Challenges Badge of Honour #1 - Haaland's Heroics

[DanEnglish]

Intro
This is the first badge in this year's 'Badges of Honour' series. The concept is beautifully explained in @Titjes post here:

Challenge
Wonderkid superstar Haaland has been in sensational goal-scoring form since joining Manchester City in July 2022.

To earn your "Haaland's Heroics" badge, you need to manage Man. City + get Haaland to score 50 or more league goals in the first season. This should be a fun challenge for people starting FMM23, with lots of goals and attacking football.

As this is only about league goals - note that (i) you don't need to win the matches, nor win the league, and (ii) you can rest Haaland in the cups/Europe, to keep him fit for the English Premier League games!

Scoring
The benchmark to beat is 50 league goals scored by Haaland in the first season at Man. City, at which point you will earn your badge.

• You should submit your total score (Haaland's number of league goals) on this post + this will be added to the leaderboard.
• The more goals scored, the higher your place on the leaderboard.
• If there is a tie (two Vibe players have the same score), then the tie-breaker is 'the fewer league games played, the higher on the leaderboard' (e.g. scoring 50 in 30 games is slightly more impressive than scoring 50 in 38 league games!).

Rules
The same as last year:

• No unlockables (inc. no editor)
• No cheating;
• Own formations (that also means don’t steal a tactic and change one instruction)
• Any badge and reputation;
• Any database (if you want to attempt this after the winter 2022/23 data update)
• Transfers, etc, allowed;
• You can attempt the challenge multiple times, but only your top score will be on the leaderboard;

Good luck!
 

Leaderboard

1. @Varf on fmm - 100 league goals! 🔥
2. @Dai_ - 93 (in 36 league games)
3. @Gazzaeverton - 91
4. @Rob - 90
5. @Titjes - 81
6. @darlingtonvii - 80
7. @Lagom - 79
8. @TheCrux - 78
9. @Raven9 - 76
10. @FuddledFox - 70
11. @Scratch - 69 (in 34 league games)
12. @Chris - 69 (in 36 league games)
13. @Creckerino - 67
14. @DoneHisCruciate - 62
15. @Kanegan - 61 (in 37 league games)
16. @NamiRoyal - 55 (in 24 league games)
17. @StuartM - 52 (in 37 league games)

Edited October 25, 2023 by DanEnglish

[Kun Aguero]

Too bad this was posted when I'm halfway through my first season playing 2 upfront, rested Haaland in most league games and he ended up only scoring 34 league goals (in 22 games) 😐

[FuddledFox]

Given this one a go.

Hit 70 league goals in total.

[Chris]

69 for me! 

Thanks for the great challenge!

[Titjes]

Attempt 1

 

Attempt 2

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With a modified corner trick (honest about it though) 😅

 

 

[Rob]

Mine:

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Love the City squad!

[DanEnglish]

42 minutes ago, Rob said:

Mine:

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Love the City squad!

Wow he got a lot of assists compared to Chris, Foxy, and Titjes!

[DanEnglish]

Wow!

Have just realized Man. City have a massive £169m to spend, with another +£2m / week in remaining wages! 😮😮😮 HUGE!

[Rob]

9 hours ago, DanEnglish said:

Wow!

Have just realized Man. City have a massive £169m to spend, with another +£2m / week in remaining wages! 😮😮😮 HUGE!

Yep! Plenty to play with. Can pretty much assemble any squad to try any tactic! 

[darlingtonvii]

Here's mine. 

[Rob]

1 hour ago, darlingtonvii said:

Here's mine. 

Well done.

[Rob]

Attempt 2, using the same tactic I used with Haaland last year in the ‘Quickest 1,000’ challenge. Thread here in case anyone is interested:

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Attempt 2 score:

[DanEnglish]

51 minutes ago, Rob said:

Attempt 2, using the same tactic I used with Haaland last year in the ‘Quickest 1,000’ challenge

To the top of the leaderboard goes @Rob. 90 goals in 38 games. Wow.

[Chris]

1 hour ago, Rob said:

Attempt 2, using the same tactic I used with Haaland last year in the ‘Quickest 1,000’ challenge. Thread here in case anyone is interested:

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Attempt 2 score:

Smashed it mate 👌 

[Scratch]

Damn, turns out he is human after all, just had a game where he didn't score! 

[Scratch]

Current status: Not Having Much Luck

 

Edited November 17, 2022 by Scratch

[Scratch]

Alright, I'm done and ended with 69 goals from 34 games. Can you please add me? Thanks! 

 

[Raven9]

Here is my attempt. 76 goals in 38 games. Fun challenge, and what a great team City has. 

[DanEnglish]

Leaderboard updated 👍 am impressed with the high scores so far + happy that’s it’s a fun challenge

[Lagom]

Really disappointed to fall short of the 2 GPG, but it is what it is.

[TheCrux]

Great challenge will try again feel like I can definitely do 80+

[Dai_]

The City team is just silly!

He is ridiculous.

Its good to know my 1kc tactic works on this years version.

[Varf on fmm]

Whoop Whoop!!!  100  league goals baby!

[Dai_]

25 minutes ago, Varf on fmm said:

Whoop Whoop!!!  100  league goals baby!

If only I had those extra 2 League games I might of got there first.

Well done.

[DanEnglish]

6 hours ago, Varf on fmm said:

Whoop Whoop!!!  100  league goals baby!

Wow - that is super impressive! Congratulations.

Haaland is only 22 at the end of season 1 - so you have enough time to do a ‘league only 1k’ (or 1.5k?!) if you wanted 😮 may only take ~10 seasons! 😉

[Rob]

7 hours ago, Varf on fmm said:

Whoop Whoop!!!  100  league goals baby!

Brilliant!

[Varf on fmm]

3 hours ago, Rob said:

Brilliant!

 

4 hours ago, DanEnglish said:

Wow - that is super impressive! Congratulations.

Thank you 

[Varf on fmm]

22 hours ago, DanEnglish said:

Wow - that is super impressive! Congratulations.

Haaland is only 22 at the end of season 1 - so you have enough time to do a ‘league only 1k’ (or 1.5k?!) if you wanted 😮 may only take ~10 seasons! 😉

Oh I didn't think about it... I might, lucky I kept the save for now, if someone wanted more screenshots... However Haaland only 22 but my overall squad is the oldest in the league)))) So it'll be a challenge to replace KDB especially he is an absolute beast. 

 

On 21/11/2022 at 20:43, Dai_ said:

If only I had those extra 2 League games I might of got there first.

Well done.

Dang that sucks, when did he miss it? End of a season?  

[Lagom]

Moves me up a couple of place, but couldn’t hit 80 goals. Even had a 93rd minute goal ruled out for offside in the final game of the season, so it wasn’t to be.

 

Not sure about anyone else, but I’ve only ever managed to get him to score more than 4 goals in a game once, really frustrating when I’ve seen him hit 4 goals in the first half multiple times.

[Varf on fmm]

55 minutes ago, Lagom said:

Moves me up a couple of place, but couldn’t hit 80 goals. Even had a 93rd minute goal ruled out for offside in the final game of the season, so it wasn’t to be.

 

Not sure about anyone else, but I’ve only ever managed to get him to score more than 4 goals in a game once, really frustrating when I’ve seen him hit 4 goals in the first half multiple times.

Idk why but whenever I get my Striker to score 3-4 in first half, second half is a struggle and I might see another one goal. It has been for me like this since I can’t remember what FMM… Several years for sure. But to score 3-4 in first half is so easy on the other hand.

Any tips anyone?