Season 73 - Week 3

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Day 7 - Palace teams report (part the second and last).

Palace Casuals went away to the League leaders and despite having 1.0Q advantage, and the home manager did not turn up (+3% possession), lost again, 1-2. In the 53rd minute striker Philip Deery converted a cross from left winger Juan Manuel Ramirez to put the visitors ahead, but the home side scored twice in the last 20 minutes to push the Casuals down to 12th place after their fourth successive League defeat.

A bit of last minute business in the Transfer market had the Terriers Management seeing off a multiple-bidder to secure the services of a new midfielder, for 2T/$10.1M:



The Management has yet to make a decision on which of the two possible existing midfielders will make way for the new recruit.

Palace Terriers took control of their Champions League Group in the battle of the top two, winning 4-0 away. Earlier Scout signing Declan McGranaghan was given his debut on the right wing, and like his fellow-signing this morning, kept up the Terriers tradition of scoring on debut. In the 29th minute, striker Waldemar Sanchez made a defence-splitting run, and unselfishly passed for the in-rushing McGranaghan to apply the coup-de-grace and put the visitors into the lead. Having started in 4-5-1V countering ND formation, ten minutes into the second half, the Management decided to break the stalemate the game had descended into by changing to 3-5-2V, central defender Ben Smith giving way to striker Florent Ben Dhia. This, surprisingly, had little effect on the match, but the second substitution of new signing Clarke for Bojan Milosavljevic was the catalyst for a final 13 minutes of attacking mayhem. Immediately after the substitution, McGranaghan scored his second of the match from 25 yards out, then he supplied the assists for Ben Dhia and Sanchez to add goals of their own to the total. McGranaghan was the obvious choice for MoM.