Palace Casuals

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Another busy day for the Casuals, with a Champions League group match and a league game, both at home. To honour Top Eleven's 5th Birthday the club chose to use the black free premium jersey for both of these games.

Owing to his league suspension, midfielder Jack McCaul was one of the first team players chosen to be one of the better quality players rostered to assist the Second XI in the Champions League Round 3 match against FC CRVENA ZVEZDA. The first half was complete deadlock as the teams, lying 1st and 2nd in the group, cancelled each other out. A stiff talking to at half time saw the home side come out with more purpose and McCaul showed potential leadership qualities with a cracking opening goal in the 53rd minute. Thus encouraged, Claude Pinto continued his fine form since recovery from recent injury by doubling the lead soon after, and made it a brace late on as Casuals recorded a 3-0 victory. Recent star player Stergios Tzanakakis suffered an injury in the final minutes and will miss three days.



League Round 5: For the evening league game, the Suppellettile FC manager was a no show, but no less than 8 'friends' showed up, threatening to overwhelm the home support. In spite of this, Palace managed to eke out a win, assisted by some poor performances by the visiting forward players. Claude Pinto continued his rich vein of goal-scoring form with the opening goal, assisted by senior strike partner Catalin Neagu. Neagu was to add his own name to the score sheet with the second goal, and the Casuals went in at half-time 2-0 to the good. Shadow striker Andreas Graf added a third goal just past the hour mark, and the home side eased to a 3-0 win to maintain their clear lead at the top of the table.