Monday 8 May 2023

Week Forty-One

In Week Forty-One of the competition and we are still in to injury time here at Golden Goals. 

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT

We already know that JAMES BLYTH won the £40 Midweek Jackpot last week. But the race is on to find who will finish with the most number of midweek goals. Well James picked up another 3 goals this week taking his total to 107. His teams are Ipswich, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday. Most of us have managed to pick up some midweek goals again this week and here is the top six players as two more players have reached 100 goals. We had two players once again that picked up the most number of midweek goals with 7 each. They are DANNY HARRINGTON and ZIGGY (John Wood) Here are the rest of the players that are nearly there.

In second place we still have NICK HORTON now with a total of 100 goals and he is joined with CHRIS NUNN also with 100 goals. In third place we still have TOBY BICKNELL our 2014/15 Champion with a total of 99 goals. In fourth place we have SAMUEL STEPHENS with a total of 98 goals. In fifth place with 97 goals we have CHRIS DICKER. In sixth place this week we have CHRIS BOLBERY our 2017/18 Champion and RICKY WOOD our 2007/08 Champion both are on a total of 96 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS

We only had 30 of our teams in action and out of the the ones that did play, 10 failed to score any goals. With the season now coming to an end, are there going to be any surprises in the final table. We did not have a bad weekend and as everyone by one picked up some more goals. The highest score that we had came from BONNYRIGG ROSE, CHELSEA and PLYMOUTH where they all picked up a total of three goals each.

PREMIER LEAGUE

MANCHESTER CITY are still top after they won 2-1 at home to LEEDS UNITED. City still have a game in hand as they take their goals total to 111 and a goal run of sixteen games. ARSENAL are still one point behind City as they win 2-0 away to NEWCASTLE. Arsenal are on a total of 87 goals while Newcastle are still third as they pick up their 12th blank of the season. MANCHESTER UNITED are still in fourth place after they lost 1-0 away to WEST HAM. That is now United’s 8th blank score sheet and now two games without a goal. West Ham hit goal number 44. LIVERPOOL in fifth place won 1-0 at home to Brentford. Liverpool are on a total of 73 goals. AFC BOURNEMOUTH lost 3-1 at home to CHELSEA and picked up gaol number 45. Chelsea have taken their goals tally to 34. TOTTENHAM won 1-0 against CRYSTAL PALACE and they are on a total of 68 goals while Palace picked up their 17th blank of the season. ASTON VILLA lost 2-0 away to Wolves and picked up their 8th blank of the season and now two games in a row.

LEAGUE ONE

Promoted PLYMOUTH won their last league game 3-1 away to Port Vale. Plymouth have taken their goals tally to 83 goals and a goal run of six games. IPSWICH in second place are also promoted drew their last game 2-2 away to Fleetwood Town. Ipswich are on a total of 113 goals and have extended their goal run to fifteen games.

In the Play-Offs we have just two of the four teams here. SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY in third place won 1-0 at home to DERBY and they are now on a total of 94 goals and a goal run of nine games. Derby move out of the play-off’s as they picked up their 15th blank of the season after a goal run of six games. PETERBOROUGH have moved back in to the play-off’s after they won 2-0 away to Barnsley. Borough are on a total of 81 goals after they had failed to score in their last two games.

Meanwhile BRISTOL ROVERS lost 3-2 at home to Bolton and finished with a total of 59 goals. MK DONS drew 0-0 away to Burton and that is their 19th blank of the season. Relegated FOREST GREEN ROVERS lost 2-0 away to Cambridge Utd and they have had a total of 21 blank score sheets. CHARLTON drew 2-2 away to Cheltenham and they finished on a total of 80 goals. LINCOLN CITY won 1-0 at home to Shrewsbury and they end on a total of 56 goals. OXFORD UNITED lost 2-1 at home against Accrington and they end on a total of 57 goals.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS

In the Premiership Champions CELTIC won 2-0 away to fourth place HEARTS. Celtic are now on a total of 131 goals. Hearts picked up their 14th blank of the season. RANGERS in second place won 1-0 at home to ABERDEN in third place. Rangers after they failed to score in their last two games, are now on a total of 96 goals. Aberdeen picked up their 9th blank score sheet after a goal run of seven games. HIBERNIAN won 2-1 at home to St Mirren and they are on a total of 61 goals and have now scored in all of their last 12 games.

In League One ALLOA are still in fourth place after they lost 2-0 at home to Dunfermline. Alloa have now had a total of eleven blank score sheets. KELTY HEARTS lost 4-1 away to Queen of South and they are on a total of 42 goals.

In League Two, STENHOUSEMUIR won 2-1 at home to Anna and they are now on a total of 64 goals. BONNYRIGG ROSE won 3-0 at home to Elgin and they have now taken their goals tally to 43.

Our BEST three teams this week

CELTIC (131) IPSWICH (113) MANCHESTER CITY (111) Total of 355 goals

Our WORST three teams are

EVERTON (30) CHELSEA (34) FOREST GREEN ROVERS (38) Total of 102 goals

Our best performing team are now CELTIC as they have now scored in all of their last 34 league/cup games played. They have a total of 131goals. That gives them an average score of 3.1 goals per game.

Our worst performing team is GILLINGHAM as they have picked up a total of 24 blank score sheets out of 54 League/Cup games played.

Our highest goal scorers in our 40th Season are CELTIC who won 9-0 away to Dundee Utd in the league and LIVERPOOL winning 9-0 at home to Bournemouth in the league both from Week Five. JAMES BLYTH has remained at the top this weekend, after picking up a total of 8 goals this week. This is the second weekend there and now three over the season. His teams are Ipswich, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday. James has been climbing up our Champions League and is now in 12th place this week.

Our 2010/11 Champion Tony Guy with combo two, is still in second place. Tony also picked up a total of 8 goals this week from Arsenal, Celtic and Sheffield Wednesday and he is still 6 goals behind James.

At the other end at 108 we now have  SANDRA NICHOLLS back down there. Sandra picked up a total of  just 2 goals for the week. She has now been at 108 for a total of 22 weeks over the season. Sandra’s last stayed there in Week 36. Sandra’s  teams are Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Leicester City

Here is how the top ten looks this week. We only have a couple of weeks left  for this season and things can still change.

         THIS      LAST                                             M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL       

WEEK     WEEK      NAME                          GOALS         GOALS        GOALS  

      1             -              J. BLYTH                        107                  211                318         

       2               -           T. GUY (2)                       87                   225                 312         

       3               -           M. GREGORY                 88                   215                 303         

       4               5          MANGO                           74                   224                 298         

       5               4          S. DICKINSON                 91                  207                 298         

       6               7          S. STEPHENS                   98                  199                 297         

       7               6          GRANT PHILLIPS           77                  216                 293         

       8               9           T. BICKNELL (2014/15)  99                 189                 288         

       9               10         B. BURROUGHS (1)        64                222                  286         

              10               8          M. LAVER                         80                206                  286 

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