Season 88 - Are you ready?

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Desert Rats FC played their final Group E match in the Champions League away and finished their programme with a 4-0 win. Striker Matt Goggin led the way with a MoM winning brace in the second-half, both assisted by strike partner Julien Renard; the midfield duo combined for the first goal, Glenn Seynaeve finishing of a defence-splitting move by Ireneusz Jezierski; and AMC Simon Hunt won the prize for most dramatic goal when he rammed a goalkeeper clearance from his initial shot back past the custodian just before the break.

Desert Rats finish top of their Group, but a progress-ending nightmare situation is gathering on the horizon. Group F has two teams vying for the two top spots - on Quality, the team currently in the top spot should progress as Group Winners, into the other half of the draw - but if he wants to be in the top half of the Knockout stage then he would want to finish as Runner-up, and thus face the Rats in the first Round.



This the Rats do not want, as the team in question is untimately the best team in the whole competition, and they'd rather the teams in the other half have a go at them and hope the Troll visits, thus preventing them meeting the Rats (hopefully) in the Final.



So the nightmare options are as follows:
a) - the teams both get the same result, but an adverse decision on the splitting two teams with the same points and the same head-to-head record puts the 'big' team in second place;
b) - the 'big' team throws their last Group match and the other team doesn't lose, and finishes second.

What the Rats Management is hoping for is that common-sense prevails and the current status-quo is maintained.