(FM23) – The Kings of København (22) – BK FREM

Season 2028-29

In the greater metropolitan area of Copenhagen is home to the capital of Denmark and to major football clubs like FC København and Brøndby IF. However, can BK FREM become “The Kings of København”.

Last episode: The Kings of København (21)

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On The Pitch

July – August 2028

3F Superliga Preliminary Phase

Two goals on his debut by 19 year-old Brazilian attacking Gustavo ensure we moved to the top of the 3F Superliga after a 4-2 victory over FC Nordsjælland. They had taken a two goal lead within the first 40 minutes, however after the break and a couple of changes Gustavo pegged it back to two all. However, new signing Albert Braut Tjåland (Cousin of Haaland) on his debut saw red for a bad tackle but that didn’t stop the lads scoring another two goals to seal victory over us with Nicklas Berg getting the third before another new signing Souleymane N’Doye got the fourth goal.

From top to ninth following back-to-back defeats to AaB who bullied us in the 5-2 (Phil Thieltges & Souleymane N’Doye) fixture before Viborg FF defeated us by two goals to nil. Brøndby IF visited the Valby Stadion and left with a point after a boring 1-1 draw with Phil Thieltges scoring our goal from the penalty spot thanks to VAR confirming the penalty was correctly awarded.

Bullied again, this time by OB by the same score line as the AaB game, If you can’t remember it was 5-2 (Tom Lacoux & Moise Sahi Dion). That’s now three defeats in the first five games and we drop another place in the league to tenth now and I really hope this is not second season syndrome in the top flight.

Moise Sahi Dion scored from the penalty spot after two minutes, but unfortunately we couldn’t hold onto that lead as FC Midtjylland managed to level to game one a piece before we managed to make it two games unbeaten as we beat AGF 2-1, thanks to goals from N’Doye & Sahi Dion as climb above AGF and move into the eighth place in the league.

League Table

Europa Conference League Qualifying Rounds

We enter the Europa Conference League league path third qualifying round against Slovenian side NK Domžale. In the first leg, we got off to a great start away from home by beating them 2-0, with Gustavo and Sahi Dion getting the all important goals, however in front of our own fans at the Valby Stadion, we hit them for five in the 5-1 win (7-1 on agg) to set up a tie against a Swedish club. Lacoux scored first before Sahi Dion double the lead before the break. After the restart goals by Tielemans, Madsen before Lacoux got his second of the game sealed the victory.

In the fourth qualifying round tie we met Djurgårdens IF Fotboll and both legs finished in draws. The first leg was 0-0, but the second finished 1-1, Sahi Dion getting our goal and we were about the celebrate the win but they snatched an equaliser in injury time. Nothing really happened in AET, so the game went to penalties and up stepped Mathijs Tielemans who kept his cool and smashed home the winning penalty.

Fixtures

This format is new…

So, we only play six different clubs once…As anyone played this format before and how does it work?

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Final Words

I have a feeling we are going to do badly in the league and may struggle throughout the season. Then, on the flip side I am buzzing that we have managed to get some European football for this season. Let’s hope we can get a few wins and get some of that prize money, My target in the Europa Conference League is to win at least three of them ties out of the six, If I was a betting man, I think we can beat Cherno More Varna, Slovan Bratislava and CFR Cluj. I think we may lose to Genoa and Hapoel Tel Aviv and draw against Polish side Raków Częstochowa.

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