Except for my first season, I generally refrain from posting in other country's forums, but it felt right to extend my congratulations today. I remember your struggles last season; since you were in our group, I followed your forums closely and had something of a soft spot for your U21 team that had an underwhelming team then, but an enthusiastic coach and U21 players on the rise. It kind of reminded me of my first two seasons, where I had to pick up remains of our imploded U21 squad, left for dead by our previous U21 manager, and grind through two seasons as an underdog and picking up huge wins like this against Portugal
(22121), for example. At that time, we had lots of luck with game shape, while they struggled with it quite a bit; yesterday, it felt like we were that Portuguese team with our leading center coming from injury and some other players out of U21 because of bad game shape.
So this season, suddenly we are "favourites" and you are the underdogs who beat us. Yesterday's atmosphere in our forums and chat was understandably grim, but we are looking forward to win out and do some noise in the playoffs. I wish you all the luck and further success with your squad!