2023/24 Week Two Results - Three teams make it two out of two

Cheese Makers 4 v 3 YTFIB 

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 4 The Wateringhole Society 

Markian United 2 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Real Muppets 0 v 3 Mega Buck Bandits 

San Dimas High School 1 v 2 Claymore Athletic FC 

Stanley and Gracie United 0 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans 

Trusted By Millions 2 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Wheel Madrid 2 v 3 Aardvark Abacus

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

The 100%ers

The Artisans take over at the top on goal difference after a 4-0 win at SGU. Goals from Carney Chukwuemeka and Martin Odegaard (from the spot) put Ben’s team in control and cleans from Kyle Walker and Billy Gilmour (from the bench) completed the rout. Trusted are down a place but saw off the CFJs 2-1.An acrobatic Luis Diaz strike put Beef in front and the lead was doubled two minutes before the break when Aphonse Areola saved a penalty. The Cows pulled one back straight away through Yoan Wissa but that was the end of the scoring.

Game of the week was the seven-goal Cheese Makers against YTFIB thriller with Matthew coming out on the right side of the 4-3 scoreline. The Cheese were two up at the break, Nayef Aguerd powering in a seventh-minute header and a great strike from Julian Alvarez. Julian’s team were level ten minutes after the break, through a Solly March brace, then Matthew suffered a double blow with red cards for Aguerd and Alexis Mac Allister. The nine men were on top again with Bryan Mbeumo brace to make it 4-2 and held on despite a Nathan Collins clean in reply.

The other unbeaten team

Is Mega Bucks who put the Muppets away 3-0. A stunning strike from Michail Antonio eight minutes after half-time opened the scoring and cleans from Ethan Pinnock and Lucas Digne rounded out the victory.

The Nil pointers (as well as the CFJs)

Nil Satis - nil points. (So far). Paul’s team lost 2-0 to Markian. Destiny Udogie’s early clean broke the deadlock with 20 minutes to go and an injury time spot-kick from Lucas Paqueta gave Ian his first win of the campaign. San Dimas are also pointless after a 2-1 defeat to Claymore. Pervis Estupinan put my team ahead straight after the interval but Clive took the points thanks to cleans from Manuel Akanji and Toti Gomes.

The teams I haven’t written about yet

Aardvark Abacus join Wheel Madrid on three points after beating those opponents 3-2. Paul led twice, through John McGann and Leon Bailey, but was pegged back by Pape Sarr and Diogo Jota. Ben White got the winning clean for Ady. We’d expect Fred and the Wateringhole Society to be at the sharp end of the table come May so how big will Kiran’s 4-2 win prove to be*. An early Taiwo Awoniyi header for the champions was cancelled out after 15 minutes by a superb solo Kaoru Mitoma goal. The Gardeners led again when Mohamed Salah followed up his penalty rebound and that looked to be it until an unlucky Lisandro Martinez own goal levelled the scores with seven minutes left. Kiran’s team kicked on for the win thanks to cleans from Ruben Dias and Ezra Konsa.