The midway point of the 2019-20 season has been completed and it has going exactly how I expected it to. I’ve had great success domestically with MTK and struggled on the international scene with Hungary. I’ve been running the same formation with both MTK and Hungary. The difference is coming from a talent standpoint. We are head and shoulders the best team in the Hungarian Second Division. In our European Championship qualifier group, we are nowhere near the best team but our formation and style of play is bringing us closer to the top tier of the group even though it doesn’t show on the field.
European Qualifiers
The first three matches were simmed when the game was started. In real life, Hungary’s first two European qualifiers have the following results: 3-1 victory against Azerbaijan, and 1-0 victory over Wales. Six points from two matches before the save start date on June 21. In my save, Hungary took zero points from three matches. Under my management, we took seven points from five matches. Six of those seven points in victories over Azerbaijan, who were an absolute doormat. We claimed a 1-1 draw against Wales in a match that we completely dominated.
We outshot them. Dominated possession. But we walked out of the stadium with only a 1-1 draw and I looked it as two points lost instead of one point earned. We should have walked away with three points. In the end, it did not matter to the final table as we were locked into a fourth place finish after our poor start to the qualifying campaign.
Wales and Croatia advance to the 2020 European Championship. Azerbajian finished in last place with zero points and only three points scored. Slovakia took third place and Hungary took fourth place. With all that said, somebody needs to explain to me how the European Championship qualifiers work but I don’t understand how a fourth place finish in our qualifying group earned us a trip into the European Championship Qualifier Playoff against Poland.
Hungarian Second Division
The domestic scene has been a cakewalk. We’ve played twenty matches. Won fifteen matches and drew the other five. No losses. There were no games where we even in a position to lose the game. We are just that much better than everyone else in the division. I can pretty much roll the ball out and let them play. We could line up in just about any formation and win the game. As a result, there won’t be a lot of player discussion. That will come in later editions after I’ve grown some attachment to the players and done some scouting to bring in even better players that are currently on the roster.
We’ve got a 12-point/four-game lead over second place Kazincbarcika, which is one of our affiliate clubs. We have a 15-point/five-game lead over third place Szeged-GA. The top two teams get promoted into the top flight so we really just marking time until the P goes next to our name and then the C when we clinch the league title. Then, the save will swing into top gear.
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