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Tuesday 13th January 2037

Viking (Initial) Eliteserien Squad Registration

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It always amazes me that we have to do an Eliteserien Registration this early, almost three months before the league campaign kicks-off.

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Thursday 15th January 2037

Hødd (OBOS-ligaen) v Viking (Eliteserien)

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It's always nice to return to my former stomping ground, Høddvoll.

The objective today was to give 22 Viking players 45 minutes each and we did that without picking up any injuries.

We also looked comfortable throughout and we're pleased with the win.

I wish Hødd all the best for the season as they attempt to bounce back to Eliteserien at the first attempt.

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Saturday 17th January 2037

Voss (Tier 5) v Viking XI (Eliteserien)

Friendly

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I love bringing my teams to Voss, it's a beautiful place. Although it made a nice change to play at Prestegardsmoen Olabanen with no snow on the pitch for once.

We picked a very young team and they gave a great account of themselves against Voss.

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Sunday 18th January 2037

FC Charlotte Sign Austbø

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Edvin Austbø has been a fantastic player and servant to Viking but with the emergence of Ola Johannes Kleppa Christensen last season, and the new signing of Vegard Olstad, sadly, I didn't see Edvin getting much playing time this season.

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Preview - Napoli (away)

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It will be a few more weeks before Bill Freeman is ready to return to training.

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We've played Napoli once before during my time at Viking and gained a narrow victory back in 2031 in our SR-Bank Arena.

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This time we're away and it will be much tougher in the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.

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The style of play has been very successful for us in recent seasons but, with a lot of new players, the challenge will be to integrate them into this way of playing.

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Tuesday 20th January 2037

Napoli (Italy) v Viking (Norway)

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We had six debutants today, four starting, two off the bench, but Anders Hartveit Ryste set the marker out today to show them how we want Viking to play.

It was a frustrating game. Napoli pressed us from the kick-off and we struggled to keep hold of the ball when we had possession.

Napoli scored in the first minute and it was uphill after that.

But we settled into the game and did much better after the break.

Unfortunately, despite an improved second half performance, Napoli doubled their lead on 58 minutes, but Anders Hartveit Ryste pulled one back five minutes later and that gave us belief.

By 68 minutes we had all our substitutes on, changed our shape slightly with wingers, rather than inverted wingers, went with more of an Attacking mentality, and I thought we were the better team in the last 20 plus minutes.

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Anders Hartveit Ryste equalised and we had chances to win it but it wasn't to be as Napoli scored a very late winner.

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It's fine margins. In added-on time, Yordan Valeria made a fine save to deny Anders Hartveit Ryste his hat-trick, a third goal that would've won the match and then Napoli score the winner at the other end.

Maybe at 2-2 I should've gone back to Balanced but we were in the ascendancy playing Attacking and I wanted to win the match.

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Faniel Tewelde will have better games. We play with inverted wingers, but Faniel prefers to play as a winger, so that may be something we need to think about.

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We knew what we were getting when we signed Alf Erik Frafjord and he showed glimpses of that tonight.

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Rolf Jøran Stavang came on in the first half when Håvard Vestmoen got injured and Rolf Jøran definitely made an impression with his performance.

We have one League Path match left away to RB Leipzig and, unfortunately, we can no longder qualify automatically for the Round of 16 and we still need a point to guarantee our Playoff spot.

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Tuesday 20th January 2037

Champions League Registration Issues

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Unfortunately, because of a shortage of Homegrown Club players over 21, we've been unable to register a full 25 senior players and are two short.

A situation that will be exacerbated when Bill Freeman (hip) is available again.

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Wednesday 21st January 2037

Milan Sign Blok

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It's a shame we didn't get to see Stefan Blok in a Viking shirt but, with the good Norwegian centre-backs we have at this club, including young Benjamin Fabian Vold, this was too good an opportunity to stand in Stefan's way.

And the £10 million  will come in very handy as well.

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Preview - RB Leipzig (away)

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This was one that my Director of Football, Erik Nevland, was looking into but, when it came time to approve the deal, I decided not to.

To be honest, this one had snuck under my radar as I'd missed the emails. If I'd seen them, I would've pulled the plug earliser.

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We've played RB Leipzig once before, a goalless draw back in 2031.

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It won't be easy in the RB Arena, but we go there knowing we need at least a point to guarantee our Playoff spot.

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Tuesday 27th January 2037

RB Leipzig (Germany) v Viking (Norway)

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It was a phenomenal strike from long-range, a stunning goal by Tinius Sundell.

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We wanted to come to the RB Arena and win to clinch our Playoff place.

We did that and then some.

I'm so proud of this team.

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1 hour ago, Hootieleece said:

Good work so far in the Champion's League

Thank you, @Hootieleece

1 hour ago, Hootieleece said:

Who knew being Norway manager would help Viking so much on that front.

I'm not sure that has anything to do with it... all we've done so far is reach the Champions League Round of 16 Playoff and we historically struggle to progress to the actual Round of 16.

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Sunday 1st February 2037

Episode 179 - Champions League Rd of 16 Playoffs AGAIN

"Backroom Staff Additions"

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Sunday 1st February 2037

Episode 179 - Champions League Rd of 16 Playoffs AGAIN

"Viking First Team Squad"

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Players Out on Loan

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Sunday 1st February 2037

Episode 179 - Champions League Rd of 16 Playoffs AGAIN

"One Out, Lots More Bids Rejected"

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Sunday 1st February 2037

Episode 179 - Champions League Rd of 16 Playoffs AGAIN

"Norway International Seyffarth to Join in July"

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Sunday 1st February 2037

Episode 179 - Champions League Rd of 16 Playoffs AGAIN

"Monthly Review"

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Sunday 1st February 2037

Episode 179 - Champions League Rd of 16 Playoffs AGAIN

"Norway - Monthly Review"

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Sunday 1st February 2037

Until Next Time...

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... when Viking play our two-legged Champions League Round of 16 Playoff, and...

... probably arrange a friendly or two.

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Viking's Month Fixtures

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Norway have no fixtures until March.

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Thoughts, comments, general feedback appreciated.

Any questions, just ask and I'll answer them if I can.

Thank you for reading and following... and I greatly appreciate the comments as that's what genuinely keeps me motivated to continue updating about this save.

Until next time...

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Friday 6th February 2037

Hønefoss (OBOS-ligaen) v Viking (Eliteserien)

Friendly

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Hønefoss were relegated from Eliteserien last season. We thought they'd give us a good challenge in their AKA Arena.

To be fair, we were outstanding today and blew Hønefoss away. On another day, we could easily have scored double figures.

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The plan was to give the starters an hour and then bring on 11 substitutes but a couple of first half knocks, plus a yellow card for Tinius Sundell, meant we made three changes at half time.

The rest of the subs came on after 53 and 59 minutes.

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Tuesday 10th February 2037

Hamarkameratene (OBOS-ligaen) v Viking (Eliteserien)

Friendly

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Hamarkameratene finished 3rd in OBOS-ligaen last season and lost out in the Eliteserien / OBOS-ligaen Playoff Final to Haugesund.

Like Hønefoss four days ago, we've arranged this friendly expecting a difficult match against Hamarkameratene in their Briskeby Stadion.

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Conditions were snowy when Hamarkameratene kicked-off in their Briskeby Stadion.

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As the light snow continued to fall, we took the lead on 14 minutes through Håvard Vestmoen.

But we didn't think it was a foul by Øyvind Bekkevold which gave Hamarkameratene a 29th minute equaliser from the penalty spot.

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Not long after that, Øyvind Bekkevold took a bang on his shin and we decided to nurse him through to the break, when we replaced him with Nguyen Cong Thanh who had only arrived at Viking earlier today.

We regained the lead on 54 minutes when Marcus Liabø volleyed the ball into the top corner from the D of the penalty area.

Shortly after, Benjamin Fabian Vold stretched our lead to two goals with an acrobatic, overhead kick at the far post from Kasper Jakbobsen's corner.

With 18 minutes to go, we sent on some of the young players from the Second Team.

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Wednesday 11th February 2037

Viking Add More Friendlies to their Pre-season Schedule

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Usually we wouldn't arrange this many Friendly Matches but, having signed so many players this off-season, we felt the extra games would help the team learn how to play with each other.

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Preview - Atletico Madrid (away)

UEFA Champions League Rd of 16 Playoff

First Leg

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Benjamin Thoresen Faraas is only just back in training after a spell out with injury and he won't feature tonight so, if Bradley Carnell is travelling to Madrid and the Estadio Metropolitano then he'll have a wasted journey.

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But Benjamin does have competition for places in that wide left area with Kasper Jakobsen, new signing Faniel Tewelde plus Nafu Seyffarth arriving in July so who knows what the future may hold.

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We haven't played Atletico Madrid during my time at Viking but any team who reaches this stage of the Champions League is a very good team.

We're expecting a very difficult challenge in the Estadio Metropolitano.

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That totally depends on the outcome of the first leg.

We have to make sure we're still in the tie by the time we get Atletico Madrid back to our SR-Bank Arena.

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Tuesday 17th February 2037

Atletico Madrid (Spain) v Viking (Norway)

UEFA Champions League Rd of 16 Playoff First Leg

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Once again we learnt a harsh Champions League lesson tonight. We have to take our chances because the opposition will, and Atletico Madrid certainly did.

I didn't think we deserved to be three-down, on the balance of play I'm not sure we deserved to be down at all, so we felt we deserved it on 90+3 minutes when Alf Erik Frafjord gave us a lifeline for the second leg, he intercepted the ball in Atletico's half, ran forward with it, then unleashed a shot from outside the penalty area that flew into the bottom corner. Deflection or not, it was a great goal.

We were aggrieved early on when Håvard Vestmoen was clean through only to be taken out from behind but the referee only awarded a yellow card, not a red card.

It was end-to-end and, unfortunately, Atletico Madrid scored first after 14 minutes.

Atletico then made it 2-0 seven minutes later, heading in a corner at the far post.

We kept going and caused Atletico problems, Joel Álvez made some fine saves and their defenders blocked and charged down a number of our efforts.

During the interval we encouraged the players, gave them belief, and we were much better after the break and were on top for long periods. We made Joel Álvez and the Atletico defenders work very hard, but we couldn't score.

On the hour mark, Costel Tilincă went down in the penalty area but the referee said no penalty.

And then three minutes later, totally against the second half run-of-play, Atletico scored a third goal.

Two goals down going into the second leg at our SR-Bank Arena, we're not out of it by any means but we'll need a real concerted effort by everybody to turn it around.

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7 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:

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Tuesday 17th February 2037

Atletico Madrid (Spain) v Viking (Norway)

UEFA Champions League Rd of 16 Playoff First Leg

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Once again we learnt a harsh Champions League lesson tonight. We have to take our chances because the opposition will, and Atletico Madrid certainly did.

I didn't think we deserved to be three-down, on the balance of play I'm not sure we deserved to be down at all, so we felt we deserved it on 90+3 minutes when Alf Erik Frafjord gave us a lifeline for the second leg, he intercepted the ball in Atletico's half, ran forward with it, then unleashed a shot from outside the penalty area that flew into the bottom corner. Deflection or not, it was a great goal.

We were aggrieved early on when Håvard Vestmoen was clean through only to be taken out from behind but the referee only awarded a yellow card, not a red card.

It was end-to-end and, unfortunately, Atletico Madrid scored first after 14 minutes.

Atletico then made it 2-0 seven minutes later, heading in a corner at the far post.

We kept going and caused Atletico problems, Joel Álvez made some fine saves and their defenders blocked and charged down a number of our efforts.

During the interval we encouraged the players, gave them belief, and we were much better after the break and were on top for long periods. We made Joel Álvez and the Atletico defenders work very hard, but we couldn't score.

On the hour mark, Costel Tilincă went down in the penalty area but the referee said no penalty.

And then three minutes later, totally against the second half run-of-play, Atletico scored a third goal.

Two goals down going into the second leg at our SR-Bank Arena, we're not out of it by any means but we'll need a real concerted effort by everybody to turn it around.

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I'm starting to wonder if when we get to the Playoff / Knockout Phase of the Champions League, whether we maybe need to be more circumspect (Balanced or Cautious) in the away leg, particularly when the first leg is away from home?

Instead of our usual Positive.

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We get away with it in Eliteserien and the League Path but the Champions League Round of 16 Playoff always seems to be a step too far.

Not that I'm throwing the towel in against Atletico Madrid, as we still have 90 minutes, possibly extra-time and penalties, to play in the second leg in our SR-Bank Arena.

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8 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:

we maybe need to be more circumspect

I've played almost the entirety of FM24 on a balanced mentality. Might go to positive if we're a goal down and 15' to play. We we become one of the best teams in Europe and facing parked buses all the time, I've often gone to positive but would usually drop back to balanced in European ties against big favourites.

Seems to work for me :thup:

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2 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

I'm starting to wonder if when we get to the Playoff / Knockout Phase of the Champions League, whether we maybe need to be more circumspect (Balanced or Cautious) in the away leg, particularly when the first leg is away from home?

Instead of our usual Positive.

It depends if you IR the match or play it. If the latter, just switch depending on the match state. If you IR, I'd tend to be more cautious in an away first leg if the opponent is tough.

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Stuni: "I have too many players, I need to sell"

Also Stuni: "Here's two players I've signed". :lol:

RE: European tactics, I'm in a similar boat with my Welsh team. I now regularly make the RO16, but fall to a 'traditional' big side. Playing Balanced/Defensive in the group stages seems to work for these games, but it's not quite as effective later on. Once I get back into playing again (I'd stopped to have a break before FM25) I've been toying with the idea of dropping players further back just for these games as a way of overcoming this hurdle (as obviously I can't buy my way into the latter stages regularly).

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1 hour ago, phnompenhandy said:

It depends if you IR the match or play it. If the latter, just switch depending on the match state. If you IR, I'd tend to be more cautious in an away first leg if the opponent is tough.

IR?

I watch the matches on Extended Highlights and will react as the match progresses, but I wonder if in these European away matches against BIG teams, whether we should start Balanced or Cautious, rather than Positive.

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1 minute ago, Stuniverse said:

IR?

I watch the matches on Extended Highlights and will react as the match progresses, but I wonder if in these European away matches against BIG teams, whether we should start Balanced or Cautious, rather than Positive.

The hints pop up tells you to start those games in balanced mode. I tend to start cautious, but that's because of the way my team is set up. I just made a big mistake in changing too much to face the league leaders away - one notch of mentality should have been enough.

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1 hour ago, BML said:

Stuni: "I have too many players, I need to sell"

Also Stuni: "Here's two players I've signed". :lol:

There's been a lot of INs and OUTs @BML... maybe too many :lol:

1 hour ago, BML said:

RE: European tactics, I'm in a similar boat with my Welsh team. I now regularly make the RO16, but fall to a 'traditional' big side. Playing Balanced/Defensive in the group stages seems to work for these games, but it's not quite as effective later on. Once I get back into playing again (I'd stopped to have a break before FM25) I've been toying with the idea of dropping players further back just for these games as a way of overcoming this hurdle (as obviously I can't buy my way into the latter stages regularly).

3 hours ago, warlock said:

I've played almost the entirety of FM24 on a balanced mentality. Might go to positive if we're a goal down and 15' to play. We we become one of the best teams in Europe and facing parked buses all the time, I've often gone to positive but would usually drop back to balanced in European ties against big favourites.

Seems to work for me :thup:

Yeah, Balanced may be worth a shot in future ties away from home.

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1 minute ago, phnompenhandy said:

The hints pop up tells you to start those games in balanced mode. I tend to start cautious, but that's because of the way my team is set up. I just made a big mistake in changing too much to face the league leaders away - one notch of mentality should have been enough.

Got you. Thanks @phnompenhandy

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4 hours ago, BML said:

Stuni: "I have too many players, I need to sell"

Also Stuni: "Here's two players I've signed". :lol:

 

3 hours ago, Stuniverse said:

There's been a lot of INs and OUTs @BML... maybe too many :lol:

One of the problems with the calendar season is that the January-April transfer window is recorded over two seasons:

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Preview - Atletico Madrid (home)

UEFA Champions League Rd of 16 Playoff Second Leg

(Atletico lead 3-1)

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We have to be honest, after losing the first leg 3-1 it's going to be an uphill task against Atletico Madrid.

But we'll give it our best shot and, with our wonderful de mørkeblå supporters behind us in our SR-Bank Arena, you never know...

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Bill Freeman is just back in training and will probably be on the bench just in case we need him.

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As will Benjamin Thoresen Faraas.

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