Season 71 - Week 4

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Palace teams report, Saturday...

Desert Rats FC took the honour this morning, and played an away League match. Chris Passmore (10 rating) and Albert O'Toole (10 rating, MoM) both scored hat-tricks, with Markus Hammes adding a single in a 7-0 win. Jose Carlos Matias and Lorcan Ivory were injured.



Palace Terriers played mid-afternoon and had a 2nd vs 3rd match at home. Braces each for Zdenek Krajca and Aaron Record, match score 4-0 and Terriers tighten their hold on 2nd. Downside was a double yellow for DMC Miguel Perez, he misses next match.



Palace Casuals played mid-evening and broke their winless drought with a 1-0 away win. Defender Sergey Fetisov got onto the end of a free-kick from Mario Dinamarca for the only goal of the match in the 59th minute. Dinamarca had missed a penalty in the first half, and Liam Cashman was on the wrong end of a brutal tackle which got the perpetrator an early bath and Cashman the prospect of 4 days medical treatment. New signing Rasmus Sadi got a cameo appearance in late on in the game and performed well.



With the earlier reported signings, a mini-clearout of lower quality players continues, the two departing this evening were:
Ben De Wree, DC, (age 26, 3*/139Q SA, 200 appearances-12 MoM-9 goals-0 assists), (see below for selling price).
David Zhelev, DC/DMC, (age 26, 4*/140, 102-3-9-0), $97.4M.

There must have been a real battle royale over Ben De Wree:



At the halfway stage of the season, injury stats are as follows:
Palace Casuals, 20 matches, 4 injuries, 14 days.
Palace Terriers, 18 matches, 4 injuries, 14 days.
Desert Rats FC, 24 matches, 7 injuries, 32 days.