Monday. Day 2.

CUP: Preliminary Round, 2nd Leg. QABALA FC (78.1) v LONDON CITY (76.8)

Result: QABALA 1-2 LONDON (agg: 3-2)
Goals: Sano 21, Robins 76, Brown 77
M.o.M: Jeremiah Whyte

Trailing 0-2 from the first leg, we went into this match with a damage limitation attitude, against our superior opponents. Things looked bleak when Masashi Sano scored to virtually end the game as a contest. Before halftime, we lost Oleg Yashin to injury, and it seemed things could not get worse. Towards the end, reserve DL, Andreas Costa came to the fore, when in the space of a minute, he put over two superb corners, for first Percy Robins, and then Jake Brown to head our goals. We now had just over ten minutes to find a third, which would have put us through on away goals, but it just would not come.

CITY: Woodhouse, Costa, Whyte, Fiksdal, Rabus, Olsen, Duggan, Hori, Brown, Yashin (Webo), Robins.


TEAM TALK:

We salvaged some pride with today's win, but that doesn't make up for going out of the cup at the first stage, for the second successive season. With the tie almost decided from the first game, we decided to give reserve defender, Andreas Costa a run out, before his potential departure, due to his low quality rating. But he really came good, and manager Billy Wheeler, is debating whether to stick with him for the season.