Season 70 - Week 4

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Palace teams report, Sunday...

Palace Casuals had a home Champions League 1st Leg match against the leaders of their League. Liam Cashman opened the scoring, but the match as far as Casuals was concerned ended there. Right-back Fetisov started the rot when he fouled an opposition player on the edge of the area and 'keeper Johnston was given no chance from the resulting spot kick. The visitors then scored three more in the second half to defeat Casuals 1-4 and number the days of their existence in the CL. The later League match away at the second-placed team in the League looked like giving Casuals the same sort of result, but Shaqiri and Cashman put two goals on the board in three first-half minutes and with the rest of the team playing like demons it looked like an upset was in order. The hosts pulled one back midway through the second-half but Casuals hung on for a table-upsetting 2-1 win. This evening, one of the Palace Casuals strikers was sought after, but the derisory offer is still on the table...



Desert Rats FC were away in the League and cruised to a 4-0 win, with goals from Ivory, Abdul Karim (2) and Matias.

Palace Terriers had another goal-spree day, the away 1st Leg of their Champions League match being surprisingly easy, van der Plas scoring a hat-trick, but being beaten to MoM by Krajca with 2 goals and 2 assists. Record and substitute striker Hall (2) were the other scorers in the 8-0 win. The evening League match at home against the basement team in the League was a puzzling match of two halves. The first-half was a frustrating stalemate where nothing would go right for the home side, they suffered two more injuries, and the visitors threatened a Troll result. After the break, however, the world turned right way up again, and Atkins put in a strikers' shift with a hat-trick, but was pipped to MoM by Kadlec (1 goal and 1 assist), final score 4-0. Silly commentary time again:



Injury stats at the half-way point in the season:
Palace Casuals - 5 injuries, 32 days
Palace Terriers - 6 injuries, 24 days
Desert Rats FC - 5 injuries, 17 days