Season 82 - Are you ready?

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Day 3 and 4 - Palace Terriers report.

Take the top 7 from last season, add three big hitters, three also-rans and an abandoned team, and you have Palace Terriers Level 15 League this season. Their record of always promoting looks in danger this season.



Like their senior team, Terriers started out with a Champions League match, playing away with a slight Quality advantage over their hosts. Christian Cros got Terriers in front with a well-taken penalty 5 minutes before the break, and Hairil Zamri Ahmad Muzafar clinched the match with a second goal three minutes from time.

The late evening League match can best be described as a disaster - Terriers were overrun by the home side in the first half, going 2-down by the half-way point, but Josu Bielsa pulled a goal back before the break. Despite both sides using their full complement of substitutions in the second half, the score remained the same, Terriers losing 1-2 at the first attempt.

Terriers' Cup 1st Leg match was first up for them on Day 4, playing away at a Level 16 team with 7% Quality advantage. A difficult match became almost impossible 6 minutes before the break when Josu Bielsa fouled in the penalty box, being sent off into the bargain, and the home side duly netted the equaliser to Luca Giovanni Pidutti's 17th minute opener. Terriers played on without a striker, and were coping admirably when a long-range shot evaded both defence and 'keeper, and the hosts snaffled a 2-1 advantage for the 2nd Leg.

Again, the second League match was used as a venting point for a Palace team, this time Terriers entertaining the lowest-Quality team in the League and eventually triumphing 5-0, but it took a tweak after little bit of advice from the Assistant Manager to get the scoring started. Hairil Zamri Ahmad Muzafar bagged a hat-trick, with new midfielder Moshe Hajaj and Luca Giovanni Pidutti getting the other two.