FA Cup QF Results

Cheese Makers 4 v 0 Aardvark Abacus

Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 0 v 3 The Cow-Faced Juniors

San Dimas High School 1 v 0 Wheel Madrid

YTFIB 2 v 2 The Fabulous Artisans 

Replay

The Fabulous Artisans 4 v 1 YTFIB

Cheese Makers beat the Aardvarks at the weekend and repeated the feat to take Matthew to just his second FA Cup semi-final. Joao Pedro sped away from the Abacus defence to dink over the keeper and Nico O’Reilly finished off an end-to-end move to get first half goals for the Cheese, Tyrone Mings and Nikola Milenkovic saw the game out with clean sheets to complete a 4-0 win. Jorgen Strand Larsen re-discovered his scoring boots* with a brace in the CFJs 3-0 win over GC TotW. Strand Larsen struck twice before the break and the ever-reliable Tomas Soucek added the third with a deft near-post finish five minutes after the interval.

An uninspiring tie between San Dimas and Wheel Madrid was settled in my team’s favour by an Emi Martinez clean.We do have a reply to sort out though. YTFIB nearly pulled off a shock over the Artisans with Antoine Semenyo’s close range lunge and Amine Adli’s header into an unguarded net putting Julian’s team two up. Ben earned a second crack at going through with cleans from El Hadji Malick Diouf (after 80 minutes) and Marc Guehi.

In the replay, the Artisans reeled off four clean sheets to knock out Julian’s team and keep the possibility of a league and Cup double alive.

* Ok, he headed one in but cut me some slack here please.