Season 91 - Are you ready?

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Desert Rats FC had an away 1st Leg in the Cup Semi-Finals, and were quick out of the blocks against an evenly-matched opponent. Charlie Howell and Patrick Tillmanns put the Rats two goals up after only six minutes, and Tillmanns added another just after the half-hour. The home manager turned up just before half-time, and his half-time tinkering obviously had an effect as his charges pulled a goal back after the break, but the visitors Management had other ideas and made his own changes, successfully preventing any further inroads into the lead and the match finished with a 3-1 win for Desert Rats.

In the League, Desert Rats pulled held true to the adage below, going behind in the first half against their 4th place hosts, but a change from normal/low press to attacking/high press at the break reaped dividends in the second half and kept the home side at bay while the forward line went out, unsuccessfully as it turned out, for a winning goal. Charlie Howell made the vital strike in the 70th minute as the Rats dropped points in the League for only the second time this season.

Thanks to madflo, axd23, CM-16, and a couple of others for their support today.

Kostadin Marinov gets a name-check for the second day running, his appearance in the earlier Cup match being his 100th match for Desert Rats.