Season 25 Week 12 processing...

Nantes still in top form there.

Ipswich 0 Newcastle 3 Pelle on 88 minutes.

I seem to have missed a score in the Blackburn Charlton game, apologies for that, but it is now

Blackburn 2 Charlton 2

and I seem to remember Torres' name popping up for a second, but cant be sure

and we're in 89 minutes now.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

I seem to have missed a score in the Blackburn Charlton game, apologies for that, but it is now

Blackburn 2 Charlton 2

and I seem to remember Torres' name popping up for a second, but cant be sure

and we're in 89 minutes now.

no hang on, it's now

Blackburn 2 Charlton 3

Daniel Sturridge has struck back right away on 89 minutes.

it would seem the vidiprinter has a problem reporting 2 goals from the same match within the same minute, I'll make a note of that and sort it out for next time, just to confirm it is

Blackburn 2 Charlton 3

and that's it for the league this week, hopefully I will be able to get through the roundup before the electric goes out all together here...so I'll get straight to it...

Not sure I can take this!

Premiership

Man City 28 +19
Watford 28 +18
Plymouth 26 +10
Birmingham 24 +10
Charlton 22 +5

still very close in England's top tier...and Fulham's superb point at Maine Road lifts them out of the bottom three.

Championship

Newcastle 28 +16
Arsenal 24 +10
Leicester 24 +6
Hull 16 -2
Soton 15 -1
Westham 15 -1
West Brom 13 -1

League One

Villa 25 +7
Forest 21 +6
Stoke 20 +4
Bolton 20 +4
QPR 18 +1
Coventry 16 -3

Le Championnat

Nantes 30 +24
Monaco 29 +15
Paris 27 +6
Lille 24 +9
Lyon 23 +14

Seria A

Inter 34 +30
Ancona 25 +18
Milan 25 +10
Napoli 19 +3
Juventus 19 +3
Roma 18 +5

La Liga

Barcelona 34 +34
Real 28 +14
Valencia 25 +13
Atletico 25 +9
Betis 22 +6

Brasileiro

Flamengo 36 +39
Santos 31 +20
Sao Paulo 22 +3
Gremio 20 +5

Final Champions Cup Group stage results and tables

Benfica 1 Plymouth 3
Milan 0 Real 1

Real 16
Plymouth 13

Red Star 1 Inter 3
Ajax 0 Man City 9 ( yes nine )

Man City 15 +17
Inter 15 +9

Napoli 0 Barcelona 0
Watford 3 Schalke 0

Watford
Barcelona

Rangers 0 Bayern 1
Paris 0 Charlton 0

Charlton
Paris

which all means that the quarter-finals should be...

Real vs Inter
Man City vs Plymouth
Watford vs Paris
Charlton vs Barcelona

wow, games don't get any easier do they. I do stress though, that is an unofficial draw, the official draw, which should be the same will be done by the system next week.

In the Europa Cup we have

Porto vs Celtic
Lyon vs Olympiakos
Arsenal vs Juventus
Ancona vs Nantes

I'm exciting by the Ancona Nantes tie, that looks like being a goal fest...

Right, electric off, see you all later...

Happy with those results, away win at a still strong Betis and must needed draw at Napoli along with a few injuries this turn so very happy to see the squad pitching in! No easy games in Europe at knockout stage but hoping it'll be a close one away to charlton!

Be interesting to see who Flamengo have in the next round, might have to order the cup sheet for that! Good away win for Flamengo means they can live without Lewandowski, which means there might be some shuffling of the pack going on at Barcelona at the end of the season.....

I'm League form remains on track for Inter. Glad I signed David Silva!!! And Villa grab another 3 points so I may need to start thinking of automatic promotion. 

As for Europe ..... I messed up with a loss to City when I really needed a draw. Now I'm 2nd on goal difference and have to play Real away. It just doesn't get much more difficult than that.

Okay i'm back, the electric is stable again, nobody digging up the pavement anymore. Just dont have any water now ... 

Thanks for the feedback guys, always good to know how you are viewing things and get the feedback.

I'l post up the Libertadores results soon...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

In the Europa Cup we have

Porto vs Celtic
Lyon vs Olympiakos
Arsenal vs Juventus
Ancona vs Nantes

I'm exciting by the Ancona Nantes tie, that looks like being a goal fest...

Absolutely gutted by this one.  All I needed to do was avoid defeat to Arsenal to claim top spot in the group and avoid the Galaticos.  Put a full team out for this purpose and yet still didn't manage it.  Gonna be a really tough ask to win there.  Repeat of last years final, but unfortunately doesn't look like I'll make my fourth final in five years.  Although you never know....

Had already claimed top spot in the Champions Cup, so a team of youngsters did really well to get a point at a strong Paris side.  I know there are no easy games but Barca? Again? lol  Although looking at the groups it was either them or Watford, so either way I would've been stuffed.  Saying that, despite a 4-0 drubbing last year at The Valley, home advantage is always key in the quarter finals of this competition.  Again, you never know...

No pressure in either tie, always like being the underdog.

Libertadores

Santos
Bolivar

Independente
Emelec

Flamengo
Millionarios

Vasco
Sao Paulo

so the quarter-finals will probably be

Santos vs Emelec
Independente vs Bolivar
Flamengo vs Sao Paulo
Vasco vs Millonarios