Season 23 Week 6

we're okay...its now CSKA 6 Rostov 1 with 3 minutes left.

2 minutes...

and there's been another goal at Bayern...

in the dying seconds of this game Mario Gomez has shocked the home side by securing all three points for Schalke as they shoot down the Champions at home, and after 89 minutes its now

Bayern 1 Schalke 3

and a few late goals, Celtic have been pegged back to 2-2, Real Betis's Taye Taiwo has hammered home a header that has made it Bilbao 1 Betis 2 and Rangers have completed their rout of Hearts.

into the last few seconds now...

and its all over.

so not many goals in a very closely contested Premiership this week with the final results...

Manchester City 0 Fulham 0
Blackburn 1 Everton 2
Newcastle 0 Manchester United 0
Chelsea 1 Watford 0
Charlton 1 Birmingham 0
and
Plymouth 1 Arsenal 1

so lets look at the Premiership table now...
Arsenal 14 +9
Chelsea 11 +2
Birmingham 11 +2
Newcastle 9 +0
Fulham 8 +3
Plymouth 8 +2
Everton 8 +1
Charlton 7 -1
Watford 7 -4
Man City 6 -1
Blackburn 3 -4
Man Utd 3 -9

it is still very close even though Arsenal do have a slight lead over Chelsea who have jumped up into second this week.

In the Championship the top game ended

Spurs 1 Liverpool 1

with title favorites Leicester beating Boro 2-0 that leaves the table looking like this

Spurs 13 +12
Leeds 13 +8
Westham 13 +3
Leicester 12 +6

so it is again very close.

Absolutely delighted with the results this week. Nantes seem to be getting better every week and as for the Addicks! Wow!

Having the better of last weeks game against Phil, yet being down to 9 men and losing my AM and BW, whilst being positive, doesn't win you any points.

This week, against Rich and RVP with Lucas and Hudds out suspended, I did fear the worst. However to come out with a win is a phenomenal result.

Well done boys!

a hatrick for Heskey keeps Banstead top and unbeaten in the Spartan league

Lille and Etienne slipped a bit in France as they were both held to away draws and their closest rivals all won, esp good win for Nantes and league leaders Lyon.

Lyon 15 +8
Nantes 14 +7
Lille 12 +5
Paris 11 +4
Etienne 9 +3

is the title already decided in germany ? where Schalke beat their closest rivals away from home...

Schalke 16 +9
Bayern 15 +11
Berlin 15 +8

and in fifth are

Hamburg 9 -3 improving all the time

wins for Rangers and Inverness puts pressure on Celtic as Rangers extend their lead...

Rangers 16 +18
Motherwell 11 +4
Celtic 11 +3
Inverness 10 +1

wins for Real, Barcelona and Betis keeps the pressure on all three sides...

Barcelona 18 +16
Real Madrid 18 +14
Real Betis 18 +10

whilst Valencia continue to struggle down in sixth.

a heavy defeat for the Cosmos this week drops them into second behind LA Galaxy.

Slightly disappointed with the draw at home to Arsenal but given their current form not too bad a result. Need to start picking up more points though soon and to put a run together. Had the same problem last year with a slow start so you never though...

Great stuff at Lyon again, nice to see Manduzik pick up a goal in his first start in the league.

Good wins for Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord this week sees PSV continue to climb the table following a disastrous start to the season...

Ajax 18 +16
Feyenoord 18 +16

how close is that...are Feyenoord good enough to depose Holland's long standing best team ?

another excellent win for Boca continues their dominance in Argentina...

Boca 18 +19
Lorenzo 18 +19

whilst River Plate are fast improving down in fifth

Plate 9 +10

a high scoring draw for Flamengo this week allowed Santos to leap frog them to the top of the table but it is still very close and the most interesting it has been for years in Brazil...

Santos 16 +10
Flamengo 14 +4
Sao Paulo 13 +4

the Eircom is fairly close although unmanaged UCD are embarrassing the more established managers as they sit top...

UCD 16 +8
Bohemians 14 +11
Shelbourne 13 +6
Cherry 10 +4

a great week for Southampton whose wingers tore Wimbledon apart to leave themselves sitting pretty atop League Two...

Soton 15 +18
Stoke 13 +5
Tranmere 13 +4
Forest 13 +1
Wimbledon 10 +3

okay i'm going to run the transfer and do the training etc now...

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Absolutely delighted with the results this week. Nantes seem to be getting better every week and as for the Addicks! Wow!

Having the better of last weeks game against Phil, yet being down to 9 men and losing my AM and BW, whilst being positive, doesn't win you any points.

This week, against Rich and RVP with Lucas and Hudds out suspended, I did fear the worst. However to come out with a win is a phenomenal result.

Well done boys!

result of the week, more so given the players missing from a very key area of the pitch.

happy with a point at city, 3 clean sheets on the spin is very unlike us.

Feyanoord going strong still, very nice to have a good spread of goalscoreres, will ajax ever drop a point lol!!

Happy week at Inter and Boca. Boca keep up the good form with a 4-1 win, Mati Fernandez and the newly freescoring Leandro Damiao on target. The shocker was a Higuain treble against decent opposition. He's been in the shade of Cavani for a season and a half but the move to TM has turned him into an Aguero/Tevez/Rooney/RvP. If I can get Cavani performing in tandem that'll be a killer combo. Hernanes out of position at DR also once again on the scoresheet. Shame about leaking one but it's my first in 4 games so can't be too harsh.