So an interesting start to season 5 in what is a very competitive league ..

Feb saw match days 2-5 take place .. and as it stands 3 very strong teams in the relegation zone in Atletico, Ajax & City ..

And holders Liverpool have started poorly with just 2 wins from 5 .. but it's a marathon not a sprint!


2nd - Darlington - Bayern

P4 W3 D0 L1

A solid start to the season .. after an opening day defeat, 3 wins from next 4 see them in 5th ...

Low scorers with only 1 goal per game average, but at this stage I'm sure Darlington is happy ..

1st - Daz - Spurs

P4 W3 D1 L0

Congrats to Gamesmaster Daz - unbeaten in the month and sitting 2 pts clear at the top after 5 games ....

Considering their fire power, should be scoring more goals than they do (Kane is wasted there Daz, let Liverpool have him!)

A 1-1 draw against N London rivals Arsenal prevented the 100% record ...

A 2-0 reversal to my Liverpool on the final match of the month stopped them winning it ..

Apr:

As we approach the half way stage of the season, its very close with the top 4 only separated by 2 points!

The top 5 have all drawn between 5 and 7 of their 12 games so far!

The bottom 4 are have a slight gap vs the rest - but it's still early days .. Anyone from 7th down could still easily be sucked into the relegation battle ...

The top 3 teams in the month all secured 8 league points and were difficult to separate ..

3rd Daz - Spurs

P4 W2 D2 L0     GD +3; Clean Sheets 2

Another strong month, only GD keeping them off the top of the table!

Draws with Bayern and Barca prevented 100% record ..

2nd Raingod - Liverpool

P4 W2 D2 L0     GD +2; Clean Sheets 4

Identical record to Daz - it was felt that not conceding a goal in the whole month was more important than the +1GD secured by Spurs ..

The lack of goals - 2 in 4 games - is a worry - and the signing of Innocenti is hoped to change this ..

1st Bruffio - Atletico

P4 W2 D2 L0     GD +3; Clean Sheets 1

Congrats to Bruffio on this award!

Given the identical records, the panel looked at the relative league positions...

... Atletico have done very well to match the league leaders in terms of perfromance .. and this has seen them climb out of the bottom 3 ..

June:

The most exciting season yet with the top 4 separated by just 3 pts, with Arsenal and Man U a further 4 points behind .. 21 pts to play for, so a really open competition!

It's the same at the bottom - With a fully managed division there are some very experienced managers,  2 of which will be adding relegation to their CVs shortly .. whilst another will have the stress of a play off game ...

3 teams secured 0 or 1 points - Ajax, Atletico and Chelsea, while no one had 100% record ...

2nd Liverpool - Raingod

P4 W3 D1 L0     GD +3; Clean Sheets 3

Liverpool tied on pts with Bayern and Real Madrid, but pipped them on GD .. it was that close!
These performances will help both those clubs pull away from the relegtion scrap ..

Liverpool defence is hard to penetrate with 1 conceded in 4, but we only scored 4 in 4 - which isn't enough if we expect to retain the title  ..

Man U beat us in wk17 to break our run ...


1st - AC - Werewilf

P4 W3 D1 L0     GD +5; Clean Sheets 4

Congrats Werewilf - this takes AC away from trouble and I think they can now take a breath !

Got better as the month progressed, ending with 2 x 2-0 wins ...

Will his recent appointment at Portsmouth in CofE take his eye off the ball or has the hard work done so far sunk into the players??

Aug:

7 different MOTM winners shows what an exciting league it has been!

Man Utd forced  their way into 3rd with 7 points, whilst champions Liverpool also took 7 from 9

1st - Roma  David H

P3 W3 D0 L0

Whilst Roma were expected to do better than mid table, David H ended the season (and his time at the club I hear ...) with 3 wins , scoring 7 with 0 conceded - well done!