Season 28 Week 19 processing...

Greetings and welcome to week 19. Cup semi-finals this week. Data entry is underway...

data entry all finished, I will begin running the games in the morning, so I expect the league games to kickoff a lot later this week, the earliest will be 1400 hours wednesday.

Friendly games have kicked off...

Reserve, Youth and Schoolboy games have kicked off, and we're on schedule for the league games to kickoff at 1400 hours today...

Domestic Cup semi-finals have kicked off...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Domestic Cup semi-finals have kicked off...

Genk are into the Semi-Final's and i've got a real good feeling for them this year, it's taken a while to rebuild the squad but finally got a team worthy of challenging no just in Belgium but Europe now!

However not too sure what the league will hold with the merger of Holland/Belgium - you got any more info on that regards to which teams ? Will it be 8 or 12 teams again?

Cup semi-final results

Argentinos 1 Estudiantes 2
River Plate 4 Velez 0

Rapid Vienna 0 Innsbruck 4
Grasshoppers 2 Debrecen 0

Genk 3 Anderlecht 1
Liege 3 Mechelen 1

Nacional 2 Strongest 0
Defensor 2 Bolivar 0

Botafogo 1 Santos 3
Fluminense 3 Sao Paulo 0

Coleraine 2 Cork City 3
Limerick 0 Cherry 2

Wolves 0 Man City 3
Villa 2 Liverpool 3

Nantes 2 Paris 2 aet pens 5-4
Monaco 2 Etienne 0

Schalke 3 Gladbach 2
Cologne 1 Bayern 2

Olympiakos 2 Rapid Bucharest 0
Tirane 0 Sofia 3

PSV 3 Alkmaar 0
Rotterdam 0 Feyenoord 2

Inter 1 Napoli 0
Ancona 3 Juventus 0

Porto 2 Belouizdad 0
Benfica 3 Constaninopolis 0

St Johnstone 2 Hamilton 0
Falkirk 0 Aberdeen 5

Ruzomberok 4 Kosice 0
Bratislav 1 Slovan 5

Bilbao 0 Barcelona 2
Atletico 2 Real Madrid 1

New York 1 Cosmos 2
Tampa 0 Harrisburg 2

League games will kickoff at 1400 hours...

Phil@Watford wrote:

However not too sure what the league will hold with the merger of Holland/Belgium - you got any more info on that regards to which teams ? Will it be 8 or 12 teams again?

Will definitely be a 12 team league with Genk, Anderlecht, Mechelen, Liege and Bruges joining with 7 teams from Holland, Ajax, PSV, Rotterdam, Feyenoord, Twente, Vitesse and Alkmaar with Antwerp, Sittard, Lierse and Gent in the non-league for cup games, making 16 teams in all. ( although Gent may be replaced by Sporting Estrella from Aruba club 396 ).

But, as with all these mergers I am giving managers the oppurtunity to veto the change if they would prefer to stay as they are, but you have to let me know before the end of week 22 for obvious reasons.

Hope that helps clarify the situation, if not feel free to ask...

The games are underway...good luck to everybody...

Hibs 0 Celtic 1 Necid freekick on 4 minutes.

Banstead 0 Spurs 1 Winks penalty on 5 minutes.
Kosice 0 Ruzomberok 1 Pjaca.

Ponte 0 Fluminense 1 Luan on 12 minutes.

Genk 1 Antwerp 0 Sturridge on 13 minutes.

Roma 0 Inter 1 Dybala on 14 minutes.

Ponte 0 Fluminense 2 Luan penalty on 16 minutes.

Compestela 0 Sevilla 1 Borja Baston on 17 minutes.

Dundalk 0 Cherry 1 Ireland on 19 minutes.

Nacional 1 Danubio 0 Matos on 20 minutes.
Cannes 0 Nantes 1 Diego Costa.

Watford 1 Fulham 0 De Bruyne on 21 minutes.
Arsenal 0 Blackburn 1 Abel Hernandez.
Valencia 1 Barcelona 0 Romeu.

Liverpool 0 Charlton 1 Firmino on 22 minutes.
Forest 1 Palace 0 Sahin.
Lyon 0 Monaco 2 Gignac.
Rotterdam 0 PSV 1 Beerens header.
Empoli 0 AC Milan 1 Lavezzi.

Compestela 0 Sevilla 2 Borja Baston on 24 minutes.

Santos 0 Vasco 1 Ratinho on 25 minutes.
Arsenal 1 Blackburn 1 Pato.

Plymouth 0 Man City 1 Dzeko on 26 minutes.
Roma 0 Inter 2 Digne.

Genk 2 Antwerp 0 Ghoulam on 28 minutes.
Kosice 0 Ruzomberok 2 Koo Ja-Cheol.