Sunday. Day 1.

CUP: Preliminary Round, 1st Leg: LONDON CITY (77.2) v QABALA FC (78.0)

Result: LONDON 0-2 QABALA
Goals: Campos 37, Silva 88
M.o.M: Mattia Nicolao (Qabala)

We started the season in poor fashion, by losing to our higher level visitors. For nearly forty minutes, we were well in the match, and then Miguel Campos managed to find the net, and we were up against it from then on. At 0-1, we would have had a chance in the second leg, but as time ran out, Qabala grabbed a second, through Sergio Silva. It looks almost a forgone conclusion now, but we will give it a go. Our two new signings, (Nobuyoshi Hori, and Mads Fiksdal), were given starts, and both seemed assured.

City: Woodhouse, Haller, Whyte, Fiksdal, Rabus, Olsen, Duggan, Hori, Brown, Yashin, Robins.


TEAM TALK:

We picked up a couple of bargains from the transfer list this morning. For a total of 11 tokens, we bought Japanese midfielder, Nobuyoshi Hore, and Norwegian central defender, Mads Fiksdal. Both were 79 quality, and after just one training session, plus the cup match, they have both been elevated to "scout" level.
Bjorn Lanwer and Mark Hughes have been released.

For the second season in succession, it seems that we'll have no involvement in the cup after just day 2. Our level 13 opponents were just too good for us.