Monday, 13 May 2019

Week Forty-One

In Week Forty-One of the competition we have now had one minute of  injury time with the very last full league fixture for our English Premiership teams. All but six of us managed to pick up some goals this weekend, with three players picking up the highest score with nine goals each once again. They were DARYL NICHOLLS,  KAREN SMITH and BOB SOPER.

100 MIDWEEK GOALS JACKPOT
We still have five players that have now reached 100 Midweek goals this week. GRAHAM HARRIS is on a total of 108 goals. His combination is Hearts, Tottenham and West Brom. John Davies is still in second place with 106 goals but he is now joined with Adam Sansom moving up from three. In third place is now Kellie Stratton who has moved up from fourth place with 103 goals. In fourth place up from five is June Tighe with 101 goals. In fifth place up from six we have Toby Bicknell on 99 goals while behind him in sixth place is Phil Collins with 98 goals.

WEEKEND RESULTS
We had only had twenty-six of our teams in action over weekend with ten of them failing to score any goals. In the last full English Premiership games, we did fairly well from our teams.
The highest score that we had was four goals and they came from the English Premiership where MANCHESTER CITY won 4-1 away to Brighton in their very last league game. City have taken their goals tally up to 131 goals. They still have one more game to play and that is the FA CUP Final against Watford next weekend. WEST HAM also picked up four goals as they win 4-1 away to Cup finalist Watford. West Ham have finished on a total of 68 goals and end the season in tenth place.

PREMIERSHIP
Congratulations to Manchester City this weekend as they have finally became Champions for the second consecutive Season. LIVERPOOL finished second just one point behind City as they win 2-0 at home to WOLVES.  Liverpool end the season on a total of 91 goals and they have scored in all of their last nine games. Wolves picked up their twelfth blank score sheet of the season and finished in seventh place in the league. In all we had a great season here with us having the top ten teams. CHELSEA have have finished in third place after they drew 0-0 away to ninth place LEICESTER CITY. That was Chelsea’s thirteenth blank of the season while Leicester picked up their tenth and two in a row. TOTTENHAM finished in fourth place after they drew 2-2 at home to EVERTON in eighth place. Tottenham have finished on a total of 83 goals while Everton end on 62. ARSENAL end in fifth place after they won 3-1 away to Burnley. Arsenal finished on a total of 82 goals. MANCHESTER UNITED are in sixth place after they lost 2-0 at home to relegated Cardiff City. That is United’s seventh blank of the season and they have scored just two goals in their last five games. BOURNEMOUTH end the season on a total of 65 goals after they lost 5-3 away to Crystal Palace. Relegated FULHAM lost 4-0 at home to Newcastle and that is their sixteenth blank score sheets and they have failed to score in their last two league games.

CHAMPIONSHIP - Play-Off’s 1st Leg
ASTON VI LLA have started well here after they went a goal down against WEST BROM in the first half. Villa came back to win 2-1 at home. Villa are now on a total of 84 goals while West Brom hit goal number 93. In the other game, LEEDS UNITED won 1-0 away to DERBY to pick up goal number 77 for them while Derby picked up their thirteenth blank score sheet after a goal run of six games.

LEAGUE ONE - Play-Off’s 1st leg
CHARLTON won 2-1 away to Doncaster and they are now on a total of 87 goals and they have now scored in all of their last nine games.

LEAGUE TWO- Play-Off’s 2nd Leg
MANSFIELD drew their first leg game 1-1 to Newport County but then drew 0-0 in the second leg. Even after extra time the score remained 0-0. (1-1 on aggregate) In the penalty shoot out that followed, Newport County won 5-3.

SCOTTISH LEAGUES
In the Scottish Premiership, Champions CELTIC lost their fifth league game of the season to rivals RANGERS who won 2-0 at home. Rangers have taken their goals tally to 97 while Celtic picked up their ninth blank of the season.
HIBERNIAN lost 1-0 to Kilmarnock and that is their fourteenth blank score sheet of the season and two in a row. Hibs have now scored just one goal in their last four games.  
In the Premiership - Play-Off’s 2nd Leg, AYR UNITED lost their first leg game 3-1 to Inverness CT but then they drew their second game 1-1. Inverness CT win 4-2 on aggregate and Ayr United finished the season on a total of 70 goals.
In the Championship – Play-Off’s 2nd Leg, RAITH ROVERS drew their second leg game 1-1 away to Forfar and they win 3-2 on aggregate. Rovers are on a total of 87 goals and a goal run of fourteen games.
In League One - Play-Off’s 2nd Leg, STENHOUSEMUIR lost their first leg game 2-0 to Annan and they also lost their second game 2-1. Anna won 4-1 on aggregate. Stenhousemuir finished the season on a total of 46 goals. 

Our BEST three teams this week with Golden Goals are

MANCHESTER CITY (131) RANGERS (97) CELTIC (96) Total of 324 goals

OUR WORST THREE TEAMS ARE

HAMILTON (31) IPSWICH (37) FULHAM (40) Total of 108 goals

Our Best teams this week are RAITH ROVERS and ASTON VILLA after both teams have scored in all of their last fourteen League and Cup games played.

Our worst team this week is IPSWICH as they have picked up a total of twenty-one blank score sheets out of thirty-eight League and Cup games played this season. They have scored just four goals in their last six games.

Our biggest result in our 36th Season comes from MANCHESTER CITY as they win 9-0 at home against league one BURTON ALBION in the Carabao/League Cup semi-final first leg tie in Week Twenty-Four.

Here are the top ten this weekend

      THIS      LAST                                              M/WEEK       W/END        TOTAL          
      WEEK     WEEK             NAME                     GOALS         GOALS        GOALS        

           1             -                 B. SAWYER               80                   240                320                   
            2                 -                 K. STRATTON          103                  217                320              
            3                 5                S. SEYEDI                  90                   229                319                
            4                 -                 B. CLARK                  89                   229                318                  
            5                 3                B. BURROUGHS       83                   233                316                 
           6                 8                A. SANSOM               106                  209                315               
           7                 9                C. SETFORD              66                    248                314               
           8                 6                D. BARRETT              91                    223                314              
           9                 10              C. BAMBRIDGE        93                    220                313              
            10              13              C. WEBB                    89                     223                312 

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