Palace teams report, 1st instalment...

Casuals had a morning home Champions League match, and drew 2-2. 0-1 down in the 19th minute, the set-piece play from the home side was woefully lacking, and several chances were spurned in the first-half. In the 63rd minute, the Management decided that a formation change was required and put striker Liam Cashman on instead of defender Ben De Wree, and struck gold immediately. Anthony Petrovski collected a loose ball and ran at the visitors' defence, which then parted as the Red Sea, giving him a clear shot on goal, which he gratefully accepted to level the scores. Three minutes from time, the visitors struck again, a corner being headed in from the back post, but Casuals weren't to be denied a share of the spoils, a shot from just outside the area by Liam Cashman going in off a post.

Terriers were away, up against another possibly abandoned team in the Champions League, and cleaned up nicely. After a quarter-hour, Nathan Masegela passed to Freddy Jones and he slotted home the shot for the opening goal, and a minute later, Masegela had an opportunity to shoot himself, and wrong-footed the 'keeper to make the score 2-0. On 33 minutes, Xabier Moran ran in from the right-wing onto a pass from Masegela and made no mistake, and Terriers were 3-0 up at the break. The midfield got in on the act early in the second-half, Aaron Record running through the now thoroughly dispirited defence and squaring the ball to Ondrej Kadlec, and he finished from close range. The visitors then coasted to full-time for a 4-0 win.