Week 20 Results - Muppets get closer to leaders

Aardvark Abacus 2 v 4 Cheese Makers 

Claymore Athletic FC 1 v 3 Stanley and Gracie United

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2 v 0 The Wateringhole Society 

Markian United 3 v 0 Wheel Madrid

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 1 v 4 Real Muppets

San Dimas High School 2 v 2 Mega Buck Bandits

The Cow-Faced Juniors 2 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans 

Trusted By Millions 4 v 0 YTFIB

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	20	14	3	3	46	29	17	45
2	Real Muppets	20	13	2	5	52	32	20	41
3	The Wateringhole Society	20	13	1	6	55	34	21	40
4	Stanley and Gracie United	20	10	5	5	44	33	11	35
5	Aardvark Abacus	20	9	6	5	40	28	12	33
6	Cheese Makers	20	8	5	7	39	41	-2	29
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	20	8	4	8	39	40	-1	28
8	San Dimas High School	20	7	7	6	30	37	-7	28
9	Claymore Athletic FC	20	8	3	9	38	36	2	27
10	Trusted By Millions	20	7	5	8	37	31	6	26
11	Markian United	20	7	4	9	31	31	0	25
12	Mega Buck Bandits	20	7	3	10	31	42	-11	24
13	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	20	6	5	9	26	41	-15	23
14	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	20	5	4	11	30	39	-9	19
15	YTFIB	20	3	5	12	25	46	-21	14
16	Wheel Madrid	20	2	4	14	18	41	-23	10

Week 19 Results - Title race still alive

Cheese Makers 4 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors 

Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 4 Trusted By Millions 

Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 0 v 1 Aardvark Abacus

San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Claymore Athletic FC

Stanley and Gracie United 4 v 2 Garth Crooks' Team of the Week

The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 3 Real Muppets 

The Wateringhole Society 4 v 0 Wheel Madrid 

YTFIB 2 v 3 Markian United 

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	19	14	2	3	44	27	17	44
2	The Wateringhole Society	19	13	1	5	55	32	23	40
3	Real Muppets	19	12	2	5	48	31	17	38
4	Aardvark Abacus	19	9	6	4	38	24	14	33
5	Stanley and Gracie United	19	9	5	5	41	32	9	32
6	Claymore Athletic FC	19	8	3	8	37	33	4	27
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	19	8	3	8	37	38	-1	27
8	San Dimas High School	19	7	6	6	28	35	-7	27
9	Cheese Makers	19	7	5	7	35	39	-4	26
10	Trusted By Millions	19	6	5	8	33	31	2	23
11	Mega Buck Bandits	19	7	2	10	29	40	-11	23
12	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	19	6	5	8	25	37	-12	23
13	Markian United	19	6	4	9	28	31	-3	22
14	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	19	4	4	11	28	39	-11	16
15	YTFIB	19	3	5	11	25	42	-17	14
16	Wheel Madrid	19	2	4	13	18	38	-20	10

A huge win for the Muppets over the league-leading Artisans to keep Ryan’s team in with a chance of following up last year’s title success. Ben’s team led twice, through the ever-reliable Jarrod Bowen and improving Florian Wirtz but Ryan hit back with excellent strikes from Habib Diarra and Chemsdine Talbi. Jurrien Timber’s clean sheet made it 3-2 to the Muppets and closes the gap to the top to six points. In between those teams are the Wateringhole Society who had a comfortable 4-0 win over Wheel Madrid Hugo Ekitike struck twice in three minutes just before half time. Piero Hincapie and William Saliba bagged clean sheets.

The Aardvarks stayed fourth with a 1-0 win over Nil Satis, Martin Zubimendi heading home after 27 minutes. SGU round out the top five that have stayed the same for six weeks now. Despite falling behind to an early Morgan Gibbs-White goal Aaron’s team beat GC TotW 4-2. Dominic Solanke scored twice, his second a flukey/brilliant ’scorpion kick’, to put SGU in front and Enzo Fernandez made it 3-1. Ibrahima Konate poked in to pull one back for Ollie but Trai Hume’s clean settled it.

Claymore and the CFJs in 6th and 7th lost to the teams in 8th and 9th. San Dimas beat Claymore 2-1. Crysencio Summerville and Matheus Cunha swapped goals before Marcos Senesi’s clean clinched it for me. It was a 4-1 win for Cheese Makers over the Cows. Matthew’s team have settled into a 3-4-3 formation and all three Cheese attackers scored this week - Anthony Gordon in the first half, Joao Pedro and Raul Jimenez in the second. Casemiro was Matthew’s other scorer, Viktor Gyokeres got the CFJs’ goal.

Trusted are finally moving in the right direction and beat Mega Bucks 4-1. A fabulous hit from Eli Junior Kroupi was soon followed by Noni Madueke curling a corner straight in. Dango Ouattara replied for Dave before the break and it stayed 2-1 until the final five minutes when Gabriel Jesus scored and Nordi Mukiele picked up a clean for Beef. Markian ended their umpteen games (check before sending out) without a win by beating YTFIB 3-2. Ryan Cherki’s opener for Ian was equalised by Antoine Semenyo. Ismaila Sarr put Markian back in front only for Alex Scott to level in injury time but at 90+4 Benjamin Sesko turned and shot high into the net for the winner.

FA Cup QF draw

Cheese Makers v Aardvark Abacus

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week v The Cow-Faced Juniors

San Dimas High School v Wheel Madrid

YTFIB v The Fabulous Artisans 

Those games are scheduled for the midweek 10-12 February.

Week 18 Results - Chasing teams lose ground

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2 v 3 The Cow-Faced Juniors

Markian United 0 v 2 Trusted By Millions

Real Muppets 0 v 5 Claymore Athletic FC

Stanley and Gracie United 5 v 0 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum

The Fabulous Artisans 3 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits

The Wateringhole Society 0 v 4 San Dimas High School

Wheel Madrid 1 v 4 Aardvark Abacus

YTFIB 3 v 3 Cheese Makers

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	The Fabulous Artisans	18	14	2	2	42	24	18	44
2	The Wateringhole Society	18	12	1	5	51	32	19	37
3	Real Muppets	18	11	2	5	45	29	16	35
4	Aardvark Abacus	18	8	6	4	37	24	13	30
5	Stanley and Gracie United	18	8	5	5	37	30	7	29
6	Claymore Athletic FC	18	8	3	7	36	31	5	27
7	The Cow-Faced Juniors	18	8	3	7	36	34	2	27
8	San Dimas High School	18	6	6	6	26	34	-8	24
9	Cheese Makers	18	6	5	7	31	38	-7	23
10	Mega Buck Bandits	18	7	2	9	28	36	-8	23
11	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	18	6	5	7	25	36	-11	23
12	Trusted By Millions	18	5	5	8	29	30	-1	20
13	Markian United	18	5	4	9	25	29	-4	19
14	Garth Crooks' Team of the Week	18	4	4	10	26	35	-9	16
15	YTFIB	18	3	5	10	23	39	-16	14
16	Wheel Madrid	18	2	4	12	18	34	-16	10

Well, that’s a pretty good week for the Artisans. Ben’s team did their job beating Mega Bucks 3-1 and saw both of their closest rivals slip up. Omar Marmoush doesn’t get much Artisans game time but made his rare start count with a goal after just six minutes. Dave’s team hit back 20 minutes later when Evanilson was given too much space. The lead was restored two minutes later when Jarrod Bowen converted from the spot and there was no more scoring until Marc Guehi made it 3-1 with a clean sheet.

The Wateringhole Society and Real Muppets both went down 4-0. Kiran’s team ran into a surprisingly good San Dimas performance with Crysencio Summerville, Samuel Chukwueze (his first in the WSFFL) and Mikel Merino all on target and Emi Martinez adding a clean.  The Muppets were turned over by Claymore who had excellent long-distance strikes from Mateus Fernandes and Matheus Cunha plus a close range effort from Thierno Barry and a clean from Matty Cash.

The Aardvarks beat Wheel Madrid 4-1 to stay fourth. Igor Jesus’ goal was quickly equalised by Emi Buendia’s curling effort but Micky van de Ven restored Ady’s lead before the break. Ollie Watkins made it 3-1 a couple of minutes from the end and Ian Maatsen’s clean wrapped things up. There was a bigger win for SGU who stay fifth. They trounced Nil Satis 5-0. Virgil van Dijk shouldered in a corner right on half-time and there were goals from Enzo Fernandez (from the spot). Dominik Szoboszlai and Harry Wilson plus an Ola Aina clean in the second period.

The CFJs benefited from a Lisandro Martinez own goal to beat GC TotW 3-2. Ollie’s team fought back from two down to level on 90 minutes when Cristian Romero powers a header home but the Cows had a winning clean from the bench thanks to Jean-Clair Todibo. Cheese Makers and YTFIB played out an entertaining 3-3 draw. Matthew needed an Abdudokhir Khusanov clean for that equaliser after Chris Richards looked to have won it for Julian with an 88th minute scrambled goal. Beef overtook Markian in the table with a 2-0 win over those opponents. Cleans from Gianluigi Donnarumma and Konstantinos Mavropanos were the Trusted scorers.