Week 20 Results

Ady’s win cuts Fred’s lead to a single point. And eight points cover 5th-15th.

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	20	14	2	4	61	30	31	44
2	Aardvark Abacus	20	14	1	5	47	31	16	43
3	The Wateringhole Society	20	11	2	7	41	33	8	35
4	Athletico Phoenix	20	9	5	6	37	30	7	32
5	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	20	9	3	8	42	36	6	30
6	San Dimas High School	20	8	5	7	42	34	8	29
7	Mega Buck Bandits	20	8	5	7	40	36	4	29
8	Real Muppets	20	9	2	9	35	32	3	29
9	Markian United	20	9	2	9	39	47	-8	29
10	The Cow-Faced Juniors	20	8	2	10	41	46	-5	26
11	Claymore Athletic FC	20	7	5	8	36	42	-6	26
12	The Fabulous Artisans	20	8	1	11	35	50	-15	25
13	Cheese Makers	20	7	3	10	32	43	-11	24
14	Trusted By Millions	20	7	1	12	42	46	-4	22
15	Wheel Madrid	20	7	1	12	34	45	-11	22
16	YTFIB	20	4	2	14	20	43	-23	14

After a couple of recent ‘wins for five out of the top six’ messages it was just one top six winner this week. An important one though as it was Ady beating the leaders to close the gap to one point.

Ady went in to the break a goal up through Alexandre Lacazette but Fred had turned it round by the hour mark thanks to Mo Salah latching on to a clever back heel to find the far corner and Hugo Loris stopping a penalty. Ady took the points in injury time courtesy of Jack Stephens from close range at the far post and then Son Heung-Min outpacing the Fred rearguard on a breakaway and smacking in. The Wateringhole couldn’t close the gap to the top two after going down 3-2 to the CFJs. Kiran was two up in this one, a deflected shot by Alex Iwobi and Sol Bamba prodding in with 21 minutes left. Shane Duffy’s header started the fightback for Chris and Co. and cleans from Laporte and Janmaat earned the win.

Athletico’s excellent unbeaten league run ended at the hands of the Muppets. Raheem Sterling gave Ryan the lead as early a the fourth minute but Brian was back on terms on 23 following a magnificent solo run and shot from Anthony Martial. Parity lasted a minute with Sadio Mane getting across at the front post to power home a header for the Muppets and Sterling’s tap-in from six yards made it 3-1 with ten minutes left. Nil Satis went down by the odd goal in seven to Mega Bucks to stay fifth. Paul led three times too. Paul Pogba’s first was cancelled out by Mark Noble’s penalty (the midfielder’s first of the season.) Pogba’s spot-kick was levelled by Wilf Zaha’s deflected effort and Nil Satis must have thought they’d won when Sead Kolasinac’s own goal three minutes into injury time put them ahead again. Cleans from Alisson and Holebas meant that Dave had the final say and the three points.

San Dimas head four teams on 29 points following defeat to Markian. After Davinson Sanchez’s first half diving header my team turned it round through Ashley Barnes’ penalty and a controversial injury time goal from Willy Boly. Markian had cleans from Foster and Shaw to get the victory and join the 29 point brigade. Claymore are three points behind that in 11th after a comfortable 4-1 win over YTFIB. Sergio Aguero was the man for Clive again with yet another hat-trick. Pick of the goals was his first, picking out the top corner from 25 yards. It rather overshadowed an excellent Ilkay Gundogan consolation effort for Julian.

The Artisans revival resumed with a 2-1 win over Trusted. Gio Wijnaldum’s brilliant lob put Ben ahead, Christian Eriksen doubled the lead with another outside the area effort, Beef could only reply with a Phil Jones clean. Wheel Madrid pulled away from YTFIB at the bottom with a 1-0 win at Cheese Makers. Jamie Vardy had missed a penalty but slid in the only goal of the game for Paul W with 14 minutes left.

FA Cup Quarter-Final results

The holders go out to the CFJs.

Claymore Athletic FC 6 v 0 Trusted By Millions
San Dimas High School 2 v 1 Athletico Phoenix
The Cow-Faced Juniors 1 v 0 Aardvark Abacus
YTFIB 0 v 2 Markian United

Week 19 Results

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


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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
1	Fred West Landscape Gardening XI	19	14	2	3	59	27	32	44
2	Aardvark Abacus	19	13	1	5	44	29	15	40
3	The Wateringhole Society	19	11	2	6	39	30	9	35
4	Athletico Phoenix	19	9	5	5	36	27	9	32
5	Nil Satis Nisi Optimum	19	9	3	7	39	32	7	30
6	San Dimas High School	19	8	5	6	40	31	9	29
7	Mega Buck Bandits	19	7	5	7	36	33	3	26
8	Real Muppets	19	8	2	9	32	31	1	26
9	Markian United	19	8	2	9	36	45	-9	26
10	Cheese Makers	19	7	3	9	32	42	-10	24
11	The Cow-Faced Juniors	19	7	2	10	38	44	-6	23
12	Claymore Athletic FC	19	6	5	8	32	41	-9	23
13	Trusted By Millions	19	7	1	11	41	44	-3	22
14	The Fabulous Artisans	19	7	1	11	33	49	-16	22
15	Wheel Madrid	19	6	1	12	33	45	-12	19
16	YTFIB	19	4	2	13	19	39	-20	14

Fred and Ady keep ploughing on at the top. The leaders saw off last year’s champions the CFJs 3-1. Salomon Rondon opened the scoring on 66 minutes, hooking in a dropping ball, the CFJs levelled three minutes from time when Fernando Llorente, who’d already missed a couple of sitters, headed in but cleans from Zouma and Bennett saw the Gardeners home. The Aardvarks won by the same score at the Muppets. Ryan’s team took a very early lead through Sadio Mane and it was ten minutes before the end when Ady levelled through Son-Heung Min. A driving run and shot from Alexandre Lacazette put Ady’s team in front and Jordan Pickford’s excellent performance was rewarded with a clean to make it 3-1.

It was a 4-1 win for the Wateringhole Society who are still hanging on to the coat-tails of the top two. The action was all in the last ten minutes in Kiran’s win over Paul W. Matt Ritchie struck a penalty for Wheels but Raul Jimenez replied straight away and dinked over the keeper six minutes later to put the mighty society ahead. Kiran finished things off with cleans from Ake and Keane. Athletico are up to fourth after dismissing the Artisans 4-0, the same score as week 3 when Ben was going through his lean period. All the action here was in the last 15 minutes. James Ward-Prowse kept his recent scoring run going, an unmarked Chris Wood converted a header and Victor Lindelof smashed in a rebound while Leighton Baines picked up a clean sheet against his former club.

Nil Satis are fifth after coming from behind against YTFIB. David Brooks has been Julian’s star of the season and he put his side ahead after 63 minutes. They couldn’t hold on to that lead though and Paul Pogba equalised with three minutes left and Patricio, Coleman and Doherty got the cleans to make it 4-1. San Dimas lost ground after a meek performance and 3-0 defeat to Claymore. Sergio Aguero put Clive’s side ahead after 24 seconds, Craig Cathcart bundled in to make it two before the break and Joe Bryan added a clean.

Markian were pretty meek too as they went down 2-0 to Mega Bucks. Wilf Zaha smashed in at the near post four minutes before half-time to give Dave the lead, P-E Aubameyang bagged a penalty to finish the scoring. Zaha saw red late on to take the shine off the win. Game of the week was the seven goal thriller between Trusted and Cheese Makers. Richarlison and Glenn Murray traded early goals and when Murray prodded in his second after 17 minutes it was 2-1 Cheese. That score lasted into the second half when Alex Mitrovic did a human battering ram impression to score twice in 16 minutes to put Beef’s team 3-2 ahead. While there were no more goals there were two more cleans - Cook and Clyne notched for the Cheese Makers to end the game 4-3 in Matthew’s favour.Wins for five of the top six.