Season 69

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Palace teams report for Wednesday...

Casuals had a 4-2 win at home in the Cup, and in the League, a 2-2 draw away.

Man-of-the-Match in the Cup game was right-winger Shaqiri, a second-half one-man show with two assists for Hansen and Garcia and a solo goal for himself. Young new striker recruit Liam Cashman played his second game and looks to be slowly settling in, providing the final pass for Muscroft to score the first-half equaliser to the opponents opening goal. Hansen picked up a 2-day ankle strain injury four minutes from the end of the match.

In the League match, the other recent striker purchase, Anthony Petrovski has made an instant impact. Following on from his goal in the Champions League match yesterday, he added two more in the League game today, both headers from corners, the first by Ndjengue, and the other from Shaqiri.

Terriers had two 3-0 wins today.

They started their awayday trip with a hop over to the Netherlands, and three solo goals settled the League game, two from Moran bracketing a goal from Powell, who was on as a substitute for the injured Kadlec (2 day Thigh strain injury). MoM was Terriers 'keeper Mateus.

Continuing on to Algeria, the Cup match was equally a formality, and it came with the customary injury. Having applied the magic sponge to utility defender Migliorati to get him on the pitch in the DMC position, the Management could not even raise a hint of surprise when he was injured again (3 day Ankle strain) in the 31st minute. A formation reshuffle occurred and striker Atkins was pulled off the bench to substitute for his fallen comrade. MoM Moran had opened the scoring in the 16th minute with a direct free-kick, and in the second-half, provided a corner for Atkins to head home, and a free-kick cross for Masegela to shoot into the net.

Desert Rats FC had a goal fest away game in the league, Taylor (4), Attenborough, Haddou (later injured) and Martin scoring in a 7-1 thrashing of their opponents, before returning home and registering a disappointing 1-1 draw in the Cup, Pelissier opening his account for the Rats.

Injury stats:
Casuals - 3 injuries / 8 days; Terriers - 6 / 25 ; Desert Rats - 2 / 7 .