Week 11 Results - Artisans unbeaten run ends

VAR found a late Claymore winner.

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	11	8	2	1	30	14	16	26
2	Claymore Athletic FC	11	6	3	2	38	20	18	21
3	San Dimas High School	11	7	0	4	24	21	3	21
4	Wheel Madrid	11	5	3	3	32	19	13	18
5	The Wateringhole Society	11	5	3	3	23	22	1	18
6	Aardvark Abacus	11	5	2	4	16	15	1	17
7	Real Muppets	11	4	4	3	26	22	4	16
8	The Cow-Faced Juniors	11	5	1	5	13	20	-7	16
9	YTFIB	11	4	3	4	14	12	2	15
10	Mega Buck Bandits	11	4	2	5	19	17	2	14
11	Athletico Phoenix	11	4	2	5	22	25	-3	14
12	Trusted By Millions	11	3	4	4	24	25	-1	13
13	Cheese Makers	11	4	1	6	18	28	-10	13
14	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	11	4	0	7	17	24	-7	12
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	11	3	2	6	11	23	-12	11
16	Markian United	11	1	0	10	10	30	-20	3

A first defeat for the Artisans, and at the hands of the new second place team too. After Claymore had taken the lead through an excellently-worked Conor Hourihane free-kick, Ben levelled through Todd Cantwell nine minutes after half-time. Jonny Evans departed with a clean just after the hour to put Clive back in front but the leaders swung the game back in their favour thanks to a first goal from Brandon Williams and then Roberto Firmino. The scoring hadn’t finished though and Claymore had cleans from Kasper Schmeichel and then Aaron Cresswell from the bench to win 4-3 and hold Ben’s lead at five points. One downside for Claymore, Sergio Aguero will miss a few weeks with an injury.

Claymore take second as San Dimas went down, also 4-3, to Cheese Makers. Matthew was two up after 36 minutes through Danny Ings and Amr El Ghazi but I was level seven minutes after the break thanks to Riyad Mahrez and an excellent effort from Lys Mousset. Cheese led again through Steve Cook but an Ashley Barnes penalty gave me another equaliser with eight minutes left. It wasn’t enough for a point, Tyrone Mings got the winning clean for Matthew. Wheel Madrid are fourth after taking the Nationwide derby over Markian 2-1. The joint managers led this until late on after Harry Kane’s opener but a re-taken Jamie Vardy spot-kick levelled the game and Sam Byram got Paul W the winning clean.

Wateringhole join Wheels on 18 points after beating Trusted 2-1. Raul Jimenez and Marcus Rashford were both on target for Kiran (this strike combo has 12 between them this season) and Beef’s reply, a clean from Ben Mee, wasn’t enough. After slow start the Aardvarks are up to sixth. Ady’s team notched up a 3-0 win over a struggling Nil Satis. Alexandre Lacazette scored early, and very late, and Max Aarons rounded things off with a clean. The Muppets and Athletico fought out an entertaining 3-3 draw that leaves the teams either side of half way. A deflected Kevin De Bruyne strike had Ryan 1-0 up at the break and Sadio Mane doubled that lead four minutes into the second period. Chris Wood pulled one back for Brian and James Ward-Prowse levelled after following up his own saved penalty. James Tarkowski put the Muppets ahead for a third time with two minutes left but Ben Chilwell got a clean for the Phoenix to share the points.

The CFJs dropped to eighth after going down 2-0 to Fred. Craig Dawson got a 45 minute clean to put the 15th-placed defending champions ahead and Mason Greenwood slid in his first WSFFL goal with 13 minutes left to make it 2-0. YTFIB are up to the heady heights of ninth after coming from two down to beat Mega Bucks. Michail Antonio and Wilf Zaha both got their first of the season to have two up but Julian’s team had cleans from Bardsley, Pereira and Taylor to make it three wins in a row.

Week 10 Results - Markian win!

The Artisans are held but their chasers slip up.

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	10	8	2	0	27	10	17	26
2	San Dimas High School	10	7	0	3	21	17	4	21
3	Claymore Athletic FC	10	5	3	2	34	17	17	18
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	10	5	1	4	13	18	-5	16
5	Wheel Madrid	10	4	3	3	30	18	12	15
6	Real Muppets	10	4	3	3	23	19	4	15
7	The Wateringhole Society	10	4	3	3	21	21	0	15
8	Mega Buck Bandits	10	4	2	4	17	14	3	14
9	Aardvark Abacus	10	4	2	4	13	15	-2	14
10	Trusted By Millions	10	3	4	3	23	23	0	13
11	Athletico Phoenix	10	4	1	5	19	22	-3	13
12	YTFIB	10	3	3	4	11	10	1	12
13	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	10	4	0	6	17	21	-4	12
14	Cheese Makers	10	3	1	6	14	25	-11	10
15	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	10	2	2	6	9	23	-14	8
16	Markian United	10	1	0	9	9	28	-19	3

Ben extended his unbeaten run and lead with a draw against Wheel Madrid. The Artisans blew a two goal lead though, Gereard Deulofeu skipped through the Wheels defence and slotted home inside two minutes and Ciaran Clark got the faintest of touches to make it two on 52 minutes. Jamie Vardy started the comeback on 68 minutes and a brilliant James Maddison strike seven minutes later earned Paul W a point. San Dimas stay second but were battered 4-1 by Trusted. Ashley Barnes’ first goal since August put me ahead after 11 minutes but Beef turned the game round in a three minute spell with goals from Richarlison (on 75 minutes) and Bernardo Silva. Ben Mee and Fikayo Tomori added cleans for Trusted.

Claymore missed a chance to close on the leaders with defeat at YTFIB. Ricardo Pereira’s clean was enough for Julian who moves up to 12th. The CFJs are up to fourth after a 2-1 win over the Muppets. Davy Propper’s unfortunate own goal got Chris and Co. up and running but Ryan levelled six minutes after the break through Sadio Mane’s header. Parity lasted a minute, Tammy Abraham slotting in the winner for the CFJs.

The Wateringhole picked up their first league win since August, 4-2 at Athletico. A clever set-piece was finished by Harry Wilson to put Kiran ahead but Chris Wood had levelled for Brian by half-time.  The Mighty Society took control after the interval, Marcus Rashford crashed in off the bar, Christian Pulisic dived to head in and Raul Jimenez placed into the far corner to make it 4-1. Brian could only find a Ben Chilwell clean in response. Mega Bucks turned it round against Cheese Makers to go eighth. Fabinho opened the scoring for Matthew with a rocket effort but Ruben Neves had levelled by half-time with a distance strike of his own. Danny Ings scored from under the bar on 50 minutes to put Matthew back in front but Dave had cleans from Holebas and Soyuncu to leave Le Stad with all the points.

The Aardvarks continued their climb up their table with a 2-1 win over Fred. Mo Salah timed his run perfectly to head the Gardeners in front on 11 minutes but the second half went to Ady. Son fired through the keeper’s legs for the equaliser and Lewis Dunk got a header of his own to get the win. We finish with the headline of the week, Markian win! It was comeback against Nil Satis too. Paul S had gone in front through Tom Davies but a brilliant diving DeAndre Yedlin equaliser had levelled the game and Ben Foster secured the historic winning clean.