Week 6 Results - Artisans stretch lead

A close call for the leaders but they end up further clear at the top.

Aardvark Abacus 1 v 0 The Wateringhole Society
Athletico Phoenix 1  v 5 Wheel Madrid
Cheese Makers 3 v 1 Markian United
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 0 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits
Real Muppets 2 v 1 San Dimas High School
The Cow-Faced Juniors 0 v 3 Claymore Athletic FC
Trusted By Millions 2 v 4 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
YTFIB 1 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	6	5	1	0	17	6	11	16
2	Real Muppets	6	4	1	1	19	13	6	13
3	San Dimas High School	6	4	0	2	14	12	2	12
4	Claymore Athletic FC	6	3	2	1	23	12	11	11
5	Wheel Madrid	6	3	1	2	18	10	8	10
6	Athletico Phoenix	6	3	1	2	13	12	1	10
7	The Wateringhole Society	6	3	1	2	11	11	0	10
8	Trusted By Millions	6	2	3	1	16	11	5	9
9	Cheese Makers	6	3	0	3	7	11	-4	9
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	6	3	0	3	6	12	-6	9
11	Mega Buck Bandits	6	2	1	3	10	8	2	7
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	6	2	0	4	11	14	-3	6
13	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	6	2	0	4	5	16	-11	6
14	Aardvark Abacus	6	1	2	3	7	12	-5	5
15	YTFIB	6	0	3	3	4	7	-3	3
16	Markian United	6	0	0	6	6	20	-14	0

Leaders the Artisans had a fright at YTFIB but came through 2-1. Ricardo Pereira’s excellent solo goal had Julian ahead for the best part of an hour until a goalkeeping blunder saw Gini Wijnaldum’s weak shot slip through. Ben’s team went on to win thanks to Patrick van Aanholt’s clean. The Artisans’ lead is now three points after the Muppets edged out San Dimas 2-1. Luka Milivojevic opened the scoring for Ryan from the spot but my team were level when Riyad Mahrez arrowed a free-kick into the bottom corner with 19 minutes left. Raheem Sterling got the Muppets’ winner, slamming in off the crossbar in the 84th minute.

High-scoring Claymore climbed to fourth but needed a bit of help against the CFJs. An unlucky Daryl Janmaat own goal on the hour but Clive ahead and he rounded out a 3-0 win courtesy of cleans by Gary Cahill and Jonny Evans. Wheel Madrid have really hit their stride lately and stuck five past Athletico. All the goals came in the second half. Callum Wilson opened the scoring for Paul W and within twenty minutes he was four up thanks to a Jorginho penalty and two more from Jamie Vardy. John McGinn’s volley made it five before Brian’s consolation came from Chris Wood.

Trusted’s unbeaten league start fell to Nil Satis. Paul S was two up in 20 minutes, Andriy Yarmolenko and Matt Doherty with the goals. A stooping header from Gabriel Jesus brought Beef back into it but Dominic Calvert-Lewin threw himself at a goal bound effort to restore the advantage before half-time. The next goal came in second half injury time. Andros Townsend for Nil Satis snuffed out any hopes of a comeback. Cheese Makes join Trusted on nine points after beating Markian 3-1. Anwar El Ghazi’s strike for Matthew had been cancelled out by Harry Kane’s shot on the turn by the break, the Cheesers clinched the points through cleans form Andrew Robertson and Jonny Castro.

Mega Bucks added to Fred’s early season woes with a two goal win. Josh King looked offside when he scored the opener but a VAR check rightly gave the goal. There was a similar incident in the second half. P-E Aubameyang was flagged offside, scored calmly, and the goal was given after a look by some people with a computer hundreds of miles away. The Aardvarks picked up their first win of the league season, Tanguy Ndombele lashed in for the only goal of the game for Ady to beat the Wateringhole Society.

Week 5 Results - Another big defeat for the Champions

Claymore Athletic FC 6 v 1 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI
Markian United 1 v 6 Trusted By Millions
Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 2 Real Muppets
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 3 Athletico Phoenix
San Dimas High School 5 v 2 The Wateringhole Society
The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 0 Cheese Makers
Wheel Madrid 3 v 0 The Cow-Faced Juniors
YTFIB 1 v 1 Aardvark Abacus


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	5	4	1	0	15	5	10	13
2	San Dimas High School	5	4	0	1	13	10	3	12
3	Real Muppets	5	3	1	1	17	12	5	10
4	Athletico Phoenix	5	3	1	1	12	7	5	10
5	The Wateringhole Society	5	3	1	1	11	10	1	10
6	Trusted By Millions	5	2	3	0	14	7	7	9
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	5	3	0	2	6	9	-3	9
8	Claymore Athletic FC	5	2	2	1	20	12	8	8
9	Wheel Madrid	5	2	1	2	13	9	4	7
10	Cheese Makers	5	2	0	3	4	10	-6	6
11	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	5	2	0	3	5	14	-9	6
12	Mega Buck Bandits	5	1	1	3	8	8	0	4
13	YTFIB	5	0	3	2	3	5	-2	3
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	5	1	0	4	7	12	-5	3
15	Aardvark Abacus	5	0	2	3	6	12	-6	2
16	Markian United	5	0	0	5	5	17	-12	0

After losing to Cheese Makers in the PCMT last week the Artisans returned to their winning league form against the same opponents. An unmarked Roberto Firmino headed Ben in front on half an hour, an unlucky own goal off Yerry Mina doubled the lead ten minutes later. Matthew’s team couldn’t find a way back and Martin Montoya’s clean was the last word in a 3-0 win. The Wateringhole Society lost their unbeaten league run, going down 5-2 to San Dimas. My team led twice in the first half. David Silva slid in on 52 seconds but Nathan Ake headed level on ten minutes. Parity lasted only two minutes before a deflected Riyad Mahrez free-kick put me ahead again but Harry Wilson made sure the teams were level at the break. With no more goals it was cleans from Lundstram, Cancelo and Schar that put me in second place.

The Muppets are third after a 2-1 win at Mega Bucks. P-E Aubameyang’s free-kick put Dave ahead with six minutes left but Ryan hit back straight away, Kevin de Bruyne blasting into the top corner. James Tarkowski’s clean for the Muppets was the decider. Athletico join the Muppets and TWS on ten points after a 3-1 win at Nil Satis. Chris Wood’s double inside the first 14 minutes gave Brian a strong foothold and even though Andriy Yarmolenko pulled one back for Paul S the advantage was restored by James Ward-Prowse’s second half penalty.

Trusted are a point behind that group and still unbeaten after crushing Markian 6-1 this week. Bernardo Silva and Nicolas Otamendi had Beef two up in 20 minutes but a stumbling Harry Kane pulled one back for the joint managers before the half hour. The home optimism didn’t last long. Silva completed his hat-trick within 15 minutes of the restart, Otamendi and Mee added cleans. Claymore were also 6-1 winners this week with champions Fred on the receiving end. This one had been tight until the late stages. An early Sergio Aguero penalty had been cancelled out by a Nicolas Pepe spot-kick. Aaron Cresswell produced a great free-kick to put Claymore ahead with six minutes left and he, Dubravka, Willems and Stones added cleans.

Wheel Madrid have also put six past Fred this season and they improved to ninth place after seeing off the CFJs 3-0. John McGinn timed his run perfectly to steer in on 20 minutes but it was five minutes from time when the points were sealed, James Maddison firing in from outside the box. There was still time for a calamitous defensive mistake by the CFJs to hand Callum Wilson a third. The Aardvarks knocked YTFIB out of the PCMT last week and denied Julian revenge in the dying seconds of this one. Ricardo Pereira had fired The Yorkies in front on 69 minutes but Ady levelled with practically the last kick of the game when Diogo Jota made no mistake when he found himself unmarked a couple of yards out at the back post.