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July Fourth 3-1 Mars Champions League Group F Round 1
The red planet came to visit us here in London for the first group game this evening, July Fourth have a history of getting narrow wins in the first group game in the CL each season, for some reason its never Round 1 when we make our impact in the competition, It was the same case here, Mars played well and put up a good fight, Early on in the 6th minute Michu crossed the ball into find the advancing Papaleo into the Mars penalty box to knock it in to give us the lead, Miku had an effort midway through the first half but it was an easy save from the Mars GK, We then needlessly conceded a corner in the 37th minute and failed to deal with the cross into the box which von Bergen got the equaliser for Mars. The second half we switched tactics, taking off a tired Tony Adams and Petr Vasko and brought on L.McNamara and Zidane to go 3W-2-3W-2 and this seem to have an effect as we were getting many attacks on goal, Miku wasted a couple of chances but Michu was more intelligent to play a pass to Papaleo after beating some defenders and Papaleo made no mistake and July Fourth were back infront, Then out of knowhere seen Chuck Norris finish this game off with a long 40 yard kick that beat the Mars GK off his line, This fantastic goal saw Norris turn up the heat for the rest of the game by running into space and create a chance for Zidane but Zidane mis-kicked it and it was cleared.
Goals: Michu (6) von Bergen (32) Papaleo (51) Norris (79) MOTM: Norris