Season 94 - Are you ready?

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Both teams safely progressed to the next round of the Cup

Home Guard FC played against a -47%Q team, and recorded a 12-0 aggregate win. The away match yesterday was a 3-0 win, Hill, Morel and Wardell the scorers, and today the team sported a few second-choice players in the starting XI and took their visitors apart 9-0. Christian Okunorobo celebrated his return to fitness after his injury on the last day of last season with 4 goals, Ellis Wardell netted a hat-trick, and Stephane Humbert and Florin Sbarnea got the other two goals.

Desert Rats had a more difficult task, playing a +1 Level team and matching their opponents Quality in starting XI. Congratulations to those who had right-sided defender Ever Devaca in the sweepstake for the first goal of the new season, he surged through the middle of the visitors defence to put the Rats 1-0 up in the 13th minute of the 1st Leg match at home yesterday. More regular scorers Eros Martorelli and Stefan Vucomanovic added two in three minutes just after the break, and things looked rosy until the visitors sneaked a consolation goal 5 minutes from time and the match ended 3-1. Today Desert Rats were hit in the 1st minute of the away 2nd Leg, and when the opposition levelled the aggregate score with the first half-hour almost up, it looked like the Rats were going to drift out of the Cup on away goals. Stefan Vucomanovic woke up on the stroke of half time and pulled a goal back, but the tie was only really declared safe when substitute Patrick Tillmanns scored the match equaliser 4 minutes from the final whistle, the match ending 2-2 and Desert Rats qualifying for the next Round 5-3 on aggregate.

Both teams went shopping this afternoon, Home Guard picking up a tri-position defensive midfielder from the Scout list and a right-back from the TM, and Desert Rats raiding the TM for a tri-position defensive midfielder of their own and taking a left-back off the Scout list.



Home Guard released Milos Jovanovic and Jeffrey Knubben; and Desert Rats have sold on Moritz Maiwald, Madalin Vlasiu, Shaun Ruel and Michel Dilo.