I thought this morning, why not for big games have an experiement, let the FM2008 engine run an important game and see what result it came up with. Pick the same squad but speculate on the starting lineup, see how good I can do at managing in this case England.

You can download our savegame also to run the same game yourself, it will start 1 day before the game (set as a friendly) and the squad has been picked already for you, without injuries (thanks FM modifier).

So how did we do? Check out the screenshots below.

Match ending score

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Match stats

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So there it is, can you do better?

If you think so, download our saved game for 8.02 here and try!