Season 92 - Are you ready?

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Home Guard FC had some Recommended players from their Assistant Manager this morning, and the Management decided to shell out on a nice left wing-back...



Then, just to illustrate the perversity of the new Transfer Market, the Management managed to lighten the squad by two 3*/20Q players by selling them at a premium to their Market Values, making a mockery of the efforts of Desert Rats efforts to move on two 3* players with higher relative Quality. Thus midfielder Alban Haag and left-back Yassine Wissam have departed the team.

The new recruit wasn't needed to boost the team's Quality as they embarked upon their second League match of the season with a 46% advantage over their hosts, but he saw a real game of two halves. The visitors were three up by the break, with a brace from Ellis Wardell followed by a defensive one-two as right-back Jeffrey Knubben and DMC Juan Pablo Medina passed their way through the home defence, Medina administering the coup de grace. After the break, Home Guard went off the boil a bit and let the home side back into the match, and they eventually scored to reduce their arrears, but the Management was by then making tweaks to the formation and personnel that then maintained the status quo until the final whistle, 3-1 being the final score.

The Round of 32 of the Cup beckoned in the afternoon, and Home Guard were at home against a team -17%Q. Again they put all their efforts into the first-half, Brice Morel netting a hat-trick in the first half-hour, and Matias Rolando replying to a sneak goal by the visitors just before the break to make the score 4-1. The second-half followed the same pattern, Home Guard easing off, but not through any Management changes, and the opposition taking advantage. The score remained the same, however, until two minutes from time, when a bit of indiscipline from Jeffrey Knubben resulted in a free-kick being despatched past the previously faultless Stefan Vavala to make the final score 4-2.