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Day 21 - Palace Terriers Champions League report.
Palace Terriers played at home trying to overturn a 0-2 deficit from the 1st Leg of the Champions League Quarter-Final against a team who boasted +1.7Q advantage on the starting XIs. Terriers started with a 4-1-4-1 normal/flanks/counter against 4-3N-3, as in the 1st Leg, but with a few changes in personnel due to injury and replacements due to form (or lack of it), and the first half was a carbon copy of most of the previous match, Terriers defending well, being adventurous in attack but coming up against a hard defence to break down. At half-time, the Management decided that if this was their last hurrah in the CL this season, then they'd go for broke and changed the formation and orders accordingly. Out went DL Andre Forsmark, who picked up a booking in the third minute of the match, in a like-for-like swap for Thomas Denervaud; and ML Mehmet Can Kilickaya made way for AML Zdenek Krajca as the formation changed to 4-5-1V and the orders to hard attack/flanks/no counter. This brought dividends within 5 minutes as Krajca ran down the left wing and fed the ball to striker Florent Ben Dhia, who made no mistake with his attempt. With a quarter-hour to go right-winger Declan McGranaghan cruised into the box to head home another Krajca cross and Ben Dhia put the icing on the cake with a fine solo goal six minutes from time to make the final score 3-0 - Terriers progress to the Semi-Finals 3-2 on aggregate.
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