Season 88 - Are you ready?

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Desert Rats finished off their season in style, entertaining a 10,000 full-house to a celebration of their exceptional season with a 5-0 drubbing of the 3rd placed team. With some iffy results recorded in the other final round matches earlier in the day, the expectation of a Troll result ruining a perfect season pervaded the Management team, but the players had other ideas. 3-0 up after 17 minutes through midfielder Glenn Seynaeve, defender Osama Dawood (assist striker Julien Renard) and striker Emanuele Imbimbo, the team had their tails up all match, tearing apart the visitors defence at will, only to find a resolute 'keeper who was alert to most dangers. Four minutes after the break, striker Matt Goggin fired home a Seynaeve free-kick, and to complete the striker set, midfielder Mashoor Ibrahim assisted Renard to his goal. With victory secure, the team cruised through the rest of the match to a well-earned victory.

Season review:

Desert Rats FC had by far the most successful season of any team managed by the current Management, ending the season unbeaten, with three new trophies in the cabinet to celebrate. In the League, they finished top, having dropped only four points all season. In the Cup, they swept all before them until the Semi-Final, where two tight matches against an equal-rated, but well-supported side were carefully negotiated, leaving them clear to win the Final by a large margin. The Champions League was a relative minefield, a fairly easy Group stage was followed by a knockout stage populated by improving sides, but the Rats progressed carefully to an expected Final confrontation against the pre-competition favourites, only to find they had been defeated in the other Semi-Final, leaving an unexpectedly easy Final to win.



Season Unbeaten Run: 50 matches (44 wins, 6 draws). Longest Winning Run: 17 matches.
Current Unbeaten Run: 54 matches (48 wins, 6 draws)
Management record in current stint: 69 matches (60 wins, 8 draws, 1 defeat)

Final League Table and Top Players



Champions League Finals


Cup Finals


Final Squad Statistics and Club Record


Desert Rats Player-of-the-Season