Season 69

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Palace teams report, Thursday...

Revisiting the earlier content, with addition information:

Casuals travelled to an unknown 'Neutral venue' for the Cup Final, facing a team with AQ +0.8 and sporting a 3W(D)-3N(DMC) defence. Bookings for Kamal and Aghanavaz, and an 85th minute consolation goal by Johan Shaqiri in a 1-4 defeat were the only things Casuals got out of the match. Back home in the League, and a 4-0 win to keep hold of 3rd place in the table. Again, the Nordeus machine handed out bookings to a side which had previously been 'Fair Play' contenders, this time Topalan, Kaminski and Muscroft were the recpients, the latter two being ruled out of the next match on accumulation. In the plus side, Sergey Fetisov opened his Casuals account with a brace of goals, Liam Cashman and David Zhelev scoring the others. Casuals now have secured their Champions League place for next season.



Terriers travelled to another 'Neutral venue' for their Cup Final, and were bitten by the Nordeus injury machine, DML Paul Hartnett suffering early on before the Manager was settled and he was replaced by Julien van der Plas (MR/AMR) (!). Ben Atkins was injured in the 78th minute, and the Management's request for substitution is still awaiting action... Xabier Moran scored Terriers' 85th minute consolation in a 1-2 defeat, several changes failing to overcome the oppositions' 2-5-3 Flat formation. A home League match in the evening gave the team an opportunity to recover their pride, and a 5-0 victory did just that, but at the price of another injury, this time to midfielder Eko Sinegal. Ondrej Kadlec, Matt Hall, Taulant Doda, Sinegal and Aad Roemgens scored the goals that keep Terriers in second place, having secured their Championship League slot for next season.



Palace Terriers injury stats: 16 injuries, 64 days; eclipsing last season's 15 injuries, 62 days.

Desert Rats FC scorer in today's 1-1 away draw was Vinnie Taylor. The Rats can finish no lower than their current 6th place, but can still get into a Championship League berth, given the right combination of results...