These same introductory components comprise agreements, phrases as well as expressions that show up before the actual main clause including its statement.
Fundamentally, they're preparing your readers for whatever the phrase has become, or perhaps the flesh including its paragraph as well as a message.
Both other decisions aren't related to something like the sort of situation in question. So the above solution is the correct one.
The past participles battered and bruised are both intended to modify the noun team, the head of the noun phrase the football team which serves as the subject of the main clause.
