Season 89 Are you ready?

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The Desert Rats Management decided to go shopping this morning, looking for additional support for a defence showing signs of frailty, having conceded one goal in five of the last six matches, where previously the ratio was one in four. In the absence of anything suitable in the transfer market, the Negos and Scouts were looked at, and eventually a single-position DC with Defensive wall SA was chosen.



The new signing was immediately inserted into the starting XI for the top of the table clash of 2nd vs 3rd, and what a match it was. The match stats confirm how close it was and the balance of play, Desert Rats' ND formation playing more in defence with counter against the home sides' 3N-2DMW-3N-2 formation in which they seemed to play attacking. The two defences cancelled each other out, and chances were rare, but eventually the visitors prised the home defence open. Five minutes from time, with the Rats attacking and the two strikers, Julien Renard and Emanuele Imbimbo, heading for the corner flags, the defence parted like the Red Sea and AMC Kostadin Marinov, on the ball, was able to take a couple of touches to get away from his marker before drilling the ball just inside the right-hand post. In the final minute Rats 'keeper Kevin McKibben, who had been quietly accumulating saves throughout the match, was then able to claim the MoM award with a point-blank save from a header following an opposition corner to keep the lead intact. The 1-0 win takes Desert Rats back to 2nd in the table.