Season 90 - Are you ready?

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Desert Rats beat them, another one takes their place - the League match today was away to a new inhabitant of the 4th position in the table, making five top 4 teams successively that have come up against the Rats. Coming on the back of a five match winning run, and with almost identical starting XI Quality, the Management thought this one would be a stiffer test for his charges, and he was correct for the first 75 minutes. Playing 3N-2DMW-2N-2AMW-1 Butterfly against 4-4-2 Classic, both sets of wingers had Good matches, rating highly versus their opposite numbers on the pitch. Both sides were giving as good as they got, and it wasn't until the 35th minute that the first cracks started to appear in the home defence. Kostadin Marinov finished off a Patrick Tillmanns cross for the first goal, and after that, the visitors gradually gained the advantage in play. A midfield one-for-one substitution in the 68th minute took off the tiring Ireneusz Jezierski and introduced the rested Mashoor Ibrahim, and the Rats found another gear. Patrick Tillmanns curled home a free-kick to increase the lead, then the poorly-performing Christian Lipp was replaced by fellow-defender Garry Crawford. Crawford was immediately into action, sending in a free-kick from wide on the right, which midfielder Mukhtar Hassan lashed into the net. Two minutes later, Marinov completed his brace with the last goal of the match, deceiving a defender and then rounding the 'keeper for an easy shot into the net. Thanks to Niko and madflo, amongst others, for the support.



Apologies to Ireneusz Jezierski, who should have been namechecked yesterday for his 100 appearances for the Rats.