Season 26 Week 20 processing...

Watford 3 Man City 1 Baines on 84 minutes, as City finally wake up.
Plymouth 3 Newcastle 0 Ramsey.
Preston 2 Huddersfield 0 Arter.
Alloa 0 Hearts 5 Pelle hatrick I think ?

Blackpool 0 Palace 4 Weiss on 85 minutes.
Juventus 1 Roma 2 Ibrahimovic.

Brighton 0 Exeter 1 Jamie Cade on 86 minutes.
Real 5 Sevilla 0 James Rodriguez with a rare goal.

Stoke 0 Villa 6 Bony penalty on 88 minutes.
Bayern 3 Schalke 1 Leandro Castan, looks like Bayern are going top.
Lecce 0 Ancona 3 Coentrao.

Plymouth 4 Newcastle 0 Vardy on 90 minutes.
Leeds 0 Soton 4 Rondon, proving to be a popular scoreline today for some teams.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Blackpool 0 Palace 4 Weiss on 85 minutes.
Juventus 1 Roma 2 Ibrahimovic.

Well Roma are doing their best to keep their slim title hopes alive...

Birmingham 0 Leicester 2 Dembele header on 91 minutes.

and the final whistle blows, it is all over for another week...roundup to follow...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Stoke 0 Villa 6 Bony penalty on 88 minutes.
Bayern 3 Schalke 1 Leandro Castan, looks like Bayern are going top.
Lecce 0 Ancona 3 Coentrao.

Ouch!

Campeonato Brasileiro

Flamengo 56 +80
Santos 53 +70
Sao Paulo 39 +10
Coritiba 32 -3 under new management this week.

Eircom

Cherry 56 +48
Shelbourne 41 +20
Bohemians 38 +15
Shamrock 36 +18

Champions Cherry Orchard were on the beach long time ago.

Premiership

Fulham 42 +25
Watford 39 +17
Charlton 39 +17
Man City 37 +17
Plymouth 36 +19

probably down to a three horse race now.

Championship

Liverpool 48 +32
Villa 46 +42
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Blackburn 42 +22
Wolves 39 +12

Le Championnat

Paris 51 +42
Etienne 47 +37
Nantes 47 +30
Monaco 46 +24

Paris look favorites now.

Bundesliga

Bayern 50 +33
Schalke 48 +45
Berlin 44 +30
Dortmund 36 +16

Eredivisie

Feyenoord 48 +36
PSV 46 +27
Ajax 42 +28
Rotterdam 39 +18

Serie A

Juventus 43 +28
Napoli 41 +28
Roma 40 +12
Inter 39 +24
Milan 37 +19

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Premiership

Fulham 42 +25
Watford 39 +17
Charlton 39 +17
Man City 37 +17
Plymouth 36 +19

probably down to a three horse race now.

Too little, too late for Plymouth it seems - a few draws earlier in the season have really come back to haunt me...

La Liga

Real 50 +39
Barcelona 47 +33
Valencia 40 +23
Betis 40 +21 under new management.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Serie A

Juventus 43 +28
Napoli 41 +28
Roma 40 +12
Inter 39 +24
Milan 37 +19

Wow - can Roma do the unthinkable.... Goal difference looks to make this difficult but need to win the next two and hope that Juventus and Napoli both drop points...

onto the transfers now...

Feyenoord grab Bojan Krkic from Everton in a swap deal.
Villa sign Matej Vydra and Alex Chamberlain.
Gornik grab Arkadiusz Milik.
Cagliari net Bruno Zuculini.
Jonas Hector does join Schalke in a swap deal.
Granit Xhaka makes the move to Plymouth in a swap deal.
Fiorentina sign Eder Citadin.
Maurice Edu joins Cosmos.
Wycombe signed Frimpong.

they were the bigger deals although I probably missed a few off cos there were loads this week, get the full list with the TP special action each week.

onto training now...

finances...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

what a difference a player makes...

before Aguero 5-0 5-0 3-0 3-0 3-1 3-1 1-2 1-1 and 1st place

after Aguero 2-8 0-1 2-0 2-0 1-1 1-1 0-1 and 1-3 and 4th place

even a hike from 3 to 5 aggression hasn't helped, so where's he gone wrong. geoff asked me to look at it and give him some hints and share it with everybody.

Well Aguero displaced Charlie Austin who won more balls in the air and ISF is basically a long high ball system, so I'd say it is the simple matter of a misfit between Aguero and ISF. difficult to say for sure cos Steven Gerrard was also dropped around the same time in favor of Fernando Reges playing at AM so that would have effected the attacking efforts as well. This week Geoff went back to 3 dynamos and got creamed at Watford so I suspect its the former mainly responsible.

You cant play Aguero from the bench he is just too big a star even at 150,000 a week he would remain attitude 1 so you may need to change away from ISF to get the best from the team.

Paul what impact does aggression have on the results, given you have mentioned it here would be interesting to know...?

printing now...