Season 88 - Are you ready?

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Desert Rats FC played their delayed away Champions League Semi-Final 1st Leg match and started the match with a bang. The home side's 3DW-2DMC-MR-2AMC-2ST formation gave the Management a small headache, and the Rats were lined up in a 3DW-2DMC-2MC-2AMW-1 counter. Three minutes in and the visitors were awarded a Penalty and Patrick Tillmanns took the responsibility of converting the kick, beating the 'keeper at the right-hand post. Both sides suffered injuries, the visitors losing left-winger Gary Cusack early in the second-half while still the one goal ahead. At the same time, the home side were switching formation on a regular basis, and the Management changed to 4-5-1V as a good utility counter, which enabled attacking down the flanks, especially late on as the hosts lined up in a narrow 2DC-DMC-MC-3AMC-3ST formation and attacked down the middle. Filip Andersson hit a long range shot in the 73rd minute, which the 'keeper appeared to have saved but eventually ended up in the net, and five minutes later Tillmanns added a third goal after good work on the flank by Mashoor Ibrahim. Final score 3-0, and Desert Rats have high expectations of another Final appearance.