Slimmed-down Palace Casuals started their Champions League campaign with a 0-0 draw against Sherif FC.
Opponent used a 4-4-2 classic, Casuals started in 3N-4-1-2 but a change to 4-5-1V got a few more chances on goal but still couldn't break down the generalist formation... Opponents DC got 9 and MoM.
Also picked up the 'it should be a free-kick but the commentary says corner' bug...
Shed two more players yesterday, now down to a squad of 16, daily wages $9.17M. Full house at $52 per for the CL game (+$5.4M merchandise sales) - raising by $2 for the next home game.
One friendly first thing this morning, tix at $22 got 130k (50%) attendance for $2.8M + $986k merchandise sales. Reducing ticket price for the next one...