Career Scratch Tries: Andrea Pinamonti 1.5KC [Complete]

[Nucleus]

Just now, Scratch said:

Cool! I feel like there should be a clash of the titans between these two when he's done! 😄

Wow, just saw your screenshot and that's crazy good! 20 Stamina and 19 Teamwork (mine has 11 and 9). I think you win!

We’ll see if I get there first! 😛

[samhardy]

@rafa had one back in the day where he retrained all positions too:

But this one is even more impressive seen as it’s all natural instead of just accomplished!

[Rob]

Just how good do they think Milner is?!?

[Scratch]

3 hours ago, samhardy said:

@rafa had one back in the day where he retrained all positions too:

But this one is even more impressive seen as it’s all natural instead of just accomplished!

I'd like to take credit, but back then you couldn't retrain to Natural. I think it was only last year they added that. 

So strange that @rafa had a regen named (Francisco Javier) Vidal, whereas I have a regen of the real (Arturo) Vidal! Funny old game...

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2 hours ago, Rob2017 said:

Just how good do they think Milner is?!?

Not sure, but I'm searching for his regen right now! 😄

[Scratch]

BTW - no calendar year update this year. He fell short of his record and I can't bothered writing it up! There should be a full season update shortly though.

[Nucleus]

1 minute ago, Scratch said:

BTW - no calendar year update this year. He fell short of his record and I can't bothered writing it up! There should be a full season update shortly though.

I don’t think I’m going to bother writing the calendar Year one for mine either. Unless he beats your record obviously 😛

[Scratch]

Update - Season 15

Pinamonti only needs 281 goals to reach the big 1.5K. He's 32 coming into this season, but still in decent shape. How long will that last? Can he reach our target of 80 goals? Or even go better? Let's see...

 

Transfers

Spoiler

Major departures this year:

• Menezes Jacomo: Our Kaka regen was just 30 and still in great shape (20s all over the place), but he'd spent several years on the fringes and his performances just weren't up to his earlier seasons.

• Passlack: Our starting right back for 12 or 13 seasons. 114 assists, almost 150 yellow cards (just missing out on the Bad Boys leaderboard). He was 33, starting to fall away and not going to renew his contract.

• Garner: The best young English central midfielder in the game at this point. Truly excellent. The one thing he lacks is patience. Could have been a fixture in the team if he hadn't outcasted himself.

In the incoming column we had bunch of youngsters, including regens of Pavon (couldn't resist), Zivkovic (but no stamina) and Rajkovic (cleverly named Rajkovic)... Our youth academy also produced Jordan Pickford Jr. We bought a couple of top young goalies last year, when Rajkovic was going off, so we'll be spoiled for choice between the sticks when they all mature a bit.

There was also another arrival before the season started:

Spoiler

 

Not likely to get any game time to be honest, but we'll see... He made the Australia team in his first season though.

 

 

Competitions

We had less competitions this year due to our failure last year, but we won everything before us:

• Won the Community Shield, beating Man Utd 4-0 (hat-trick to Pinamonti).

• Won the League Cup, beating Sheffield Wednesday 4-0 in the final (one goal from Pinamonti).

• Won the FA Cup, beating Chelsea 3-1 in the final (one goal from Pinamonti).

• Won the Premier League comfortably again, with 115 goals. You won't see Man City anywhere in that screenshot - because they finished only 1 place above the drop! Troubled times at City...

• Won the Champions League, beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the final (the winner coming from Pinamonti). Had an early scare, with our recently sold Kaka regen opening the scoring for Real Madrid...

Spoiler

 

 

On the ITN front, it was time for Euro 2032. I'll include two games for you:

• The opening group game against Belgium, where they hammered us (Italy) 6-1. Four of their goals came from current Newcastle players and one from an old boy...

• The Final, we we fronted up to face Belgium again. I'll tell you that a stoppage time goal sent the game into extra time, but I won't tell you who won it. You'll have to open the spoiler to find out!

Spoiler

 

 

 

Assists

Who is providing all the club assists?

Havertz reclaimed top spot from D'Amico, although his ratio is not as good. D'Amico once again led the way until about February, when he must have encountered an attribute sucking vampire. I think he's done here now. 🙁 Havertz is the same age so we need some youngsters to step up.

 

Injuries

No injuries this year, which was lucky - but I guess that means he's due next year... He's still "very rarely injured", so fingers crossed that holds true.

 

Decline

This is what Pinamonti looked like at the end of the season:

He lost one point from Movement, Decision, Stamina, Strength and Dribbling when compared to last year. Not ideal, but really can't ask for anything more at this point. Pretty happy his Pace is holding steady.

He did lose another point off most of those during the Euros, but hard to tell if that's for real or just off season fluctuation. It's sure to continue falling away from here, now that he's 33.

 

Goals - Highlights

Pinamonti had one 5 goal effort and one 4 goal effort this year:

Spoiler

 

 

 

Goals - Club

He scored 83 goals in 55 games:

That's more than I expected to be honest. He's running along like a machine at this point, long may it last.

 

Goals - ITN

Pinamonti had 219 international goals at the start of the year:

And he finished with 237, meaning he'd scored 18 goals in 13 games.

That takes him to 204 ITN goals under my management and he's eligible for the 200 International Goal Challenge leaderboard. He's not finished yet though! We've got a World Cup qualifying campaign coming next season against the likes of Luxemberg and Lithuania.

 

Progress

33 years old (EOY)	Season	Total
Club Goals	83	1116
ITN Goals	18	204
Totals	101	1320

 

The Future

A much stronger season than I anticipated leaves Pinamonti needing only 180 goals. He surely can't do that in 2 seasons, but I'm starting to hope he may do it in 3. I might even get it done before 2019 drops!

 

Edited October 17, 2018 by Scratch

[Rob]

Brilliant again. I’m kinda fascinated how many you get if you keep him going all the way through to retirement.

[Scratch]

5 hours ago, Rob2017 said:

Brilliant again. I’m kinda fascinated how many you get if you keep him going all the way through to retirement.

Gotta admit, my instinct is to take him all the way. That's what I've done with my other 1KCs. Colidio lasted 23 seasons, Armstrong 22. But here's the thing: I take about one week per season. If I stop once he makes it to 1.5K, that will probably be a week or so after FMM2019 releases. If I keep going, it will be at least a month after that, maybe more (gets harder to play near the end).

So I'll most likely stop when he cracks the 1.5K. That said, the top score at the moment is 1,544 goals, so maybe I'll try to beat that. Although @Nucleus will beat that anyway with MBappe...

[Nucleus]

Cracking season as always Scratch. I’m in the same boat as you regarding when to stop, and funnily enough my plan was to try and beat the current leaderboard top score and call it a day. I’ll see you on the other side 😛

[Rob]

I’m envisaging you two having the most polite undercurrent of a competition where Nuke will do one season and lead the board, then Scratch will reload the game just to play another season and take back over, and so on and so forth.  All at the same time as you are incredibly polite to one another.

[Titjes]

Wonderfull career so far mate   Italy has fantastic strikers in the game this year  

Congrats on getting the 200 ITN goals  

Edited October 18, 2018 by Titjes

[Scratch]

2 hours ago, Nucleus said:

Cracking season as always Scratch. I’m in the same boat as you regarding when to stop, and funnily enough my plan was to try and beat the current leaderboard top score and call it a day. I’ll see you on the other side 😛

LOL, classic. Well then, I think I will just stop when I get to 1500 and move on, as I don't think I'll be able to beat you this time around. 

[Scratch]

1 hour ago, Rob2017 said:

I’m envisaging you two having the most polite undercurrent of a competition where Nuke will do one season and lead the board, then Scratch will reload the game just to play another season and take back over, and so on and so forth.  All at the same time as you are incredibly polite to one another.

Shhh... I'll pretend to stop and then wait until he starts a fancy new 2019 career, then I will sneak back in and quitely get in front and get the leaderboard updated etc on the quiet. But no need to tell him that, okay? Just between us, right?

[Scratch]

56 minutes ago, Titjes said:

Wonderfull career so far mate   Italy has fantastic strikers in the game this year  

Congrats on getting the 200 ITN goals  

Thanks mate! Pinamonti has certainly turned out better than I was expecting, so I'm pretty happy. Wonder how he'll turn out IRL? And what he'll be like in 2019? Time will tell I guess, but for a glorious moment in 2018 he was good enough to be the best in the world! 

[Cockers2505]

Well done mate, they are some impressive numbers, you finishing when he retires?

[Scratch]

11 hours ago, Cockers2505 said:

Well done mate, they are some impressive numbers, you finishing when he retires?

Thanks Cockers, yeah, he blows me away. Just a step up in quality than Colidio was (or maybe it's just easier this year).

I'd normally push on until he retires, and then there is always the temptation to go for a 1KC with my son, but... not this year. I've done the whole "stuck on the old version while everyone else is on the new version" thing and not going to choose that again. Trying to wrap this up as soon as I can.

[Ashez]

I've just caught up and what an impressive save this has been! Congrats on the 1kc and I'm sure 1500 will be here soon! 

[Scratch]

3 hours ago, Ashez said:

I've just caught up and what an impressive save this has been! Congrats on the 1kc and I'm sure 1500 will be here soon! 

Thanks mate! Seems I'm getting alright at this..

 

[Woody]

What a seriously impressive save!

Pina still looks awesome with plenty of seasons left in the tank and i would love to see how many you can get till his retirement.

#PinaisaToon

 

Edited October 20, 2018 by Woody

[Scratch]

14 hours ago, Woody said:

What a seriously impressive save!

Pina still looks awesome with plenty of seasons left in the tank and i would love to see how many you can get till his retirement.

#PinaisaToon

 

Thanks mate! His attributes are down a little but he's still scoring. A bit like the terminator, just keeps going... Just put 3 past Juve, no sweat!

Mind you...

Edited October 21, 2018 by Scratch

[Scratch]

Happy Christmas Andrea! A slightly late present for you - some time off to relax and enjoy the festive season!

[Scratch]

Update - Season 16

180 goals to go! Pinamonti is 33 coming into this season, but still capable of scoring a bucket load of goals. He's locked into a long term contract (4 years), so things are looking good. The only thing that can stop him at this point is... injury. And if you saw the post above, you know Santa brought Pinamonti a late Christmas present: some festive time off due to injury.

But how long did he have off? Was it his only injury? What did it do to his attributes? How many goals did he score? So many questions! All will be revealed below...

 

Transfers

Spoiler

Major departures this year:

• D'Amico: Our top assist provider in recent seasons. He was only 31, but his attributes dropped away last season and we had way too many cooks. Genuinely sad about this one.

• Rosa: A world class Brazilian right back who was stuck behind Passlack for 13 seasons. With Passlack gone and Rosa over 30, it was time to rebuild.

• Djordjevic: Zivkovic's regen, signed only last season. He went 'outcast' and his stamina, which was always bad, dropped to 1 when he got injured and didn't seem to be coming back (It's still there, months after we sold him).

Incoming, we just had a few young defenders as part of our rebuilding process (no known regens, just promising looking youngsters).

 

Competitions - Club

Here's how we did this year:

• Won the Community Shield, beating Liverpool 3-1 (hat-trick from Pinamonti).

• Won the Euro Super Cup, beating Leverkusen 3-0 (one goal from Pinamonti).

• Won the Club World Championship, beating Racing Club 2-0 in the final (both goals from Pinamonti).

• Won the League Cup, beating Birmingham 4-1 in the final (two goals from Pinamonti).

• Won the FA Cup, beating Chelsea 4-1 in the final.

• Won the Premier League comfortably again, but only 103 goals this year. 😦

• Won the Champions League, beating Barcelona 2-0 in the final (36 shots to 2!).

Spoiler

 

 

 

Competitions - ITN

Time again for the Confederations Cup. I'll include three games for you:

• A group game against Australia - unremarkable except for my son scoring against us. So proud!

• The Semi Final against the USA, who almost sent us packing. Pinamonti had two goals disallowed, including one which would have been the winner in the 87th minute. Instead, it went to penalties, where we prevailed in a tight shootout.

• The Final against Belgium, where we were 1-0 up and cruising until midway through the second half, when they banged in 3 goals in 6 minutes. We went at them hammer and tongs, pulling one back before Pinamonti scored the equalizer with 10 minutes to go, sending us to extra time. The winner was scored in the 121st minute - but which team scored it? You'll have to see in the spoiler!

Spoiler

 

 

 

Assists

Who is providing all the club assists?

Havertz was our top provider, even though he spent a total of 3 months out due to injury. After him there is a mix of players, all with very good ratios. Matthias Jordan is Amiri's regen, so I'm interested to see how he goes.

It's probably fitting that we shine the spotlight a little on Havertz, who is refusing to age:

Spoiler

 

He's slowed down a little, but is still top notch (this is after his injuries). Shame I couldn't get as much out of him as others have.

 

 

Injuries

Last year I said: "No injuries this year, which was lucky - but I guess that means he's due next year..." We know from above that he got a Boxing Day injury, but how bad was it? Answer: 1 month (actually 5 weeks, plus reconditioning time).

Was it his only injury? No. He picked up another 1 month injury late in the season and this time the press started wondering if this was the end (spoiler alert guys: No, no it's not).

 

Decline

This is what Pinamonti looked like at the end of the season (after the internationals):

He's lost a couple of points of Pace, Shooting, Movement, Decisions, and even more from Dribbling and Strength. He actually looked better than that at the very end of the season after a training hard event, but that didn't stick.

Here's how the injuries affected him:

His Physicals bounced back after the first injury, but his Attacking and Mental attributes didn't fully recover. He recovered from the second injury, but that was short-lived.

Here's what his decline looks like over the course of a year:

 

Goals - Highlights

Pinamonti had two 4 goal efforts this year:

Spoiler

 

 

Although these have slowed down, he's still a remarkably consistent scorer. Here is his run between the two injuries:

 

Goals - Club

The injuries and his decline haven't slowed him much. He scored 73 goals in 41 games:

That ratio is amazing and I can only wonder how many he would have scored if not for those injuries.

 

Goals - ITN

Pinamonti had 237 international goals at the start of the year:

And he finished with... 0!!!

Yep, we hit the 255 ITN goals bug... It went to 0 immediately after he scored 1 goal in the Confederations Cup final (see screenshot above), Luckily I have a screenshot from immediately before that game:

So he finished on 256 goals (255 + 1 goal in the final), meaning he'd scored 19 goals in 13 games. That takes him to 223 ITN goals under my management. I guess it's going to be more difficult to count them from now (unless that number starts incrementing again from 0).

 

Progress

34 years old (EOY)	Season	Total
Club Goals	73	1189
ITN Goals	19	223
Totals	92	1412

 

The Future

A great season, despite the injuries, leaves Pinamonti needing only 88 goals to make the 1.5K.

The rate he scored at this year has me thinking he might just do it next season... But surely his scoring rate has to slow down sooner or later? And the threat of injuries is ever present...So we'll wait and see!
 

Edited October 22, 2018 by Scratch

[Ashez]

Still going incredibly strong!

[Nucleus]

87 goals next season, then broken spine and retires 😛

[Scratch]

13 hours ago, Ashez said:

Still going incredibly strong!

Yeah, he's still scoring at more than 1 a game a couple of months into the next season. I think he's not quite as ruthless as he was (misses more easy shots), but the average is still right up there. The tactic sends most of the chances to him and the people sending the chances are the best in the world, but still - I was expecting more of a drop off. Probably coming at some point...

[Scratch]

13 hours ago, Nucleus said:

87 goals next season, then broken spine and retires 😛

Yeah, I do think that's quite likely! I don't quite trust the game at this point. It's a little too easy. And I remember what it did to me with Colidio. It's trying to break me! 😨

Edited October 23, 2018 by Scratch

[Scratch]

Age is catching up with him. No way he would have missed this in his prime:

Spoiler

 

 

[Cockers2505]

Wow @Scratch looking good, not caught up lately or posted on my 1K attempt as I'm in Crete Greece, but good to see you smashing this still, good luck keeping him fit to cross the finish line

[Scratch]

7 hours ago, Cockers2505 said:

Wow @Scratch looking good, not caught up lately or posted on my 1K attempt as I'm in Crete Greece, but good to see you smashing this still, good luck keeping him fit to cross the finish line

Thanks @Cockers2505 - haha, when you said "I'm in Crete Greece", my first reaction was: "hmm, I didn't know Greece was a playable league". Took me a few moments to work out you meant in real life! Have fun there mate! 😄