Desert Rats FC had two away matches against the same opponent today, and got two completely different results. The opponent had, between League matches 2 and 3, bought an entire outfield squad of high-6* 22 and 23-year-old Scouts, and boosted their Quality from 80.4% to 112%, way ahead of any other team in the competition. The Rats' Management found their usual Butterfly a good counter to the hosts' 4-5-1V and modified his usual tactics by going defensive and counter, but this proved deficient and the visitors lost 1-3, not helped by a couple of yellow cards picked up by Roberto Alatorre.

For the evening League match, the Management noted that the opponents' infield midfielders weren't 2x MC but a ML and MR combination so decided to got through the midfield area with the Narrow Diamond formation, and went hard defensive with counter. Striker Federico Peana scored the first goal and midfielder Osama Ragab added another to his goal in the first match of the day, as the Rats avenged the first defeat with a 2-0 win.

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Nouvion Ville FC started the day by completing their Associations Play-off matches before lunchtime, winning twice to help their Association win third place for the weekend. They still need another 133 points from the remainder of the season to keep their place in Gold 1 Division.

Back to regular competition, and two more good wins for our heroes. First off a home League match in which they ran through their opponents for a 5-0 win, featuring a hat-trick from right-winger Maicol Guilherme, a feat he repeated in the home Cup match, a 4-1 win over a closely-matched opponent.

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