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Man City please

I love chips done in the air fryer when at home, but anywhere else it's triple cooked or deep fried!

I'll get these updated as soon as I can! The results are all done for midweek but need to combine with the weekends results.

If you drew in midweek, I've automatically put you with the same team.

Me and Storts taking the wins this week then!

Villa please

This one will be a good sign of where we're at as a team - we put in a good display against a tough Mansfield side last week but there was definitely room for improvements. Walsall have had a similar start to the season than us so expecting us to get 3 points if we can get our front line working together and being a little smarter on the ball.

Guaranteed that Barrow v Wrexham will be a one goaler after the last few games have been goalfests!

Saturday 26th August, 2023
Ipswich 0-1 Leeds
Motherwell 1-0 Kilmarnock
Monza 1-1 Empoli, 17.30
Flamengo 1-1 Internacional, 22.30

Sunday 27th August, 2023
FC Dallas 1-1 Austin FC, 01.30
Melbourne City 0-1 Wellington Phoenix, 05.00
Nurnberg 2-0 Wehen, 12.30
Lorient 0-1 Lille, 16.05
Villarreal 0-2 Barcelona, 18.30
Fenerbahce 2-1 Istanbul Basaksehir, 19.45

Eww. I forgot to put the fixtures in date order

WEEKEND RESULTS
Time to summarise the weekends results

@londonerlilie carries on a good run of form with Wimbledon grabbing another win at the weekend over Sutton. @CaaC (John)'s first game as a Brummie resulted in a win for him too. It's now 3 wins in 3 for Gillingham and @Lucas. @Storts leads the table with a 100% record still in tact, winning 4 out of 4 games. @Stan also made it 4 out of 4 but takes second place on goal difference. @Tommy grabbed a win with Nurnberg.

@Bluewolf is still yet to win a game after another 0-0 draw - this time it's a choice between Blackpool and Leyton Orient. It was a 0-0 draw for myself and Grenoble too - and I've opted to remain with them. 0-0 was a trend this week as @Viva la FCB also got a no-score draw so can choose to remain with St Pauli or move to Greuther Furth. 

@RandoEFC's Barrow lost out to Stockport so it's a move for him - they face Manchester United's Under 21 side tonight. We'll cross this bridge if it happens, but if Stockport were to lose, he may be stuck in the Under 21 system for a while. @Coma moves from Dusseldorf to Paderborn after they lost 2-1 to them. @Rucksackfranzose didn't have a great first match in 3. Liga, losing out to Viktoria Koln with Saarbrucken.

Gaps starting to form in some areas of the table now

I'm loving @CaaC (John)'s braveness in betting on actual scorelines.

This week I'm going for the following:

Over 2.5 Goals (Total) - Chelsea v Luton - 1.47
Over 2.5 Goals (Total) - Sheffield United v Manchester City - 1.53

2.26 at £10 = £22.63 

James means 'supplanter' 

They've had a leaky defense for a few seasons. They are good at attacking so it doesn't often cost them too much.

I don't think Pickford has a lack of ambition as such, it's just he has a point to prove after last season to have a better one this season with Everton and prove himself.

He showed ambition when he moved from Sunderland to Everton after only one full season playing in the Premier League.

Ben Foster has announced his retirement and subsequently leaves Wrexham.

He's shipped a lot of goals this season already and has said his performances are not what he wanted so has made this decision.

Kudos for not staying and just keeping the money.

I feel slightly better that the second half of mine didn't come through either so!

Earps and the team did their homework for that penalty. You could see on the graphic that the Spain player often shot to the bottom right 

1 hour ago, Stan said:

Belter. Brilliant hit.

How you finding your season so far, albeit early days?

I think our performances are definitely better than what we saw for the majority of last season. We've had some tough games so far and held our own for the most part. Mansfield looked better than us yesterday but the encouraging thing is we remained in the game. We need to find our best formation I think to utilise the new players we have better.

This was our goal. Beautiful. Not going to get bored of watching this one for a while. https://twitter.com/SkyBetLeagueTwo/status/1693164463531446765?t=EfZ-qRhJIWdyHL7KPWlw9A&s=19

Enjoyed our game. Mansfield look like a very good team and we were lucky to come away with a 1-1 draw. Our goal by Abo Eisa was stunning. One of the best I've seen physically at a ground.

Wrexham and Swindon's score was interesting!

Finally managed to get a ticket for our game. Crazy how most of our home games are sellouts since we got promoted - just shows how getting decent owners in helps with everything around the club and the town!

6 hours ago, Dan said:

This has fallen hasn't it? That was Man City to win in 90, rather than win the trophy, right?

Yes it was in 90 minutes so I've lost yet another one  

It wasn't a great performance last week when we met Mansfield in the EFL Cup so an improved performance against them this weekend is needed. We improved A LOT in our win against Salford on Tuesday night so at least a point expected from this one.

Criticized for not making much of an impact and then Ella Toone does that. Lovely.