In the week after Easter, the kicker home game cup started its third round. On Wednesday and Thursday, numerous games were on the agenda, which were even broadcast on Twitch with live commentary for the first time this week.

Incredibly close games, spectacular goals and exciting catching-up races awaited the spectators in the third round of the kicker home game cup . Our FIFA 20 tournament for amateur clubs , organized together with kicker and MateCrate , in which virtual footballers play on the PlayStation 4 to top up their own team treasury.

kicker home game cup round 3

Of the 3,704 participants who had registered for the tournament in advance, 926 amateur teams qualified for round 3 in the week before Easter. On Wednesday and Thursday the next round was on the program for the winners to play in Hin – and second leg to fight to stay in the tournament.

This time even in front of an audience, because selected games were broadcast on the kicker and EarlyGame Twitch channel with live commentary. Konni Winkler and David König led through the games and then analyzed what happened with razor sharpness.

The players “ SuS Polsum DOS ” from SuS Polsum II and “ Malatove ” from TSV Blaustein formed the start, which Malatove clearly won 3:1 and 5:2 respectively .

Already tonight , the winners will continue in the fourth round of the home game cup . For the entire weekend we will again be broadcasting selected games together with the kicker on our Twitch channels. It’s worth stopping by, because 4 x 2200 FUT Points were raffled in the chat yesterday.

Home game cup round 3: The most exciting matches from Wednesday

The first game in the live stream was the match between “ Leroy11 ” from VfR Kaiserslautern and “ Pinto ” from FC Eldagsen. Leroy 11 chose the Manchester United side , while Pinto started with the Portugal national team .

FIFA 20 is played in 85 mode , which means that all players are matched to a rating of 85 and it doesn’t matter which team you choose.

In the first game, the Kaiserslauterner fought his way to a narrow 3:2 victory and the second leg was just as close. The score is 2-2 after 90 minutes, but a lot can happen in three minutes of stoppage time. Can Pinto still score the winning goal, which would result in a draw and thus a third playoff?

But the player from Lower Saxony made a fatal mistake, which his opponent from Kaiserslautern used coldly and scored the winning goal in the 92nd minute to make it 3-2 .

In the last live matchup on Wednesday, ” Canabi ” for TuS Viktoria Buchholz played against ” Nicels385 ” from SV Hoch-Weisel from Wetteraukreis in Hesse. Would the player from Duisburg be able to move into the 4th round of the kicker home game cup after his club colleague “ allstar910 ” failed just a few minutes earlier at the GM Eintracht Autenried II?

It didn’t look like it, because Nicels385 won the first leg 2-0 and didn’t give his opponent a chance. But Canabi proved in the second game that you can work hard in Duisburg, taking the lead after just a few minutes. The change from PSG to Fenerbahce Istanbul was obviously good for Canabi , because after 12 minutes the score was 2-0 and the deficit from the first leg was equalized.

Especially in the first half of the game, the player from TuS Viktoria Buchholz turned up a lot and went into the well-deserved half-time break with a 4:1 lead. Should the Südhesse from SV Hoch-Weisel be able to hit back again in the second 45 minutes?

Nicels38 came back to 2:4 from his point of view, but shortly before the end Canabi should close the sack with the 5:2 and move into the fourth round of the home game cup.

There was tension on Thursday, too

Yesterday, Thursday, the tournament continued punctually at 6:00 p.m. We showed a total of four games together with kicker on Twitch, with SC Hertha Hamborn and TSV Rott kicking off just ten minutes after the start of the second day.

After a 2:2 win in the first leg, “ JoDusch ” from TSV Rott narrowly defeated his opponent “ Banisch ” in the second game and made it into round 4 perfect.

The matter looked much clearer in the second live game of the evening between Mengede 08/20 and SV Borussia Momberg. Player “ Martris ” from Mengede showed his skills in FIFA 20 in both games and clearly beat his opponent “ nikisch96 ” 4:1 and 3:1.

In the last game of the evening, “ Icki Berger” from SC Kirchasch and “ AlexSVP ” from SV Preussen Reinfeld faced each other, both of whom chose the royal team – Real Madrid.

The victory in the first leg clearly went 3-1 to the carp town of Reinfeld, but Icki Berger from Kirchasch in Upper Bavaria didn’t want to let that sit. With the score at 2:2, both teams went into the dressing room, similar to the score, were the ball possession or goal shot statistics.

The second half was dominated by Icky: The game was only played to one goal, so the SC Kirchasch player scored a well-deserved lead in the 56th minute, who was now just one goal short of equalizing in the overall result.

But the efforts should not be rewarded in the end. In the 88th minute, the Brazilian winger Vinícius Jr. equalized and secured AlexSVP entry into round 4 of the kicker home game cup .

Home game cup round 4 starts tonight

The third round featured a total of ten hours of the finest live football on Twitch. And the best? It’s going on tonight. In the next three days we will be together with the kicker, again live every evening.

It starts tonight with the fourth round: The 463 remaining amateur teams are already fighting for progress from 6:00 p.m. Tomorrow we’ll be at the start again, while on Sunday we’ll start at 5:00 p.m.

Selected games can be seen on the kicker twitch channel as well as on our own channel . All results from the first rounds of the home game cup can be found on the kicker homepage .

FIFA 22 – FUTs

What could be cooler than just relaxed gaming and doing some sofa sports on the side? In FIFA 22, the player is on the move fast, but without getting sore muscles. With the Ultimate Team Event cards, the collecting instinct is now also satisfied. However, the FUT Heroes keep creeping into my mind, so here are the best Ultimate Team Event cards that are definitely worth adding to your collection.

Heroes cards selected by EA for top qualities

Admittedly, the FUT heroes will cost quite a bit of coin, but it turns out that EA has once again brought some top-class players into the game when it comes to selection. As a collector and hunter, it’s an added attraction for FIFA gamers to now include their own favorite heroes in the portfolio and benefit from their individual skills. Both in the game and in team building, the FUTs will revolutionize the game once again.

EA SPORTS FC: FIFA GAME SERIES TO BE CONTINUED UNDER NEW NAME

Of course, the soccer simulation game series will not be discontinued completely. After FIFA 23, EA will relaunch the game under the name EA Sports FC and market it independently. Old FIFA hares should now become quite an ear, after all, the EA Sports Football Club used to be a part of the actual game for years. A lot of playing was rewarded, points could be collected and items, boosts or balls for the individual game modes could be unlocked.

In this context, there could also be a complete revolution of the classic game. There is a heated discussion in the FIFA community about whether the game, which is expected to be released in the fall of 2023, will be free-to-play. This option is said to be on the table for the game makers from EA, because: It seems that EA earns most of its money with the purchases of FIFA Points in the game mode Ultimate Team and not with the sale of the game itself.

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