Season 91 - Are you ready?

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Desert Rats FC had a 3-1 advantage from the away 1st Leg of their Cup Semi-Final, but were still wary of the potential of a team only 10% below in Quality. The Management decided to concentrate on defence, and the team ground out a 2-0 win to go through to the Cup Final 5-1 on aggregate. Patrick Tillmanns and Moritz Maiwald scored in the first half, but in the Nordeus spirit of 'you win some, you lose some' Tillmanns picked up an injury after the break.

In contrast to the previous match, the prospect of a home League match against the 9th place team, much lower in Quality, gave the Management the opportunity to start a few of the lesser-used players in the squad. Given attacking orders, the team was shocked to concede a goal in the first minute, but quickly rallied, Shaun Ruel bagging an early brace, then Kostadin Marinov started hitting the net, scoring five, leaving Bradley Draper and Emanuele Imbimbo to add one each in the 9-1 win.

Thanks to madflo and CM-16 for their support today, no thanks to the manager of the team that the Rats will face in the Cup Final for turning up to support the opposition.