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IKTS Week 19: Boxing Day with Arteta!

So, Freddie’s interim gig ended after a scoreless draw at Everton. Last season, this fixture was settled on a controversial goal, with a final score of 1-0 to the Toffees. Other notable scores included a come from behind win at home for Manchester City against Leicester by a score of 3-1, a win by 2-0 for Warford at home against Manchester United with de Gea and his defenders looking shaky, while Willian had a wondergoal in open play and another goal from the charity spot for Chelsea at the noisy neighbors’ ground resulting in a win by also two goals to nil. Liverpool was off beating Flamengo to deservedly become world champions. As Boxing Day and the weekend will see a plethora of fixtures, 20 in four days, I will let the participants make predictions for both Week 19 and Week 20, but I will artificially create a phantom thread for Week 20 to elaborate on all the exciting IKTS action after Week 19. Merry Christmas!!!

Scores for the week:

ClevelandJames 7 (2)
hansdampf 5 (1)
Geaux_HR 5 (0)
Ray from Norfolk, Virginia 4 (1)
inthekcmix 3 (0)

Stars of the week: ClevelandJames had a great week with 7 points (and two correct IKTS predictions) with hansdampf on 5 points (and one correct IKTS prediction) and Geaux_HR also on 5 points (but no correct IKTS predictions) but Ray from Norfolk and inthekcmix were just behind.

Clever pick of the week: Only ClevelandJames had the exact score line of 1-0 for Newcastle at home to Crystal Palace, hauling 3 points (and one correct IKTS prediction) while nobody else had the correct outcome, meaning bagels for all the other active participants.

Crisis pick of the week: A collective crisis due to several fixtures, in particular the two games on Sunday.

Standings after week 17:

Geaux_HR 162 (24)
Ray from Norfolk, Virginia 139 (18)
hansdampf 124 (14)
ClevelandJames 123 (14)
inthekcmix 109 (14)
sammy dog 68 (7)
Le Poulain Francais 64 (8)

Overall, Geaux_HR has now a 23 point lead while we approach mid season, while the race for third place is very close.

Cup game(s): None.

Cup standings:

Ray from Norfolk, Virginia 7 (1)
Geaux_HR 6 (1)
inthekcmix 4 (0)
hansdampf 3 (0)
sammy dog 3 (0)
ClevelandJames 2 (0)
Le Poulain Francais 0 (0)

Overall, Ray from Norfolk is still in the lead, with Geaux_HR one point behind, while inthekcmix is in third place.

Upcoming schedule:

Week 19: Thursday December 26 and Friday December 27:

Tottenham – Brighton
Aston Villa – Norwich
Bournemouth – Arsenal
Chelsea – Southampton
Crystal Palace – West Ham
Everton – Burnley
Sheffield United – Watford
Manchester United – Newcastle
Leicester – Liverpool
Wolverhampton – Manchester City

Week 20: Saturday December 28 and Sunday December 29:

Brighton – Bournemouth
Newcastle – Everton
Southampton – Crystal Palace
Watford – Aston Villa
Norwich – Tottenham
West Ham – Leicester
Burnley – Manchester United
Arsenal – Chelsea
Liverpool – Wolverhampton
Manchester City – Sheffield United

COYG!