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My money for the 1st goalscorer goes to Michu!
LEAGUE ROUND 15

Batigo United 1-1 July Fourth

Batigo United 116.5 4-4-2 Classic - July Fourth 118.9 3N-1-2-3W-1 then 62 minutes 3-5-2 V

Well... Probably before the game you would of said this had draw written all over it and you would of been correct as the 90 minute battle between these 2 fierce rivals ended in another stalemale with both teams constantly cancelling each other out, The early chances fell for July Fourth with O'Sullivan and Miku but getting a clance of goal but shots were blocked, but as expected Batigo United came into the game and had a good spell from the midway point of the first half and it was Savic and Simons trying to get the ball forward to the strikers and Ramirez was in form and determined not to allow Batigo any great chances in the first half.

The second half saw the game open up a bit more and there was more chances for both teams to perhaps win the game and Batigo started the second half on the front foot, Pena's early second half shot on goal went wide before the breakthrough came from Batigo on 54 minutes when Kartal setup Toprak to fire the home side into the lead, Toprak repeated his feat of being the first goalscorer in both our fixtures this season. We then gave away a silly free-kick and specialist van der Hurk thankfully got it all wrong and fired it into the wall, July Fourth needed to change shape a little and throw a roll of the dice and we threw on Papaleo for Vestergaard and switched Miku out to the left, just as we did in the home game and we needed a goal to at least maintain status quo, Our moment of joy came when Stuart picked up the ball from midfield and ran all the way past the defence and curled it past the keeper for our equaliser, a few minutes later Miku played a pass to Stuart and his chance of grabbing a brace failed when Savic threw his body in the way, Michu had a free-kick and that also hit a defender, Then Batigo had the last few chances to win it and again it was superb defensive play from Ramirez getting the tackles and blocking everything from what van der Hurk threw at us in the closing stages. Batigo made a late change bringing off van der Hurk but that will be just to ensure he got the green pack, moments later the final whistle blew.

Goals: Toprak (54) Stuart (67) MOTM: Stuart.

Team Talk: That draw means its status quo between us and Batigo United and GD could count here since Batigo lead by a GD of 4 goals, it isn't a bad result for us since we were the away team and it will be a case of who can get the best results between now and the end of the season, outsiders nakomphatom failed to take advantage of the draw since they drew themselves.

The game finished an hour and a half ago... then my internet started pissing about while I was writing the match report.