Yes, It is thriller month for us as we have to maintain our momentum to challenge for the title. We have 4 Premier, 1 champions league and 1 League Cup matches. Notable matches were versus Chelsea and Sporting.

The fixtures start with Chelsea at home, then we travel to Brittania to face Stoke, Champions League match versus Sporting, Middlesbrough at home, then League Cup versus Leeds at home and at the end of the month, we visit West Ham for away match.

Home: Chelsea – Premier

As we play at home, I have adopt to attacking play starting from 1st minutes of tha match. Early of the match, we we award with penalty, Welliton take it calmly and scored for us. We started with brilliant match versus Chelsea. However, 6 minutes after that, Drogba levelled it to 1 -1. I’m devastated but I believe my team will overcome this. This game are thrilling as both team palying open play attacking which I can see some of brilliant movement from Chelsea and my team. Pround with my team. At the end, unfortunate for us as we only got a draw with exciting match which ended 3 -3, last goal scored by Zhirkov in injury time. What a lucky for Chelsea. However, I’m delighted with the way our team handle Chelsea. Another match give me more confident to fight for the title.

Away: Stoke – Premier

Tricky game as Stoke have a good team player with Owen which have huge experienced in Premier. However, we managed to snatch victory with only goal from Welliton. Not good enough for me but as always we win, this should be OK. Need to encourage my players to pass and pass more.

Away: Sporting CP – Champions League

Really important match as we have to win to make our chances to Quaterfinal. Although we play away match, I never changes my tactics philosophy which is attacking is the best defending. And it pay a prices as we managed to win this game with the only goal courtesy from Welliton. Well, I’m delighted that Welliton already has fund her touch again. And the best things is we only managed to get 8 shots compare with Sporting 18.

Home: Middlesbrough – Premier

Again, Welliton make me proud as we win this match with 1 goal. Third straight matches with win with 1 goal only. Well, win is a win. I have to accept this and for next fixtures I need my player to kill the game early to overcome any consequences upset from opponents.

Home: Leeds – League Cup

As previous match, I fill in second string of my team includingMuniain, our hot prospect. He didn’t dissappointed me. He give a solid play in this match with 7.8 rating. Another thrilling match for us as we managed to scored 5 goals. Even I though its will be more then that.

Away: West Ham – Premier

Another thrilling match for us, as we managed to win with 4 goals. This time, Rakitic who just comback from injury that he capable to threat opponent with power shots from outside of penalty box. 2 goals from him which he scored from outside of penalty box. I delighted that we managed to win this match with more then 2 goals however no cleasn sheet this time.

Summary

 

Statistics for October

Table

Still in top 4.

Scorer

Still Welliton as tops scorer for us with 14 goals.

Assists

New comers, Amrabat levelled with last season best assist, Krivets with 4 assists.

Top passers

My goalkeeper taking this with 86% of her passes is completed.

Top tackles

Rakitic shows that he also can tackles very well with rate 1.90.

MoM

As last season, Welliton occupied this in 1st place with 4 Man of the matches.

Next month fixtures

Tough matches – Sporting, Liverpool, OM and Blackburn

Tricky matches – Birmingham and West Brom.

So, thats all for October fixtures. I’m delighted with our matches so far. Some improvement need to be analyse in the squad.