Week 9 Results - CFJs stretch their lead

Aardvark Abacus 1 v 0 YTFIB

Cheese Makers 0 v 5 Trusted By Millions

Claymore Athletic FC 0 v 3 San Dimas High School

Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 2 The Wateringhole Society

Markian United 4 v 0 Mega Buck Bandits

Stanley and Gracie United 3 v 4 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 1 Real Muppets

Wheel Madrid 2 v 8 (eight) The Cow-Faced Juniors

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

You could make the argument that the CFJs had been a little lucky in being top and unbeaten after eight games but the Cows exploded that this week with an eight-goal battering of Wheel Madrid. It was only 2-1 at the break, Callum Wilson’s penalty narrowing the deficit after gaols from Kiefer Moore and Odsonne Edouard. Moore’s diving header four minutes half-time extended the lead but Wilson pulled it back to 3-2 with a header of his own. The CFJs took off from here though. Miguel Almiron scored another for his highlight reel, Ben Davies headed in from a corner and Rodrigo Bentancur added another in injury time before Aymeric Laporte and Gabriel added clean sheets.

There’s a five-point gap back to Fred in second after his team were held by The Wateringhole Society. Gabriel Martinelli’s header and Mohamed Salah’s hooked finish had the Gardeners two up inside 15 minutes. A powerful header from Marcus Rashford pulled it back to 2-1 seven minutes before the interval and William Saliba’s clean earned Kiran a draw. The Artisans climb to third after seeing off the Haaland-less Muppets 3-1. A fantastic Kevin De Bruyne free-kick saw Ryan ahead just after half-time but Ben turned it round courtesy of Martin Odegaard’s late goal and Marc Guehi andDiogo Dalot’s cleans. Trusted are a further point back after adding to Matthew’s woes with a 5-0 win. Leandro Trossard was on target after five minutes but it took Beef until after the hour mark to put the game away with cleans from Takehiro Tomiyasu, Jeff Schlupp, Conor Coady and Adam Webster.

Claymore missed a chance to close on the top three with defeat at home to San Dimas. My team had a helping hand with a Trevoh Chalobah own goal before the break, Joelinton latched on to a rebound to make it two on the hour and a clean from Dan Burn completed the win. Nil Satis are eighth after edging a seven-goal thriller against SGU. Aaron can consider himself unluckiest manager of the week after coming back from an early Ruben Loftus-Cheek own goal. Kai Havertz headed the equaliser and Ben Mee’s spectacular volley in the space of three minutes made it 2-1 but it turned again as Paul S bagged early cleans from Seamus Coleman and Sven Botman. Pascal Gross got SGU back on terms in injury time but there was still time for a Vitaly Mykolenko clean to win it for Nil Satis.

The Aardvarks leapfrogged YTFIB (can aardvarks leapfrog?) with a 1-0 win over those opponents. A clean from Ben White getting the job done for Ady. Two goals in a minute helped Markian to a 4-0 win over Mega Bucks. Thomas Partey hit a first-time shot from range and Ryan Sessegnon quickly followed up by firing across the keeper. Luke Shaw and Fabian Schar got the cleans to cap it off.

Week 8 Results - Top two getting away

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 3 Aardvark Abacus

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 2 v 1 Markian United

Real Muppets 3 v 2 Cheese Makers

San Dimas High School 1 v 3 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 0 Stanley and Gracie United

The Wateringhole Society 2 v 3 Wheel Madrid

Trusted By Millions 1 v 5 Claymore Athletic FC

YTFIB 2 v 0 The Fabulous Artisans

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

The CFJs stay unbeaten in the league with a 2-0 win over Stanley and Gracie. Both goals came in the first half, Rodrigo’s close range header came after 20 minutes and Miguel Almiron, who’s in the form of his life, danced through the SGU rearguard to make it two 20 minutes later. Fred stays in touch after beating San Dimas 3-1. Kurt Zouma’s glancing header (from a handball in the build-up!) gave the Gardeners the lead right on half-time. Taiwo Awoniyi doubled the lead ten minutes after the break and while Dwight McNeil narrowed the deficit six minutes from time Timothy Castagne’s clean made it 3-1.

It’s four points back to the Artisans who went down 2-0 at YTFIB. Bobby DeCordova-Reid was left unmarked to head Julian in front after 74 minutes and James Justin finished the scoring with a clean. The Muppets are up to fourth after edging Cheese Makers 3-2. Matthew’s team were still smarting from a 7-1 PCMT defeat to these opponents and raced into a two goal advantage inside 15 minutes thanks to a brace from Danny Ings. Erling Haaland replied with two of his own to level the game at the interval and Kevin De Bruyne’s brilliant 25-yard strike on 75 minutes separated the sides at the end.

The Wateringhole’s bid for back-to-back titles were dealt a blow by a 3-2 defeat against Wheel Madrid. Leon Bailey (for Wheels) and Harvey Barnes scored goals to send the game into half-time at 1-1 but the Wheelmen took charge after the break with James Maddison’s strike from the edge of the area and Jorginho’s penalty. Ezri Konsa’s clean for Kiran wasn’t enough to grab a point. Trusted and Claymore occupy sixth and seventh after Clive’s team won 5-1 in their clash. The Swordsmen were two up in 26 minutes, a brilliant half-volley from Youri Tielemans and a near-post header by Aleksandar Mitrovic. Leandro Trossard shot low from 18 yards to get Beef back into it but Claymore had cleans from Wout Faes, Thilo Kehrer and Aaron Cresswell to put a one-sided look on the scoreline.

Nil Satis fell behind to Harry Kane’s stooping header but bagged all three points against Markian through Anthony Gordon’s tap-in and a Seamus Coleman clean. Ady narrowed the gap to Dave after winning the ‘Bevan Derby’ 3-1. Granit Xhaka smashed in after 11 minutes to give the Bandits the lead but the second half was all Aardvarks. Ollie Watkins finished at the third attempt just before the hour to equalise and cleans from Jordan Pickford and Scott McKenna took all the points back to Glasgow.