Season 80 - Are you ready!

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Day 26 - Palace teams report.

Palace Terriers played at home in a 3rd vs 2nd match-up which the home side lost by a single goal. Unlike the Assistant Manager, the Terriers Management were not surprised by the result, only the manner in which it happened. Terriers can not now finish higher than third, or lower than 5th this season.






Palace Casuals played away at a higher-Quality 8th place team. Playing the 3N-2(DML/R)-3N-2 counter to 4-5-1V, the visitors found themselves a goal down early on and struggled to half-time with the score the same. The Management decided to replace an MC with AMC Angelo Musto in a bid to keep the home DMC quiet, and changed to attacking mentality in a win at all costs strategy. It took 11 minutes for this to bear fruit, the substitute evading the aforementioned DMC and slotting past the 'keeper to level the scores. MoM right-winger Jose Mateus combined with defender Graeme Millar in an intricate passing move which ended in the latter unleashing a long-range screamer past the home custodian, and top scorer Maarten Wiegman netted with the last touch of the match to make the final score 3-1 to the Casuals. With the 2nd vs 1st match ending in the favour of the home side, the situation at the top of the table has opened up again, and any of the top 5 can have a tilt at honours. The 3rd vs 2nd match tomorrow is now critical to Casuals' chances of the Championship.