Season 33 Week 11 processing...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

The ref blows for fulltime and we'll be back with the roundup later...

Something not quite ticking at Plymouth with goals conceded - PEB last week and kept it tight and PEP this week leaking goals. Need to look at the DY combination and read the report.

Or could just be a freak week - conceded 11 in 10 before that!

Perfect week from the teams. 

Watford continues in good form. Looking forward to Martinelli and Paqueta getting some Team Understanding and hopefully Barnes returning to the side next week. 

Genk made short work of Anderlecht, Brobbey scoring two. With plenty more to come from him. Looks like the Belgium machine keeps going! 

Leverkusen, what a win! Maybe fortunate.... but the 3 points is what matters. Happy for the goals come other sources. Keeps side in fight for title and now played Schalke twice. So now focus on games ahead!

Botafogo eased up in the second half. But certainly adding enough goals to help bump the goal difference. 

Now mid season kicks in can manager keep up the pressure....

Disappointing result in Germany, but I suppose it's the most difficult match!

Argentina

Independente 33 +49 Champions
Argentinos 30 +23
Boca 24 +14
River Plate 21 +7

Suddenly it seems like its a two horse race as Independente continue to dominate...

Belgium

Genk 33 +46 Champions
Anderlecht 27 +15
Mechelen 25 +15
Bruges 24 +10

Ominous...

Brazil

Botafogo 30 +31
Santos 30 +26 Champions
Fluminense 25 +20
Corinthians 22 +7
Vasco 22 +7

Flu have the chance in the coming weeks to drastically change this table as they play Vasco, Corinthians and Botafogo, should be interesting...

Eire

Cherry 28 +16 Champions
Derry 27 +13
Shelbourne 23 +17
Cork City 21 +10
Bohemians 21 +7

Defeat at home for Derry allowed Cherry back to the top of the table but it is still very close...

Premiership

Plymouth 27 +18
Charlton 25 +11
Man City 24 +10
Watford 20 +8

Top four keep on winning as Haaland scores on his debut and hatricks for Mohamed Salah and Kevin De Bruyne keep the top two as favorites...

Championship

Spurs 24 +14
Leeds 21 +7
Wednesday 19 +4
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Liverpool 18 +4
Bristol City 18 -3
Leicester 17 +0

Tottenham stay top whilst Liverpool and Bristol City made significant moves up the table to remain firmly in the promotion hunt. But things dont look good for struggling Everton, Norwich and Wolves all who have spent large sums of money to seemingly no effect...

League One

WestBrom 26 +13
Huddersfield 23 +8
Bournemouth 21 +13
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Blackburn 21 +5
Coventry 18 +4

A fine win at struggling Westham sees the Terriers move up into second place behind leaders and favorites West Bromwich Albion but can the Baggies stay there with their aging team ? Only time will tell...

France

Etienne 31 +25
Nantes 28 +27 Champions
Lille 23 +18
Monaco 23 +12
Paris 22 +6

A last gasp winner keeps Saint Etienne top of the table with Champions Nantes continuing to pressure them...

Germany

Wolfsburg 26 +13
Leverkusen 23 +19
Schalke 23 +13 Champions
Hannover 18 +8
Bayern 18 +6

Wolfsburg take advantage of the big game result to leap to the top of the Bundesliga but Berlin have now lost all five home games and are really struggling when everybody thought they would be at least challenging...

Holland

Twente 33 +36 Champions
Rotterdam 28 +14
PSV 25 +24
Ajax 24 +18
Feyenoord 22 +9

Can nobody stop Twente ? they have already won away at Rotterdam, PSV and Ajax.

Italy

ACMilan 28 +18 Champions
Napoli 24 +18
Juventus 21 +9
Parma 21 +6

Napoli moved closer to the leaders following Milan's first draw of the season and they look like being the main challengers to the Champions...

Portugal

Porto 33 +29
Benfica 28 +30 Champions
Boavista 28 +15
Braga 21 +18

Lisbon's poor form continued allowing Braga to gate crash the top four for the first time in their history, but Porto look relentless this year and stayed clear of the pack by demolishing afore mentioned Lisbon on their own pitch...

Scotland

Rangers 27 +14
Motherwell 25 +10
Inverness 22 +9
Hibs 21 +7
Aberdeen 20 +4 Champions
Celtic 19 +5

Rangers demolished Inverness to stay top as Motherwell again relied on the veteran strike force of Tardelli and Vagner to get their goals...

Spain

Barcelona 33 +40
RealMadrid 30 +41
Atletico 24 +26 Champions
Valencia 24 +4

Barcelona stay top after demolishing a very good Valencia side away from home looks like Real Madrid may be their only serious challengers this season with the Champions seemingly going back into rebuild mode...

USA

Chicago 29 +21 Champions
NewYork 27 +10
Washington 21 +13
Kansas 16 +0

The top two seem to be in a two horse race for the title with both sides still unbeaten and a fair distance from the pack, hard to see anything changing soon. Cosmos dropped to eighth following the sale of Pulisic last week although they did play much better the fans still arent happy...

Transfers now...

The big deals this week saw

Darwin Nunez passes through Plymouth on his way to Schalke for £200millions.
Ferran Torres goes the opposite way also for £200millions.
Moussa Diaby leaves Paris to join Barcelona for £80millions.

Not reported last week was the late deal that took
Harry Maguire from Arsenal to Man United for £65millions.

The other deals will be detailed on the TP special action cost 30 pence.

I'm off to my father-in-laws 89th birthday bash now so I'll get to the rest of the game tomorrow...

Thanks Paul, have a good party!

I'm happy to report I survived the bad jokes and war stories and coaching is underway...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

I'm happy to report I survived the bad jokes and war stories and coaching is underway...

One more bad joke for luck…….. I was watching a football match in Japan and at the end all the players started doing karate and kung fu.

I said to the man next to me, "Why are they doing all this?"

He said, "It's 2 minutes of ninjary time!"

Finances...

Printing now...