Subject: Cup Matches

Lumen wins 2-1 in OT ... one injury of best MID ... 21 days...

Opponent suffered two injuries and two yellows.

Wonder who is next opponent?

Enforcers win 1-0 over Lokomotiv United, shutting down Lucas Carmichael, even with a red card in the 31st to one of my NT defenders.

New York Cosmos defeat Aguilas son Campeones 2-0 in a battle of B squads.

Good match Vondocha. I tell you what your #11 Bujok guy, he's pretty nasty on the ball.

My main player got reinjured, for the damn 3rd time in a row.

In about 90 normal days, he has played like, maybe a match and a half without gettin injured.

this cup season is amazing...only 1 ML team remained.... what's going on...

Yeah, but the one cup team is KY, by far the most experienced. Now we'll see if he decides to throw away the league (he still could contend), throw away training, or throw away the cup. It's impossible for him to do all 3 any more with the competition level.

I NEVER try to win Cup matches. Training is more important to me, and I'm not willing to risk a-team starters on a meaningless Cup match, esp when I'm trying to finish top-4 in the ML.

I hear that. I've made it this far with a B squad. Only advantage I have is I don't actually have A and B strikers. All 4 play every game half-time.

So although my defenders and mid are backups (or out of position players for training purposes), my strikers are good.

LOL! I drew the Kentucky Cats.

WTF is with that? :(

Kiind of ridiculous to call cup games meaningless. Increased supporter mood, increased gate income.

Now, you can justify saying "I don't prioritize the cup because I don't have the staff to win it," but you can't say it's meaningless.

well he was slightly injured and he has only weak striking........lol

i'll see you in the friendly league.....I demand a rematch :D
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1) I have the staff to win it. I point out that I'm currently #1 in the ML (until next week....)
2) My supporters mood is maxed out anyway.
3) The $$ is meaningless for my team. That doesn't mean it is meaningless for any other one.

That said, even when I was poor, I NEVER played a-team players I needed to win league games in a Cup match. Why risk an injury for one or two more rounds in the Cup, when a critical loss of a starter could permanently affect the team (e.g. lose a chance to promote and/or have an injury force a demotion)?

You are right about "the money is meaningless".

even the 250K prize is not enough to put roofs on my stadium. If the prize was 1 million, the cup would be a lot more interesting.

THEN I'd play my a-team.

his tech is good though...right?

Thats what I meant by 'on the ball'.
I know he's normally a wing mid for you.

it's all a matter of priorities. I go by the training rule. If a player needs training, he'll play in the Cup opponent regardless.

I don't have a choice with my striking really. I have 4 pretty equal strikers. Defensively I've been training defense this first half of the season, and squeezing a pop out of my defenders by putting them in the back mid. Great defensively, but they are pretty lousy on the ball :)
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