Season 31 Week 13 processing Happy New Year

Paul Hemmings wrote:

River Plate 3 Lanus 0 Icardi on 85 minutes.
Man United 1 Liverpool 1 Higuain.
Heerenveen 1 Ajax 0 Donk.

Marlon has been sentoff for Fluminense.

Of course he has.  Lets just wait for the equaliser.....

Botafogo 2 Goias 0 Moura header on 87 minutes.
Gladbach 2 Bayern 2 Rocha header.
Karlsruhe 1 Hannover 0 Hennings header.

River Plate 4 Lanus 0 Patito penalty on 89 minutes.
Atenas 0 Nacional 4 Immobile.

Vitesse 1 Twente 2 Weijl on 90 minutes.
Sevilla 4 Gijon 0 Perez.

And the ref signals the end of the matches for this week, round up to follow...

Tell you what P, under the circumstances, THAT was a sterling effort mate - well done!

Well played Ben. Was always going to be tough. Still leading by a point but a long way to go.

Argentina

Argentinos 35 +29
Independente 34 +27
River Plate 30 +18
Estudiantes 27 +7 Champions

Top four all won to maintain the status quo...

Brazil

Fluminense 29 +14
Vasco 27 +17
Santos 27 +11
Botafogo 26 +20 Champions
Flamengo 23 +10
Sao Paulo 22 +3

Defeat for Santos ends their recent run of form and allows Fluminense to return to the top of the table but only three points separates the top four...

Belgium

Genk 39 +42 Champions of last season's Dutch Combined league
Mechelen 34 +27
Liege 33 +33
Anderlecht 30 +34

Genk have now won 13 on the bounce and command a five point lead...

Absolutely agree with Andy.

Delighted in Spain, though expect I was a very lucky to grab a winner with 10 men.

Have no idea what is happening at Plymouth - doesn't bode well playing Andy given i'm conceding 2 goals a game at least. Might be bedding in the new players but that's for another day - delighted to seal a second win on the bounce though.

Independiente soldier on against Lanzini and co and Twente hold on as they embed a new system.

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Well played Ben. Was always going to be tough. Still leading by a point but a long way to go.

Thanks Rob - reckon a lucky result but lets see once turns come in...

Eire

Derry 31 +20
Cherry 30 +29 Champions
Shamrock 29 +9
Cork City 23 +15
Bohemians 23 +9

Defeat for Cork drops them further off the pace but they are still having a much better season than in previous years...

Premiership

Watford 31 +22 Champions
Arsenal 27 +6
Charlton 26 +8
Chelsea 23 +8

Arsenal move up into second following a rare home defeat for Charlton...

Championship

Birmingham 30 +13
Wednesday 23 +1
Spurs 22 +4
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Burnley 21 +2
Wolves 20 +7
Newcastle 20 +1

Looks like it willl the closest promotion race in living memory as both favorites Newcastle and Spurs continue to drop vital points allowing the less fancied sides to hope...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Premiership

Watford 31 +22 Champions
Arsenal 27 +6
Charlton 26 +8
Chelsea 23 +8

Arsenal move up into second following a rare home defeat for Charlton...

Genuinely interested to know how I got so ripped apart in the second half. No AM granted but when the opposition is playing a tactic so focussed on a player that isn’t there is just hard to take.

There are obviously more important things in life, at the minute especially, but my frustration is off the scale after today’s game.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Premiership

Watford 31 +22 Champions
Arsenal 27 +6
Charlton 26 +8
Chelsea 23 +8

Arsenal move up into second following a rare home defeat for Charlton...

Absolutely delighted with that win , was not expecting to get anything from the game so a massive bonus.

Also pleased all 3 scorers were English

France

Nantes 36 +33 Champiions
Marseille 31 +16
Monaco 30 +10

Another solid three points for Nantes means they Champions have now won twelve on the bounce...

Fair play to Gaz, credit where it is due. Built up his Chelsea side from very little in a relatively short space of time and a I’m sure what has been a very frustrating transfer market. 

All the best for the rest of the season pal

Germany

Schalke 33 +27
Bayern 24 +8 Champions
Frankfurt 22 +4
Stuttgart 22 +3

A great week for the leaders as the Champions drop more away points...

Italy

Inter 34 +18
Juventus 29 +20
AC Milan 29 +17
Lazio 26 +10 Champions

Another narrow win for Inter keeps them top but an injury to rightback Di Lorenzo and the loss of De Vrij might cost them dear next week when they'll be forced to reshuffle their excellent defence...

Scotland

Motherwell 28 +10
Celtic 25 +14
Hibs 24 +7
Falkirk 24 +6
Aberdeen 23 +1 Champions

Celtic moved closer to the leaders as their good form continues...

Spain

Barcelona 32 +20 Champions
Atletico 31 +25
Real 28 +25
Betis 27 +22

Another crucial game this week resulted in Barca dropping three points for the first time in a very long time, looks like we have an exciting season finale in store for us...

USA

Chicago 33 +39
Cosmos 30 +21 Champions
Harrisburg 28 +25
NewYork 28 +15
Kansas 27 +18
Tampa 26 +16

gary@chelsea wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Premiership

Watford 31 +22 Champions
Arsenal 27 +6
Charlton 26 +8
Chelsea 23 +8

Arsenal move up into second following a rare home defeat for Charlton...

Absolutely delighted with that win , was not expecting to get anything from the game so a massive bonus.

Also pleased all 3 scorers were English

What a season Gaz is having beaten both Watford and Charlton! Keep up good work Gaz makes it interesting

League Cup Third Round results

Man United 3 Birmingham 2
Charlton 2 QPR 0
Leeds 2 Wigan 0
Consett 2 Peterboro 0
Forest 4 Bournemouth 2
Chelsea 3 Soton 2
Westham 4 Blackburn 3
Arsenal 3 Palace 2