A football strategy game with nothing to grind

No currency, no levels, no squad building, no career.

Strategy, narrowed to the interesting part

The interesting part of football management is the decision under pressure: you are losing, you have forty-five minutes, and you have to pick. Everything around that — transfers, contracts, training weeks, a season of fixtures — is stripped out. What is left is the decision and its consequence.

The trade-offs are real

A high line wins the ball higher and leaves runners a clean path. A fresh substitute at 80 minutes has ten minutes to change things. Piling on attacking instructions dilutes them: there is one ball, and a busy plan is easier to read. None of this is a difficulty setting; it falls out of the simulation.

One session is five minutes

Three attempts at one half. If you want to keep going, practice mode lets you try anything against the same day without changing your result.

Recent puzzles

#1 — Brighton & Hove Albion v Brentford, BHA 1–2 BRE at half-time
#2 — Arsenal v Ipswich Town, ARS 0–1 IPS at half-time
#3 — Egypt v Morocco, EGY 0–1 MAR at half-time
#4 — Manchester United v Ipswich Town, MUN 0–2 IPS at half-time
#5 — Hull City v Arsenal, HUL 1–0 ARS at half-time
#6 — Chelsea v Leeds United, CHE 0–2 LEE at half-time

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