Week 26 Results - CFJs back in the picture?

Cheese Makers 3 v 3 Trusted By Millions 

Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 3 Aardvark Abacus 

Markian United 1 v 2 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 

Mega Buck Bandits 3 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

Real Muppets 2 v 2 Stanley and Gracie United 

San Dimas High School 1 v 4 The Cow-Faced Juniors 

Wheel Madrid 1 v 2 YTFIB

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 1 The Wateringhole Society 

1	Real Muppets	26	15	5	6	59	38	21	50
2	Cheese Makers	26	14	6	6	62	43	19	48
3	The Wateringhole Society	26	14	5	7	62	40	22	47
4	Trusted By Millions	26	14	4	8	77	56	21	46
5	The Cow-Faced Juniors	26	14	3	9	71	49	22	45
6	The Fabulous Artisans	26	12	4	10	57	52	5	40
7	Stanley and Gracie United	26	12	4	10	55	50	5	40
8	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	26	11	6	9	53	49	4	39
9	San Dimas High School	26	11	4	11	49	46	3	37
10	Markian United	26	11	4	11	46	44	2	37
11	Aardvark Abacus	26	10	5	11	57	55	2	35
12	Claymore Athletic FC	26	11	2	13	51	65	-14	35
13	YTFIB	26	10	3	13	36	43	-7	33
14	Mega Buck Bandits	26	7	2	17	28	62	-34	23
15	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	26	6	2	18	30	71	-41	20
16	Wheel Madrid	26	5	3	18	28	58	-30	18

Another week where the top four all fail to win so the Muppets still lead the way after a 2-2 draw with SGU. Ryan’s team took the lead with an early James Tarkowski clean sheet and will hope his injury won’t keep him out for the run-in. Aaron turned it round in injury time with a stunning strike from Pedro Neto soon followed by a Christian Norgaard header. A clean from Illyia Zabarnyi grabbed a point for the leaders. Cheese Makers are second this week after an entertaining 3-3 draw with Trusted. Both teams had players scoring twice, Bryan Mbeumo gave the Cheese the lead in both halves only for Leandro Trossard to reply twice for Beef. Trent Alexander-Arnold crashed in a half-volley on his return to action on 76 minutes to give Trusted the lead but the Cheese had the last word with Nico O’Reilly their fox in the box to make it 3-3.

The Wateringhole dropped a place after a 2-1 defeat to the Artisans. Jarrod Bowen scored a very Jarrod Bowen goal to give Ben the lead two minutes after the break, Kaoru Mitoma levelled on 81 minutes but Ethan Nwaneri’s deflected effort gave the Artisans all the points. Four wins in a row have got the CFJs back within five points of the top. Could they? San Dimas were the victims this week, 4-1. Danny Welbeck headed the Cows in front against his old club in first half injury time. Yoann Wissa and Pablo Sarabia (with an excellent free-kick) took the game away from my team before Mateo Kovacic pulled one back. Dean Huijsen made it 4-1 with a clean.

GC TotW arrested their recent slide with a 2-1 win at Markian. Fabian Schar put Ian ahead on 18 minutes, Gabriel Martinelli levelled 10 minutes later and an Ibrahima Konate clean won it for Ollie. It’s five wins out of six for the Aardvarks now who have found their form too late for this season. Ollie Watkins smashed Ady ahead inside the first minute on the way to a 3-2 win over Claymore. Ian Maatsen added a second on 64 minutes and Richarlison headed in a third with three minutes left. Clive could only find two clean sheets in response.

YTFIB are still upwardly mobile after beating Wheel Madrid 2-1. After having a goal disallowed Chris Wood headed Wheels in front on 16 minutes. Julian was level courtesy of Alex Iwobi just four minutes later and Adam Smith’s clean was the YTFIB winner. Mega Bucks picked up a much-needed win, 3-0 over Nil Satis. All Dave’s counters were clean sheets - from Alisson, Kenny Tete and Milos Kerkez.