Acorn Academicals 0 - 4 Golden Eagles FC

Following being frustrated by Acorn's defence in their previous League Cup group game, Eagles left no prisoners this time around. The visitors started off brightly and were unlucky not to claim an early penalty after Asp Naslund was bought down by Vitor_Ienko, but the ref waved away Eagles player's protests.

Then 17th minutes in, Julio Xavier opened the scoring with a brilliant strike, assisted by Vilo Fluess. The hosts then dug deep for the rest of the first half as things got a bit scrappy that saw yellow cards getting dished out to some Eagles players. Including keeper Rafeal Alvarado who made a poor challenge outside of hos area as he got caught in possession, what on earth was he thinking? Xavier also found himself in the ref's book and will miss Saturday's game against Hellhounds.

The second half also got off to a scrappy start and Acorns soon found themselves down to 10 men. Goy Van Elst was shown a straight red card for an awful challenge on Juan Álvarez in the 51st minute. 2 minutes later and Eagles grabbed a 2nd as Álvarez struck a sweet volley passed J. Chalebert, the flood gates have opened.

Angelo Nazari made it 3-0 just after the hour mark and the Filipino midfielder thought he had grabbed a 2nd himself 76th minute, but it was ruled out for a foul on the keeper. Late on Xavier grabbed another goal after picking up a lovely pass from Amadeus Rahr to put the game well out of reach.

The win sees Eagles move back to the top of group E, while Coventry drop to 2nd after their defeat to Sarnians who remain 3rd and Acorns stay rooted to the bottom.

Golden Eagles FC 1 - 0 Gyergyoi FC

Eagles made a meal of their game against Gyergyoi with some iffy shooting as they scraped through to the 2nd round. The first half was pretty dull and Eagles were wasteful in the 2nd half while the visitors proved to be difficult to break down.

The home fans had to wait until the 79th for their wide to score and it was centreback Amadeus Rahr who grabbed the goal with a brilliant header. The German seemed to float in from nowhere and caught the away defence totally napping. Throughly deserved the man of the match award, not only for the goal, but also his defensive performance.

"We made it hard for ourselves and Gyergyoi played out of their socks, but we are happy to be through to the next round." Commented Dave Rosewell

Golden Eagles FC:

D_Bourrin  23  fra  1  8  21  16  +5tk
Juan_Alvarez  24  spa  1  7  19  15  -4tk
Vilo_Fluess   23 ger  1 15 18  5  -1sh

after
D_Bourrin  23  fra  1  13  21  16
Juan_Alvarez  24  spa  1  3  19  15
Vilo_Fluess   23 ger  1 15 18  4

Golden Eagles FC release M_Venalainen^ 23 fin  1  2  4 11 19   1 200 300 500 to the ATM for £10,750,00

Golden Eagles FC would like to name T_Ruusumaki as their new captain.

Golden Eagles FC

Asp_Naslund   19 swe  1 15 12  5 383 127 982 452mins +200mins

Guil_Esteboso 19 arg 1 3 14 11 935 893 939 548mins +200mins

T_Tormanen 17 fin 1 11 14 3 704 184 560 575mins +200mins

J_Harmalainen 18 fin 1 4 11 14 958 597 952 765mins +150mins

R_Varskjold  17  nor 1  4  8  13  200  200  400  450mins +100mins (free player from gift day 6, it mentions that these players can be given minutes from the Christmas gifts)

Golden Eagles FC 0 - 0 Acorn Academicals

Talk about parking the bus, this is exactly what Acorns did with 5 defenders and 3 defensive midfielders which set the tone of game from the get go. Despite being the stronger side, Eagles had a tough time breaking down Acorn's super defensive formation. It was also a wonder that none of the Acorn players got sent on with 11 fouls, but they only received 2 yellow cards. The ref's short-sightedness was clear from the first minute when Winston Hales clearly bought down Julio Xavier in the area and he just waved play on. Then in the second half, Rost Yulev went in studs up against Juan Álvarez, but only received a yellow card despite showing intent.

Late on Guil Esteboso thought that he had put his side in front after his header hit the underside of the bar and had looked to go over the line before Acorn's keeper smothered it. However, yet again the ref was a blind fool and didn't give the goal and the home fans around the stadium really let him know how they felt. The game finished 0-0 and Eagles have surely got to feel that this was 2 points lost, the draw sees them slip to 2nd place on 5 points with AFC Coventry sitting top following their shock win over Sarnians. While Sarnians and Acorns sit on 2 points apiece with 3 more group games to go.