Season 91 - Are you ready?

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Home Guard FC are beginning to look to the Nivea Mens Super League as their way out of the Champions League Group stage, after a home defeat against a higher-Quality team. The Management, faced with an 11% Quality deficit, tried one of his experimental formations in an attempt to stifle the expected assault on the defence, and for 82 minutes, the plan seemed to work. The visitors went ahead after 19 minutes, but the counter-attacking of the home side was always dangerous, and four minutes before the break it succeeded, midfielder Kevin Sohn knocking in an equaliser from a Jeffrey Knubben cross. The second half was more even, the opposition manager finally turning up to supervise his charges, which seemed to stifle the power out of their attacks. The threat was always there, however, and with eight minutes left on the clock, a sweeping attack thrust through the home defence and the visitors gained the lead again. Home Guard suffer only their second ever defeat, 1-2. With the other teams in the Champions League Group also showing a Quality advantage over them, the outlook is grim.

The Management visited the Transfer Market in the evening, but found it over-run with far-East token wielders and reluctantly retired to the Scout List for his purchases, aiming to replace low-Quality defensive players.





Both the new recruits were blooded in the now-customary late evening home League match, the home side holding a massive Quality advantage over their opponents, even without the higher-Quality players included. Doubles from defender Scott Barlow and striker Matias Rolando, and singles from right-back Jeffrey Knubben and Kevin Sohn enabled Home Guard to record a 6-0 win.