Season 72 - Week 3

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Palace teams report, Day 9 - Monday...

Palace Terriers started the day off with an early home match, and they overcame the '10-man syndrome' to record a 2-1 victory to put their Champions League prospects back on track. The visitors committed four shirt-pulling fouls in the first 19 minutes, three of which were punished by yellow cards, resulting in one player dismissed - the goalkeeper saved them embarrassment by saving three out of the four free-kicks awarded for the infringements. Terriers got a goal on the board eventually, central midfielder Eko Sinegal heading home a Luis Fernando Peralta corner in the 28th minute, and striker Ben Atkins sent in a 30 yard pile driver a minute before half-time to reinforce the lead. In the second half, the visitors asserted themselves more, and pulled one back just after the hour mark, but the Terriers did enough to keep the lead until the end.

Palace Casuals made a second visit to their League opponents in as many days, as they are their current Cup opponents, and finally got an away League point on the board for this season. Martin Kozak finished off a move by striker Philip Deery in the 58th minute to open the scoring, but the home side hit two in the following 11 minutes to take the lead. Right-winger Soheil-Vosough Gholam scored an equaliser late on to give Casuals a share of the spoils in a 2-2 draw. In post-match training, unused players striker Liam Cashman and central midfielder Mustapha Haouli incurred injuries (4 days and 3 days, respectively).

Palace Terriers played an away League match mid-evening, and left-winger Carlos Pineda scored his second hat-trick in two League matches as the visitors recorded a 6-0 win. Striker Tony Meikle, central midfielder Bojan Milosavljevic and right-winger Julien van der Plas were the other scorers.