Match time in the Cup, and the Desert Rats Management decide to put out an unchanged side for the match away at a side yielding 2.2Q/9% to them. 10 minutes on the clock and the visitors were a left-winger down, and 2-0 up through a Glenn Seynaeve free-kick and a 25 yard rocket from DMC Justin Bailey. Four minutes later, and the home side were really in the doo-doo after their right-winger, who conceded the damaging free-kick earlier, takes a chunk out of the replacement left-winger, striker Matt Goggin, and it is Early Bath time. Five minutes before the break, the hosts pulled a goal back, seemingly against the run of play, and the cruising Rats went into the changing room looking a bit worried.

Normal service resumed after the tea and biscuits, the Rats concentrating on the position of the missing opponent and threatening more misery on the home defence, but it wasn't until six minutes from the end that the back three cracked, a penetrating cross from Goggin meeting the majestic leap of right-winger Emerson de Alencar Arraes for the goal that gave Desert Rats a 3-1 win and a two goal advantage for the 2nd Leg.

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