Rangers had a cracker of a league game today. Ubrukelig Avfall (useless waste??) came to Rangers' Park today having won 4 of their last 5 and climbed into the number two spot in the league. We'd handled them easily enough in earlier meetings (2-0 league and 3-0, 2-1 in the cup), they were the first team this season to score against us and a 9-3-3 record was nothing to take too lightly.

They played a strong defensive 5-4-1, so we countered with a 3-3-3-1, minimal central defenders and three central midfielders, pushing players forward on both the wings and the center behind Berezin at striker. left our flanks open, but with 90% of their squad on the back half, we weren't too worried about it.

Rangers were in fine form today, and Berezin opened the scoring at 17', heading a fine cross from Kupalang into the top corner. Glavas raced downfield on a counterattack and with a nice layoff to George we were up 2-0. George notched his second goal in two days since joining the team. Four minutes later it was Glavas' turn, taking the pass from Berezin and making the keeper look silly. We put it on cruise control in the second half, subbing in DMC Prasetya for MC Dullah and putting second string striker Pasukmueng for Berezin at 68'. 'Suk was on the pitch less than sixty seconds before going down with a groin strain. With Edri inactive, we were forced to send AMC/AMR Seo in at striker. Second day in a row a late substitution was injured and left us scrambling. However it was eight minutes before seo could get on the pitch, and Kupalang nutmegged the keeper while we were a man down. He added a second beauty shot off the free kick a few minutes later making it 5-0.

Morale was generally good today for a change, except for Seo (expected as we played him out of position) and Prasetya (maybe he was enjoying the comfort of the bench and upset about having to play???).

Strange results in the league today with only four winners, and three drawn matches. Tarek FC was one of the winners however, and leapfrogged the two teams ahead of them to move into second, eleven points back. Kupalang is now clear on both leaderboards with 12 goals and 12 assists. Yes, a mere 12 goals is good enough to lead my league. And 12 is also the difference between Rangers and the next most prolific team in total goals: 51 and 39, so tell me again about Poor Papaleo and his 30 goals!