foreigner

Our defence is as useless as it gets. Our keeper Payer is rubbish at dealing with crosses and is not able to command his six-yard box while our full-backs Dober and Katzer are probably the slowest defenders you have ever seen in your entire life (and believe me, I watch a lot of footy). We have signed a new centre-back yesterday, 29-yo Norwegian Ragnvald Soma who is considered to be our new leader at the back, but I'm yet to be entirely convinced he'll help us immediately. With most of our centre-backs being utter rubbish he'll have to make an impact if we want to have any chance at all though. Our main strength is midfield. The key are the tactics, whenever everyone's fit we play something like a 4-1-3-2 formation with our skipper Hofmann (most influential player, our game is built around his abilities), Boskovic (Montenegrinian international who is just back from injury) and one of Kavlak/Trimmel/Drazan on the left. Over the last couple of games our manager has decided to choose a more traditional 4-4-2 approach, and unfortunately the central midfielders in this system (Heikkinen and young Austrian Pehlivan) are quite immobile and absolutely useless going forward. Our main chance IMHO will be to attack you, because we don't have enough quality to match your attacking threat; But our attacking department could cause your defence some problems, especially if Drazan and/or Trimmel play. They are extremely paceful players, basically the opposite of our full-backs. In the end we'll only have a chance to progress if we play you off the park at home. I don't see any hope in hell away from home, especially considering our abysmal performance away at Cyprus in the last round. Horrible to watch, if this is anything to go by you'll probably beat us 5-0 at Villa Park.