Season 30 Week 10 processing...

Welcome to week 10, already. A bit of a late start for me today but the reset is finished and the data entry has started...

No orders this week from Newcastle and Real Madrid...

Friendly games have just kicked off...

League games will kickoff tomorrow, Wednesday at 1000 hours...

European Champions Cup - Match Day Five results

Plymouth 0 Bayern 4
Lazio 3 Ajax 1

Charlton 2 Juventus 1
Schalke 2 Celtic 0

Watford 2 Benfica 1
AC Milan 1 Gladbach 1

Man City 2 Paris 0
Rangers 0 Inter Milan 5

Bayern, Schalke, Watford, Man City and Inter Milan have already qualified for the quarter-finals following this weeks results whilst currently chasing second spots are Lazio and Plymouth in group one, Charlton and Juventus in group two where Charlton could still finish top and AC Milan or Benfica in group three.

Europa Cup results

Villa 5 Basel 0
Zagreb 1 Porto 1

Real Madrid 3 Malmo 3
Fiorentina 0 Lisbon 2

Nantes 3 Innsbruck 0
Stuttgart 1 Gornik 2

Genk 4 Anderlecht 0
Barcelona 1 Dortmund 0

Aston Villa and Porto go through to the quarter-finals from group one, still too close to call in group two where just three points separates top from bottom, Nantes and Gornik are through from group three and Genk have won group four with barcelona currently two points above Dortmund and Anderlecht.

Copa Libertadores results

Sao Paulo 0 Flamengo 2
Cruzeiro 3 Penarol 0

Fluminense 6 Millonarios 0
Vasco 3 Strongest 2

Botafogo 3 River Plate 0
Corinthians 1 Gremio 2

Santos 3 Boca Juniors 0
Palmeiras 3 Catolica 0

Flamengo have won group one and either Cruzeiro or Sao Paulo could join them, Fluminense are top of group two with Vasco in second just three points behind, but both are through, Botafogo have won group three with Corinthians and Gremio neck and neck for second, whilst in group four Santos have won the group and Palmeiras have finished in second.

Domestic Cup Third Round draw highlights...

Watford vs Man United
Charlton vs Banstead
Man City vs Arsenal
Aston Villa vs Wednesday
Chelsea vs Bristol City
Bayern vs Dortmund
Cologne vs Gladbach
Schalke vs Dresden
Paris vs Marseille
Nantes vs Auxerre
Barcelona vs Malaga
Real Madrid vs Compostela
Sevilla vs Atletico
Sociedad vs Valencia
Hibs vs Rangers
Motherwell vs St Johnstone

Some very exciting ties to look forward to here.

Delighted with 3 Victories from my team's this week in the Cup's. Will allow for a big more rotation in final round before getting into the knockout's.. Few more rotations, can never hurt and resting some players who have played every game so far this season!

Watford

After last weeks hard thought draw vs City. Home game Vs Sheffield, team need to get back to winning way's ASAP. Player's maybe getting a little too complacent after getting comfortable. However, manager is more prepared and will look to motivate the players to pick up all 3 points! 


Genk

Finally managed to make some breathing space between Ajax and Genk.. Then the big game comes up! Ajax Vs Genk. Ajax have the Home advantage this week, will Genk be able to keep the flying wingers at bay and use Neymar and Griezmann to break down the stubborn Dutch? Will be a great game, keeping a eye on this one!

Botafogo

This season's ambitions were to maybe challenge Tom at the top of Brazilian football, didn't expect too be sitting at the top. Tom's Fluminese arn't lying down after smashing Corinthian's 4-1. So with an away game against Vasco this week, Botafogo will certainly looking to try and pick up max points! 5 points can be easily lost! So c'mon 'O Gloriso'

I would like to just pick up at least a point this week after I think 3 losses on the spin, be more than happy to just stay in the league so the odd win here and there should hopefully do.

We are on course for the 10 o'oclock kickoff and it looks like being another interesting week.

In the Premiership I shall be watching Manchester City at home to Plymouth as these two experienced managers go head to head in the middle of the table, City do seem to have a bit of form lately with Argyle in and out so it could be a long day for the home parkers. In Germany the top tie would appear to be Dortmund against Bayern which is fascinating as the two managers are long standing rivals. In Italy I shall be watching Lazio's visit to Inter Milan who really need all three points off the leaders.

The ref blows his whistle and we're off, good luck to everybody this week...

Gladbach 1 Cologne 0 Toni Kroos penalty on 4 minutes.

Cobresal 0 Nacional 1 Fabian Ruiz on 5 minutes.
Cannes 0 Nantes 1 Oscar Santos.
Ajax 1 Genk 0 Donny Vande Beek.
AC Milan 1 Roma 0 Alen Halilovic.

Charlton 1 Spurs 0 Coutinho on 7 minutes.

Watford 1 Wednesday 0 Eriksen on 8 minutes.
Gladbach 2 Cologne 0 Kramer.

Man United 1 Wycombe 0 Taarabt on 9 minutes.

Cannes 0 Nantes 2 Alex Teixeira on 10 minutes.
Mallorca 0 Sevilla 1 Boufal.

Slavia Prague 0 Ruzomberok 1 Koo Ja-Cheol on 11 minutes.

Schalke 1 Frankfurt 0 Dybala on 12 minutes.
Ajax 1 Genk 1 Neymar header.

Vasco 1 Botafogo 0 Kardec header on 13 minutes.
AC Milan 2 Roma 0 Bentalab penalty.

Santos 1 Cruzeiro 0 Rony Lopes on 16 minutes.
Charlton 2 Spurs 0 Gabriel Jesus.
Slavia Prague 0 Ruzomberok 2 Ali Adnan.

Watford 2 Wednesday 0 De Bruyne header on 17 minutes.
Mallorca 0 Sevilla 2 Joao Moutinho.

Man City 1 Plymouth 0 Ozil on 19 minutes.
Schalke 2 Frankfurt 0 Luis Suarez header.
Twente 1 Anderlecht 0 Ebecilio freekick.