FM16 #3 (LFC)

Going for the top #3

Another two months has been and finally we've found some stability in our way for play. I've found my starting eleven although we rotate a lot because of the many great players in the squad. 

I'm playing an untraditional 4-2-3-1 with a midfielder played on the defensive position as the anchor man. We've got an attacking mentality - we are way better in our offense than our defensive if you only look on the players we've got. Therefore we would like to pressure the opponent at their half of the pitch and get the ball back quickly. I'm playing Sturridge in front. Coutinho at AML as an inside forward. Lallana on the AMR also as an inside forward. Firmino play's as the advanced playmaker on the attacking midfield. When rotating i play Sturridge on the AMR and Benteke in front - and with Danny Ings as the shadow striker right behind Benteke.

The first match in November was against Villarreal to whom we lost last time. With a win we were really close to qualify for the next round in the Euro Cup. Jordan scored after only nine minutes giving us a great start. Firmino got a penalty after 60 minutes. Firmino himself took the penalty and scored. With four minutes left Villarreal scored and pressured us for the last minutes. We held them back and won the game.

Next up we got a draw in the Premier League against Tottenham and won against Everton.

Back in the Euro Cup we was about to play against Rapid Wien who I though was the weakest opponent. We lost but qualified for the next round. The last game would determine if we would win the group or not.

Newcastle was next. We won 2-1 after being behind early in the game. This was followed up by a Capital One Cup match against Manchester City. We played a lot of reserves and lost. I wasn't sad about loosing this match - now we were able to focus on Premier League and the Euro Cup.

In the next match we were up against Aston Villa at Villa Park. We won this with Sturridge scoring two important goals. 

Now we had to play the last game of the group stage in the Euro Cup. We were put up against Bordeaux who had nothing to play for. We won this 2-0 with goals by Lallana and Benteke. 

With this win we won the group and was looking forward to see who would be our next opponent.

We continued our winning streak against West Ham with a 3-0. Goals by Lallana, Sturridge and Ings.

Southampton resisted in the following match. We only got one point getting a 1-1 result. Southampton equalized in the last minute. 

After that we played against Swansea. Sturridge scored after five minutes and Firmino scored after nine minutes. Moreno gave us a third goal after 42 minutes. At half time we made some substitutions. We took off Sturridge and Jordon Ibe and put on Andrija Zivkovic and Danny Ings.

Going out unto the second half we where sure this was already a win. But Swansea had other ideas! Paloschi scored almost right after the referee starting the half. He did i again only nine minutes later!

We've totally lost control of the match a this point. I took off Lucas Leiva and put on Joe Allen so that we could take the ball and hold it. We made it and won 3-2.

The following two matches we got a draw against both Leicester and Swansea.

All in all some great months where we both won our Euro Cup group and played ourself further up in the league. In the Euro Cup we were put up against Lokomovic Moscow starting at their home ground.