Well Rodos season finally came to an end.
In the end what promised to be an amazing season went slightly flat albeit we were crowned League Champions.
With only a couple of games left, managed to grab a hard fought 1-0 win against CSKA Sofia to take the title Aidong Feng the 19 year old Chinese striker scored the decisive strike.
We lost our final league game to our rivals APOEL FC 1-0 away, which wasn’t the greatest finale to our season after the recent weeks previous, however the job was done previously, so ended up 3 points ahead of Galatasary in the end.
Played Galatasary in the final of the ESL Cup, was a very entertaining game in the end, although ended in heartbreak.
We managed to get ourselves 3-2 up, however with only a few minutes left Miralles managed to equalise with a sliding shot after a fracas in the box. And deep into injury time Gala managed to snatch a winner which was hard to take. Having already sampled Burak Yilmaz earlier in the season, it was apparent that this guy is going to be a royal pain in the arse to my team. Was instrumental in the win with goals and assists galore.
We then went into the UEFA Cup, after having came from 5-1 down in the 1st leg away to Monaco, we managed somehow to grab a 4-0 win in the return to cap a great fightback, then managed to get past Valencia in the semis after a tough couple of games 5-4 aggregate score. This led us onto Inter Milan, however Inter proved way to strong for us and defeated us quite easily with a 3-1 scoreline in the end.
So in the end, it was a very disappointing outcome in the cup games, however league success was at least a good point, but we had fell apart at the end of the season after that 1-0 win against Sofia to clinch the title, but followed that with 3 defeats in ESL Cup Final, Europa League Final and our final game away to APOEL our rivals.
We also played in Francesco Totti’s testimonial which ended 0-0.
That took us onto season 2. Many transfer have been done and even sold some of the players bought in our first season such as Ninis, Feng, let Nakazawa leave in a swap, however did bring in Cerci, Vyntra and Gervinho to add some experience to the squad. Also brought in a few other young additions to the squad.
First up was the ESL Super Cup against Gala, however we seemed to carry out end of season into our new season and once against superman Burak murdered us, 5-1. I dread to think what a Messi, Neymar or Ronaldo will do to us, if this is what Burak Yilmaz is capable of.
Now we need to hope that a few team changes will bring us better fortune as the season starts proper.
FD