A battering for Chelsea! The team that held a three point lead at the top of the Premier League last turn suffered a real thumping at the home of the team that were down in 7th place. Jamie Maycroft's Manchester City gave the league leaders a real footballing lesson, tonking them 4-1, Goetze with two goals, Maxwell and Torres the others. City only move up one place to sixth, but are a mere five points behind the leaders with just under half of the season to go. Rich Coupland's Wolves climb into second place after a 3-0 home win over Arsenal, Dave Burton's Derby dropping to third after a 0-0 draw at Aston Villa. Glen Pine's Bournemouth are fourth after beating Everton 2-0, only four points off the top, just ahead of Ethan's Arsenal and Jamie's City. Down at the bottom, it's good to see Marc Lewry's Man United almost double their points tally for the season so far with a victory - they won 3-0 at home to Rangers - and that win means they are level with Kieran's Everton and just a point behind Rangers. It is looking grim for those bottom three though, Anthony Woods' Spurs in 9th place are now five points clear of the drop zone after a 1-0 home win over Celtic.
Scarborough go marching on - Craig Rathey's side have an amazing 12 wins out of 12 record - this week they went to Millwall and won 5-3. Kirk Greenway's Hammers are hanging in there, still only six points behind after a 3-1 win over Wigan this week. Sam Roberts' Doncaster are a mere point behind West Ham, they won 4-0 at Grimsby this turn. Barring a major disaster from the teams above them, Sheffield Wednesday and Liverpool look set for the playoffs - eight and ten points behind the Hammers respectively - but both had big wins this week. Diego Costa bagged a hat-trick for the Owls, but he's back to PSG next week after his four week loan.
Battering for PSV too - James Bartaby's side came up against Richard Coupland's table topping Lazio and went home after a 5-0 drubbing. Falcao scored a hat-trick as Lazio won to keep their one point lead over Basle who beat AC Milan 3-0. Real Madrid stay third after a 2-0 win over Atletico, but dropped points saw Benfica, Bayern Munich, PSG and Antwerp all slip slightly further back from the title battle. Mini Mars finally arrested a dismal run which had seen them lose five games in a row, a 2-0 win at home to Benfica moves them out of the bottom three and drops Milan in it.
Dnipro lead Serie B by a point from NY Red Bull, both winning in the league this week, and both recording highly impressive wins in the League Cup quarter finals. Dnipro beat Basle 1-0 thanks to a second half goal from Quick, whilst Red Bull came from behind to win 3-2 at Mini Mars. Real Madrid beat AIK Stockholm 3-0 and PSG knocked out league leaders Lazio in the other quarter finals. The Brit League Cup quarter finals were perhaps a step too far for the two big first division clubs, West Ham losing 3-0 at home to Wolves, Scarborough going down 1-0 at Derby. Celtic beat Arsenal and City beat Bournemouth in the other two matches.
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