Friendly Game: Chelsea FC vs Leeds United

[Admin]

Welcome to highlights of a game that's sure to give you an appetite for the forthcoming Ultimate League season, a friendly game between Chelsea FC and Leeds United here at Stamford Bridge. There was a very good turnout from the home fans who were seemingly eager to see new signing Cristiano Mendes in action, currently the highest paid player in world football so it's easy to see why there's so much hype and interest surrounding him. Their opponents tonight had a couple of new signings of their own to show off too, so this was all set to be an interesting game with plenty of players eager to impress.

1st minute: The game's only just kicked off here and there's a loose ball to deal with in the centre of the field, it's Ollie Roberts and Brian Potts gunning for it here.

Roberts pace of 5 +[dice=10]
Potts pace of 5 + [dice=10]
It's the Chelsea man who gets the first and passes it back to hs defence.

12th minute: It looks like the first chance of the game here, Mendes is absolutely storming forwards and running straight at the defence! The Leeds captain is coming across to attempt the tackle...

Mendes pace + dribbling + technique (27) + [dice=10]
Robinson pace + composure + tackling (19) + [dice=10]
It's a dead even battle between the two! Can Mendes get a shot in?

Mendes finishing of 5 + [dice=10]
Robinson tackling of 9 + [dice=10]
Yes he can! Can Nagasawa save the shot of 14?

Nagasawa diving + punching or catching (14 or 18) + [dice=10]
And yes he can, he saved the shot with ease. Great build up play from the new boy though!

28th minute: It's looking scrappy down there, neither team has the clear advantage at the moment...

Chelsea advantage: [dice=10]
Leeds advantage: [dice=10]
And it's Chelsea with the ball now, the captain Torres to be precise. Can he get it forward to one of the strikers? Campbell is lurking just in front of them...

Torres passing of 6 + [dice=10]
Campbell pace of 6 + [dice=10]
And Torres easily gets it past Campbell to the feet of Ramon, who brilliantly turns and has a clear shot on goal!

Ramon first touch + composure + finishing (22) + [dice=10]
Nagasawa alertness + composure + shot stopping (23) + [dice=10]

And with a score of 26 to 25 the Japanese goalkeeper just gets a hand to it and a waiting defender collects it and removes the danger.

44th minute: Leeds have had very little to cheer about but it's lone striker Russell Ricketts on the ball now, and he's going for a 30 yard shot which has to pass through the defence!

Ricketts technique + finishing (17) + [dice=10]
van Donk jumping + heading (15) + [dice=10]
The long shot goes sailing over the head of van Donk and it's dipping wildly! It's up to DeVille to get a hand to it and get a score higher than 26!
DeVille alertness + diving + punching (25) +[dice=10]
And he does in style, DeVille punches the ball to safety and out for a throw in.

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[Admin]

Welcome back everybody, we're just about ready to start the second half with the score at 0-0. Chelsea have had a lot more of the game than their opponents, but a last minute screamer from 30 yards nearly stunned the whole team. Can Chelsea convert their dominance into a win?

53rd minute: It's Mulhern passing it long to Skubis on the right side now, and he's been given room to run forwards. Santini is there to challenge the Serbian though...

Skubis dribbling + technique (10) + [dice=10]
Santini composure + tackling (9) + [dice=10]
Skubis skips around the challenge and is in a great position for a cross!

Skubis crossing of 5 + [dice=10]
Two players are there to meet the 12 rated cross, Leeds' Ricketts and Chelsea's Tyler. Which of them will get the header?

Ricketts composure + heading (13) + [dice=10]
Tyler jumping + heading (10) [dice=10]
Just barely does Tyler get his head to it to clear, but it's a little wild and could go anywhere!

To a Chelsea player: [dice=10]
To a Leeds player: [dice=10]
The ball's ended up at the feet of Johnny Campbell at the edge of the area! He brings it under control and tries the shot!

Campbell first touch + finishing (17) + [dice=10]
DeVille alertness + shot stopping (17) + [dice=10]
CAMPBELL SCORES! CAMPBELL SCORES! What a magnificent goal by the new signing, he just beat Phillip DeVille with a stunning strike of 23 which beat the Canadians saving attempt of 21! And would you believe it, Leeds are out in front!

71 minutes: As per the managers instructions one of Leeds' new signings Billy Flynn is coming on for Christian Mulhern, and it's gone out for a throw. Sven Rosenburg plays it back in to Flynn who needs to control it here...

Flynn first touch of 6 + [dice=10]
Torres comes in to try and nick the ball away from him, needing 8 to do so...
Torres technique of 3 + [dice=10]
He takes the ball away from him, and he's absolutely flying towards the goal! He tries to put in a pass to Ramon...

Torres passing of 6 + [dice=10]
Kershaw is there with Ramon to tackle him, needing a 12 to get the ball back for his team...

Kershaw tackling of 2 + [dice=10]
He gets nowhere near the ball, leaving Ramon one-on-one with the goalkeeper!

Ramon composure + finishing (15) + [dice=10]
Nagasawa composure + punching (15) [dice=10]
YES! RAMON EQUALIZES! DMITRI RAMON HAS EQUALIZED FOR CHELSEA!!

80 minutes: We're still level at 1-1 here, and Mourinho is making two changes - Smidt on for Roberts and Poyet on for McClean.

Full Time Whistle Well that's it, it's all over with the score at 1-1. This is a result Leeds will be unhappy about having taken the lead, and Chelsea will be thankful they got something out of this match.

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That took a lot longer than I hoped it would, I'll probably tweak the system a little bit as writing 4 or 5 league matches on a Sunday won't be fun if they're taking about an hour per match to write.

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[Jose Mourinho]

haha thanks Assassin. Good pe season friendly. Not about the result but about the experience.

[Roy Keane]

Nice match - I really enjoyed that, and am glad I have a better understanding on how things work now.

Nice, even match - great job

[Jose Mourinho]

Yeah, the numbers confused me at first its still going to take some time to get used to but I am getting used to it gladly!

[mighty leeds united [kk]]

I love the way you simulate it yourself, it's nice to see how it's gonna be working

[Admin]

Cheers guys, glad you like it.

I can see how the numbers can be confusing as you do have to do a little arithmetic yourself as you read along, so I'll try and include a few more "and the defenders score of 23 beats the strikers score of 19 to take the ball!" sort of things so you don't have to pause and count your fingers every few seconds.

As mentioned I want to try and make it a little quicker to write, trouble is despite it not looking like a long match it took exactly an hour and 15 minutes to write - about twice as long as I planned if I'm honest. Even so, it's early days so no doubt it'll gradually change into something everyone's happy with.

[Roy Keane]

In fact, I'm gonna give it a [dice=10] / 10 rating

Yeah match day won't be much fun if its taking over an hour to write a match! I will chip in with the occasional match writing if you get stuck and it if helps anyway.

Sorry, the main point of this post was to give you my dice rating lol, nah I'd give it more like a 9 simply due to the sheer effort it needed

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