Week 17 Results - Champions close on the top two

Cheese Makers 1 v 0 Stanley and Gracie United

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 0 Claymore Athletic FC

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 2 San Dimas High School

Real Muppets 1 v 2 Wheel Madrid

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 6 The Wateringhole Society

The Fabulous Artisans 1 v 2 Markian United 

Trusted By Millions 2 v 0 Aardvark Abacus 

YTFIB 2 v 2 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Cow-Faced Juniors	17	13	2	2	58	28	30	41
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	17	11	4	2	42	19	23	37
3	The Wateringhole Society	17	10	5	2	56	31	25	35
4	The Fabulous Artisans	17	9	0	8	39	31	8	27
5	Markian United	17	8	2	7	35	28	7	26
6	Stanley and Gracie United	17	8	1	8	35	36	-1	25
7	Aardvark Abacus	17	8	1	8	26	30	-4	25
8	Wheel Madrid	17	7	3	7	20	31	-11	24
9	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	17	7	1	9	24	29	-5	22
10	San Dimas High School	17	6	4	7	25	32	-7	22
11	Trusted By Millions	17	6	3	8	32	35	-3	21
12	Real Muppets	17	6	2	9	41	39	2	20
13	YTFIB	17	5	5	7	18	30	-12	20
14	Claymore Athletic FC	17	5	2	10	26	39	-13	17
15	Cheese Makers	17	3	4	10	15	33	-18	13
16	Mega Buck Bandits	17	4	1	12	19	40	-21	13

The Wateringhole Society had been 12 points behind the CFJs after week 11 but that gap is now six after Kiran’s team took down the Cows 6-2. Chris and Co raced into a 2-0 lead through Rodrigo Bentancur and Miguel Almiron before the Society struck back with early cleans from Ruben Dias and Marc Cucurella off the bench. Three goals in eight minutes won it for Kiran. Ivan Toney and Marcus Rashford with headers and Harvey Barnes firing home from the D. Bernd Leno (I always want to call him Jay!) made it six with a clean. The Gardeners are still in the middle of those two sides but were held to a 2-2 draw by YTFIB. Mo Salah put Fred ahead after a lightning counter-attack but that lasted just three minutes before Ilkay Gundogan arrived at the back post to level. Solly March repeated the feat to put Julian ahead after 63 minutes but Fred rescued a point with Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s clean.

Markian closed to within a point and a place of the Artisans after beating those opponents 2-1. Rodri’s early near-post header put Ian in front but it took until the 85th minute for another score, Alejandro Garnacho doubling the lead after outpacing Ben’s defence. Kenny Tete’s clean sheet reply was only a consolation. Stanley and Gracie are a point further back after going down 1-0 to Cheese Makers. Andy Robertson’s clean was the only score.

The Aardvarks are also on 25 points but slipped to a 2-0 defeat to Trusted. Joao Felix scored a cushioned volley on debut to put Beef ahead on 16 minutes and Leandro Trossard added the second goal at the back post mid-way through the second half. Wheel Madrid continue to bounce around in mid-table and picked up a good 2-1 win at the Muppets. James Maddison slid his shot under the keeper to put Paul W ahead after 25 minutes but Ryan’s team levelled just before the break through Kelechi Iheanacho. Joel Matip’s clean gave the Wheelmen the victory.

Nil Satis are joined on 22 points by San Dimas who beat them 2-0 this week. Riyad Mahrez scored a penalty to put me ahead in first half injury time and Hugo Bueno added a second half clean sheet. Mega Bucks 1-0 win over Claymore has dragged Clive’s team into the battle at the bottom. A clean sheet by Tim Ream was enough to give Dave all the points.