EURO Cup success !

What great progress! We managed to achieve something I had little hope of doing. We tied a  contested leg 1 game. We started it with a lead, which we eventually lost. This first game did however give me a sense that we had a chance of moving to the next round.

Following this, we played a league game against Kyiv, which despite our victory, proved challenging, ending with a late goal by Busic. It was hard work, but this was our first league win this season and actually our first league goal as well.

Finally, a major game we need a result. Partizan started the game with the advantage that a goaless game would favor them. We went in with our traditional 4-4-2 formation instead of the 4132 I had used in the previous game. This allowed us a good early goal from Defederico. Partizan managed to tie the game halfway. Both teams ended up scoring again, and despite our lack of dominace during this match, we managed to hold a draw which gave us the away goal advantage, enough to reward us with the 1.8M prize, and the spot on the next round of the EURO Cup.