept Paul Cominges transfer request and the bid we had put in had been accepted. We contacted Cominges' representitives and offered him a deal. Atletico Universidad have already accepted offers from several clubs, and we really stand an outside chance of getting him. I have a gut feeling he will join San Jose but you never know.

Next up on our fixture list see's us vist Universidad de Concepcion. Having lost six out of their ten games and only winning two, we will be fully expecting to bring back 3 points to San Felipe.

Davey

All the hope leading up to this week was for nothing...

Whilest Paul Cominges agreed to join another Peruvian club, Deportivo Municipal, we travelled to Concepcion in high spirits for us to come away with nothing...

We played quite well, and sometimes freak games like this come up and you can't do much about them. Defensivley it was the poorest we've been all season. We conceed 5 goals to lose the match 5-4.

We started with 4-4-2 with Reyes and Nunez up front and it was looking to pay divendends when we went 2-0 with a goal from each of them within only 13 mins. I felt we were well on our way to victory and another goal would garuntee us the points. Whoever an unlucky own goal by Ahumada then a defensive lapse again from Ahumada made it 2-2. Unversidad de Concepcion were flying! Young, Juan Pablo Areanas then put us 3-2 at the break with a header.

At half time despite regaining the lead things weren't right. Our most highly valued player and ever present, MRC Nelson San Martin was looking out of sorts and we looked anything but solid at the back.

We started off well after the break with Luiz Nunez netting his second to cushion our lead to 4-2 but Universidad refused to sit back and pulled two goals back in the space of five minutes leaving it 4-4. We attacked the game even more and despite having a goal by Reyes ruled out, we just couldnt get the ball into the back of the net. As we pushed further and further for the winner, Universidad too were feeling confident and changed to a 4-2-4. This was to cost us and a break away resulted in a fantastic lob over our keeper to put them 4-3 ahead! Worse still, the striker who scored it is someone we're looking at perhaps bringing in.

In my post-match interview I wanted to make it clear to their manager, Oscar Meneses that we had no grudges with the defeat. They refused to back down and were brave enough to stand and match us, and they got rewarded for it.

Disappointingly the result had a drastic effect on our league standing, dropping down to 8th place! Our sub-group is looking ok but we need to be careful as we are 2nd place, 5 points ahead of Rangers.

A visit to the city of Talcahuano is next up, in what will be a very difficult match against 6th place Huachipatp in front of the TV cameras. We can't afford to slip up again.

enjikari

This is a brilliant start

Keep it up mate :thup: