Spartans 532

Trialling some 532 formations for something different as had some success on a lower league save with Blyth Spartans with a fairly young and low quality squad, testing taken place with Aberdeen and Airdrie in Scotland, Aberdeen predicted 4th in the Cinch Premiership and Airdrie predicted 9th in the Cinch Championship.

Some strong performances, will start with Airdrie, as stated predicted 9th and ended up winning the league comfortably in the end scoring plenty in the process and conceded an average of 1 goal per game which given the squad and this years match engine is pretty impressive. Airdrie had an impressive Scottish cup run making the semi finals before losing 4-1 to Celtic, they did however eliminate Rangers in the Quarter Final 3-1 showing the potential for this tactic against far stronger sides.

Onto the Aberdeen season. A Very strong performance in the league splitting the old firm and finishing 2nd dropping points in 8 of the 38 games with Celtic proving too strong having an excellent season themselves. Outscore every other team in the division with a fairly strong defensive performance as well. Didn't win any domestic cups this time around, did make a final and lost in extra time disappointingly but the European performances have more than made up for this, Aberdeen finished 3rd in a difficult Europa League group dropping down into the conference league where they went on to win the competition against Aston Villa in the final with a fairly difficult route to the final as well. Despite finishing behind Celtic in the league they did win the head to head meetings 3-2 across the season.