Season 76 - Are you ready?

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Day 19 - Palace teams report (1/2).

Palace Terriers played their Champions League Quarter-Final 1st Leg at home against an equally-rated team and drew 1-1. The referee got his cards out in the 1st minute and booked one of the Terriers MCs and 16 minutes later the other one was in the book after a penalty-box incident that led to the visitors scoring from the spot. Thus shackled by the fear of the second card, the midfield was useless for the forseeable future, so the Management decided to use longball and bypass them entirely. The match then descended into a dour struggle, which even a midfield substitution and return to short passing failed to enliven. Just back from injury, striker Samir Gross provided the finishing touch from an Andre Forsmark corner in the second half to bring the scores level, but neither defence was yielding and the match ended without further trouble to the scoreboard.



Palace Casuals had a home League match against 8th place and after opening the scoring, went behind and left it late to scrape home with a 3-2 win. Left-winger Andre Faisca scored the first goal on the rebound after his initial shot was saved by the 'keeper, but the visitors were level just before the break, and went ahead just after it. Into the last 10 minutes, and Casuals threw everything into a final hard attacking effort bolstered by a possession bonus, and first right-winger Andrea Denicola netted a Faisca cross for the equaliser and then provided a corner which striker Maarten Wiegman headed home for a late winner.
Casuals go up a place to 10th but are a way behind getting to any promotion place, so look to be (unintentionally) tanking this season...