Season 31 Week 1 processing...

Well here we go, another season begins. On the day the mighty reds climb back onto their perch and the Hendo shuffle will be in full effect.

The Champions Cup draw couldn't be any tougher to be honest so will be interesting to see how that develops.  

Come to the realisation this season that I don't think there is one position in my entire Charlton squad I feel I can improve on so I have to trust in the players and system to finally bring a big trophy home.  If it doesn't happen, it is clearly not meant to be.  Seems my blind faith in buying Liverpool players has finally paid dividends, hopefully they can reproduce their real life form in this game.  
Unleashing the best front three in world football this season too, so hoping for some entertaining games.

Not much change at Nantes, just a small upgrade in midfield, but an anticipated increased challenge from Paris, Etienne and Monaco will make things very interesting.

Fluminense have seen a few more changes, will be interesting to see if they can all play to a level their potential suggests.  Closing the gap to Botafogo and Sau Paulo is key but also an increased challenge from Santos will make the title race a very exciting one in Brazil.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

World Club Cup result from Tokyo

Watford 1 Botafogo 2

Not sure what to take from this to be honest!  Positive for Charlton that Watford can be beaten but frightening for Fluminense that Botafogo have just beaten them!

Surprised to be honest that SAM has beaten CAT, wouldn't have given the brazilian side a chance at the start! Shows what I know though doesn't it!

Super Cup results

Botafogo 5 Flamengo 2
Watford 2 Charlton 2 pens 4-3
Nantes 4 Paris 2
Bayern 2 Schalke 1
Lazio 1 Fiorentina 0
Aberdeen 2 Celtic 1
Barcelona 1 Real Madrid 5

The ref blows his whistle and the games are underway, good luck to everybody...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

World Club Cup result from Tokyo

Watford 1 Botafogo 2

Well this is awkward... who is the feeder club 

Delighted with Botafogo and how far they have come in 3 seasons!

Lanus 0 Independente 1 Santiago Rodriguez on 4 minutes.
Santos 1 Bahia 0 Gabigol.
Nantes 0 Marseille 1 Jerome Meney.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Lanus 0 Independente 1 Santiago Rodriguez on 4 minutes.
Santos 1 Bahia 0 Gabigol.
Nantes 0 Marseille 1 Jerome Meney.

Not the best start to a season!

Flamengo 0 Fluminense 1 Emerson Leite on 5 minutes.
Cherry 1 Harps 0 Delfouneso header.
Bayern 1 Schalke 0 Marcos Rocha.

Anderlecht 0 Genk 1 Lewandowski header on 6 minutes.

Akranes 1 Hafnar 0 Dani Ceballos on 7 minutes.

Ruzomberok 1 Podbrezova 0 Pablo Sarabia on 8 minutes.
Nacional 1 Fenix 0 Thiago Almada freekick.

Barcelona 1 Celta 0 Saul Niguez on 9 minutes.

Flamengo 1 Fluminense 1 Fernando Martins on 10 minutes.
Cherry 2 Harps 0 McQuoid.

Palace 0 Man United 1 Yerry Mina header on 11 minutes.
Paris 1 Bordeaux 0 Jimmy Briand.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Flamengo 1 Fluminense 1 Fernando Martins on 10 minutes.
Cherry 2 Harps 0 McQuoid.

Tough start away to Flamengo, hopefully Flu can rally and get a good result here....

Santos 2 Bahia 0 Danilo Barbosa on 12 minutes.
Wimbledon 1 Oldham 0 Andy Carroll header.
Brighton 1 Derby 0 Beram Kayal freekick.
Roma 0 Napoli 1 Diego Reyes header.
Celtic 1 Rangers 0 Franco Jara.

Motherwell 1 Aberdeen 1 Diego Tardelli on 13 minutes.
Gijon 0 Atletico 1 Dries Martens.

Liverpool 1 Charlton 0 Gonzalo Higuain on 14 minutes.
Palace 1 Man United 1 Andros Townsend.

Banstead 1 Birmingham 0 Brandon Barker header on 16 minutes.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Lanus 0 Independente 1 Santiago Rodriguez on 4 minutes.
Santos 1 Bahia 0 Gabigol.
Nantes 0 Marseille 1 Jerome Meney.

Great start in Argentina - come on boys lets keep it up!

Chelsea 0 Watford 1 Caglar Soyuncu header on 17 minutes.
Leicester 1 Wolves 0 Vardy.
Brighton 2 Derby 0 Javier Chicarito penalty.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Chelsea 0 Watford 1 Caglar Soyuncu header on 17 minutes.
Leicester 1 Wolves 0 Vardy.
Brighton 2 Derby 0 Javier Chicarito penalty.

suppose 17 minutes was a good effort.

Well, the season can only get better from here I guess....

Talleres 0 Estudiantes 1 Roberto Pereyra on 18 minutes.
Anderlecht 1 Genk 1 Brandon Mechele header.
Nantes 0 Marseille 2 Moussa Sissoko.
Roma 1 Napoli 1 Javier Pastore.

Cruzeiro 0 Botafogo 1 Riyad Mahrez on 20 minutes.

No, apparently it can get worse.....