Results for the second round of Quarter-Final matches in the CL & the IML:
The Champions League
Two of the four Champions League Quarter-Finals were turned around in the return leg, and another one came very, very close too!
Peltier returned to the CL from the midweek games fifteen points down against the Championship’s El Dude Brothers. El D.B., currently second in the League, lost their winning momentum and turned out a very underwhelming performance. No player could bring home anything more than a three and they missed out on a goal against Man City by unused substitute Leandro Trossard, a goal that could’ve have won them the tie.
Peltier offered a very average performance (the gameweek average was 37.7), which was poor enough to allow League One’s bottom side Sugar Daddies to end their 8-game winless run, but was just good enough to carry them over the line and into the Semi-Finals.
The “away” teams in QF4 performed the better in both legs – Gloopy won the first leg with a score of 40 and Boss were victorious in the second with a 50. But it was the losing score of 47 (including 22FPts from Haaland & Bernardo Silva) that keeps the Yarbles on top of the Championship tonight and sends them through to the Semi-Finals. Gloopy Yarbles won the last SF they appeared in (in the Spring Cup in Feb. ’21 where they beat Vanishing Spray 56-45 in a replay) and they have also won the last three times they have played a League One side in the CL. The omens look good.
Fergi Time proved this week that they are still determined to fight for silverware this season. They began the return leg seven points down against Premier League’s title-contenders Barons but finished the game twelve points up. Barons, who are developing a fear of Quarter-Finals, were unable to hold on to their lead and bow out at this stage for the third successive time. Fergi Time, now second in League One and could go top next week, made the second-highest aggregate score in this season’s CLQF’s and will next weekend face the topscoring Quarter-Finalists…
…the World #1’s – We have Kompany. WhK returned from midweek with a huge twenty-seven point advantage, on a six-game winning streak across both competitions and had hit 50+FPts in all of the last four gameweeks. But then in GW13 they hit a wall. They were only able to find 32 points within the mess of lineup changes and under-performing stars. That set the bar at 92, meaning Mighty Fine Feeling would need a 60-point gameweek to qualify. No stranger to big scores, World #2 MFF dug in and racked up the biggest score of the weekend (#1 of all 40). Unfortunately for them, 57 was just three shy of the target, a mere assist from glory, an accidental deflection short of the Semi-Finals. And so the two-time BFFA Cup Winner earned themselves a place in their first-ever Champions League Semi-Finals; the two-time CL Champions bow out.
The Final: Gameweek 16
The Intramural League
The IML was also full of fireworks this weekend just gone.
Both Route 57 and Jaysokker recorded back-to-back wins to march through to the Semis. R57 got a tasty little revenge over fellow Premier League strugglers TMT while Jaysokker are busy turning their season around – from one-league-win-in-ten to three-wins-on-the-trot, they beat second-placed ATC twice in GW11 – in the League and the IML – and again last weekend to convincingly earn a place in the Final Four.
With the best score of the round, indeed the best score that any of the forty made in the QF gameweeks, Sporting Wicker Park put themselves into the Semi-Finals in style. They’ve also managed to climb from 14th in the World Rankings to 7th. But there they will face the number one team in League One, and ranked #3 overall, Klopps and Robbers. K&R, who this week lost to IML rivals Jaysokker, still hold the top spot in the League and are well-placed to take on Gloopy & Bros for the Best-ish title this season. This one promises to be a very high-scoring slobberknocker over the next two weeks.
The Final: Gameweek 16
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