Season 29 Week 21 processing...

Welcome to week 21 and it is another important week for some of you.

The reset has finished and data entry is underway, no orders this week from Newcastle and Real Madrid.

Friendly games have kicked off...

League games are likely to kickoff at the normal time of 1000 hours on Wednesday morning and some time between then and now the cup finals will take place and I will post up the results here after the games have all been decided...

Cup Final results

River Plate 3 Argentinos 1
Nacional 1 Catolica 0
Fluminense 2 Botafogo 3
Charlton 4 Man City 2
Etienne 1 Paris 2
Gladbach 0 Schalke 1
Ajax 0 Mechelen 0 aet pens 4-2
Inter Milan 3 AC Milan 2
Suwon 0 Melbourne City 2
Wisla 5 Gornik 3
Lisbon 2 Porto 1
Montrose 0 Celtic 3
Barcelona 1 Real Madrid 2
Galaxy 1 Cosmos 3
Red Star 2 Dragovol 0

Congratulations to all the Cup winners...

Youth Cup Final results

Botafogo 4 Fluminense 2
Charlton 2 Liverpool 0
Nantes 2 Bordeaux 3
Stuttgart 2 Dortmund 1
Liege 0 Feyenoord 3
Inter Milan 2 Napoli 4
Aberdeen 0 Celtic 3
Sevilla 3 Valencia 0

League Cup Final results

Gremio 4 Cruzeiro 6
Watford 2 Birmingham 1
Dijon 2 Lille 4
Frankfurt 1 Hamburg 0
Ancona 6 Lecce 0
Aberdeen 3 Hibs 2
Zaragoza 1 Malaga 0

Milk Cup Final result

Wycombe 2 Palace 3

FA Vase Final result

Westham 1 Leeds 1 aet pens 3-5

That's all the pre-league games completed and i'm now going to run the reset for the league games so we will be ready to kickoff at 1000 hours Wednesday morning...

  Great wins for Charlton, delighted to win both domestics cups.  Been too long since the Charlton fans got to celebrate a trophy! Some achievement too for the youth side too.  Not complaining but I have a feeling it was a good time to play City with Aguero having just left.  Now the focus turns to the all important league games. Hopefully the cup game hasn't taken too much out of the players for both sides as I need City to take points off Watford this week, its our only chance I think.  In saying that, Charlton still need to beat a tough Fulham side away from home to maintain a challenge.   After a big cup final hopefully the players can get this one over the line.

Disappointed not to win the youth final in France, not sure what has happened there although Jack Lang has done a fantastic job building Bordeaux and congrats to him for the cup win.

In Brazil, also disappointed but less of a shock as my initial fears were confirmed that Botafogo not only will be a fearsome opponent next year but are already well on their way this year too.  Congrats to Phil pipping me to the domestic cup and youth cup.  Is gonna be some season next year in Brazil....


Thanks Paul, congrats to all the winners!

Paul Hemmings wrote:

League Cup Final results

Gremio 4 Cruzeiro 6
Watford 2 Birmingham 1
Dijon 2 Lille 4
Frankfurt 1 Hamburg 0
Ancona 6 Lecce 0
Aberdeen 3 Hibs 2
Zaragoza 1 Malaga 0

Just seen this, thank god for the League cup, congrats to Phil for winning it but also delighted he has had a midweek game too.  Some game at Maine Road coming up....

Great Cup results for all my Teams involved! 

Watford, with main focus on the league fielded a weakened side, who look to have scraped through to bring a second Trophy back to Vicarage Road. Hopefully the rotations allow to take advantage in the league... going to need everything to see off a stubborn city. Who also look to have had a tough game against Charlton - Congrats. 

Botafogo, the fairytale to the end of the season is complete.... maybe Flumineses movement of players played a part in there game. But what a fantastic result. The Fans will no doubt be delighted with a Cup Trophy to parade. 
Also, a Youth cup trophy! Clearly the policy at Botagofo is working. However, the manager will have to keep trimming the squad down if he wants to continue recruiting. 

Bring on the League!!

The players are out the stadiums are full ( ish ) and the anticipation is palpable...

The ref blows his whistle and the games are underway, good luck to everybody this week...

Santos 1 Internacional 0 Jo Alves on 5 minutes.

Nantes 1 Lyon 0 Fred De Paula on 6 minutes.

Twente 0 Genk 1 Lewandowski on 7 minutes.
Lazio 1 Napoli 0 Pandev penalty.
Inverness 1 Morton 0 Samaras.

Cremonese 0 Fiorentina 1 Saponara on 8 minutes.

Roma 0 Inter 1 Lo Celso freekick on 9 minutes.

Santos 2 Internacional 0 Zeca on 10 minutes.
Man City 0 Watford 1 Harry Kane with what could be a crucial goal so early in the game.

Nacional 1 Penarol 0 Saracchi header on 11 minutes.

Palace 1 Liverpool 0 Rondon on 12 minutes.

St Johnstone 0 Celtic 1 Necid penalty after 14 minutes in a game second placed Saints must win.
Aberdeen 1 Rangers 0 Jimenez header.

Roma 1 Inter 1 Matias Fernandez freekick on 15 minutes.

Mallorca 0 Real Madrid 1 Benzema on 16 minutes.

Limerick 0 Cherry 1 Ireland on 18 minutes.

Lazio 2 Napoli 0 Pandev penalty on 19 minutes.