The UEFA Champions League kicked off this afternoon and, as always, we were one step ahead.
This is no 36-team mis-matched computer-drawn free-for-all. This is pure fantasy football quality.
Feast your eyes on the results from the opening weekend of the BFFA Champions League.
Group A
Gameweek 4 Results
Goleta Hotspur and SkyPlayerInFPL share the top spot in Group A this week after they both won their matches with 38 matchpoints (technically, SkyPlayerInFPL would be top with more assists). It was a very comfortable win for SkyPlayer, that last Harvey Barnes goal & 2BP were completely unneeded to get past DBT here. Dalot & Saka reeled in a combined 18, which was enough to get the W, everything else was just padding. Unfortunately, Jota’s 1 point for 59 minutes kept Gabriel Magalhães’ 15FPts back on the bench.
De Bruyne Trousers 15 – 38 SkyPlayerInFPL
A couple of goose eggs in midfield and a poor showing from the Spray defence kept them from challenging Goleta on CL Matchday 1. The winning points came, perhaps somewhat bittersweet, from the Arsenal D at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Goleta weren’t fully Gunners-committed as they left Raya on the bench, but the Timber/White clean sheet points won the game. DCL’s goal may have helped out too…
Goleta Hotspur 38 – 30 Vanishing Spray FC
Gameweek 5
Goleta Hotspur have had a year to get over a forgettable 2022/23 season. They finished seventh and lost 18 of their 36 league matches. Four of those losses came at the hands of De Bruyne Trousers. And so they meet again. Whereas Spray and SkyPlayer haven’t met before. A new chapter begins.
GW5 live scores:
De Bruyne Trousers – Championship
Goleta Hotspur – League One
SkyPlayerInFPL – League One
Vanishing Spray FC – Premier League
Group B
Gameweek 4 Results
The heroics of Sánchez and Onana cancelled each other out in the game between Monty and >Brolin. Marcus Rashford got his first goal of the season in the win over Southampton, and the win was cemented by Watkins’ first (two) goals of his season. The pair will play again in league format in GW6.
Uncle Monty 39 – 53 Bigger than Brolin
In what was quite a flat performance from Whiskey DB, the only positives were two midfield clean sheets by Luiz Diaz (just!) and Cole Palmer. Wesley Fofana helped Chelsea to their first clean sheet of the season, but was left unused on the Whiskey bench. For their opposition, however, Smash & Grab played and collected Fofana’s 7, complimented by a 5 from teammate Colwill. Man of the match went to Mateta who was head and shoulders above the rest with his brace and maximum BP.
Whiskey De Bruyne 21 – 37 Smash & Grab
Gameweek 5
When Whiskey De Bruyne faced Uncle Monty at the end of last season, WDB thrashed the league leaders 86-49 and caused Monty to (temporarily) lose the top spot. Previous to that, Monty had won all three matches against their rivals, so the big win felt like a huge victory. This season, both have been struggling to find points, and wins. Monty took advantage of Whiskey’s sub-par result this week, pulling WDB down to ninth and stepping over them into eighth. Only a small step up, but there’s always time to celebrate back-to-back green arrows.
Bigger than Brolin have got to know Smash & Grab pretty well over the last nine years. Their 27 previous meetings have included two Champions League Group Stage games (Season 5; S&G won one 61-46 & BtB won one 42-57), a BFFA Cup QF (S9; S&G won 87-64) & a BFFA Cup SF (S7; BtB won 36-33). Since their first match in August 2015, Smash have won 15, lost 11 and drawn one against BtB, but the Championship side have been scoring slightly better in the early stages of Season 11. Look out for the performances of Chelsea and Villa on Saturday morning to get a feel for which way this tie is likely to go.
GW5 live scores:
Bigger than Brolin – Championship
Smash & Grab – Premier League
Uncle Monty – Championship
Whiskey De Bruyne – Championship
Group C
Gameweek 4 Results
It was derby day in Group C, Hearts v Hibs, ATT v Wives Fave. The battle of Scotland was a lot closer than the scoreline might have you believe. Both teams had strikers scoring a 13, both teams played Smith-Rowe (7), the ATT defence outscored their rivals, but Onana’s penalty save and clean sheet made a big difference and had ATT on the back foot right from the start. The two re-meet in November.
Housewives Favourite 52 – 39 Alleviate the Tedium
It wasn’t a great weekend for the other League One side, but in fairness to them, anything approching twice that score still would’ve lost to the topscore of the gameweek. They were up against Gabriel, Schär, Veltman and Raya (R57 were the only team to start the Arsenal #1 this weekend!) who collaborated for a combined 39 in the R57 back lines. Both teams played Zirkzee, which made it even harder for Phenoms to compete, and Chris Wood was kept out at Anfield.
Route 57 FC 57 – 28 The Phenoms
Gameweek 5
So weeks 5 & 8 are the league-rival games in Group C. The Premier League rematch between Wives Fave and Route 57 FC should be an interesting one as the last two BFFA Teams of the Week play it out for different silverware, three weeks after HF dominated a 100-point league match in GW2.
ATT and The Phenoms also met up in GW2, the former winning 53-37 with goals from Nic Jackson and Smith-Rowe.
GW5 live scores:
Alleviate the Tedium – League One
Housewives Favourite – Premier League
Route 57 FC – Premier League
The Phenoms – League One
Group D
Gameweek 4 Results
Despite Yoane Wissa’s poacher’s instinct, the unlikely duo of Jhon Durán and Jamie Vardy got the BFFA Cup winners off the mark with a victory. That 21st-minute Vardy goal not only led to 4FPts + 2BP, but also the loss of Hendersons (4pt) clean sheet and left Gloopy wondering how on Earth Matz Sels scored 9 fantasy points away at Liverpool.
Gloopy Yarbles 24 – 34 StillluvQPR
Sporting Wicker Park recovered from a poor pre-break showing (82 points from three games) to hit a half-century and take control of the match. It started early with 15 for Matthijs de Ligt and finished with a cheeky 8 for their new signing Harvey Barnes. Granted, the transfer cost him Marcus Rashford who also found the net this week, but enough damage was inflicted to give SWP the hole shot in the Group of Death.
HLAB 34 – 50 Sporting Wicker Park
Gameweek 5
Gloopy Yarbles finished 13 league points above HLAB in the Championship in S9 (albeit just one place above them in third), and that gap was largely due to them taking all twelve points from their four meetings. A year and a half since that last encounter, nearly four years since HLAB’s last win over the Yarbles, next weekend they will play the first of three meetings in five weeks, and HLAB might have a lot to do to get anything out of the currently unbeaten Premier League league leaders.
The Park Derby was played out nine times during Seasons Seven and Eight; Stillluv got the better of their opponents six times, Sporting thrice, and apart from Stillluv’s 52-25 rout, the other eight games were decided by a single-figure difference. History seems to indicate that this will be tight, and the current Best-ish table concurs – Stillluv have scored 134 FPts; Sporting 132.
GW5 live scores:
Gloopy Yarbles – Premier League
HLAB – Premier League
Sporting Wicker Park – Premier League
StillluvQPR – League One
At a glance:
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