We went through a few senior games with Martial's Bliss, One a cup game and home / away in the league. Away from home I think they could have argued that a draw would have been fair but the other two games we dominated from start to finish. However we lost two and drew one in these encounters. I don't really care about any of them apart from the league and being 2-0 up at home and still only drawing 2-2 was disappointing.
We then entertained Boaster FC at the Jakski, in the first ten minutes Arda made a mistake to gift Boaster an early lead, he then went ballistic and laid on two goals, scored one to make amends. He can make a mistake a game if he plays like that every game! We also got a Penalty to make it a nice 4-1 to us.
Next up were newly promoted Chatsworth FC away from home, their a decent outfit and had started their campaign with a win. The game was a tense affair, early in the second half a free kick on the corner of the box caused a bit of confusion in their defence and Wendall was the first to react and bagged a 1-0 lead. Chatsworth put a lot of pressure on and had a string a half chances but we managed to hold out for the 1-0.
In the league we're 5 Pld 3 Won 1 Draw 1 Defeat, Ten Points from five games, impressive, the focus initially is on staying up but the fans are starting to think top 5 is not beyond us..
Meanwhile the UFFA Champions League qualifications have gone dreamily well. A string of big names in the Group and we needed a top four finish to get through. Duly obtained with one game to spare. Despite us only being ranked Top 80 we're one of only Thirty Two teams to be in the Champions League!
The only big disappointment thus far has been Macualey's unimpressive start at senior level and he's a long way from earning his massive wage. At youth level it's all very well and he does boss games in fairness. In fact our rank at Youth level is 1st all very nice but youth is only a means to produce talent for the first team it's pointless chucking too much money at youth as it kills the entire reason behind doing it in the first place. The debate I have is that there is some sort of code in the game which dictates the performance of a player at senior level, it could be experiance in terms of youth games don't know but something....
Next game up was away to the Tangerine Seasiders I've been away for the last few days so literally getting 10 minutes a day log in play a game and out, so flying blind a bit. Last season this fixture signaled a change in form for us as we went from genuine title contenders to UFFA qualifiers. It was a fairly even game until the Seasiders opened the scoring late in the second half however from there on in we laid siege. Although the chances were at best half chances they came thick and fast by the 90th minute we had managed to pull one back and it duly fell to Macauley to allay some fears about his wages and grab a late goal and another three premiership points.
Six games and thirteen points and frankly the only team at this early stage to show some consistency. One game at a time...
Next up Rafalution current champions at home. Took the lead they came back but a late winner resulted in an impressive 2-1. Draws with Servants of the Eye away and Trumptonville home and finally a 3-2 win over Firefly see's us leading the Premiership.
Not such good news from the Champions League Groups though despite going 2-0 up in our first game we only ended with a 2-2 and lost 1-0 away.
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