Week 18 Results - Muppets lead again

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 3 v 0 Wheel Madrid

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 3 v 2 Aardvark Abacus 

Real Muppets 2 v 1 Cheese Makers

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

Stanley and Gracie United 3 v 1 Markian United

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 3 Mega Buck Bandits 

The Wateringhole Society 3 v 2 YTFIB

Trusted By Millions 3 v 4 The Fabulous Artisans

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Real Muppets	18	11	4	3	44	21	23	37
2	Cheese Makers	18	11	2	5	44	30	14	35
3	The Wateringhole Society	18	10	4	4	46	29	17	34
4	The Cow-Faced Juniors	18	10	3	5	50	34	16	33
5	Trusted By Millions	18	10	2	6	56	40	16	32
6	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	18	8	6	4	40	33	7	30
7	Stanley and Gracie United	18	8	3	7	34	32	2	27
8	Markian United	18	8	3	7	33	32	1	27
9	The Fabulous Artisans	18	8	2	8	40	37	3	26
10	San Dimas High School	18	7	3	8	33	33	0	24
11	YTFIB	18	7	1	10	26	31	-5	22
12	Claymore Athletic FC	18	7	1	10	34	46	-12	22
13	Aardvark Abacus	18	5	5	8	37	42	-5	20
14	Mega Buck Bandits	18	5	2	11	19	44	-25	17
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	18	4	1	13	19	48	-29	13
16	Wheel Madrid	18	3	2	13	21	44	-23	11

Real Muppets go top for the second time this season after beating last week’s leaders, Cheese Makers, 2-1. Iliman Ndiaye’s penalty late in the first half put Ryan’s team in front but a twice taken Bryan Mbeumo spot-kick had Matthew level on 66 minutes. Parity only lasted a couple of minutes when the Cheese keeper went walkabout and Erling Haaland lobbed in the winner for the Muppets. A second straight defeat for the CFJs means they stay third. The Cows went down 3-2 to Mega Bucks. Dango Ouattara was Dave’s unlikely second-half hat-trick hero and the Cows could only find two cleans in response.

The Wateringhole are third after beating YTFIB 3-2. Cody Gakpo put Kiran’s team in front twice, Julian hit back thanks to Jamie Vardy in top poaching action and an injury time strike from Antoine Semenyo but William Saliba's clean gave the Society the points.Trusted’s eight game winning run was ended by the Artisans. The game finished 4-3 in Ben’s favour after Beef went 3-0 up in the first half. Noni Madueke opened the scoring after three minutes after an Artisans defensive calamity and Alexander Isak added two more, one from the spot, by the half hour mark. An early Matthias De Ligt clean got the Artisans into the game and a controlled half-volley from Riccardo Calafiori pulled another one back with 16 minutes left. Cleans from Diogo Dalot and Calafiori completed the turnaround. 

Have GC TotW emerged from their recent wobble? Ollie’s team beat Wheel Madrid 3-0 this week, Mohamed Salah smashing in from a tight angle in the first half, a deflected shot and a clean from Lisandro Martinez in the second. SGU beat Markian 3-1 to leapfrog those opponents in the table. It was an all-action start at Girdlestone Park, Ian’s team taking the lead on nine minutes through Justin Kluivert’s run and accurate shot, Aaron equalising a minute later courtesy of Jan Bednarek’s header followed by Dominik Szoboszlai striking from 18 yards a minute after that! Harry Maguire got the clinching clean for SGU.

San Dimas’ good form continued with their 2-1 win over Claymore. Josko Gvardiol passed into an empty net three minutes before the break, Bilal El Khanouss got his first WSFFL goal five minutes after and Clive’s team could only reply with a Lenny Yoro clean. Nil Satis climbed off the bottom of the table following their 3-1 win over the Aardvarks. Sandro Tonali raced through the Aardvark rearguard to put Paul ahead on 51 minutes but Ady looked to have grabbed point through Jacob Greaves’ diving header. Nil Satis weren’t finished though, cleans from Mykolenko and Branthwaite claimed all thee points.