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| MATCH WEEK 22: THE RETURN OF THE FANDANGO |
A crazy old Match Week with unexpected clean sheets for the likes of Man United, Wolves, Everton, Leeds and Forest causing chaos. No less than 12 of us picked a captain who 'earned' minus points, with the pick of the bunch Cameron Patrick selecting Patrick Dorgu for a -22 point score. Ouch, ouch and again ouch. Cameron signed Dorgu this week, as did Frodo Willingham.
With no defensive players from any of those teams, Clem Fandango come out on top with 63 points to earn Matt Woodmansey his third Team of the Week trophy - Matt the first to achieve the treble. Super-sub Kevin Schade came on to top-score for Fandango with 11. It's enough to take Matt back up from 3rd to the top of the Overall League, and Premier League, though just 2 points ahead of Jonathan Andrews and Mr Magoo. Jonathan will be regretting sticking Senne Lammens (-3) between the sticks ahead of Petrovic (6). 35 is a disappointing score for Magoo, but it's 11 more than Nightmare Novices - Colette Anthony slips to 3rd and loses a bit of ground on the top 2. And it's certainly no longer a three-horse race, Alex Metzger's decent form continues with 56 the third best for the Match Week, and Al's Army are now only 7 points behind Novices. |
| CONNECT OFF THE BOTTOM |
| At the other end of the Overall League, another team scored that third best 56 points in Only Connect. The unlikely big hitters for Tony Moore were Nico O'Reilly (13), Gyokeres (10), Doku (8) and new signing Martinelli picking up 12 as captain. It's enough to see Tony climb off the bottom, where Rosalie Pearson takes over - and with just 11 points this week, Z's Eleven are already 36 adrift. |
| ROUND THE LEAGUES |
Nightmare Premier League - as per the above, Matt back top, Jonathan and Colette slip a place, Alex closing on the top three in 4th. Eloise Willingham is up to 5th despite having four minus boys lose Traitors and Survivors 12 points between them, including captain Milenkovic (-6). Richard Hancy slips to 6th, four of The Muppets' back five are Wolves or Forest players and all hit the negatives. Again, captain included in Murillo (-6).
After we had a tie for top spot in the Nightmare Championship last week, Chris Bounds is back out in front despite playing with nine men this week. 45 for Chris is 21 more than Paul Willingham, who brought in three Man United boys to lose Relegation Terrorists 9 points. Paul had Lammens as captain for -6 and Terrorists also left a couple of 7-pointers on the bench. John-Paul Meredith returns to the promotion places in 3rd at the expense of Garry Simpson. Kelleher (15), Florentino (10) and Jaidon Anthony (10 as capt) did most of JP's work. Garry, meanwhile, left three of his four big scorers out of Blackheart's Nightmare 11. Verbruggen picked up 13 points while chosen keeper Pickford scored -4. Yarmoliuk and Gordon both scored 8 but not for Garry's gain. No positional changes elsewhere, though David Metzger in 6th had a great week with the second best, 58. That moves David to within 24 of JP in the promotion zone.
Andrew White maintains a healthy lead at the top of Nightmare League One, now 113 points, despite leaving out top man Schade (11). Patrick Reilly in 2nd reduced the dominance of Fulham players vs Everton boys in his line-up this week. And shouldn't have. Benjamin Williamson's up a place in 6th, Tony Moore is off the bottom. |
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| TOP TEAMS - this week | | Team | Manager | Points | | Clem Fandango | Matt Woodmansey | 63 | | The Halibut flounderers | David Metzger | 58 | | Only Connect | Tony Moore | 56 | | Al's Army | Alex Metzger | 56 | | ACW United | Alan Walker | 51 |
| | | TOP NIGHTMARES - this week | | Player | Team | Points | | Caoimhin Kelleher | BRENTFORD | 15 | | Dominik Szoboszlai | LIVERPOOL | 14 | | Nico O'Reilly | MAN CITY | 13 | | Bert Verbruggen | BRIGHTON | 13 | | Danny Welbeck | BRIGHTON | 13 |
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| TOP NIGHTMARES | | Player | Team | Points | This | | Kyle Walker | BURNLEY | 150 | 5 | | Maxime Esteve | BURNLEY | 148 | 5 | | Jorgen Strand Larsen | WOLVES | 144 | 5 | | Andre | WOLVES | 142 | 7 | | Djordje Petrovic | BOURNEMOUTH | 139 | 6 | | Max Kilman | WEST HAM | 139 | 1 | | Elliot Anderson | NOTT'M FOREST | 135 | 2 | | Joao Gomes | WOLVES | 133 | 3 | | Nikola Milenkovic | NOTT'M FOREST | 130 | -3 | | Florentino | BURNLEY | 129 | 10 |
| | | WORST NIGHTMARES | | Player | Team | Points | This | | Gabriel | ARSENAL | -17 | -3 | | Nathan Patterson | EVERTON | -4 | -3 | | Erling Haaland | MAN CITY | -4 | 10 | | Sasa Kalajdzic | .NOT IN PL | 0 | | | Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba | ASTON V. | 0 | |
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| TOP NIGHTMARES - BY RATING | | Player | Team | Ave. rating | | John Victor | NOTT'M FOREST | 5.40 | | Altay Bayindir | MAN UNITED | 5.50 | | Fer Lopez | WOLVES | 5.50 | | Tyrique George | CHELSEA | 5.67 | | Daniel James | LEEDS | 5.67 | | Hannibal Mejbri | BURNLEY | 5.71 | | Mads Hermansen | WEST HAM | 5.75 | | William Osula | NEWCASTLE | 5.75 | | Jadon Sancho | ASTON V. | 5.75 | | Benoit Badiashile | CHELSEA | 5.80 | | Dilane Bakwa | NOTT'M FOREST | 5.80 | | Issa Diop | FULHAM | 5.80 | | Douglas Luiz | NOTT'M FOREST | 5.80 | | Jorgen Strand Larsen | WOLVES | 5.80 |
| | | WORST NIGHTMARES - BY RATING | | Player | Team | Ave. rating | | Erling Haaland | MAN CITY | 7.55 | | Bruno Fernandes | MAN UNITED | 7.47 | | Declan Rice | ARSENAL | 7.45 | | Vitaly Janelt | BRENTFORD | 7.33 | | Jeremy Doku | MAN CITY | 7.31 | | Rayan Cherki | MAN CITY | 7.18 | | Phil Foden | MAN CITY | 7.16 | | Lewis Hall | NEWCASTLE | 7.15 | | Samuel Chukwueze | FULHAM | 7.14 | | Gabriel | ARSENAL | 7.13 | | Wesley Fofana | CHELSEA | 7.10 | | Daniel Munoz | CRYSTAL P. | 7.07 | | Patrick Dorgu | MAN UNITED | 7.07 | | Boubacar Kamara | ASTON V. | 7.06 | | Bukayo Saka | ARSENAL | 7.05 |
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