Week 23 Results

Looks like Ady v Fred for the title, Julian’s tied up the bottom spot, 3rd to 15th? Your guess is as good as mine.

Aardvark Abacus 3 v 1 Markian United
Athletico Phoenix 2 v 4 San Dimas High School
Cheese Makers 1 v 1 The Fabulous Artisans
Fred West Landscape Gardening XI 2 v 0 Claymore Athletic FC
Mega Buck Bandits 1 v 2 Trusted By Millions
The Cow-Faced Juniors 0 v 2 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
The Wateringhole Society 2 v 1 Real Muppets
YTFIB 1 v 4 Wheel Madrid


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	23	16	2	5	54	35	19	50
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	23	15	3	5	64	33	31	48
3	The Wateringhole Society	23	12	3	8	45	39	6	39
4	San Dimas High School	23	10	6	7	55	38	17	36
5	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	23	11	3	9	51	43	8	36
6	Athletico Phoenix	23	10	6	7	44	36	8	36
7	Real Muppets	23	11	2	10	46	41	5	35
8	The Fabulous Artisans	23	10	2	11	43	52	-9	32
9	Markian United	23	10	2	11	45	55	-10	32
10	Mega Buck Bandits	23	8	5	10	44	43	1	29
11	The Cow-Faced Juniors	23	9	2	12	44	50	-6	29
12	Claymore Athletic FC	23	8	5	10	39	49	-10	29
13	Wheel Madrid	23	9	1	13	46	52	-6	28
14	Cheese Makers	23	8	4	11	37	48	-11	28
15	Trusted By Millions	23	8	2	13	44	49	-5	26
16	YTFIB	23	4	2	17	21	59	-38	14

Ady keeps his two point advantage after beating Markian 3-1. The Aardvarks were two up in little more than a quarter of an hour thanks to Declan Rice’s header and Diogo Jota finishing off an intricate team move. Harry Kane’s penalty pulled one back but Lewis Dunk’s clean saw the leaders home. Fred kept the pressure on with a 2-0 victory against Claymore. This was petering out into a goalless draw before Hugo Lloris saved his second penalty of the campaign to put Fred ahead a minute into injury time and Ruben Vinagre quickly clinched the points with a clean.

The Wateringhole Society are back in third following a win over the Muppets. Kiran took the lead when his team worked space for Raul Jimenez to fire in after 18 minutes and the advantage was doubled on 53 through Andreas Pereira’s screamer. Angelo Ogbonna’s clean in reply wasn’t enough for Ryan’s team.  San Dimas are up to fourth thanks to a win at Athletico. Gonzalo Higuain’s smart finish on 20 minutes was his first WSFFL goal for Brian but my team had turned it round by the hour mark. Riyad Mahrez squeezed a shot in at the near post (against his former club) and Romelu Lukaku notched soon afterwards. James Ward-Prowse added another excellent free-kick to his highlight reel to get Brian back on terms but Lukaku’s first time finish two minutes from time put me back in front and Willy Boly closed it out with a clean sheet.

Nil Satis will miss Aaron Ransey when the midfielder moves on at the end of the season. He put Paul S in front against the CFJs after running clear and rounding the keeper after 16 minutes. Paul Pogba had a chance to wrap it up from the spot deep into injury time but missed so it was good for Paul that Seamus Coleman got the clean to make it 2-0. Chris and Co’s title defence has;t been much of a defence. At le Stade Fromage Troy Deeney’s early flick header came close to giving Matthew the win against the Artisans but Ben’s team grabbed a share of the points with Bernardo’s clean sheet.

After an awful February (three defeats, one goal for, 16 conceded) Julian was looking for his YTFIB team to provide a reaction against Wheel Madrid. Phil Bardsley shinning one into his own net after 15 minutes probably wasn’t the reaction he was looking for. Jorginho made it two for Paul W with an excellent finish from just outside the area and Jamie Vardy got a Jamie Vardy goal to make it 3-0 with 15 minutes left. Florin Andone headed in for YTFIB to reduce the lead but Wheels had a 4-1 win thanks to Joel Matip’s clean.  Mega Bucks blew the chance to get into the top half by losing to Trusted. Dave was 1-0 up when Mark Noble converted his second penalty of the season. Perhaps Noble should have taken the penalty in second half injury time. P-E Aubameyang did, missed and Beef swept up the points with cleans from Coady and Otamendi.

Week 22 Results

The Aardvarks go top.

Athletico Phoenix 3 v 0 The Wateringhole Society
Cheese Makers 1 v 2 Aardvark Abacus
Claymore Athletic FC 2 v 1 Mega Buck Bandits
Markian United 2 v 4 Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
Real Muppets 5 v 4 Wheel Madrid
San Dimas High School 7 v 0 YTFIB
The Fabulous Artisans 2 v 1 The Cow-Faced Juniors
Trusted By Millions 0 v 0 Fred West Landscape Gardening XI


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Aardvark Abacus	22	15	2	5	51	34	17	47
2	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	22	14	3	5	62	33	29	45
3	Athletico Phoenix	22	10	6	6	42	32	10	36
4	The Wateringhole Society	22	11	3	8	43	38	5	36
5	Real Muppets	22	11	2	9	45	39	6	35
6	San Dimas High School	22	9	6	7	51	36	15	33
7	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	22	10	3	9	49	43	6	33
8	Markian United	22	10	2	10	44	52	-8	32
9	The Fabulous Artisans	22	10	1	11	42	51	-9	31
10	Mega Buck Bandits	22	8	5	9	43	41	2	29
11	The Cow-Faced Juniors	22	9	2	11	44	48	-4	29
12	Claymore Athletic FC	22	8	5	9	39	47	-8	29
13	Cheese Makers	22	8	3	11	36	47	-11	27
14	Wheel Madrid	22	8	1	13	42	51	-9	25
15	Trusted By Millions	22	7	2	13	42	48	-6	23
16	YTFIB	22	4	2	16	20	55	-35	14

Ady’s long unbeaten league run has delivered him to the top of the table. The Aardvarks were trailing to Cheese Makers after Kieran Trippier gifted Matthew’s team an own goal with six minutes left. Cleans from Vincent Kompany and Jamaal Lascelles meant Ady left Le Stade with all the points and that, combined with Fred’s result, means we have our first change of leader since week seven. Fred’s result was a goalless draw at struggling Trusted where Andre Gray missed the best chance of the game for Beef, hitting the keeper with the goal at his mercy.

There was also a change to third place. Athletico swapped places with the Wateringhole Society after beating those opponents 3-0. Demarai Gray opened the scoring after 10 minutes, having bags of space to slot in but the last 11 minutes were decisive. Virgil van Dijkscired two towering headers to keep him in the frame for player of the year. Brian will be rueing his poor start to the season which left him with just nine points after the first ten games. The Muppets second game of the week saw another high-scoring victory, 5-4 this time over Wheel Madrid. Sadio Mane scored twice in the first 20 minutes, the second a clever elevated back heel, and Laurent Koscielny’s deflected shot made it 3-0 just after the break. Jamie Vardy reduced the deficit but Davy Propper’s first of the season restored the advantage. Ashley Young pulled another one back for Wheels but Steve Mounie poked in for the Muppets in injury time which meant that two clean sheets for Wheels weren’t enough to grab a point.

YTFIB are in one of their occasional desperate runs at the moment. San Dimas added to Julian’s woes by sticking seven past them. Fabian Schar started the rout with a screamer that went in off a post, Romelu Lukaku added two more and Pedro fired through the keeper’s legs for 4-0. Schar was among the clean sheet getters too as my team notched up the biggest win of the season. Nil Satis overtook Markian after coming back from 2-0 down. Gylfi Sigurdsson had got both Markian goals but Dominic Calbert-Lewin got Paul S back in the game in injury time and cleans from Coleman, Danilo and Alonso clinched the Nil Satis win.

The Artisans made it 27 points out of 36 (the same as Athletico) with a 2-1 win over the CFJs. Chris and Co. took an early lead when Mesut Ozil did his clever kick the ball into the ground so it clears the advancing keeper thing but Ben hit back through Divock Origi on 66 minutes. The decider was Lucas Digne’s clean and the Artisans are now just a point pff the top half. Claymore beat Mega Bucks 2-1 to join Dave’s team on 29 points. New signing Sean Longstaff celebrated by getting the opening goal for Clive, firing in from the corner of the six-yard box seven minutes before the break. P-E Aubameyang replied for Dave just before the hour after he was given far too much space to race away and round the keeper but Sergio Augero rolled in a penalty at Claymore almost straight after that to give Clive the victory.