X11 season 45 - de rigueur Mortis

[delicatemoth]

That saw Ullapool drop two points behind leaders Galácticas, and also -11 GD adrift. The second is closable (Galácticas opened the second half of their campaign against a zombie who they bashed for 7), but it does reduce the margin for error.

We've got Galácticas next, and I don't expect them to drop points to Murcielago or anyone else, so we just have to beat them. At least we're still in pole position for the playoff spot even if we lose.

Awesome detailed roundups as ever, I don't know how you find the time.

[Sits]

Kakanui KuneKune have spawned their way to the MLX semis (sorry Foxy, no idea how) and now can't get 11 proper players together. Boss defender is crocked and senior midfielder suspended. As it was intended to be a development season I'm carrying three crappy, non-compatible goalies to make a squad of 15.

So to scratch a team together I found one of the three goalies who is "Fair" and hoping to hide him in a 5-4-1 Very Defensive with Long Balls to my OK striker. This is against Lemmings XI so it could be ugly.

[jdsx]

Well, you only lost 1-0, Sits, so that's not too bad....! You didn't fancy playing 5-3-2 with Ngarengare up front as well? Don't think I've ever seen a defensive line up with ratings of 19-17-16-2-1 before...!

[Sits]

I challenge anyone to repeat it. I hope Lemmings win. Valyrian Vipers' manager is a sexist.

Meanwhile i I know many here will be thrilled to learn that definitely clean Fenerbahçe are poised to commence their hegemony in the J4GL.

And after that that barrage of positivity I'm off to work.

[Antepli Ejderha]

I challenge anyone to repeat it. I hope Lemmings win. Valyrian Vipers' manager is a sexist.

Meanwhile i I know many here will be thrilled to learn that definitely clean Fenerbahçe are poised to commence their hegemony in the J4GL.

And after that that barrage of positivity I'm off to work.

This.

[Janik]

X11 Ladies Season 55 Matchday 9 report. Having got rather behind during Wimbledon, I’m going to try and keep this and the Matchday 10 report bare bones. We will see how well that goes...

Division 2b

Championettes           2 - 1   Viking South Utsira
Carlisle 72'                    A.Austrheim 65'
Burns 80'


Division 3d

Wælcyrie                1 - 3   Drakaina
Kocsmár 70'                     Sietaridis 16'
                                Barry 41', 81'


Division 4j

Coxy Ladies Wulpen      2 - 0   Kongo BK
Vandenbergh 22', 92'


Division 4k

Rotnäset BK             0 - 1   Kanjeng Ratu Kidul WFC
                                Sangaji 93'
                                Senduk (sent off) 92'


Division 5:17

11 de abril FC          1 - 0   Erbil
Abril 76'

LNWR Locomotive         0 - 0   Braguinha


Division 5:20

Sockford Emollient      0 - 2   ShamLam Doobily Dodgers
                                Urkiaga 40'
                                Nestor 90'


Division 5:28

FC Cristalul Dorohoi    1 - 3   Menywod Maeshafn
Neves 74'                       Westerberg 35', 76'
Lagerqvist (sent off) 67'       Beck 59'


Division 5:31

Barca Ladies FC         1 - 0   Csiki Girls
Nilsson 89'


Division 6:41

Albrektssunds IK        0 - 5   Ullapool Northern Star
                                Barkho 18', 75'
Cegrell (sent off) 47'          Späth 20'
                                Menashi (pen) 67'
                                Maxwell 85'



Division 6:45

Sporting Erasmus        0 - 0   Solent Sirens

                                Evelyn Högardh (sent off) 75'


Division 6:54

Zeugma Dostluk Spor     2 - 2   The Lady Croc
Forsyth 22'                     Contente 24'
Karakan 35'                     Ortis 70'
                                Chilingirian (missed pen) 16'


Division 6:58

Dublin City WFC         1 - 1   Tesla Girls
Canhanga (O.G.) 37'             Canhanga (pen) 55'

[Janik]

Week 9 sent Viking South Utsira to bottom of the table side Championettes, in what was a crucial game for The Blood Eagles season.
Velvet Android’s side spent the first half on the back foot, but reached the interval all square. They then went ahead on 65 minutes when skipper Asta Austrheim headed home. This was somewhat against the run of play at that point and became increasingly so as Championettes battered the Utsira defences in the remaining time. Sadly they buckled twice to send Viking to a damaging defeat.
How bad was it? Well it left VSU seventh in Division 2b, four points from safety. So not terminal, but still a pretty pickle.

Drakaina were also on the road at a struggling side as they visited Wælcyrie.
Etienne’s side were the clear favourites to win the match and demonstrated why as early as the 16th minute when Laria Sietaridis nodded them ahead. Susanna Barry doubled The Dragons advantage shortly before the interval and struck again in the 81st minute to restore the two goal cushion after Wælcyrie had pulled one back. The Greeks three goals came from the only three shots they had in the match. Ruthless efficiency.
Victory pushed Drakaina up to second in the Division 3d table.

Having broken a run of defeats on matchday 8, Coxy Ladies Wulpen were looking to go one further and register an actual win, their first for a considerable while, against Kongo BK.
The Waders approached seemed to be “If it moves, kick it”. Janik’s side picked up five yellow cards in the game to their opponents zero, but did home in on the item they were actually meant to be booting twice. Or rather Laetitia Vandenbergh did. She fired two goals, on 22 and 92 minutes respectively, to break that winless streak.
Victory lifted Coxy Ladies above their beaten foes and up to fifth in the Division 4j table.

When you are in the middle of a losing run as Kanjeng Ratu Kidul WFC were a trip to a promotion-chasing side such as Rotnäset BK can either be intimidating or opportunity.
The Sea Spirits were definitely up for the battle, particularly Ati Senduk. She picked up a yellow card as earlier as the sixth minute, and then had a goal disallowed after 17. Referee Frank Redkard was already off her Christmas card list by this point. The situation wouldn’t improve as the game progressed.
Two other Kanjeng players were carded in the opening half, but manager SeanoftheShed’s tactics worked as Rotnäset were thrown off their rhythm. They only had one chance through the game in fact, but then, deep into stoppage time were handed an opportunity as Senduk received her second yellow of the day. And there was one final opening in the remaining minute. However, it went to the Indonesians, defender Utami Sangaji heading home a rare goal for an extraordinary victory.
The value was instantly clear – it kept Kanjeng just above the Division 4k drop line in fifth.

Division 5:17 leaders Erbil travelled to second-placed side 11 de abril FC for a crunch promotion clash.
Jdsx’s charges had leapfrogged their foes with a win the previous weekend, and set out to consolidate that with a defensive 5-3-2 set up. Sadly all it did was hand abril the initiative. The home side had all of the games few chances, and made the most of one in the 76th minute to see the top two places swap again.
Elsewhere in the same section struggling LNWR Locomotive welcomed on one of the teams they were trying to catch, Braguinha, to Mollington Street.
It was a game that didn’t lack for goalmouth action as the two sides combined for nine chances, with Vikotr Bsokovic’s girls shading that count 5-4. However that didn’t turn into notable incidents as all nine shots were comfortably seen off by two ‘keepers in rock solid form.
The draw did nothing to improve The Steamers position in the 5:17 table, they remained seventh, six points from safety. Erbil, meanwhile, fell to second, a point adrift of the new leaders and only one ahead of third.

Promotion chasers Sockford Emollient would have been confident ahead of ShamLam Doobily Dodgers visit to John Spencer Street.
That was because the visitors were without a win all season, though they had drawn quite a lot. However Foxy265’s side were in for a shock when the visitors took the game to them and went ahead in the 40th minute. The Gatorsharks tried to step it up after the break but never really got into gear and conceded a killer second in the last minute of normal time.
Sockford remained second in the Division 5:20 table after the loss, but lost ground on both the leaders and the chasing pack behind them.

Matchday 9 sent Menywod Maeshafn to relegation-haunted FC Cristalul Dorohoi.
The difference between confident sides near the top of a table (like Maeshafn) and ones struggling was exemplified by the first half; Dorohoi had more chances, Ada Westerberg scored the only goal. Morgan Beck made it two on 59 minutes and the points looked safe when the hosts Sigrid Lagerqvist earned herself a straight red card a few minutes later. Dorohoi briefly defied that by pulling one back, but within two minutes Westerberg had restored the two goal advantage for IsThatcherDeadYet’s side, which was how it stayed to the conclusion.
The win kept the Welsh side second in the Division 5:28 table, a point clear of third.

Division 5:31 leaders Csiki Girls were looking to consolidate their advantage when they took on Barca Ladies FC at the Nou Camp.
Ad hoc’s side were clear favourites to win the game, and did everything they needed to do to achieve just that. Except one thing. Score. Four chances came and went across the piece with the scoresheet remaining blank. Barca were not creating anything themselves though. Until they did in the 89th minute, and landed the complete sucker punch to send Csiki Girls to a massively undeserved defeat.
The Romanian side stayed top of the table however, as their nearest rivals were held to a draw. The lead was cut to one point, though.

Matchday 9 brought a routine zombie kill for Ullapool Northern Star as they set about Albrektssunds IK.
Delicatemoth’s side were struggling slightly for accuracy in the first half, only managing a pair of goals through Zebela Barkho and Babette Späth. The job became a step easier even when the hosts Tess Cegrell was sent off for violent conduct towards Barkho in the 47th minute. Ref Tony Nolan offered another helping hand with a penalty midway through the period that Sonia Menashi converted, this goal being followed by a second of the day for Barkho and one from Fiona Maxwell late on to make the final total five. That was the first goal of young forward Maxwell’s career.
The easy win kept Northern Star hot on the heels of leaders Galácticas ahead of a matchday 10 top-two clash.

A daunting looking trip was ahead of Solent Sirens as they travelled to 100% Division 6:45 leaders Sporting Erasmus.
The Sirens approach to the game was... quite aggressive. Andrew7610’s side picked up a number of cards across the piece, and managed few shots. No shots in fact. However that was stopping Erasmus from playing, the Sirens defence even holding firm for the last quarter hour following the dismissal of Evelyn Högardh.
And excellent point that shows what this team is capable of. Just a shame they found themselves in fifth place, well adrift of the top two.

Also heading nowhere were Zeugma Dostluk Spor and their Matchday 9 visitors The Lady Croc.
Sometimes no pressure can be liberating, and the two sides put on an entertaining show for the Insan Haklari Stadyumu crowd. A too-and-fro period early on saw The Lady Croc miss a penalty, Rachel Forsyth put Zeugma ahead, the visitors respond, only for Nuray Karakan to put Antepli Ejderha side back in control.
There was just one more goal to add, The Lady Croc levelling again on 70 minutes. The draw left Zeugma fifth in the Division 6:54 table.

The pressure on Dublin City WFC was rather more intense as they prepared to host Tesla Girls.
That was because Mortal Joe’s side came into the match with seven wins and one defeat to their names, enough for them to be top of the Division 6:58 table but not sufficient for the chasing pack to have been burned off. Did the stress show in this one? Arguably. Dublin were not as free flowing as previously and needed a helping hand from Tesla’s Divua Canhanga to go in at half-time 1-0 up. However Canhanga made amends after the break by striking home a penalty to leave the points shared by Dublin for the first time this season.
They remained top thanks to results elsewhere, but a bit of a group was gathering on their shoulder, waiting to pounce.

[Janik]

X11 Ladies Season 55 Matchday 10 report. Two for the price of one!

Division 2b

Janes Addiction         2 - 0  Viking South Utsira
Kitson 84'
Drufwa 92'


Division 3d

Green Street Hooligans  2 - 1   Drakaina
Rosário 5'                      Gitsis 48'
Mata 84'


Division 4j

Coxy Ladies Wulpen      1 - 1   Busby Babes
van Sttenberghe 36'             Hedman 85'


Division 4k

Kanjeng Ratu Kidul WFC  5 - 0   Stirling Stallions
Ikmal 9'
Borot 14', 19'
Dalmiya 44', 80'


Division 5:17

Erbil                   1 - 1   Husmorskolen
Sharpe 71'                      Wassmo 74'

LNWR Locomotive         0 - 4   11 de abril FC
                                Gómez 34', 68'
                                Bazán 71'
                                Zapater 87'
                                Abril (sent off) 90'

Division 5:20

Sockford Emollient      1 - 0   The MJ Foxes
Parks (pen) 74'


Division 5:28

ZFK Nase Taksi          2 - 5   Menywod Maeshafn
Ercegovic 10'                   Boye 4'
Öngün 23'                       Beck 34'
                                Kjellberg 56'
                                Lydell 59'
                                Westerberg 87'


Division 5:31

Csiki Girls             3 - 1   The Troachetes
Munoz 43', 64'                  Godec 30'
Smet 83'                        Reindl (sent off) 73'


Division 6:41

Galácticas              0 - 0   Ullapool Northern Star


Division 6:45

Palma                   0 - 7   Solent Sirens
                                Valdano 8'
                                Agra 14', 67', 70', 88'
                                Malena Norling 30'
                                Abbiati 45'
                                Sander (sent off) 93'


Division 6:54

Aperta com Elas FC      1 - 1   Zeugma Dostluk Spor
Spong 21'                       Bell 88'


Division 6:58

Killer Queens           3 - 0   Dublin City WFC
Barbaud 17'
Cazeaux 34', 73'                Isabel Carreto (sent off) 82'

[Janik]

A team pushing for promotion taking on one seemingly bound for relegation. Foregone conclusion? That was the narrative that Viking South Utsira had to avoid at Janes Addiction.
For 83 backs-to-the-wall minutes Velvet Android’s side managed it. But then, in the 84th, Janes eventually broke through. The deflated Blood Eagles conceded a second in stoppage time to rub salt into the wound.
Results from elsewhere also went against Viking, who now find themselves seven points from safety with four matches to play. They currently occupy seventh spot in the Division 2b table.

Two sides contending for the Division 3d play-off place met when Drakaina walked the Streets of London to take on the Green Street Hooligans. Well, it’s not a sexist name, I suppose. Just objectionable in other, more general, ways.
Anyway, the hosts struck first with just 5 minutes on the clock. The Dragons kept fighting, and levelled 3 minutes after the break when Elena Gitsis fired home. But it was Green Street who claimed all the points with a second in the 84th minute. On balance of the play that was probably deserved.
The loss knocked Etienne’s charges two places down the table to sit fourth. They are three points behind the play-off spot.

Coming into a game off a win was a nearly forgotten experience for Coxy Ladies Wulpen, but that is exactly where they found themselves ahead of Busby Babes’ visit to the Curlew’s Nest.
The visitors held the play-off spot in Division 4j ahead of the match, but it was Janik’s side who struck first when Eva van Sttenberghe headed home in the 36th minute. The Waders couldn’t hang on however as increasing Busby pressure resulted in an equaliser on 85 minutes to claim a share of the points.
A draw was enough to lift Wulpen an extra place up the table. They now sit fourth, but are still only one point clear of the drop zone.

Kanjeng Ratu Kidul WFC welcomed Division 4k leaders Stirling Stallions to Merapi-Kraton-South Sea looking to build on a win at second-placed Rotnäset BK the previous week.
Had that instilled self-belief? My word, yes it had. The Sea Spirits came out absolutely
on fire. The ball barely left the Stallions half during the opening 20 minutes. In fact, about the only times it did were the three occasions when the visitors had to take centre! Rahma Ikmal got the first on 9 minutes, Tyan Borot the second and third on 14 and 19 respectively.
Kanjeng manager SeanoftheShed’s half-time teamtalk was made even easier by a fourth just before the break from Diksha Dalmiya. The same player added another in the 80th minute to complete the utterly unexpected rout. To indicate just how out-of-the-blue this was, the Stallions had lost just one of their previous 10 games and aconceded only six goals across the 900 previous minutes played!
The extraordinary win has inserted the Indonesians right into the promotion mix. They are now third, a point off the play-off spot and four behind leaders Stirling.

Erbil were attempting an immediate bounce back from a top-of-the-table defeat when they took on Husmorskolen.
Jdsx’s side shaded this match all the way through in terms of possession and chances. What they were lacking was a goal, until Rosaline Sharpe stepped up in the 71st minute. Following that a clean sheet for the remaining time was the aim, but that only survived for three more minutes before Husmorskolen equalised. There is a chance that that top-of-the-table defeat could grow into a proper stutter.
Could LNWR Locomotive help both Erbil and themselves out by taking something from new leaders 11 de abril FC? Ooh, look, a shiny thingy! Let’s all concentrate on that!!
Nil-four. Not even the late dismissal of the visitors Ángeles Abril (straight red) could help Viktor Boskovic’s strugglers. Well it was already four by then.
Those results left Erbil second in the Division 5:17 table, three points adrift of top and two clear of third. And The Steamers? Seventh, six points from safety.

A shock defeat last week was not ideal preparation for Sockford Emollient’s clash with the side one spot behind them in third, The MJ Foxes.
Still, the crowds troop through Sockford to John Spencer Street in anticipation. What they got was a tense and close match between two very similar strength sides. The visiting Foxes had both first half chances, and Foxy265’s side had a let off when they had a goal disallowed on 68 minutes. The Gatorsharks took full advantage, Monica Parks striking home the winning goal from the spot just six minutes later. The Foxes opinion on referee Robert Nixon was not printable.
The win lifted Emollient four points clear of third, though they are a way behind the Division 5:20 leaders.

The atmosphere on the Menywod Maeshafn coach as they made their way from the hotel to ZFK Nase Taksi was tense. What awaited the Welsh side at the home of the 100% Divisional leaders?
An opening goal from Lisha Boye after just 4 minutes play that is what. That could have calmed the visitors down, if Nase Taksi hadn’t turned the game on its head by the 23rd minute. What was needed was a hero. Morgan Beck was happy to obliged, racing clear to level on 34 minutes.
That was how it remained at the break, but not by the hour mark as a two goal blast from Simone Kjellberg and Ellinor Lydell had IsThatcherDeadYet’s side well ahead. Ada Westerberg addeda fifth late on, and on balance of play the 5-2 scoreline was nothing less than Maesahfn deserved from their performance of the season to date. Remember, Nase Taksi had won all 9 previous matches.
The win kept Maeshjafn second in the Division 5:28 table, a point clear of third. Despite this result, Nase Taksi don’t look catchable (they are still eight points clear).

Division 5:31 leaders Csiki Girls were looking to avoid a banana skin when they took on bottom-placed The Troachetes.
When seeking to circumnavigate such a metaphorical trip hazard, letting the visitors have more first half chances than you is inadvisable. Csiki Girls paid for not heeding this by falling 1-0 behind. However Eleena Munoz levelled for ad hoc’s side just before the break and settled nerves by putting her side ahead on 64 minutes.
Munoz was forced off with a minor injury on 73 minutes after a woeful challenge from Troachetes’ Renate Reindl, for which she was shown a straight red card. That left it to Floriane Smet to add the icing on the cake after 83 minutes.
The other teams at the Division 5:31 summit also won, meaning things hold station with Csiki Girls top by a point from second and three points from third.

Second trying to take the spoils on the ground of first was the fare when Ullapool Northern Star travelled to Galácticas.
The big challenge for the Ullapool forwards and visiting boss delicatemoth was how she was going to get her team to score a goal, given that Galácticas were still yet to concede a single league goal this season! It wasn’t a riddle Northern Star came close to solving as they didn’t manage a goal attempt all game. Fortunately Galácticas only managed one, and they wasted that.
Rather than deciding everything, this match left it still up-in-the-air. Ullapool remain second in Division 6:41, two points adrift of Galácticas and now hoping for a favour from elsewhere. They are five points clear of third.

It’s not been a great season for Solent Sirens, though becoming the first side to take a point of the league leaders last time out was a fine performance in the gloom. On matchday 10 the opposite challenge represented itself – avoid becoming the first side not to beat Palma.
A disallowed Paulina Lotoft strike on 2 minutes caused a brief flutter amongst the Solent following that it just could happen. But this was swiftly snuffed out as Analissa Valdano and Brígida Agra struck before the 15th minute. Malena Norling and Geovana Abbiati added to the total on 30 and 45 minutes as Andrew7610’s side went into the break with the match already in the bag.
That didn’t stop forward Agra from wanting to add to her personal tally. She managed three more to bring her total for the day to four. Four was also the number of assists that Ann-Sofie Sander had (three of them for Agra). Frustriangly though she also collected a straight red card deep into stoppage time with her side winning 7-0. Foolish in the extreme.
The win wasn’t enough to move Solent up from their current spot of fifth in the Division 6:45 table.

Another two sides killing time before the end of the season are Zeugma Dostluk Spor and Aperta com Elas FC.
The hosts struck first on 21 minutes and could reasonably argue that on overall balance of play they deserved the three points. They wouldn’t get them though as Stacey Bell fired in a thunderbolt from 45 yards to steal a point for Antepli Ejderha side.
As with Solent, Zeugma are marooned in fifth place in their Division, which is 6:54 at the moment.

And finally, we come to Dublin City WFC and their trip to Killer Queens, who were just a point behind the Irish side.
Sadly, manager Mortal Joe wasn’t there with them, and that proved costly when Brígida Padilha was hacked in the 6th minute, suffered a 15-day injury and had to leave the field regardless of the lack of subs available. Killer Queens took advantage to score three, but held off after that even when Dublin were reduced to 10 for the last few minutes following a second yellow card for skipper Ana Isabel Carreto.
Defeat meant Dublin lost top spot to Killer Queens, who are now two points ahead of the Irish Women. They hold second, with a two point gap back to third.

[Antepli Ejderha]

I finally bit the bullet and went for a rebuild along with a change in formation. I again couldn't resist a dabble in the transfer market and then my youth academy decided to be generous with their talents leaving me juggling players for development values only. But all good.

[Etienne]

Reposting my press release for Suffragette City, because their season has been so strange:

"Lysistrata rightly noted they got robbed in our last game. Just to illustrate how that has been the defining feature of our season, I've totalled our chances created and those created by our opponents over the season.

We have created 43 chances and scored 25 goals. We've allowed 38 chances but only 6 goals.

So, we're scoring 58% of chances, we're conceding from 15.7% of chances. Last season's most efficient team scored 40%, the least efficient 25%. These are extraordinary figures. If we ignore the two games against managerless Gallus Girls those percentages change to a 62% conversion rate, and a 13.5% concession rate. Again leaving out the games against Gallus, we've created 29 chances and allowed 37 chances and somehow turned that into 8 wins, a draw and a defeat.

This season has boggled my mind."

[Sits]

Well you’ll always convert better than Les Sangliers.

[Etienne]

Les Sangliers were the most efficient team last season.

[Sits]

Oh. Finger on the pulse me.

[Etienne]

Server's been down for almost 24 hours now. Wonder if that's the end of the game.

[Antepli Ejderha]

The games aren't being played but everything else is as normal. Strange.

[Etienne]

Transfers aren't going through either, I think.

[Antepli Ejderha]

A direct transfer of mine went through. No news on the forum.

[Sean of the Shed]

Back on line.

[ad hoc]

Are you sure Sean? Not for me. I'm still not seeing any played games since about Wednesday.

[Sean of the Shed]

Old matches aren't appearing as a flashbox but they should be in your matches played menu.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Old matches aren't appearing as a flashbox but they should be in your matches played menu.

That's exactly what I've got. But today's games are as normal as are my transfers.

[Janik]

X11 Ladies Season 55 Matchday 11 report.

Division 2b

Viking South Utsira     3 - 4   Girls Aloud
E.Klovning 38', 80', 86'        Peltonen 40, 48'
                                Price 57', 76'


Division 3d

Drakaina                4 - 1   PVFC Ladies
Barry 24'                       Bedoya 59'
Heggarty 70'
Leigh (O.G.) 76'
Vulturescu 94'


Division 4j

San Francisco Wet Cats  3 - 1   Coxy Ladies Wulpen
Foster 23'                      Vandenbergh 56'
Bullock 71'
Smith 80'


Division 4k

Red Dead Heads          2 - 3   Kanjeng Ratu Kidul WFC
Valþórsdottir 75'               Dalmiya (pen) 25'
Ellingdottir 77'                Sangaji 66'
                                Senduk 84'


Division 5:17

Husmorskolen            1 - 3   LNWR Locomotive
Lee 42'                         Severinsson 29', 62', 72'

Slytherin LFC           2 - 1   Erbil
Vrienten 6'                     Sharpe 86'
Lough (pen) 62'


Division 5:20

The Sibley Squad        0 - 4   Sockford Emollient
                                Clockwork 4', 14'
                                Abdul-Muttalib 76'
                                Ericson 83'


Division 5:28

Menywod Maeshafn        1 - 1   Fossa Delle Leonesse
Beck 77'                        Pallottola 24'


Division 5:31

FC BRAILA               1 - 0   Csiki Girls
Baccin 15'


Division 6:41

Ullapool Northern Star  6 - 0   Llanos
Babette Späth 7', 16', 24'
Mair 28'
Barkho 31'
Lovell 86'


Division 6:45

Solent Sirens           3 - 1   AC Gemelas 1903
Högardh 9'                      McAllister 70'
Marlene Stieglecker 40', 53'


Division 6:54

Vendetta Team           2 - 1   Zeugma Dostluk Spor
Esporões 20'                    Forsyth 90'
Zambujal 82'


Division 6:58

Inter Petrila           2 - 0   Dublin City WFC
Ferhadian 55'
Aquinna 91'

A familiar refrain this season has been ‘this is a must win game for Viking South Utsira’. Well, The Blood Eagles clash with Girls Aloud was no different, with the visitors sitting one place above Viking in the table.
The hosts started the stronger side, having more of the play and chances in the first half. Emilie Klovning thought she had put them ahead on 15 minutes only to have ref Dick Tator disagree. He was more amenable on 38 minutes when Klovning headed in a corner. However, just two minutes later and very much against the run of play, Girls Aloud equalised.
Things went from bad to worse for Viking after the break as they shipped two more goals. Both managers noted after the game that Utsira boss Velvet Android had selected his back up, Monike Austrheim, rather than Julie Alme. However Austrheim, at 25/12, is no mean player. She just had a ill-timed bad day which became four shipped from six shots on 76 minutes.
Emilie Klovning was not giving up, pulling two back in the last ten but VSU ran out of time and took another damaging defeat that leaves seventh in the Division 2b table, seven points from safety with three games to play.

Drakaina’s clash with PVFC Ladies was going to determine whether The Dragons would spend the rest of the season looking up or down.
That was because visitors PVFC were the side in sixth place in Division 3d, four points adrift of Etienne’s girls. The pressure was on the Greek side then. Not that Susanna Barry noticed as she calmly slotted home the only chance of the first half to give Drakaina an interval lead.
The Dragons began creating more frequent openings after the break, but also started offering up a few chances at the other end and were hit by one of these when PVFC levelled after 59 minutes. That just prompted a flurry from the hosts though, Gael Heggarty putting them back in front on 70 minutes and PVFC’s Trudi Leigh being pressured to turn into her own net on 76. Florica Vulturescu’s injury-time thunderbolt was just icing on the cake.
Drakaina stay fourth in the 3d standings after the win, but are now seven points clear of the drop and only two adrift of the play-off place. It’s definitely up and not down from here on.

Coxy Ladies Wulpen are spending so much time looking over their shoulders currently they might be better off simply turning and facing that way. However, with Matchday 11 opponents San Francisco Wet Cats only a point behind but starting this match in a relegation place, could you blame Coxy Ladies fans for being jumpy?
Spending the first half on the ropes will not have aided this any. Fortunately for Janik’s side no knockout blow was delivered with just one scoring punch landing midway through the round. That gave The Waders a punchers chance, which they attempted to take when Laetitia Vandenbergh landed a shot on 56 minutes.
Would that rock the Wet Cats? Er, no, they shrugged it off and came out swinging, landing two more blows on 71 and 80 minutes to force the stoppage. That saw them leapfrog Wulpen in the Division 4j ladder, but it wasn’t enough to push The Waders down into the drop zone – there was a side between the two at the start of play, who also lost and so stay below. Coxy Ladies are fifth, and still a point clear of danger. For now.

Excellent back-to-back wins over the top two sides mustn’t go to waste. That was surely manager SeanoftheShed’s message to his Kanjeng Ratu Kidul WFC side ahead of their trip to Red Dead Heads.
Not that the hosts were going to be pushovers, they were only one point and placed adrift of The Sea Goddesses in the congested mid-table zone at the start of play. That gap grew to four in the virtual table when Diksha Dalmiya put Kanjeng ahead from the spot on 25 minutes. Midway through the second half Utami Sangaji slotted home a direct free-kick to double the advantage.
2-0 was comfortable, right? Well, not entirely. Red Dead were still very much in the match and believing they had a chance. And that was before they scored two goals in three minutes from the 75th minute to wipe out The Sea Spirits advantage. Now the momentum was all with the hosts... until Ati Senduk delivered a counterpunch on 84 minutes, heading home from a cross. That was just the second goal in midfielder Senduk’s 60+ game Kanjeng career. Clearly she only rouses herself in emergencies.
The Division 4k table highlights the value of the win. With it, Kanjeng climb to second, one point adrift of the leaders and one ahead of third. Without it, and they would currently be fifth, just a point clear of the drop zone instead of the current four point gap.

It was win or bust for LNWR Locomotive when they visited Husmorskolen. Anything less for The Steamers and relegation would have been nigh on certain.
What boss Viktor Boskovic really didn’t need, then, was a 15-day injury to a first choice defender such as Beata Rönnberg. But that is exactly what he got in the 26th minute. Just three minutes later in went the opening goal of the game... for The Steamers! Flávia Reisinho played a defence splitting ball and Tekla Severinsson raced clear to finish.
The Steamers deserved the advantage as they were dominating the game, but were hit by a leveller out of the blue just before the interval. No matter, LNWR still had Reisinho and Severinsson, the pair combining again on 62 minutes for Severinsson’s second of the game as The Steamers reasserted their advantage. Severinsson completed her hattrick after 72 minutes to seal the deal (assist from someone else).
There is a four way battle at the top of Division 5:17 for the promotion and play-off places, with two of the sides involved being Erbil and Slytherin LFC, who met at the Hogwarts Arena.
The hosts took an early lead in a narrow game, which they held to the interval. Ref Travis Tee then handed Slytherin a golden opportunity to double the gap just after the hour when he pointed to the spot. It was converted, to give Jdsx’s charges a mountain to climb. They made it halfway up when Rosaline Sharpe pulled one back on 86 minutes, but ran out of daylight and had to abandon the ascent and leave the game unconquered.
Defeat saw Erbil slip from second to fourth in the 5:17 table. They remain, however, just one point out of the play-off spot and three behind leaders 11 de abril as they suffered a shock loss. That was good news for Erbil, distinctly less so for LNWR who were chasing the side that beat abril. Locomotive’s win saw them climb to sixth, but they remain six points from safety due to that other result.

Sockford Emollient, pushing for promotion, away to The Sibley Squad, mired in the Division 5:20 drop zone. Striaghtforward? Yep.
It was 2-0 before 15 minutes had elapsed as Monica Clockwork struck twice. Dong! Dong! It wasn’t all plain sailing for Foxy265’s side though as just before the half-hour mark skipper Min-Jee Nah was forced from the field with a 10-day injury. That saw The Gatorsharks stutter for a while, not getting into their stride again until the later stages of the second half when Wafaa Abdul-Muttalib and Lotta Ericson headed home corners to put the result completely beyond doubt.
The expected win kept Sockford comfortably second in the table. They have a six point gap now on those behind them, though overhauling the five point gap on leaders Spicks Killiettes (unbeaten all season) looks forlorn. Still a play-off place would be a good second chance.

[Janik]

With Division 5:28 leaders ZFK Nase Taksi over the hill and far away, the battle rages for the play-off spot. Two primary protagonists in that were Menywod Maeshafn (second place) and Fossa Delle Leonesse (third), who clashed in Maeshafn in this round of games.
The match was as evenly contested as the two sides positions would indicate. Leonesse ceded ground, but played sharply on the counter whilst Maeshafn tried to make their possessional edge count. It was the coutner-attacking style that drew first blood, Leonesse going ahead on 24 minutes. And that was how it stayed until the last fifteen minutes, when Morgan Beck unleashed one from range and was greeted with an explosion of joy from the Welsh crowd as her shot arrowed into the top corner.
A draw was not a knockout blow for IsThatcherDeadYet’s side, but neither was it a bad result overall. It keeps them second in the standings, with a point over Fossa and four ahead of the rest.

Csiki Girls were hoping that a win in their previous game to taking on FC BRAILA had put a recent stutter that was risking promotion behind them.
Sadly, it doesn’t appear to have done so as yet as ad hoc’s side struggled in this one. BRAILA got the confidence boost they needed with a strike fairly early on (15 minutes in) and converted that into a strong performance that gave them a deserved 1-0 victory. The Csiki’s never really got going.
The reverse cost the Transylvanian side the leadership of Division 5:31. They slip to third, but are far from out of the running, trailing the leaders by just goal difference. They must get out of their funk straight away, though.

Another week, another zombie kill for Ullapool Northern Star. This time Llanos were the shamblers despatched.
Goals came in an early rush for delicatemoth’s side, mostly from Babette Späth. She contributed a hattrick of strikes by the 24th minute and then put her feet up and said “Your turn, girls!”. Mary-Leslie Mair (28 minutes), Zebela Barkho (31) and Lindsey Lovell (86) responded to the call with one each.
The win may have been easy, but it did have meaning. It kept Ullapool hot on the heels of leaders Galácticas and well clear of the chasing pack. The gaps are two points and eight. A minimum off a play-off spot seems certain, but could it be automatic yet?

Promotion is not on the cards for Solent Sirens. Rather Andrew7610’s side are into development mode with matches against sides below them like AC Gemelas 1903 a perfect chance to give some youngsters a run.
It was more established names who got the goals, though. Evelyn Högardh put her side ahead on 9 minutes, with Marlene Stieglecker adding a brace either side of the interval. That secured the win, with Gemelas’ consolation strike a useful learning point for the kids getting a run in the Sirens defenders.
Solent remain fifth in the Division 6:45 standings. Their chances of promotion were mathematically ended by results elsewhere, for what it’s worth.

The same situation holds at Zeugma Dostluk Spor, though in this case getting a result with the kids at promotion chasing Vendetta Team was always going to be an ask for Antepli Ejderha’s side.
Zeugma spent most of the game out of possession but did put up a stern fight, limiting Vendetta to just three shots. Unfortunately for the travelling fans two of those went in. That meant Rachel Forsyth’s 90th minute effort was simply a consolation goal. Good performance though, offering hope for the next campaign.
That will be at this level as Zeugma was fifth in Division 6:54 and like Solent now mathematically eliminated from the promotion race.

That isn’t true at all of Dublin City WFC, who were right in the mix ahead of their game at Inter Petrila.
Dublin had got themselves up there in spite of frequent unavailability for manager Mortal Joe. He missed this one as well, but the side couldn’t help him out on this occasion as Petrila proved organised enough to push through for a 2-0 win.
The loss sends Dublin down to fourth in the Division 6:58 table. They are now five points behind the leaders, which will be a tough gap to close. However they only trail the play-off spot by a single point, which is much more plausible to overcome.

[Janik]

Are you sure Sean? Not for me. I'm still not seeing any played games since about Wednesday.

Mobile problem? I can see the result from Thursday but I'm on a desktop.