Palace teams report, Monday 10th August...

A couple of days to report as I have been out of town...

Casuals had a Champions League match they'd rather forget. After the 6-1 heaviest defeat ever last season, they didn't even get the one at home to a team 7+AQ better, sporting 10 6* players in their starting line-up. Barring a miracle of the highest order, a discrete veil will be drawn over the Champions League for this season. Defender Freddy Jones had his 150th appearance in this game. A couple of League games saw the Casuals bounce back after the CL woes with a 4-0 away win, Hansen, Petrovski, Shaqiri and Zhelev scoring; and a 0-0 away draw. In the Cup, a team a level lower was entertained at home, and they put up a good account of themselves as Casuals won 1-0. Johan Shaqiri celebrated his 150th appearance by hitting the visitors before they had settled in with a 1st minute strike, so a slender advantage will be taken into the return leg.

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Terriers started with a 1-0 away win in the League, Nicky Jones providing the goal on the stroke of half-time, then hosted a team of 2Q higher in the Cup, and take a 1-0 advantage in to the return leg. Xabier Moran put the icing on Ruben Gorrano's 50th appearance with the winning goal in the 65th minute. Back to the League, and the 8 game winning run came to a halt with a 1-2 defeat. The hosts were 2-0 up in 25 minutes, and the Terriers attack only breached the home defence in the 89th minute, Xabier Moran, making his 50th appearance in Terriers colours, providing a free-kick cross for recent signing striker Matt Hall to head in his debut goal. The Cup provided an away trip to the US and a 4-2 win to all but seal a Semi-Final berth for the Terriers. Aad Roemgens opened the scoring, and debutant midfielder Stanislav Dolgoborodov put Terriers back in front in the second-half before Ondrej Kadlec scored a brace to seal the win.

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Desert Rats FC have suffered a mid-season slump, two defeats taking them perilously close to dropping out of the promotion race altogether. Striker Lorcan Ivory scored the goal in the first match, a 1-3 defeat, and midfielder Michael Attenborough put the Rats ahead early in the second match, but the rest of the team folded in the last half-hour and the final score was 1-4.