Season 93 - Are you ready?

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Success on all fronts today...

Desert Rats FC played 13th in the table at home, and gave them a good hiding, in the process accumulating enough points advantage to claim their 7th League Championship with three matches to play. Stefan Vucomanovic, Patrick Tillmanns (2), Charlie Howell (2) and Felix Gensler were on target in the 6-0 scoreline.



The two teams played almost simultaneously this evening in the Champions League Semi-Final 2nd Leg, Home Guard FC having a kick-off 6 real-time minutes before their Senior team. Defending a 1-0 home score in the 1st Leg against a +9%Q side, they shocked their hosts with a counter-attack goal in the 31st minute through Esteban Alderete, then 2 minutes later repeated the trick, Christian Okunorobo finishing off a Fabio Cicia cross. The home side pulled a goal back two minutes afterwards, and then turned on their attack after the break. The Home Guard defence held firm, being breached twice as the home side went ahead 3-2, and levelling the aggregate 3-3, but they still had work to do to counter the visitors' away goals. A last 10 minute onslaught was bravely resisted and Home Guard ended beaten on the day, but with a Final berth. They won't know their opponents until about 1.15am BST when the other Semi-Final is due to finish.



Desert Rats had a 3-1 away 1st Leg lead to protect, and that was all they could do as the visitors in the 2nd Leg pulled out all the stops to try and overturn that deficit. Sebastian Nielsen and Eros Martorelli scored the goals in a 2-2 draw, and the Rats have a final place 5-3 on aggregate.