Season 126 - Are you ready?

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Both teams had a fairly easy day today, and both were thankfully injury and red-card free.

Desert Rats FC hosted the next-bottom team in the League and romped home 8-0 to keep their challenge at the top of the table going. In the evening they completed the double over their Champions League opponents, winning 4-0 at home, ensuring their progression to the Knockout phase of the competition. Player of the day was utility winger Roberto Alatorre, scoring 6 goals in total; 4 in the League match and a brace in the Champions League.



Nouvion Ville FC visited the bottom team in the League and, with a few fringe players in the starting XI, took 31 minutes to get onto the scoresheet, but after the first one went in the goals flowed thereafter. Ex-youth graduate reserve striker Lee Howe was obviously gunning for first-choice status, netting the first five goals, leaving winger Santiago Valdez and midfielder Tom Herd to mop up the remainder. Nouvion also ensured Knockout stage action in the Champions League after a 5-0 win, also defeating their visitors for the second time. Valdez was the hat-trick scorer this time out, left-back Eoghan Byrne and Howe scoring the others.