Career Ian goes for a 1kc with Lorenzo Colombo (Season 2)

Ian · October 3, 2021

Hello and welcome to my latest career where I’ll be attempting to hit 1000 goals with Lorenzo Colombo. After finishing my Hagi career (I still have the final round up post to do) I debated what to do next. I then started further testing the Hagi tactic and even started another 1kc split save with a very good German midfielder but that was never really meant as something I’d post. I started thinking that I could try to do a 1kc as it’s a challenge I haven’t completed since the 19 version of the game. I was looking through the player options and noticed young Lorenzo who I’ve used a few times on other saves as a backup player. He was never fantastic on these saves but pretty good and I’d like to think he’d be good enough to be able to reach the target.

So, I had my player but didn’t have a tactic so I set about on some testing to see if I could get something half decent going pretty quickly. I built a mega team at Real Madrid and used Lukaku as our striker to see what I could get out of him. I thought I’d first try something similar to the tactic I used with Moise Kean on the 19 game as I felt it would be great if I could get that working on this version of the game. We played the first few games a few times, I tweaked a few things and it seemed to work pretty good, albeit after only a few games and with one of the best strikers and squad imaginable. Nonetheless I felt there was enough there to give it a go with Lorenzo and that is exactly what I’m going to do.

I decided just to start out at AC Milan, which is a bit boring as I’ve been in Italy a lot recently but I prefer the idea of starting at the club he starts at. Here he is anyway and he looks pretty good with no real weaknesses.

I’m literally going live here too as I’ve only just played out the friendly games, so this could end up being an embarrassing disaster and if it does then I do apologise.

Thank you for reading and I’ll be back with more later once I’ve played on a bit.

Edited October 5, 2021 by Ian

Dai_ · October 3, 2021

Great player choice. I used him in my DT this year alongside Salcedo and he is fantastic. 1kc's are always more about the tactic though. I'm sure you'll get one going and smash this.

Best of luck!

Rob · October 3, 2021

Good luck Ian. Love that you are playing live too - very brave

Ian · October 3, 2021

1 hour ago, Dai_ said:

Great player choice. I used him in my DT this year alongside Salcedo and he is fantastic. 1kc's are always more about the tactic though. I'm sure you'll get one going and smash this.

Best of luck!

Thank you Dai, hopefully I can get the tactic right.

59 minutes ago, Rob said:

Good luck Ian. Love that you are playing live too - very brave

Thank you Rob, it may have been a mistake to going live

He started incredibly well with five in our first competitive game.

Things aren’t going great for the team though as of late November. Hopefully we can weather this and keep the job as Colombo is doing okay.

broodje kip · October 3, 2021

Ian going for another banger career? 🥵

Edited October 3, 2021 by broodje kip

Rob · October 4, 2021

10 hours ago, Ian said:

Thank you Dai, hopefully I can get the tactic right.

Thank you Rob, it may have been a mistake to going live

He started incredibly well with five in our first competitive game.

Things aren’t going great for the team though as of late November. Hopefully we can weather this and keep the job as Colombo is doing okay.

Yikes! That tactic is pretty impenetrable from memory of the classic Moises career.

Scratch · October 4, 2021

Haha, great stuff, looking forward to this (except it makes we want to abandon my split 1KC and start a 1KC too). Fantastic start, thinking this will be a big score (if you don't get sacked, which you surely won't)!

Woody · October 4, 2021

Im sure this will continue and be a great save 👍

Ian · October 4, 2021

15 hours ago, broodje kip said:

Ian going for another banger career? 🥵

Thanks Mr Sandwich, hopefully it’ll be a success.

7 hours ago, Rob said:

Yikes! That tactic is pretty impenetrable from memory of the classic Moises career.

It seems to be somewhat ok for the striker but results aren’t quite so good, although it is the first season with the horrible schedule so I don’t want to judge it too soon.

5 hours ago, Scratch said:

Haha, great stuff, looking forward to this (except it makes we want to abandon my split 1KC and start a 1KC too). Fantastic start, thinking this will be a big score (if you don't get sacked, which you surely won't)!

Thank you Scratch, we managed to avoid the sack but it still wasn’t fantastic and subsequently I’m going to make a slight change going into next season.

3 hours ago, Woody said:

Im sure this will continue and be a great save 👍

Cheers Woody, I’m hoping it’ll be a success.

I’ll be back with the first season update later as I want to keep up to date with the posting.

Ian · October 4, 2021

Season 1

Here we go with the opening season and I’ll start with the transfers.

Transfers

Milan have a good few decent youngsters and I was determined not to go overboard on the transfers so we ended up going largely with what we had with just a few key players coming in;

Carrillo - Brought in primarily to mentor Lorenzo to hopefully bring his aerial up a bit.
Fabinho - The squad seemed slightly weak in the central midfield area, so he was eventually purchased to hopefully plug that gap and he can also be used at centre back if required.
Bernardeschi - I wanted a left winger with good crossing and he seemed like the best option.
Spinazzola - He was bought mainly to share the left wing back role with Hernandez but he can play on the right too so a nice player to have.

Spoiler

I ended up with this as our preferred lineup. I wasn’t overly happy with Leão as a winger as he’s more of a forward but I couldn’t see the value in offloading him as he’s not valued too highly at this stage. He’s too good to be a backup to Colombo though so I decided to try and train him up as a winger. I’ve got two BBM’s here too which does make you think they may get forward too much and pinch goals but it doesn’t always pan out that way and I’ll be hoping it doesn’t here. I am a sucker for an AP in the CM line though on this year's game so there is the temptation there to change one of them to that role and perhaps make the AP further forward just an AM, but I’m determined to give this a chance at least.

Team Results

We won nothing and ended up finishing in second place in the league which I was happy with as we’d struggled at times. I suppose we went far in both cup competitions too but it would’ve been nice to have won some silverware, suppose there’s always next year.

Spoiler

Fixtures

You can see our struggles looking at the fixtures with a few poor spells in the first half of the season before we finally got ourselves together and had a somewhat decent run in.

Spoiler

Lorenzo Colombo

He started very well indeed and had scored 20 goals in his first 12 games. We were in the Europa League which kind of helped but it was still promising. He couldn’t keep that up though and ended up with a return of 38 goals in 39 games, which was a bit frustrating given how well he’d started.

Injuries

Just an in-game injury that kept him out for a couple of games and a little injury towards the end of April. Apart from that he missed a good few games due to tiredness as the schedule was too much for him.

Spoiler

He’s really improved and we’ve got some green in the right places.

Manager

Final Thoughts

A slightly frustrating season in truth but I suppose Lorenzo has shown enough to suggest he’s got what it takes and hopefully things can only get better for the team as well. I think I’ll be looking to make that slight change to the tactic that I mentioned further up as I think it may help us at least in terms of team results, so I’ll need to do a bit of work in the transfer market as our central midfielders aren’t playmaker types.

Score

Lorenzo Colombo

Season 1: 38 goals in 39 games

Thank you for reading.

Dai_ · October 4, 2021

That's a decent start. Easy to see how you're a bit frustrated though after the start he made. Glad you ended up keeping your job, not that it was in any doubt and finished strong in the end.

I very rarely use BBM's, especially during these types of challenges. Hopefully they don't poach too many goals from Lorenzo.

I tend to steer clear of Bernadeschi too. I have signed him so many times and he's ended up very injury prone and even when he's been fit his returns have been slightly disappointing. Hopefully that won't be the case for you.

I predict Colombo's goals will pick up next season. He looks brilliant already.

Rich · October 5, 2021

Love the choice of player, he’s always someone I’ve looked at but never gone for. That’s a solid first season as well, as the team improves now he should start banging the goals in 🤞🏻

Rob · October 5, 2021

Great start considering injuries, play injuries, and the fact you used Milan! Looking forward to season two!

smoggy90 · October 5, 2021

Not a player i've used before so will follow closely. Best of luck Ian.

Ian · October 5, 2021

23 hours ago, Dai_ said:

That's a decent start. Easy to see how you're a bit frustrated though after the start he made. Glad you ended up keeping your job, not that it was in any doubt and finished strong in the end.

I very rarely use BBM's, especially during these types of challenges. Hopefully they don't poach too many goals from Lorenzo.

I tend to steer clear of Bernadeschi too. I have signed him so many times and he's ended up very injury prone and even when he's been fit his returns have been slightly disappointing. Hopefully that won't be the case for you.

I predict Colombo's goals will pick up next season. He looks brilliant already.

Thank you Dai, I’ve not really done much with proper winger types for a while and I’ve often done stuff where I’ve tried to stop the wide players crossing so I’m very much going into things a bit blind there. Bernardeschi had decent crossing and I was hoping he’d be good for a couple of years while I try to train a youngster up to take over. He’s done ok so far I guess.

11 hours ago, Rich said:

Love the choice of player, he’s always someone I’ve looked at but never gone for. That’s a solid first season as well, as the team improves now he should start banging the goals in 🤞🏻

Thanks Rich, I’ve used him as a backup striker on a few saves this year and he’s always been steady so he was the first player I thought of for this. Hopefully he’ll do alright.

9 hours ago, Rob said:

Great start considering injuries, play injuries, and the fact you used Milan! Looking forward to season two!

Thank you Rob, I was just happy to get through it in the end. I’m hoping he’s going to be somewhat okay for injuries. I should really know I guess having used him, I think he was okay but he was only ever a backup player so difficult to gauge anything from that really. We’ll see I guess.

4 hours ago, smoggy90 said:

Not a player i've used before so will follow closely. Best of luck Ian.

Thank you Smoggy.

Ian · October 5, 2021