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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2024-25 Season ReviewThe 2024-25 season was a very successful one, relatively speaking. After achieving European football through league finish last season, we managed the same feat again with the latest campaign, improving our finish from 6th to 4th – as a result going through to the Europa League in 2025-26. With only…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2023-24 Season ReviewThe previous post, released some time ago now thanks to the impact of workload in real life, hinted at the prospect of European football for Le Havre. In the very next season, so it came to pass – we qualified for the UEFA Europa Conference League. The clubs first foray…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2022-23: Sailing out to a European waters?The 2022-33 season saw us fall into an initial slump, with poor results against our opponents in the opening fixtures, seeing four defeats in the first seven games and only two wins. This form saw us sat in 15th. Only after around nine games did we find our rhythm. Reducing…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – 2021-22 Season ReviewHAC Foot – Safe Haven in Ligue 1 The winter break saw HAC Foot in 8th place and it is there that we finished in our first campaign in Ligue 1. Quite some effort for a team expecting to be relegated back from whence we came. The second half of…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre 2021-22 Mid-Season Update
HAC Foot Steps Having been promoted to Ligue 1 ahead of schedule, and having spent only around £4m in improving the squad, the bookmakers had us in the bottom five of the league after we made our additions to the squad. The Board and the players weren’t holding out too…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre 2020-21 – La joie de vivre
Ligue 2 – Fais toujours de ton mieux même si personne ne regarde After the change in formation to the 433DM Wide, rolling goals against, i.e. average goals conceded over a rolling period of 10 games, plummeted to well below 0.5 goals per game. In part, it was this up-tick…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre – Youth Intake 2020-21Youth Intake 2021 – A golden generation…? As you see from the image below, there appears to be at least one incredible stand out player from this year’s youth intake. Sébastien Briand is a versatile, tough 15-year-old who looks set for the big time, if not with HAC Foot, then…
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Continue reading →: AC Le Havre 2020-21 Mid-Season UpdateThis mid-season update sees a review of the transfers that were made in the opening transfer window and how the season has progressed thus far at HAC Foot. There’s also a sneak peak at the youth intake. Transfer Methodology & Practice With a limited budget and no room in the…
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Continue reading →: Football Manager 2021 – AC Le HavreFor Football Manager 2021, I’ve decided upon AC Le Havre. Given the addition of xG to the Football Manager series, this save and indeed this blog was going to continue the focus on team and player metrics as per the approach I adopted for FM20. However, as FM Stag has…
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Continue reading →: FM21 Is Coming
For those that followed my AC Milan save in Football Manager 2020, you may have been wondering who I’ve chosen for Football Manager 2021. Keep reading to find out what I have decided. Data Analysis within Football Manager 2021 Given new data available in FM21 compared to previous editions, I…
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